Janis Ian weighs in on the music industry’s confusing attempts to eliminate themselves.
This article describes the chilling progress that biker gangs have made in getting with the Internet.
“The entertainment industry must acknowledge that it is marketing its products to an empowered body of citizens who consider themselves users, not viewers.” says Jonathan Greenblatt in this article. Bravo!
In my spare time, I’ve been reading ISBN:0140296468, “The New New Thing,” a book about Jim Clark and his Healtheon venture, his life, his past. Good stuff. I ran across this story, mainly about web designers giving up on true browser compatibility and standardizing on IE, but holding up Clark’s latest venture, ShutterFly as the poster child. How sad.
“What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” asks this New York Times Magazine article – maybe fat-free isn’t such a good idea.
Work on my client’s app was interrupted by a desparate call from an old friend. They needed to deliver a version of IE that acted like the kiosk version, but would display the taskbar. Today. Took four hours, mainly fighting with InstallShield and trying to nail him down on specs. In FoxPro, of course.