In the spirit of Jon Udell and Tim Bray, here is my version of a conversation with Mr. Safe.
Mr. Safe: We need to get moving on this extranet project; our partners want better information.IT Manager: It’s coming along fine; I am going to use RSS for thenewsfeeds.Mr. Safe: Isour biggest partnerOK with that?IT Manager: Yeah, [...]
[Eric Kidd, via Scripting News] But this dream is nearly gone. It’s getting crushed between the awful power of Microsoft, and the onrushing juggernaut of open source. A 30-person company can’t compete with Microsoft. And a 30-person company will have a hard time competing with 300 open source contributors giving software away for free and [...]
Really uncanny, these tests are:
You are Cypher, from “The Matrix.”Selfish, disllusioned, you are misguided attimes. You deviate from the “right”path. What Matrix Persona Are You?brought to you by Quizilla
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There’s been lots of analysis of Matrix and Matrix Reloaded, but I haven’t seen anyone yet mention the issue that to me was the most glaring [...]
RDF is my preferred way of tracking my web usage, browsing habits, etc. About a year ago, I wrote an RDF database with a browser plugin and have been tracking my browsing this way ever since. This weekend, I finally decided to rewrite the database part from scratch, and gave it a better API. I [...]
Bunches of new bloggers from MSFT. I need to update my list, and thanks to one of the new bloggers, I’m changing the title of the “MSFT is” blogroll. I was just checking out David Chalmers’ inaugural post. (David, along with Morris Sim and Gavin King, completes a trifecta of MSFT academic bloggers from the [...]