Archive for August, 2001

vacuum cleaner

Saturday, August 25th, 2001

Vacuum Cleaner - Gartner reports that companies have wasted one billion dollars since 1998, on high-end java application server capabilities that they didn’t need. One billion seems like a lot, but I think Gartner is being conservative.

We spent the day today in Vancouver B.C.’s Chinatown. Food, shopping, and there was some sort of […]

day in the life

Friday, August 24th, 2001

Day in the Life - Today was the Windows XP ship party. They were setting up tents and gear in the soccer fields adjacent to my building last night; this morning I arrived to find the festivities already underway. I was busy taking advantage of the productivity that comes from having everyone else […]

moose tracking

Tuesday, August 21st, 2001

Moose Tracking - Where was The Talking Moose on August 16? Little did he know he was being caught on camera! And in the spirit of Big Suge and Al Sharpton being free, Scoble is back!!! But we can’t let all of this liberty make us complacent. While it is easy […]

safenow?

Monday, August 20th, 2001

SafeNow? - I just figured out where many of those popups are coming from. It turns out that the savenow.exe process eating 15MB on my machine is not some sort of Windows XP system recovery feature. It is in fact a trojan horse. Supposedly it comes with Bearshare, and apparently other programs, […]

xslerator

Sunday, August 19th, 2001

Xslerator - Yesterday I was working on an article I want to put together for MSDN; something like “How to build a web-based discussion board in less than ten minutes.” I am trying to make this really simple; no code required. When I got to the part where I show how to make […]