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Express team blogs. The Express Edition team is even blogging. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Improving the User Experience Online for Library Users. I would love to get a grant to have 37signals design an online library catalog. I've been reading their book Defensive Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points because I'm redesigning our merged web site/extranet/intranet, and while most of… Continue reading Improving the User Experience Online for Library Users

News.Com: Web site virus attack blunted. The attack, which had turned some Web sites into points of digital infection was nipped in the bud on Friday, when Internet engineers managed to shut down a Russian server that had been the source of malicious code for the attack. [Tomalak's Realm]

Word History.  Bruce Damer's Personal Histories of the Desktop User Interface, at the DigiBarn Computer Museum, talks about the origins of Microsoft Word and its funky file format: Charles Simonyi and most of the BravoX team left Xerox for Microsoft as a group, around about 1982 or 1983. The first version of MS Word, which… Continue reading Word History

Atlantic Monthly article on David Allen. There's a 6-page article on me and GTD in the current (JUL/AUG) issue of Atlantic Monthly, in case you haven't seen it. Jim Fallows (senior writer for them, former editor of US News) has been following my stuff for a while, and I think did an admirable job of expressing… Continue reading Atlantic Monthly article on David Allen

21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time. Jim McCarthy's essay 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time has wonderful advice for managing software projects. I couldn't say it better, and probably a lot worse. Shipping great software on time is a difficult but not impossible task. Elements you think… Continue reading 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time

Microsoft, You’re not setting a very good example. I am disappointed.. I know I am going to get myself in trouble for this… and will probably be banned from the Microsoft campus, but I saw a post by a Microsoft employee and felt compelled to respond. I am taking Aaron Margosis to task and following… Continue reading Microsoft, You’re not setting a very good example. I am disappointed.

NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report.  We had hoped to ship NetNewsWire 2.0 before WWDC—or at least have a public beta released. But, well, I was optimistic. It looks like it will have to wait until July. Just so you know, here’s where it’s at… [inessential.com]

Cafe Press offers self-publishing.  Cafe Press, famous (to me anyway) for producing reasonably priced librarian-schlock, is now offering on-demand publishing. The per page fee ranges from 3 to 4 1/2 cents per page. And the flat binding fee ranges from $4 to $7. They even have a well-written Learning Center that walks you through the… Continue reading Cafe Press offers self-publishing

Monitoring Exchange Services.  I'm currently writing a recipe on how to monitor the health and status of your Exchange services. I haven't done much day to day administration over the past several years, so this is outside my realm of current expertise a bit. When I was responsible for operations in the past, we used… Continue reading Monitoring Exchange Services