Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?. Who decides what features go into a software product? If a software product doesn't have a feature, why is that? My entire career at Microsoft has been as a Program Manager. You can probably read elsewhere exactly what that means, but for now we'll just say that the role… Continue reading Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?

Del.icio.us. Alright, I resisted as long as I could, but everyone and their librarian-brother is posting about this thing. Del.icio.us is a collaborative bookmarks manager, web-based, and spiffy. I'm thinking it would be most useful for reference librarians to collaborate on… [LibrarianInBlack]

Hats off to Paul Venezia for his exhaustive analysis of the Linux 2.6 kernel in this week's InfoWorld: Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance… Continue reading

Hats off to Paul Venezia for his exhaustive analysis of the Linux 2.6 kernel in this week's InfoWorld:

Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance with a recent v2.4 series kernel, v2.4.23. [InfoWorld: Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise, Paul Venezia

New data shows that we are falling farther and farther behind other nations in broadband deployment (we are now 11th).  This should be a factor in the elections.  Who lost the bandwidth race?  It is the new space race and the best way to grow high quality jobs into the next century (across all business… Continue reading New data

Fortune.  The Pentagon is doing some analysis on the impact of a rapid onset mini ice age on global security.  BTW, Boston's average temp in January was the lowest in 118 years.  Also, the lag on getting and analyzing data on the breakdown of the Gulf Stream is measured in years (which is unsettling given that this event… Continue reading Fortune

There are three ways to build a hot weblog. To be a connection machine (people with huge blogrolls and/or RSS lists that point to other weblogs — they do add their two cents and sometimes their thinking). To be a name dropper (people that imply they understand what is really going on — and you… Continue reading There are three ways to build a hot weblog.

Tivo as digital hub?. Om Malik thinks Tivo's purchase of a startup called Strangeberry signals its intention to become a hub for digital home entertainment.  Makes sense.  Strangeberry is apparently made up of ex-Sun people, and the idea of universal zero-configuration networking was a big element of Sun co-founder Bill Joy's Jini vision.  Of course,… Continue reading Tivo as digital hub?

OneNote genesis. OneNote started as an email exchange between myself and Steven Sinofsky, the Senior VP for Office, Nov 27, 2000. We were talking about how there wasn't much in the way of software to deal with information that was not yet a document. This coincided with the end of the OfficeXp development project. I… Continue reading OneNote genesis