links, random thoughts, various opinions
“Hybrids, vehicles that save gasoline by combining electric motors with internal combustion engines, are emerging as the first alternative-powered cars to show signs of catching on with automakers and some consumers since the automobile’s early days.”
Detroit Auto Show, c/o Scripting News.
“Paragraph 9 of resolution 1441 (2002) states that this cooperation shall be “active”. It is not enough to open doors. Inspection is not a game of “catch as catch can”. Rather, as I noted, it is a process of verification for the purpose of creating confidence. It is not built upon the premise of trust. […]
“There are always risks involved when things change. But for the past 40 years the fear of these risks has paralyzed Western policy toward the Middle East. And what has come of this caution? Repression, radical Islam and terror. I’ll take my chances with change.”
Newsweek International Editorial
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by […]
I found out last week that I was going to be one of the naming inspirations for my friends new baby…I was honoured. He was born Friday…
William Patrick Dunbar
I didn’t really know what to say except that I’m grateful to be thought of that way. I’ve found out since then that when people […]
“On this day in 1984 (story), the first Mac went on sale. [iacas]
Today, we celebrate the nineteenth glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.
[Aaron Swartz]”
Direct link to the original Superbowl Ad [here]
Better Than The Whiteboard In My Office?
Dean Allen of Textism has opened the official home of Textpattern, his self-rolled, soon to be released CMS system for weblogs and the like. Dean contributes some very interesting ideas to the software genre, including (my favorite) a page layout preference pane for newbies who need easy access to templates, separation of entries into multiple […]
News.Com: “The market for XML-based content-lifecycle products — software and services that allow content to be easily reused in a number of formats — will grow tenfold to $11.6 billion in annual revenue by 2008, according to a report released Thursday.” [Scripting News]
This commentary appeared in the New York Times today by U.S. National Security Advisor, Condoleezz Rice.
Why We Know Iraq Is Lying (link courtesy of Scripting News)
“There is no mystery to voluntary disarmament. Countries that decide to disarm lead inspectors to weapons and production sites, answer questions before they are asked, state publicly and […]
“Grant Skinner has just launched the beta of one of the sweetest RIAs that I’ve seen. GModeler is a programming tool for developers working with ECMA-Script and deriviative languages such as ActionScript and JavaScript. It’s a UML modelling tool built entirely in Flash and supports importing XML exchange formats for UML. It […]
“Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results [evhead]
Saw 25th Hour last night. Great Film.
Newsweek: Sony
“What enables Idei to think that such a thing can be done is Sony’s breadth. It is the only company with premium positions in both the gizmo world and the media world. At AOL Time Warner, synergy is an epithet, but in Tokyo the promise not only survives, but thrives. To Idei, everything […]
Building Out A Network
“Terry Semel’s vision and plan was to build deeper and stronger relationships with users and then go out and build, buy and partner to make value,” Dan Rosensweig, chief operating officer at Yahoo, said in an interview Wednesday. “Once you put that strategy in place, the focus is on how to best […]
Well in a last minute fit of madness my travel plans have radically changed. The reality is that there are some key projects for me to finish off over the next ten days and heading out for three week business trip tomorrow was too much a dream. I always want to do everything […]
This is a joke right?
“SBC is shaking down websites which have navigation in a separate frame. This is an open-and-shut case!
Web sites are protected speech, website navigation is part of that speech, this patent is part of a law passed by Congress that abridges that speech.
What’s next? A patent on swooshes in logos? This is […]
Had a great evening with my family tonight. My sisters partner, Tim, loves to sing (and can sing…wow). His family is in town so we all gathered at a pub in Cloverdale. We were basically the only ones in the place. It was a great evening of karaoke, burgers and pull […]
It’s been a busy few days (as if it isn’t always) here at the office so not much time to spout off. Have a big trip coming up though so hope to blog from as many cities as possible. So far twelve different flights scheduled…and it’s only just begin. By the way […]
“This is how the story goes - a developer releases a beta application. The app is hardly noticed by anyone on the shareware software listing sites. A few days pass, the app moves up to beta 2. A couple more days pass. Then all of a sudden Apple screams in with a flurry of legal […]