Dreamweaver MX Complete Reference – Finally got my copy last night and MAN! is it some cool book. I am not going to be able to go through it all (unless I devote myself to it for a couple months!) but I am going to glean a lot from it. I am going to be… Continue reading book

Pet Market on O'Rielly – orielly.com has an article on the Macromedia Pet Market application. The app has been out for a couple weeks and getting a lot of traffic. The author, Dean Wampler, says that Flash may be a great UI for complex dynamic applications. “The Flash-based Pet Market has a live, engaging interface… Continue reading orielly.com

More on RSS discovery. Mark Pilgrim is right on when he writes that RSS discovery is a usability issue. A user should never have to find and copy the RSS URL for a site. NetNewsWire supports RSS discovery. (Like Mark’s Python RSS finder it checks for a tag, though it differs on what it does… Continue reading More on RSS discovery

The Declustering of America: “With the new telecommunications technology, it is increasingly easy for a firm to operate in a dispersed manner”.  Although only really discussing geography, I find articles like this fascinating, of course, because today are living early forms of the “next company” described by Peter Drucker:  “By now the new information technology… Continue reading The Declustering of America

The scientists at Woods Hole have some interesting info on their website.  It is about the chance that global warming will likely unleash a mini Ice Age within the next 10 years.  They (I wish these guys had a “mini Ice Age weblog” we could read in real time as they update things) predict the shift… Continue reading Woods Hole

Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed. The Mac operating system called version 10.2 (and nicknamed “jaguar”) arrives this week. Is it a quantum leap for Apple? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]

Wireless Web Comes to Starbucks Shops. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – As if the caffeine wasn't enough to get customers going, Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O) on Wednesday launched coffee drinkers into cyberspace with high-speed wireless Internet access at some 1,200 cafes. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

Palmtops in the Operating Room. A Miami hospital is leading the way in using hand-held computers not only to replace the doctor's scrawl, but also to share medical images with patients. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]

I returned from my father's funeral yesterday.

In Memoriam Gerard Kenneth Kimball 07 February 1942 – 14 August 2002 May God Bless You and Keep You