One New Thing

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Say one thing, do another

Say one thing, do another 03/06/2004 01:54 AM

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
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This thing still on?

This thing still on? 02/05/2005 10:19 PM
For a variety of boring reasons I spent some time today upgrading my old Windows 2000 box to WinXP. I believe that Radio has survived the transition, but this is a test post to make sure...

Next best thing to being there

Next best thing to being there 11/15/2003 08:46 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 15 2003 7:38AM ET

Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On? 07/02/2004 10:46 PM
Jesus, hanging on the cross, says, “Peter, come here.” Peter, thinking he is about to receive a profound religious truth, tries goes to Jesus but...

Getting beyond the next big thing

Getting beyond the next big thing 08/15/2004 09:32 AM
McKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries.

The Next Big Web Thing - Really

The Next Big Web Thing - Really 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
What happened to Web services? Well, they're out there, being developed by Microsoft and Sun employees as well as folks working on other platforms. But, thankfully, what keeps showing up on the radar is not the position papers produced by vendors' marketing departments, but rather the quiet, diligent work of the W3C, which will have the last laugh, in my humble opinion.

Best Thing at CES

Best Thing at CES 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
“What was the best thing at CES? Macworld,” writes Dan Dubno for CBS News. “After a week in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Show, I had seen all there was to see...Yet something was missing at CES, and a week later, at Macworld in San Francisco, we found it: the new Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle.” [Jan 27, 2005]

Oh, And One Last Thing...

Oh, And One Last Thing... 04/18/2005 10:21 AM

Steve Jobs is finally getting his wish: an user interface that is really good enough to lick

One More Thing...

One More Thing... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Intel Inside the Apple.

If It's Not One Thing...

If It's Not One Thing... 06/06/2005 12:15 AM

I've been gone for a while ... and for too many reasons to count, but I'll try.

1. Family problems months ago that are ongoing
2. Preparation at work for some changes
3. New car, and the financial wrangling that made it happen
4. Possible new work in the future
5. Built foundation of that possible new work
6. Upgraded Mac Geekery and codepoetry to Drupal 4.6 (on the same install, no less)
7. Worked so hard, slept so little, immune system went down enough I picked up shingles – yay me

So, while I'm doing my best not to scratch everywhere, I'm looking at the tech news as of late and realizing that there is absolutely nothing interesting going on until the 29th. Sure, sure, Adobe is trying harder to be the Microsoft of the media applications market, and succeeding, and other little fun things going around and around, but overall it's just your average monkey business.

But, damn, did you see Apple's stock price? Down $10 in just a few days for no real reason. Well, the whole market went to crap along with it (the Dow dropped over 500 points) so it's not like a bias or anything but ... wow.

Anyway. I'll have a long biting insight ready just as soon as the hydrocodone wears off... -scratch- -scratch-

TV the next big thing?

TV the next big thing? 06/10/2004 04:36 AM
Yes I know, you are wondering if I have lost it. To be honest when I read all the fuzz about it I thought "TV?...

One thing the internet got right

One thing the internet got right 06/17/2005 07:18 PM

In reading about the copyright insanity of Wal-Mart and Ofoto, I'm reminded of how much better the copyright prevention approach works online. In the (much criticized and abused, but in this case, forward thinking) DMCA, there's a safeharbor provision for ISPs so that they aren't responsible for what happens on their network, their members actually doing things illegally are responsible. This makes perfect sense and does have methods and rules about what an ISP needs to do to help remove offending material, but never puts the ISP on trial for the work of their customer. Without this, ISPs wouldn't be able to fund the manhours to babysit and question every single byte on their disk drives.

Wal-mart and Ofoto are making really bad business decisions as the result of pressure from professional photographers, presumably to prevent lawsuits directed at the photo developers themselves. But like Ernest said, this is a silly approach. Every service can have unintended uses and consequences like getting wedding photo duplicates made without the photographer's permission, but the person that took possession of the negatives is in the wrong, not the photo developer. The same goes for Kinkos watching your every move when you use their copiers.

Maybe we could see an end to these silly stories if safeharbor provisions were more widespread. It seems like the one thing in internet law we really got right.

"it's a Catholic thing."

"it's a Catholic thing." 04/29/2004 09:09 AM

Are Firewalls Useful? And Another
Thing...

Are Firewalls Useful? And Another
Thing... 09/23/2004 10:56 AM

The in thing: Outsourcing

The in thing: Outsourcing 05/14/2004 01:37 PM
CNET May 14 2004 5:39PM GMT

Only thing getting larger

Only thing getting larger 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
The few that each of us receive is just a fraction of the online enhancement craze. A Google search for "penis enlargement" yielded 1.8 million hits. ...

Put that filthy thing out!

Put that filthy thing out! 02/18/2004 12:04 PM
Smoking banned from the Irish workplace (including pubs) from March 29th
Looks like all of us smokers will have to comply. Personally, I can't wait for the ban to come in as it will be further incentive for me to fight the addicition. Hopefully the ban on smoking at my office will mean it'll be easier to stop. All that said, I wonder how it's going to be enforced? The way I see it, the only way it could be properly enforced is through the public being prepaired to report transgressions to those charged with enforcing the law. Maybe the fear of that will make sure that business owners see to it that their workplaces are smoke free.

Yahoo should do the right thing!

Yahoo should do the right thing! 12/24/2004 12:46 PM

I have about a dozen e-mail accounts spread all over the net but I keep a printout in our safety deposit box along with many other things a print-out of all of my login names and passwords in a sealed envelope.

But not everyone has pre-planned for something bad happening to them. A Marine who was unfortunately killed in action in Iraq has a Yahoo e-mail account that the family is trying to secure before the account expires. Yahoo has refused to give the account password to the family.

E-mail accounts could contain information that the family would cherish but it also could contain information that would leave a bad taste in their mouth. I think Yahoo should give in to the families wishes, but I would hope with enough public pressure they would turn the account over. [CNN]

Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?

Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing? 04/12/2004 03:34 PM

vs. Linux GUI: Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on the head about a big problem with Linux.

Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At the same time, it holds on doggedly to its (often ancient) Unix-rooted traditions and conventions.

Finally, it's hard to get a really large group of Linux developers to do much of anything beyond a single "project." A GUI is not a "project." It's the whole OS from the user's perspective, and it must be from the creators' perspective too or it will fail.

This is so true. One thing that has always bothered me about Linux is the lack of a consistent file structure. One distribution puts certain files in one place, and another puts them somewhere else.

This was such a big problem, in fact, that the United Linux consoritum was put together specifically to define a common file system. However, Red Hat didn't play ball, and that really marginalized any chance of success.

As for the GUI problem discussed above: Gnome or KDE? Why? Why don't they get together and build the GUI to end all GUIs and just make life simpler for everyone? The different Linux distributions and GUI essentially create multiple "virtual OSs." You're running Fedora and KDE, or SuSE and Gnome, or Slackware and something else.

You also see this when installing software. I'm using Red Hat Fedora, so I need to find an RPM specifically for my distribution. This isn't the same thing that will run in SuSE or other distributions. In fact, they may not use RPMs at all. You may need to compile them from source, etc.

About 18 months ago, I made a concerted effort at using Linux on the desktop. I posted here about the lack of consistency:

While I appreciate the cowboy, wild-west, open-source attitude as much as the next guy, I also appreciate not having to relearn an interface for every new app. With Linux apps, Lord only knows what the menu commands are going to be. Right-clicking on the workspace may reboot the machine for all you know. CTRL-A works in some apps, not in others. Double-clicking has all sorts of different behaviors as well.

Let me say that I haven't found this issue to be the case with Fedora, but the premise holds true. Linux developers look at their one little corner of the OS. They are tactical. No one is looking at the big picture — the strategic picture.

Perhaps the best thing to happen to Linux would be for Red Hat to destroy all competitors and become the Microsoft of Linux. If everyone was using Red Hat, and there was one monolithic entity working on developing the platform, maybe this would provide the cohesion the OS needs to make real inroads on the desktop.

Far be it for me to agree with Owen about anything, but this interview is right on the money.

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XML: Too much of a good thing?

XML: Too much of a good thing? 09/07/2004 06:38 AM
Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.

The best thing about identities - is
that there are so many of them

The best thing about identities - is
that there are so many of them 12/31/2004 10:59 AM

We used to use that line when we referred to standards.

Wi shing that the world would coalesce around a single standard:

a) ignores the fact that there is Microsoft. So choose your category wisely and stay under the radar, as Microsoft - no matter what - will come up with their own thing. In the case of subscription formats - they actually PRECEDED RSS with something called CDF. But since it failed, that gave Dave Winer an opportunity of getting RSS going "user the radar" until it was too late for Microsoft to stop him.

b) assuming that there will ever be a single digital identity standard - is wrong. Kim Cameron raps out his beliefs - which he calls "The Fifth Law of Identity". I totally agree with Kim that a meta-identity format is needed to brdge and connect together all of these disparate systems.

c) is rather naive and clearly sees the digital identity space as one thing. It's not. What digital identity is to the FOAF nerds or Tantek Celik's XFN cult is completely different than how the i-names folks or Sxip Network sees it. And I haven't even brought up the enterprise wonks - lile PingID. Or the god head Craig Burton or his nemisis Kim Cameron. We all see this space as something completely different.

So - by definition - we (at best) can at least hope for some sort of meta-standard.

God bless the meta-directory gods.

UPDATE: Craig Burton raps it our succinctly - like only he can.

The law of pluralism is contrary to the laws of customer control. Let's be clear, the law of pluralism requires operating system independence--by definition. This means the Microsoft Identity Archtiect is calling for a system that is not necissarily Windows centric by design. This--of course--is the only way such a system can really work--but consider the implications.

A cross platfrom identity metasystem sun-spot hot and--with the other laws being discussed here--changes everything.

[Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon]

The Opera Thing

The Opera Thing 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
See that gap Opera 6/7 inserts in this web layout? That CSS bug has been fixed in Opera 7.23+. Opera fans, take note.

Too much of a good thing?

Too much of a good thing? 01/01/2005 04:42 AM
globetechnology.com Jan 1 2005 7:04AM GMT

The New iMac: One Thing Too Many

The New iMac: One Thing Too Many 08/31/2004 11:28 AM
I don't mean to put a damper on the wonderful new iMac, but Apple needs to look far back to the tradition of the Performa line. By Apple Matters (via MyAppleMenu)

Gillette's New, New Thing

Gillette's New, New Thing 05/24/2004 12:41 PM
Gillette is counting on the new M3Power shaving system to differentiate its line.

Read the whole thing

Read the whole thing 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Ray Bradbury .. translation

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It's like that spiderman thing all over
again

It's like that spiderman thing all over
again 07/10/2004 06:43 AM
Friday Saturday Flash Fun - MorrisseyDance (warning - cheesy audio)

: An Old New Thing

: An Old New Thing 07/07/2004 07:49 PM
In Kendall Clark's first week as managing editor, he says hello to new challenges and old friends.

Too much of a good thing

Too much of a good thing 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Forget spam -- our real conundrum is the overload of legitimate e-mail. But help is coming.

How Do You Steer This Thing?

How Do You Steer This Thing? 07/16/2004 05:22 AM
Can biker moguls Senior and Paulie Teutul of American Chopper leverage their brand?

"watch the whole thing "

"watch the whole thing " 07/16/2004 03:18 PM

What a sick thing to do...

What a sick thing to do... 07/25/2004 04:03 PM
Bush administration seeks to block consumer drug suits. White House says injury claims undermine FDA.
Gee. I don't know wh y we might need some legal recourse against drug manufacturers?
Weasels!

Joe Trippi's next big thing

Joe Trippi's next big thing 07/26/2004 07:41 PM
Howard Dean's campaign wizard is now a consultant without a candidate, but he's giving John Kerry free advice: Reject public financing and turn to your base to neutralize the Bush money juggernaut.

BlogPet, best thing ever

BlogPet, best thing ever 07/29/2004 08:45 PM
oh please oh please oh please english version!

Thing you don't want to see in the
morning

Thing you don't want to see in the
morning 08/05/2004 03:56 PM

Click to view the complete scene.

Very early in the morning, I walk out with the firm purpose of taking the garbage out. I walk in, turn on the lights by waving my arms frantically (the motion detector apparently works only if your body mass exceeds 120 kg - the local cats apparently can grow very big) and something is not quite right. I see shoes from the corner of my eye.

"Shoes?", I think to myself. "Shoes, dangling from the ceiling?"

I look left and yeah, a pair of mens' shoes is hanging a meter and a half off the ground. With pants and all.

My stomach curls up in panic.

Half a second later, my brain catches up and I laugh.

Definitely another one in the category of things you can do with your laundry but probably should not.

that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

Is there such as thing as too much
memory?

Is there such as thing as too much
memory? 08/14/2004 11:54 AM
Munich Bans Memorial Plaques Munich has decided to ban memorial plaques to Jewish, Sinti and German citizens deported and murdered during World War Two. Jewish leaders, fearful that the plaques would stir up anti-Semitic fervor, supported the ban. These plaques are the work of a German artist, Gunter Demnig. ”He first had the idea in the early 1990s when he was unveiling a memorial for the Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust. “An elderly woman approached him and insisted that "no Gypsies ever lived here". "It is so easy for people to deny something. I wanted to ensure that this would not happen," he says. (BBC).” This reminder of the holocaust brought to mind the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, as well as the Viet Nam Memorial and the AIDS quilt -- monuments that really changed me.

Thing Knowledge

Thing Knowledge 06/18/2004 12:53 PM
My friend Alex at University of California Press gave me a review copy of the book Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments by Davis Baird. Sounds heavy, but on first glance it seems that Baird has balanced deep philosophy with fun machine history! The illustrations and vintage photographs are a treat too. I'm looking forward to digging into it. From Peter Galison's blurb on the back:

"Grappling with a wonderful assortment of objects--from antique orreries to modern spectrographs--Davis Baird draws the reader deep into fascinating questions about the nature of knowledge. As lucid on the semantic account of theories as it is on the inner workings of the cyclotron, this book that brings the laboratory to philosophers and philosophy into the laboratory."

Warning: At $65, it's a pricey book, probably due to a limited print run. Link
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