When TV Becomes “ReplayTV”. Just a quick story before I crash early tonight. Last week, we bought our third ReplayTV. Yes, you read that right – third. It's a financial risk, considering that SonicBlue isn't doing so well financially, but I feel confident that if SonicBlue goes belly up that TiVo will take over its… Continue reading When TV Becomes “ReplayTV”

Macromedia tagline: Experience Matters. Macromedia has launched a new design with a corresponding marketing message about creating great experiences. The new tagline 'experience matters' has its own website with example experiential flash sites. I alternate between loving the increased exposure of user experience, and hating the dilution of something tangible and valuable to buzz-compliant marketing… Continue reading Macromedia tagline: Experience Matters

Dell switching from UNIX to Linux?. Slashdot points to this article in ComputerUser about Dell CIO Randy Mott's provocative statement that “UNIX is dead.”    Mott had other provoking observations: “Industries that don't plan for obsolescence will get out of date and they will turn out to be different industries than what they could have been.… Continue reading Dell switching from UNIX to Linux?

Microsoft's law firm pushes lawyers to be more document efficient. In late 1999 B. Gerald Johnson, Preston Gates's managing partner, told his lawyers to start acting more like their clients: Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp. Just as those companies redefined their businesses, Johnson wanted to redefine the way his law firm practiced law. “We've represented… Continue reading Microsoft's law firm pushes lawyers to be more document efficient

Cisco's General Counsel doesn't like to pay lawyers to bill by the hour. Read Rick Klau's post about Mark Chandler's vision of what his outside counsel should be doing.  And note that last statistic that Rick quotes: by the end of this year Chandler expects that 80% of the money it pays to outside lawyers… Continue reading Cisco's General Counsel doesn't like to pay lawyers to bill by the hour

Mainstreaming Zope.  Paul Everitt, former DigiCool CEO now touring Europe to evangelize Zope/Python, has been blogging at Zope Dispatches for a couple of months. I'm amazed to see that it is now four years since I keynoted the first Zope conference. Today, there are still far too few Joe Professional Programmers who get what Zope… Continue reading Mainstreaming Zope

Men and Women Aren't Alike. Really.. Andrew Hacker's depressing new book uses sometimes dubious methodology to ratify women's worst fears about the opposite sex. By Michiko Kakutani. [New York Times: Books]

Happy Birthday!

I'm reminded of the following lines from the musical Camelot: The winter is forbidden 'till DecemberAnd exits March the second on the dot I hope winter ends soon here too.

The Promise of XML Realized. Microsoft's Jean Paoli, the architect of Office 11's XML support, was co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification with Tim Bray. The first thing Paoli showed Bray was that any existing .doc file can be saved as XML — specifically, as WordML, which expresses both the style and the content of… Continue reading The Promise of XML Realized