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Monday, March 11, 2002 |
 
Excellent. This is the first product I have ever seen that decreased the flow to my e-mail inbox by over 100 items a day. Everyone else seems to build products that fill it with more junk.
8:23:05 PM 
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Yo! This is an unofficial mind-bomb month  at UserLand. Radio Community Server, OPML coffee mugs, and Jabber P2P connections. Wow. Hold onto your socks.
Now all we need are people as smart as AC to put it into action. Fortunately, if today's sales flow is an indication, there are.
8:01:07 PM
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Wired. Stem cell work is moving fast in the lab. Human stem cells used to cure a spinal cord injury in mice. One thing I am sure of: the right to lifers, and this includes Bush, are going to get rolled on this issue if they don't get out of the way. My daughter has diabetes and my father has Parkinsons, this issue hits home. Stem cells = life. A vote against stem cells = retirement.
7:18:05 PM
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Joe's having fun publishing results from Web Services he is calling using Radio.
7:02:31 PM
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New Radio feature. Nice. I used it for this post.
3:57:12 PM
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Alan Reiter has a great weblog on wireless issues.
1:56:55 PM
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Terrarium A .Net demo app from Microsoft.
>>>In Terrarium, developers create herbivores, carnivores, or plants and then introduce them into a peer-to-peer, networked ecosystem for a survival-of-the-fittest type competition. The game provides both a competitive medium for testing your software development and strategy skills as well as a realistic evolutionary biology/artificial intelligence model for evaluating the role that various behaviors and traits can play in the fight for survival. Terrarium also demonstrates some of the features of the .NET Framework, including the Windows Forms integration with DirectX® for generating powerful user interface (UI); XML Web services; support for peer-to-peer networking; support for multiple programming languages; the capability to update smart client, or Windows-based, applications via a remote Web server; and the evidence-based and code access security infrastructure that protects participating computers from the mobile code they are running.<<<
12:18:38 PM
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The Economist. A long article on friction between the US and Europe over plans to topple Saddam. Note: the Economist is one of those rare publications where the journalist is expected to be a domain expert. The magazine rarely quotes outside analysts. I got quoted once by the Economist, but in order to get that quote, I had to provide a level of analysis that went well beyond what I typically provided time-strapped journalists.
>>>On one measure, America spends a staggering 40% of all the money the world spends on defence. The Pentagon’s budget is now over ten times that of the next biggest military spender in NATO (Britain). This gap in resources translates into a technology gap, as Europeans would have found in Afghanistan. No wonder Lord Robertson, NATO’s secretary-general, worries aloud about European “pygmies”. This difference in military might, which will be exacerbated by the proposed leap in America’s defence spending this year, explains much of the alarm in Europe about the Bush administration. America is waking up to the huge preponderance of its military power. Europe, realising this, is worried both about the wise application of that power, and its own relative weakness.<<<
12:06:12 PM
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WSJ. Was this a recession? Economists, including the NBER, don't know what to call it.
>>>But by the standards of economic output -- the volume of goods and services -- it is a tougher call. Judging by the latest government figures, this has been the only recession since World War II in which gross domestic product shrank for just one quarter, and it wasn't by much. The reason is productivity. Just as Dell (Dell sold 18% more computers last year than the year before) turned out more, and better, computers with fewer workers, the entire U.S. economy managed to produce more per worker last year. That is rare: productivity almost always declines during recessions.<<<
10:36:05 AM
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NYT. Wow. Andersen's behind the scenes decline is moving so quickly that it plans to sell itself to Deloitte and Touche.
10:28:29 AM
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