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‘Nobody knows what’s going on’ Tim Bray is at it again. His business challenge, trying to sell enterprise software that he and his company are developing, forces him to think about the industry at large a bit more. The first part of this investigation is titled Business Ignorance. I’ll cite only a few lines here: [...]

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Long weekend. Short week? Will graduated just fine, and it didn’t rain. Phi Beta Kappa for the youngest… nice work! I certainly didn’t come close to working that hard in college, and having brains ain’t enough if you’re not prepared to back them up with effort. Memorial Day was a quick trip up to Healdsburg [...]

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Will finishes up My brother graduates from college on Sunday morning in Vermont, so I’m getting on a plane tonight to get there. As the youngest of six, he was dragged/brought to so many family events it’s only right that we convene to celebrate this milestone. I’m not sure how much Will found his particular [...]

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Communication, not Computation When was the last time your computer couldn’t keep up with your typing? Yeah, thought so… about never. (If you have an example, then you need to try different software!) So I appreciate Clay Shirky’s recent essay comparing “grid computing” to “push”. There are so few people who really need more cycles. [...]

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Slower Finished Bay to Breakers on Sunday in 49:59, according to the official timer. My watch had it as 49:55, but as long as I squeaked in under 50:00. I’ve been faster. Sporadic training doesn’t do it anymore. Time to pick a race and be serious. Of course, given child #2 coming and lots of [...]

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Several quick links I’ve been cluttering my Safari bookmarks bar with the following for a while. Some of them were even worth the wait. Digital Media Mistakes – Notes from the newspaper world on mistakes to avoid. Not incredibly useful for me, but right in touch with online-news. Slashdot review of a book I’d like [...]

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A day at the beach OK, well, an afternoon. A beautiful day all around, which I spent racing, napping (no link necessary!), and lounging on the beach in the sun. This being San Francisco, a sunny day at the beach still means long sleeves thanks to the wind, but with a full-on view of the [...]

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Ultimate weblogging system Emergic pointed me to this outline of the ultimate weblogging system. I’ll have to read the entire thing at some point, since I’m curious about other systems. However, the reality is that I just need more time. My wife asked me when I started this whether it was just one more thing [...]

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The power of a hit Straight from Seth Godin’s site… he doesn’t have permalinks, so I’m going to cite the post in its entirety. The question I ask after reading it is… what is a hit for news? Is there one? The power of a hit One thing I didn’t write about that much in [...]

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Collection of things I want to follow up on Time is short, so here’s a list… for the future (maybe). Wired article about Denim, a website ‘sketching’ tool Comments on different approaches to combatting spam from a VC who was once at Apple, so speculates on Mail (which I’m using now, to good effect) Quick [...]

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