Essays and everything else

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

May 18, 2004

Frontier goes Open Source (soon)
After dabbling with Frontier over the last five years, I often miss the outlining features of Frontier’s built-in IDE when working in other environments. I’m intrigued however with …
May 14, 2004

Google Groups Beta 2
Google opened beta 2 of Google Groups. They’ve integrated it with Gmail, which gives you the ability to post to Usenet newsgroups as well as create new groups.
May 12, 2004

Open Source Search Results Clustering Framework
My smart search buddies over at BA-Insight (who need to get their blog online!) pointed me to Carrot2, which is described as “ a system for clustering textual data“. (the site is a …
May 11, 2004

IBM’s Web-Based Desktop Apps
Based on a news.com story and /. thread, it seems like we’re “gonna party like it’s 1999” Again! (remember myWebOS)
May 10, 2004

Command Line Frontend to MovableType
I must have missed this, but back in December 2003, Johann Schmidt released the latest version of MTshell, which as the subject says is a CLI for MovableType.
May 6, 2004

Adobe Designer 6.0 preview
As expected, Adobe has come back at MSFT’s InfoPath with the preview release of Adobe Designer 6.0
May 3, 2004

Boot. Play! Retro-style
Give that old PC a new life by turning it into a retro gaming console with the KnoppiXMAME Live CD Linux Distro.
April 30, 2004

More on E-mail for Everything
Ironically, the week my InfoWorld subscription seems to have lapsed in the renewal process, Jon Udell, in his latest column, makes some of the very same points I mentioned …
April 29, 2004

Stop Using Email to Share Files
It is increasingly vexing to me the way email is the defacto standard for sharing files. The reality is that email was never designed for sharing files.
April 28, 2004

Google and Flash Index Friendly
As some of my friends can attest one of my long-standing gripes regarding the usage of Flash has been its inability to be indexed by search engines.