(Raw notes, updated throughout the day, will be adding content reverse-chronological)
“High Order Bit” (Demos)
Apollo demos. Showing the same ebay demo we’ve seen before. It’s very nice. Demos a salesforce.com client (amazing), and Buzzword. Their media player demo isn’t as nice. They would have had far more people at the session […]
The U.N. is actually recommending that adult males in Africa be circumcised, and New York City is considering the same.
This is astonishing, not only because it is wacky science, but because it is the quintessential 3,000 years-old example of wacky science.
Basically, the U.N. did the work to show that men who were circumcised as children […]
I noticed some strange behavior when visiting some of the few SharePoint-based blogs out on the wild Internets.
First, on home.infusionblogs.com, I was prompted with “This website wants to run the following add-on”.
It’s apparently signed by Microsoft, but the name is ‘Name ActiveX Control’. Was this a case where someone forgot to name the ActiveX control, […]
Tim is acknowledging that he ruffled some feathers with his approach to blogger’s code of conduct. But the trolls still are busy trying to drown the conversation and change the subject. I was having trouble understanding why some of these people were so angry at Tim, until I found the blog of the dude who […]
Tim O’Reilly is drawing some irrational criticism for proposing a voluntary code of conduct for comment boards. Hundreds of boards already have codes of conduct, and the mob never complained about that, so apparently the issue is just that people hate Tim. Or they hate that an a-lister is promoting civility and recommending others do the same.
But […]