January 2, 2002

Version 2.0 of Morpheus (soon)

MusicCity is close to releasing version 2.0 of Morpheus with support for searching Gnutella

January 2, 2002

One Victim: A Son, a Sibling, a Fiance, a Best Friend

really sad story about our friend Bob McIlvaine who died in the WTC attack.

December 31, 2001

American Airlines flight 63

A webloggers account of the shoe-bomber incident on American Airlines flight 63

December 20, 2001

Protect the snowman from melting

my buddy marty “martoon” leone of step2media put together another hilarious game in flash. this one is for the holidays and it’s as he describes it, “another one of those protect the snowman from melting game for your flashing pleasure."

December 18, 2001

Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

I suspect this is just disinformation and I’m just propagating it, but there’s an article in the washington post that says,

“A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist network claimed that Islamic militants infiltrated Microsoft and sabotaged the company’s Windows XP operating system, according to a source close to Indian police."

there’s also an interesting (and funny) thread running on slashdot about this as well … freaky!

November 26, 2001

Coffee-Wielding Bandit

did you ever imagine reading “coffee-wielding bandit” as a headline?

“Florida police say a coffee-wielding bandit has robbed at least six Fort Lauderdale Dunkin’ Donuts stores. Police say the man hurls hot java at the clerks after they open the register and then grabs cash from the open drawer.”

November 26, 2001

eBay: The People’s Company

from BusinessWeek: “Meet the People’s Company. Like a democracy, it can be a noisy and unruly place, where citizens sometimes think the folks in charge are numbskulls. But the people’s passion prevails at eBay because the people are firmly in charge.”

November 21, 2001

how to get off death row ;

i think this picture needs no caption, but maybe a bad 70’s funk soundtrack … doh!

November 7, 2001

Google now indexing Office et al ;

pretty cool, google “… now extracts and indexes the text from many file formats, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PostScript, RTF, Lotus files, WordStar 2000, RFT (and old IBM format), MacWrite, and on and on. The extracted information is also converted in most cases to HTML which you can view by clicking a link next to the result."

November 5, 2001

Collaboration, suddenly, is cool.

the following are quotes from an interesting article titled “Culture of Collaboration”, which includes 10 recommendations for getting employees to adopt collaborative tools and use them in an effective way.

“The biggest challenge of getting employees to work together online isn’t a technological problem-it’s a cultural and organizational one.”

“The danger for many is overspending on collaborative technologies without making the cultural and organizational adjustments necessary to derive any benefit from them."