Essays and everything else

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

June 17, 2003

“You have a marketing problem”...
Steven Vore pulls out a great quote from George Gilder’s book Telecosm, which I think seems so relevant to the music industry — namely the RIAA. (link via McGee’s Musings)
June 16, 2003

Office 2003 beta 2 “refresh”
PCWorld reports “Microsoft is on track to release its “refresh” of Office 2003 beta 2 to testers before the end of the month, a company spokesman said Friday.”
June 16, 2003

Search is Commoditized
“All search engines work more or less the same, and offer more or less the same APIs, and provide more or less the same quality of result.”
June 13, 2003

Word 2003 as an RSS Viewer
Mike Gunderloy has written up an article that demonstrates how to use Word 2003 as an RSS viewer. Mike did this cool hack by transforming an RSS feed into into Words own XML …
June 13, 2003

Spike You!
Catherine rants about Spike Lee’s suit against SpikeTV. I’ll have to add to Cat’s “Spike” list with Elvis Costello’s album Spike from 1989.
June 12, 2003

Retro Computing Magazines
I’m certainly feeling nostalgic with all the retro talk lately about early experiences with computing technology.
June 12, 2003

OneNote as a Wiki front-end
It just occurred to me that Microsoft’s OneNote, the application “for capturing, organizing, and collaboratively sharing information”, would work well as a front-end to a Wiki.
June 11, 2003

FrontPage 2003 as a blogging tool
I didn’t see this feature in the latest beta of FP 2003, but according to this article on CRN FrontPage 2003 will include a blogging tool.
June 10, 2003

Gizmodo 1983
Feeling old? Check out some “cool” Gadgets from 1983.
June 9, 2003

Get the Yahoo Buzz via RSS
Jeremy Zawodny spills the beans about Yahoo’s Buzz (search) indices now being available via RSS, which is very cool indeed.