Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

July 26, 2004

Google Down, IPO Pricing UP?
Update: Apparently Google’s problems are due to the latest MyDoom worm variant (via /.)
July 21, 2004

MT 3.01D Upgrade
Last night I decided to upgrade Movable Type to version 3.01D. The upgrade went very smoothly. I’m very impressed with the seamlessness the MT crew created with this upgrade. …
July 20, 2004

One-up-man-ship: Google, Yahoo and of course Microsoft
After a week on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina with family I feel refreshed and recharged — perhaps not recharged enough to ride up l’Alpe d’ Huez, but I digress…
July 9, 2004

Brewster Kahle Universal Access to Human Knowledge
The other day I watched Brewster Kahle’s inspiring presentation at last month’s NotCon session titled, “Universal Access to Human Knowledge” (Page with 54 Minute MPEG @ 120 MB — …
July 2, 2004

2004 Tour de France
The start of Le Tour is just hours away and I am already on the edge with anticipation. No matter the outcome, I guarantee that it is going to be an epic battle. Far more dramatic …
June 28, 2004

WinFS is a Database Platform
Samuel Druker the Microsoft Development Lead for WinFS speaks on Channel 9 in video and in the threads about how WinFS will mean much more than simply full-text searching. (via …
June 28, 2004

Revamped MSN Search (soon)
My buddy Martin over at BA-Insight (who incidentally kicked-off a great new blog on enterprise search) sent me a link to this article on CNET about comments Bill Gates made during …
June 25, 2004

Billy G’s Blog
The Seattle Times has an article saying Bill Gates may become a blogger (via Anil).
June 24, 2004

NewsGator Closes Series A Funding
I just wanted to say congratulations to Greg!
June 21, 2004

Broadband Syndication Synergies and P2P
Today, there was a /. post about a new MythTV plug-in called Torrentocracy that extends the included MythNews RSS Aggregator to support RSS Enclosures and Bit Torrent.