The Recovery Storage Group.  In this article, I'm going to have a look at another new feature of Exchange 2003. This time, it's the Recovery Storage Group. Microsoft provides a full whitepaper on this particular feature, which has been posted to this blog quite recently. Here I will cover the key elements of the Recovery… Continue reading The Recovery Storage Group

Cheesecake Factory Discoveries. When you make your pilgrimage to Silicon Valley, and want to visit the Palo Alto (admit it, if you're a geek, you gotta come and see Palo Alto at least once in your life and University Ave is the epicenter of the tech world) you're eventually going to get hungry. The new… Continue reading Cheesecake Factory Discoveries

Useit.Com: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003. Many of this year's top design mistakes actually indicate a happy phenomenon: we are making progress in Web usability. Now that sites are doing certain things correctly, we get hit by second-order phenomena that only cause problems because users have progressed past the first-order issues. [Tomalak's Realm]

Joel on Unix: I've been sanity-checking FogBUGZ for Unix by installing various OSes under VMware. The reason I need all these setups is because there are so many different ways to distribute software on Unix: we had to produce a .rpm, a .deb, a .tar.gz, and a .dmg for OS X. (FogBUGZ for Unix system… Continue reading Joel on Unix

On shipping software. I learned at an early age the importance of shipping software. My first software award It was 1982, I was barely a teenager, and I was at a computer fair where young geeks from all over Delaware were competing in a programming contest. We were paired up at random with other geeks.… Continue reading On shipping software

Now You Can Leave the eBay Selling to Them. A handful of new businesses now take in a customer's merchandise, photograph it, post it on eBay, the Internet auction site, then ship it to the winning bidder. By Karen Alexander. [New York Times: Technology]

A DVD Face-Off Between the Official and the Homemade. Fans are creating their own DVD's about their favorite TV shows with commentary, episode summaries and visual mini-essays. By Emily Nussbaum. [New York Times: Technology]

Dumpster-Diving for Your Identity. Stephen Massey ran a lucrative identity-theft ring that victimized hundreds. You might want to think twice about throwing your old bills away. By Stephen Mihm. [New York Times: Technology]

Microsoft OneNote.  Microsoft has recently released a new addition to its Office suite called OneNote. It’s a “free form” text entry tool with a tabbed interface, outliner, and built-in search engine. I have been evaluating the product for about 30 days and like it so far. I think this is software that many lawyers are… Continue reading Microsoft OneNote

Google News Map. Google is and will for now remain the main inspiration for technical achievements. A very interesting new thing that was developed is the Google News Map, a map of the world depicting where in the world the latest newsitems are happening. Pretty damn cool. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]