December 29th, 2007
My family and I are leaving Sunday morning for a one-week vacation at Club Med. We’ll probably have Internet access, but I don’t plan on blogging while I’m there … partly because I think most other people are going to be focusing on their own New Year’s celebrations, but mostly because I really would like [...]
December 27th, 2007
After a series of annoying and unexpected outages on the Twitter network last week, my fellow blogger/Twitterer Michael Krigsman fired off an angry Twitter message (aka “tweet”) that said something along the lines of, “Twitter is not good enough for the Enterprise!” (Note the emphasis on “Enterprise” here, as opposed to “enterprise”; I’ll discuss that [...]
December 27th, 2007
I’ve been slowly accumulating new Web 2.0 material during the past month, and it’s time for an update. As usual, you can access the presentation in a variety of formats, although I haven’t yet had time to upload the “ugly Betty” version to Google Apps. For now, you can view it, and/or download it, from [...]
December 25th, 2007
This has nothing to do with Christmas, or any other serious topic. But I was alerted to its existence by a fellow Twitterer, and it brought a smile to my face. If things are getting a little too serious in your world, pause for a moment and listen to Kina Grannis tell you all about [...]
December 23rd, 2007
Wow.
If you’ve ever lived in Manhattan, if you’ve ever visited Manhattan, if you’ve ever seen pictures of Manhattan, or even if you’ve only heard of Manhattan, you’ve got to see this movie. Whether or not you’re a Will Smith fan, whether or not you like science fiction movies, whether or not you read the 1954 [...]
December 22nd, 2007
… next thing I remember, I am walkin’ down the street
I’m feeling all right, I’m with my boys, I’m with my troops, yeah …
Paul Simon, “Late in the Evening“
Every time I think of my Twitter network, I can’t help recalling the phrase “with my troops, yeah” from the Paul Simon song, Late in the Evening [...]
December 21st, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about an initiative that I was just beginning to carry out: uploading and archiving my collection of photographs onto Flickr. I’ve now finished the first “pass” of that project: roughly 13,277 photos are now online, organized into roughly 425 albums that record the activities of five generations of my [...]
December 19th, 2007
Michael Krigsman has a provocative posting this evening on his ZDNet blog titled “Twitter is Dangerous.” Michael, who is a very smart guy whose opinions I respect, seems to enjoy starting debates by making such provocative statements … and since I seem to be suffering a bit of indigestion from too many garlic-laced French Fries [...]
December 17th, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I described (here and here) my initial attempts to establish a relationship with an Indian outsourcing company, in the hope that I could offload some of the relatively mundane technical/administrative things that a freelance knowledge worker like me would either have to do himself, or subcontract to a local worker at [...]
December 16th, 2007
Bottom line: the XO machine built by the OLPC organization is miniscule; it’s slow; its keyboard is built for tiny hands; the trackpad sucks; and its user interface did not seem quite as intuitive as I had expected. But it’s rugged, it’s got some wonderful UI innovations, and you can’t help but feel like you’re [...]
