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BBC: Wireless net takes over homes. [Scripting News]

Had a great Christmas with friends.  Talked to family by phone.  Time to enjoy the quiet a bit. Quite the blizzard outside.  Glad to have made it home safely.

Off to visit friends for the holiday.  No snow here yet . . .

My friend and super consultant Jon Oltsik has a new site built with Radio.  The weblog is in process as are the links to the free reports he will post to his site.  This shows how you can easily publish a standard site with Radio and comingle it with a weblog.  More later as Dann helps him… Continue reading Jon Oltsik

homemade dot mac seerver. Want to stream mp3's inside your own home/network/community? OSX can do it all and macdevcenter has simple easy to follow instructions.  [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

The Perpetual War Portfolio. “The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war. The stocks were selected on the basis of popular product lines, strong political connections and lobbying efforts, and paid-for access to key Congressional decision makers.” The PWP is up 3.25%… Continue reading The Perpetual War Portfolio

Year-end wrap-up. Must be that time of year, since two usability-related year-in-review pieces came out yesterday: Jakob Nielsen's Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 Bob Bailey's Do's and Don'ts (from HFI; based on usability research for 2002) Both are actually fairly level-headed and practical. Most of these things should be common knowledge for most IAs,… Continue reading Year-end wrap-up

Chandler and Outlook – Another Perspective. Kevin Altis put it better than I could re: Outlook and Chandler in his weblog reprinted with permisision here.  [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]

Derek on Travel. Derek says to the airline industry: “I quit. I'm not playing these games. You will get me on your planes only when my career requires it and when they pay for it. So long as I have to submit to Orwellian procedures and give up basically any human rights I thought I… Continue reading Derek on Travel

Planning for 2003 It has gotten supernaturally quiet. Everyone but me is on vacation, for some reason. Here's a look ahead at some of the things that Fog Creek Software, and Joel on Software, will be doing next year. Programmer's Paradise is one of the largest mail-order retailers of computer software, and they're trying to… Continue reading Planning for 2003