Essays and everything else

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

May 27, 2003

PeopleSoft CEO says .Net is IT ‘asbestos’
I can’t say that I agree with Mr. Conway of PeopleSoft in regard to his comment about .Net last week…
May 26, 2003

Rainy Epic Rides
I was looking forward to an epic Memorial Day ride today, but the current downpour seems to have put a damper on the plans. Perhaps I need one of these for the trails. (Thanks for …
May 25, 2003

Hosted Photo Blogging Service
Expressions seems to be filling an up-and-coming blogging niche and at $2.50 per month, it’s certainly reasonably priced.
May 24, 2003

Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story
Ok, I suppose my post is a reaction or vote to Microdoc News Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story study, which not surprisingly is tracking on Blogdex.
May 23, 2003

The RDF Challenge
I’ve been intrigued by the promise of RDF and followed the history from Guha’s MCF HotSauce application, through Tim Berners-Lee’s Semantic Web
May 22, 2003

Personal and Enterprise Search
For some reason I missed this post from last week by Jon Udell about Indexing and searching Outlook email, but I thought his concluding paragraphs had a much broader impact on …
May 22, 2003

Change Today
Some good quotes from Kevin Werbach article on CNet titled, “Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world”
May 21, 2003

Knoppix Bootable Linux CD
I needed to do some quick testing in Linux today, but I didn’t have immediate root access to a Linux distro. That’s when I popped the Knoppix Bootable Linux CD into my drive, …
May 20, 2003

NewsGator 1.2 New Posting Interface
If this works, I’ll be posting this via NewsGator 1.2’s new Outlook posting interface! Congratulations Greg! Update: Well, the post arrived, but it had no title and the HTML was a …
May 19, 2003

Topic-Sensitive page rankings feasible
A new paper by a Stanford group claims substantial increase in calculating Page Rank performance (used by Google), which could make room for personalized topical searches.