Dear FusionOne: We've known each other for how long? Five years? Really? It's been that long. Wow. When we met, you had such big plans for yourself. You were going to help me with all of my synchronization needs. Remember how I used you to synch between my work PC, my home PC, my laptop, [...]
How .Net Affects Us All
Oct 28, 2005 By Leave a Comment
This headline is a little misleading: Need a job? Don't use a Mac. Again the media disappoints with no real analysis in a story that bumps into a larger issue, but doesn't even look into it. Is this about Mac users or is this more about the implementation of .Net as the ultimate development platform? [...]
Killing My Old Browser
Oct 26, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Sean Rhody at the Web Services Journal makes some good points about how the Web browser is just getting archaic. The browser was intended to deliver text across the Internet, and it's good at that. So good that people began to piggyback other things onto their HTML code in order to try to exploit a [...]
I'm Going to Start Some Buzz About Flare
Oct 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Just Out of Alpha: the Web
Oct 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
What's all of this Web 2.0 stuff? I'm seeing "Web 2.0" thrown around when writers and pundits are referring to the Web of the future. In reality, the Web of the future is not an official release. I'm concerned because I haven't seen requirements documents and I haven't seen a project plan. I can't envision [...]
No Conspiracy; Just Annoying
Jul 30, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Milking Windows for More Than It's Worth
Jul 26, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft, as expected, is going to implement a policy to only allow legitimate copies of Windows to receive updates. The only exception appears to be security patches. Obviously the goal is to reduce pirated Windows installations floating around the world. According to the article, an estimated third of Windows installations worldwide are pirated. My guess [...]
New Notebook
Jul 20, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Long Way From Home by The Heavy