InfoWorld: Microsoft's Office 'system' attacks collaboration from all sides. Jon Udell. Administrators will have to install and manage three or four sets of clients and servers. The new capabilities are exciting, but it'll take lots more integration to make Office-based collaboration a seamless and manageable experience. [Tomalak's Realm]

Twisting by the PHPool. These figures suggest that a PHP networking app (Nanoweb) running on brand-new 2003 hardware (3 Ghz PC) will be faster than a program written in C (Apache) on good year 2000 hardware (1Ghz PC). Now if someone had told me in 2000 that in 3 years I would be able to… Continue reading Twisting by the PHPool

New: Smart Folders 1.0. Smart Folders is a utility that can collect similar files in a central location and update itself when new files are created. [MacInTouch]

How Skype does it. How does Skype get through Firewalls and NAT Routers?. SuperNodes [The Register] Interesting.  You find out there is a call for you and make an outbound TCP call to the SuperNode to meet it.  That's neat thinking 😉 Also as an aside when I installed Skype a couple of weeks ago… Continue reading How Skype does it

The State of Massachusetts addresses Open Standards and Open Source. I attended a meeting with Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Eric Kriss, organized by the Massachusetts Software Council. A leaked internal memo relating to an “Open Standards, Open Source policy” has created much questioning by members of the software industry, and this informal meeting… Continue reading The State of Massachusetts addresses Open Standards and Open Source

Brick Level backups. I've seen a few posts in the newsgroups recently which indicate that Brick Level backups are still being performed. This type of backup is not recommended for a number of reasons, including… reliability, backup time and greater media requirements. Reliability is probably the main issue, as this backup type has proven to be… Continue reading Brick Level backups

ForestPrep and DomainPrep with Exchange 2003. The process for checking whether ForestPrep and DomainPrep have been completed successfully has changed for Exchange 2003. Instead of running the ADSI Edit snap-in and Policytest.exe utility as is required for Exchange 2000, there's a new tool called OrgPrepCheck for Exchange 2003. This deployment tool can be found on the… Continue reading ForestPrep and DomainPrep with Exchange 2003

Mobile Innovation.  I'm about to go to bed, but noticed that the latest version of Wireless Business & Technology Magazine has been published, and amazingly all the contents are available online. There are some decently detailed stories in there, including this article about adoption of mobile technologies in corporations. It cleanly breaks down the process into… Continue reading Mobile Innovation

Still Angry After All These Years. Many of the New Economy tenets Tom Peters espoused have fallen by the wayside. But this most famous of management thinkers wants you to know he remains riled–and relevant. [Fast Company]

10 years. If you'd told me 10 years ago that 10 years from now not only would Darin and I still be together but we'd have two kids and have moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and back again and done whatever else it is we've done in 10 years I'd have said, “Hey,… Continue reading 10 years