Category Archives: Internet

Why comments are disabled

Posted on August 20, 2007 by jim

What if you fired up your business with a little Internet-style participation? [NSFW - language] Yeah, I thought so. (Edited to point to original source)

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There’s no Bullet List like Stalin’s Bullet List

Posted on June 10, 2006 by jim

This may only appeal to a rather narrow slice of my own small readership. Edward Tufte – author of books such as Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and the essay The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint – is … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista Delayed

Posted on March 22, 2006 by jim

Yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows Vista has been, you guessed it, delayed. Vista will be available to volume-license business customers in November (even my own workplace, a Microsoft-centric shop with 1000 employees in the US, obtains Windows as OEM licenses … Continue reading →

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Fighting a War

Posted on September 28, 2005 by jim

Since Monday afternoon, I have been fighting a war. The smoke has cleared, and the front is now quiet, and I have a chance to look over the battlefield. Starting sometime in the wee hours of Monday morning, a virus … Continue reading →

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Buzz ball in Microsoft’s court

Posted on September 25, 2005 by jim

In the “Apple vs Microsoft” camp of computing, it’s pretty hard to deny that the power of buzz has been on Apple’s side for at least a year and a half. As Microsoft stumbled – shutting down their engineering to … Continue reading →

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Google’s Gmail Notifier

Posted on September 1, 2005 by jim

Google has finally come out with a Gmail Notifier for MacOS X, written by software engineer Greg Miller in his 20%. (All Googlefolk are expected to spend 20% of their work time on a project of personal interest). Not that … Continue reading →

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Princeton doesn’t get it.

Posted on August 8, 2005 by jim

Engadget noted on Saturday that Princeton will be offering digital textbooks starting this fall – with a focus on the intensely onerous and user-hostile nature of the DRM involved. Princeton’s response this morning? A letter from Thomas Bartus of their … Continue reading →

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.NET on Rails

Posted on July 18, 2005 by jim

Laughter. Of course, I make a smack about MS jumping on the Google/37signals AJAX bandwagon, and my humor is slower than the Internet. Back on June 28th, Microsoft announced that they’ll be adding AJAX support to ASP.NET. Of course, it … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name?

Posted on July 18, 2005 by jim

Scoble wants people to “…call Longhorn all the bad names you can. Let’s get it out of our systems.” Oh, yeah, and link back to his post so he can follow the link-tracking on Technorati, Bloglines, and the supah-seekrit blog-tracking … Continue reading →

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Lowest Common Denominator

Posted on June 20, 2005 by jim

There’s been a lot of talk in the blogs (I really dislike blogosphere) that “small is the new big“. 37signals loves it, of course. Scoble talks about it in Microsoft land. Brought it up with my CIO this morning, and … Continue reading →

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