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Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
 For military terms, Dave can use me as a resource. A bomblet is usually associated with cluster munitions for anti-personnel operations. Small, but effective if deployed in volume against a concentrated enemy.
9:14:55 PM 
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Paolo has a tool in the works to enable visual editing of Radio templates all on the desktop in FrontPage and GoLive. Excellent.
8:17:46 PM
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Jan has some random musings on items that just don't make sense.
6:24:45 PM
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News.com. Netscape/AOL sues Microsoft. The ultimate example of how the consumer was harmed is the lack of progress in the browser. Gates has said the browser will not get any new enhancements in the next few years. It's dead in the water. Fie!
5:43:10 PM
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Wired. Choicepoint, a large aggregator on data about individuals, said dossiers on individuals were vulnerable to people using browsers. Read this article carefully. It is entirely backwards! Who are these people and what do they know about all of us? Who are they selling these dossiers to? Reminds me of an unregulated Stasi. A random hacker is much less scary than some "client" of Choicepoint. I bet 99.9% of the people in those databases don't know they are there much less Choicepoint even exists. The best privacy law the US could ever pass would be to require firms that collect info on individuals to send them a complete record of that data every year. Not a summary, but the whole dossier.
5:34:44 PM
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Rene is doing some K-Logging.
5:17:52 PM
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Verizon sucks! Of all the brain dead things to do: it is now blocking SMTP (mail) traffic on their network that doesn't use their servers. That means that if you connect to a corporate server for mail you are out of business! This is what a lack of competition brings. Brain death. Worse, is that they did this in the middle of the night with no warning!!
1:01:16 PM
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Dave's thinking about distributing the Web to desktop peers. Find a buddy, get published. This has been a mind-bomb inside UserLand for a while.
11:14:21 AM
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How to publish from Radio to iDisk (click on this if you have Radio running). Additionally, this preference saves a copy of your weblog to your disk for easy archiving. Hot!
11:04:02 AM
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Added the new Radio Badge and spam free mailer. Nice.
9:50:39 AM
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Dann is working on integrating Radio and Trillian. His approach is to store Trillian message logs in Radio and make them available for publishing. Nice.
9:38:50 AM
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Mike has a new random image macro and a new Blogging term: Rahoo!
9:27:46 AM
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Paul Boutin. Bill Gates' memo paints a picture of a Web free world:
"When we started work on Microsoft .NET more than two years ago, we set a new direction for the company -- and articulated a new way to think about our software. Rather than developing standalone applications and Websites, today we're moving towards smart clients with rich user interfaces interacting with Web services. We're driving the XML Web services standards so that systems from all vendors can share information, while working to make Windows the best client and server for this new era. " Bill Gates wants to kill the browser as an interface (Note: Microsoft has halted all development on the browser). In Bill's perfect world, every Website would transition to a rich desktop client using .Net as its basis.
Personally, I think the Web should seamlessly interconnect with the desktop. Why? It's easy. It's standards based. It's open. It leverages all the skills that the world has developed over the last 7 years. It bootstraps existing content and services to a new level of interactivity and value. What's needed to turn this around? A desktop CMS that makes it possible to build Web apps for the desktop that integrate with the larger Web.
Bill has been wrong before, let's prove him wrong again.
9:10:24 AM
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NYT. More than $4.5 billion pledged in aid for Afghanistan. Hope this works. Can a nation move from the middle ages to the modern world in a decade?
8:44:59 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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