April 2, 2003

InfoPath and OneNote not part of the retail Office suite

cnet: “Microsoft will not include InfoPath and OneNote as part of the Office suite sold at retail or installed on new computers.”

I think this is a missed opportunity to broadly push InfoPath out to the masses.

April 2, 2003

Interesting tidbits on the new version of Office

I found Woody Leeonhard’s interesting tidbits on Office 2003 Beta while searching Google Groups for info on installing SharePoint Beta 2.

Still no luck with SharePoint, but Wood’s tips are worth a read.

April 1, 2003

Ask Google?

AvaQuest has a neat Google hack called GooglePeople that demonstrates “it is possible to scour the Web for answers to questions using the vast data repository provided by Google.”

“GooglePeople uses your question to do a Google search. It then extracts the people names found on the top 10 result pages and chooses the likely answer to your question based on its scoring algorithm.”

March 31, 2003

Updated Pinto Photo Gallery

I finally updated the gallery of photos Catherine and I have taken over the last 4 years of our dog Pinto, who we believe is a mix between Great Dane, Fox Hound and American Bull Dog, but feel free to make your own guess … He’ll always be a 90-plus pound puppy to us.

March 31, 2003

So much Open Source Software

I certainly agree with Mark that the availability of Open Source Software is tremendous — I believe this has been the case for a long time.

DiveIntoMark: “In the future, there will be so much open source software available, programmers will be judged by how much they know about it and how well they can glue it together to build solutions.”

IMHO, the difference is that now so much of the open source software is geared toward the average user and has become increasingly less technically intense to install and deploy.

March 31, 2003

Microsoft adds support for Wi-Fi Protected Access security in XP

“Microsoft on Monday released a Windows XP update designed to enhance security for computers that connect to wireless networks.” (via CNet)

March 30, 2003

Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter

Perfect or those times when you need to send in your laptop for repair or need to recover data from you laptop hard drive. (via 0xDECAFBAD)

March 29, 2003

Iraqi variation on the Nigerian e-mail scam

CNet: “The war has inspired a new variation on the venerable Nigerian e-mail scam.”

March 28, 2003

Resistance is futile

Promit Chakrabarti: “Resistance to share knowledge stems from the fact that people are concerned about job security. This leads towards knowledge not shared or used. To enter oneÂ’s knowledge into a system and to seek out knowledge from others is not only threatening, but also involves lot of effort that hunts for motivation.”

Well said.

March 27, 2003

Fact-check your ass

Ben Hammersley in the Guardian again:

“The weblogging community is proving adept at compiling and filtering news in a way never seen in previous conflicts. By comparing and contrasting reports from every news source in the theatre, the war-bloggers’ adage that they will “fact-check your ass” is being played out with enthusiasm from both writer and reader.”