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Dan Bricklin: Last Thursday I visited the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Better known as CIMIT, it's members include two major Harvard teaching hospitals, Massachusetts General (MGH) and the Brigham and Women's (BWH), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. It resides within the… Continue reading Dan Bricklin

Today is my father's birthday!

If I had a time machine, where would I go? Top ten list of places: 1. The liberation of Paris. Does anything else compare, for pure joy? I doubt it. 2. The Library of Alexandria. I’d back up a bunch of moving vans and bring all the books back to the present. 3. Gertrude Stein’s… Continue reading

If I had a time machine, where would I go? Top ten list of places:

1. The liberation of Paris. Does anything else compare, for pure joy? I doubt it.

2. The Library of Alexandria. I’d back up a bunch of moving vans and bring all the books back to the present.

3. Gertrude Stein’s Paris, 1900-1927. Hang out with Picasso in his studio; go drinking with Hemingway. I’d take a side trip to New York City for the Armory Show.

4. The American Revolution. I could spend hours and hours talking to Jefferson and Hamilton.

5. Athens at the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. (Socrates, don’t drink that! It’s poison, dude!)

6. Studio 54 in the pre-AIDS, pre-Just-Say-No ’70s.

7. New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Hang out with the Abstract Expressionists, then move on to Andy Warhol’s Factory.

8. Paris at the time of Voltaire and Denis Diderot.

9. The Roman Empire before Christianity took hold. (Nothing against Christianity, mind you, I just want to see what the empire was like.)

10. Shakespeare’s England. Who wouldn’t want to see the original productions at the Globe theater?  [inessential.com

New York Says No-No to NA. Software manufacturer Network Associates tries to restrict what consumers and the media say about its products — New York's attorney general files a suit objecting to the practice. Michelle Delio reports from New York. [Wired News]

TurboPHP. TurboPHP is a Windows application that provides an extendable, Borland Delphi-style component system for rapid development of PHP and MySQL based web programs. Uses ADOdb as the database wrapper library! [PHP Everywhere]

David Davies.  Great tool for sharing images with friends and family.  Radio picturegallery script. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Eastgate's Tinderbox. Eastgate System's new content authoring system is called Tinderbox. It's not just intended to be just a Weblog tool (shades of Radio), but its testers are using it as such. Since it comes from the hypertext as narrative world, it has a different interface and set of conventions than Radio or Blog [More… Continue reading Eastgate's Tinderbox

Sun Targets Home Networks, Small Businesses With Qube 3. Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance server, a plug-and-play solution targeted at home networks, small businesses, and remote branch offices. [Product News] I'm a bit puzzled by this story as the Qube 3 has been available for quite a while.

The .NET frameworks SDK, command-line compilers and tools are now available for free download. For people who also want a free IDE, SharpDevelop looks pretty good. As far as being able to run .NET code on platforms other than Windows, today the news was that Mono project has ditched GPL and Intel and HP have… Continue reading .NET frameworks SDK, command-line compilers and tools are now available for free download

Wolves at the Door – Interesting, this Defense Intelligence Agency testimony of one year ago has been prophetic. Relevant to the upcoming WEF meeting, “Others, either unable or unwilling to share in the benefits of globalization, will face deepening economic stagnation, political instability, and cultural alienation. These conditions will create fertile ground for political, ethnic,… Continue reading Defense Intelligence Agency testimony of one year ago