Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. “Mitchell D. Kapor, a software pioneer, resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon for surveillance.” By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
Archive | 2003
Dave Winer’s Excellent Adventure Heads East
Dave Winer’s last post from his former home, heading East: 10:23AM. Logging off from California. Not sure when the next update will be. Seeya soooon! “;->” [Scripting News] Godspeed, Dave
The Next Big Software Transition
“CRM is the poster child for what’s wrong with enterprise software,” says Dan Farber, in this opinion piece on ZDNet.
DareDevil the movie
Steve and I saw Daredevil yesterday. I thought the acting was pretty good. Some of the action scenes were too dark for me to follow exactly what was going on. I felt they could have supplied more depth, as I am a big fan of the original comic series, and like any good novel, you can’t do it justice on the big screen. But they couldn’t have stuffed any more into the movie, I think. A tantalizing teaser at the end hints that there may be sequels (I hear the main stars have already signed up for them), but we’ll see how it does at the box office.
What DAFUG? Detroit Area FoxPro User Group
DAFUG – March 2003 Meeting. The Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) is proud to announce that Whil Hentzen of Hentzenwerke Publishing, will be presenting “New tools that will provide additional business opportunities for Fox developers” on Thursday March 20, 2003. This will be Whil’s third stop during his “Fox Is Everywhere” user group tour. Afterwards we will be discussing other FoxPro and developer topics at a local eatery. Directions, maps, email contacts, future meeting dates and topics, and other details can be found on our website www.dafug.org. [FoxCentral.Net]
Red Squirrels
They say the red sqirrels are nastier than the grey ones, and will actually attack the grey ones. So far, we haven’t see anything but cowardice out of this little guy – he vanishes the moment we appear.
SxSW Notes….
As I blogged early, sorry I missed this conference. Two items from David Weinberger’s notes that I’ll need to invvestigate a little further and consider integrating into an upcoming conference: SocialText is working on a wiki solution, and QuickTopic more of an instant bulletin-board setup for collaborative work on the net.
Staring at the sky
I spend a fair amount of time in the evening escorting the dogs around the yard. The view upwards is often more interesting than the opposite. Sky and Telescope magazine’s web site keeps me informed of what I’m seeing up there, helping me keep Aldebaron and Saturn straight. Tommorrow, Monday, I’m informed that “Mars reaches its most southerly declination of the year (ö23.6¡).” Check it out: you can enter your location and the “Sky at a Glance” link will tell you what there is to see.
Text Zooming in browsers
Sounds like everyone is having an interesting time at SXSW Saturday. David Weinberger: “I gave the opening presentation: “Why the Web Matters.” It was close as I’ve ever come to doing a straightforward “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” presentation. It was largely new material, which always makes me nervous. After all, if I have any capacity to learn from experience (discuss amongst yourselves), then the debut of new material will always be the worst presentation of it. I, of course, have no idea how it went. Now I’m in the Social Networks session. It’s up against stuff competition: Cory Doctorow on a panel about Doing Good Online, and the cyborg guy, Kevin Werbach….” more at [Joho the Blog]
Text Zooming in browsers
Another feature of Mozila I use a *lot* is the text-zooming using Ctrl+ and Ctrl-. Anytime the fonts come up too small in a page (or the hour starts to get late and the old eyes just can’t keep up any more), a simple Ctrl+ and the font is bigger and far easier to read. Since I’m on a 15″ 1600×1200 ThinkPad running Windows XP and ClearType, small type can be *really* small. The quick shortcut to zoomed fonts is greatly appreciated.