At Scripting News, Dave Winer points to David Berlind: “Park’s observations exactly mirror what’s going on not just in my household.”
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The Zen of JobsNotes
Over at Resigned to the Bittersweet Truth, Bill points out that “PresentationZen has an article on using Simplicity to enhance your projected presentations. To illustrate, they compare slides typical of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.” Excellent comparison!
Apple Security Update 2005-009, (Wed, Nov 30th)
[SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green] notes “Published: 2005-11-30,
Last Updated: 2005-11-30 01:45:17 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1) Apple has released a new Security Update, 2005-009. A number of products have been patched, including Apache2, apache_mod_ssl, CoreFoundation, curl, iodbcadmintool, OpenSSL, passwordserver, Safari, sudo and syslog. Security Update 2005-009 may be obtained from the Software Update pane in System Preferences, or from Apple’s Software Downloads web site: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/.”
Get patching!
Cringely: Google-Mart
Cringely, on the other hand, posting at I, Cringely @ PBS.org, posits a different future, with a Google brand internet-on-top-of-the-internet emulating a disturbing model: “Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did” Time will tell.
Bricklin’s WikiCalc: Very Cool
Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions posts “Just saw this over on zdNet but then wanted to try it out.
I think David may be right when he talks about the potential of what this could do.
Wikis aren’t just for group blogging or information – now you’ve got a live application for it as well.”
Wikis are a great way for collaborative effort at building up knowledge online. Witness the mother-of-all wikis at WikiPedia. But each of the hundreds of wiki software packages out there has its own markup language, or worse, no language at all. With Dan Bricklin’s WikiCalc, we have a demonstration of a rich client app that can lock, read, edit and write formatted material and then publish it to a web site. The software is at version zero-point-one alpha stage, but the concepts are cool. Check it out.
Tod Nielsen, CEO of Borland
Borland Appoints Tod Nielsen as New President and CEO. Tod Nielsen and Chris Caposella yucked it up in the ‘Challenge Me!’ skit at Microsoft’s Visual FoxPro Devcon, Orlando, 1993. They were the marketing team for Microsoft’s new at the time acquisition, Visual FoxPro. He rose through the company’s marketing arm, but spilt a few years ago after a term as vice president of the platform and developer group in 2000. He joined CrossGain as CEO but was temporarily benched as part of a Microsoft non-compete violation controversy. Next, he was the the chief marketing officer at BEA, a job he left Aug 24, 2004 to “pursue other interests”. I last noticed Tod at Oracle.
Tod’s a sharp guy, and Borland a company with a lot of history and potential. Hope it works out well for both!
The Way of The Yum
Bill McGonigle, over at Resigned to the Bittersweet Truth, blogs, “Automatic updates are the only rational approach for most businesses in today’s world of 24/7 Internet connectivity, malware and 0-day vulnerabilities…” read the entire post here.
Drew and Brent remembered
The FoxPro Advisor web site carried this touching remembrance of Drew and Brent written by my co-author for the Hacker’s Guide series, Tamar E. Granor. [Update: the FoxPro Advisor site is gone from the web, and apparently not archived, sadly. Tamar’s editorial can be found on her site, at http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Rest in Peace, Drew and Brent.PDF.]
Email slower than Parcel Post
If you’ve sent a message and I haven’t responded, it’s possible I haven’t seen it. Please contact me directly. My upstream mail forwarding service has become really slow on relaying traffic. Witness this nine day (Ow!) delay:
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Doc: Power From the People
Over at The Doc Searls Weblog, Doc has a heavily-hyperlinked article on Katrina, its causes and effects and how we can do better in the future, Power from the people. When you have a few hours to read through the assembled documents, I’m certain it will be worth your while. That’s why I’m bookmarking it here.