Quebec City Update. For some reason the cloudtravel guide for Quebec City doesn't get as much activity as a number of the others (with Mardi Gras season coming up the New Orleans pages are now going gangbusters). The luke-warm interest in Quebec astounds me because I consider it the great unknown destination in all the… Continue reading Quebec City Update
The Internet Archive released a preliminary version of their new Web crawler software, Heritrix.
The Internet Archive released a preliminary version of their new Web crawler software, Heritrix. [Hack the Planet]
Laszlo is kranking!
Laszlo is kranking!. Laszlo preview release. Laszlo preview release A preview release of Laszlo Presentation Server version 2.0 is now available. Woo hoo! New Component Framework: All the components you expect in a web app plus a few more. This framework is fully laszlo-rrific — with the details you know and love from an OS… Continue reading Laszlo is kranking!
VeriSign planning more changes to .com, .net
InfoWorld: VeriSign planning more changes to .com, .net. While there is general agreement within the technical community that VeriSign has the right to make the serial number changes, there is also suspicion about the move, especially after the feud over VeriSign's controversial Site Finder service in 2003, which redirected requests for nonexistent Web addresses to… Continue reading VeriSign planning more changes to .com, .net
Bush Calls On 2 States Crucial to Re-election
Bush Calls On 2 States Crucial to Re-election. President Bush traveled today to Tennessee and Florida to promote his education program and raised more millions for his re-election campaign. By David Stout. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
“Running Mac OS X Panther”: The Inquisitive User's Guide to Delving into Mac OS X's Core
“Running Mac OS X Panther”: The Inquisitive User's Guide to Delving into Mac OS X's Core [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Going for the Goals
Going for the Goals. In his Good Experience column today, Mark Hurst offers five design ideas worth considering in the new year: Organization is the hardest part of user experience work. The big picture is the only picture. Experience is bigger than Web usability. Blogs are just content management systems. Managing one's bits is an… Continue reading Going for the Goals
New Report: Xgrid
New Report: Xgrid. Readers are excited about the possibilities promised by Xgrid, a computer clustering system released in preliminary form yesterday by Apple. [MacInTouch]
Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History, Again
Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History, Again. From the There’s Nothing New Under the Sun Department, coffee houses in the 17th and 18th centuries were the Wi-Fi hotspots of their day: The Economist writes (without byline, as is its wont) about the parallels between the political and editorial foment that occurred in 17th and 18th… Continue reading Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History, Again
NYT
NYT. Krugman tracks Robert Rubin's views on our rising national budget and trade deficits. I, like many others, have been a huge fan of Robert Rubin's ability to smell out and defuse a financial crisis. Rubin is now of the opinion that the US is at risk of a “third-world” financial meltdown scenario over the next decade. … Continue reading NYT