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Today’s posting is fairly disjointed, as I don’t seem to have the brainpower to offer a coherent writeup. But there are lots of bits and pieces: Web Services For those people who still want to know more about XML-RPC and web services, here’s a registry of publicly accessible “web services” that can be addressed using [...]

This is day three of my WOMAD USA coverage. For days one and two, please see my new music index. I was pretty worn out Sunday morning, and I had some things to do before heading over to WOMAD — update my resume and a conference call with my collaborators in e-MIT. It was after [...]

This continues my writeup of WOMAD USA. Yesterday I went late, having first stopped in at a company picnic that was a bust (gray and rainy, lots of kid’s activities but few for adults, cold food). I got there in time for Kathryn Tickell’s performance, and it’s a damn good thing as it was the [...]

Just got back from the first night of WOMAD USA, the world music and dance festival founded by Peter Gabriel. The USA festival is held in Marymoor Park in Redmond. I arrived about 5:30, straightened out my ticket (why does Ticketmaster only ship to your billing address? If Amazon figured it out, shouldn’t they?), and [...]

I learned a new usage for the word “hammered” in my office. I kept hearing people saying that they were “totally hammered” on a particular day. Since they didn’t look drunk (hammered usage 1), I investigated further and found that they had a lot of meetings that day, very few of which connected directly with [...]

Update 2:25 pm: The appeals court just struck down Microsoft’s petition for rehearing on Finding of Fact 161–that it had illegally co-mingled IE and Windows code. My sister sent me an email reminding me of a passion that I share with my family for obsolete technology. I visited the website and was blown away by [...]

I rambled a little yesterday. It’s like that sometimes before 8 am. One of the points I forgot to make in my comparison of IM wars and single sign-on wars is that sometimes keeping a diverse ecosystem is critical to the ecosystem’s health. In English? Two or more strong players in the market are better [...]

Sad but true: Nabokov story submitted anonymously to online editors. Asinine criticisms ensue. New story: Virii and Ecosystem Health. Why does everyone use Outlook? Really? I saw the re-release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night. It still has the nervous lunacy of a first time film. The rerelease didn’t really clean up [...]

Interesting reading today. AOL is now promoting its Screen Name Service as a single sign-in across multiple services and web sites. Sound familiar? Single sign-in. Hard to believe as an end user that this is the next killer app that Microsoft and AOL are going to fight over. After all, isn’t instant messaging more important? [...]

Found Clay Shirky’s article on Hailstorm again. Six weeks later, it’s still a good article on the technology and the issues from a non-Microsoft developer’s perspective. I’d challenge his last section on page 3. Maybe they aren’t tying Hailstorm to the client as deeply as they have in the past. But what about the server? [...]

UPDATES Eudora Welty has died at age 92… ORIGINAL STORY Things are just about back to normal here. Starting early this Friday, I got a bunch of hits (2000 pageviews and counting, up from a normal baseline of 30-40 for a really good article) to the site from MacInTouch and Scripting News readers, looking at [...]

Quick note: Good funny criticism of yesterday’s article on Jim Roepke’s site: How to bury an important article about an important announcement that was buried by Apple. So, evolution: This is a note in two parts. Part is from my writing side and part is from my technical side. You can read one and skip [...]

Okay, so the info below is interesting, but largely out of date. Here’s what you need to know about searching this site: I use Google search. Google indexes the site pretty aggressively. Google has search results for both my new and old domains. Because of some configuration issues, you won’t get a radio button for [...]

A lot of people, Steve Jobs probably among them, were disappointed in today’s MacWorld keynote address. Lackluster new iMacs and another two months for Mac OS X 10.1 (including DVD playback and speed boost) were the “highlights.” But Dave Winer pointed out something very important I missed (primarily because I joined the webcast after it [...]

OK, it’s a really bad joke, but I had to share this: Thanks to MacAddict for hosting the picture.