Year: 2004
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Legends Field
How like the Yankees to name their spring training facility Legends Fields. Even as a childhood fan, I have to admit it’s a bit much. But a sunny Saturday in Tampa was not a bad way to pass the time. Glad to be home now, though, and sticking around for a few weekends to come.
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Travel day
Back on Sunday, after checking out A-Rod in Tampa.
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Vin gets started
Vin Crosbie has released the first look at his vision for the future of the newspaper business online. I’ve printed it (it’s long, even though this is only the beginning), and I’ll review on the plane tomorrow. Looks like it’s part of an OJR series on the future of news.
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“ability to understand the technical…
Johanna Rothman on project managers, aka program managers. With a link to a discussion on Joel Spolsky’s site. I like the job description, whatever the title.
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Few remember New Century Network
One of the earliest efforts to get newspapers to work together online was called New Century Network (NCN). There were several powerhouse newspaper chains involved, and the goal was to build a national portal which pulled together the best news and information from each of the various chains involved. Various fatal flaws: Newspaper chains hate…
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Voting is hard
OK, that’s not true. Voting is easy. Informed voting is hard. And I can’t say that I really live up to the informed part as well as I should. In California, we’re voting on various initiatives which determine how billions of dollars should be spent, and it all boils down to yes or no answers.…
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Leap Year
I enjoyed researching my college thesis more than writing it, so I appreciate that the Brittanica folks are providing suggested citations formats for the web. [via Hypergene] I don’t expect to use these guidelines much, but I hope you enjoyed your Leap Year. “leap year” — Encyclopedia Britannica,from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=48637) [Accessed February…
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Chains required
When driving to Tahoe, you want to check road conditions. And you hope that it doesn’t say — as it does right now — chains required. Oh well.
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Another linkfest
Must go to sleep, so saving the following for later (when?): Interview with those who converted Wired News to CSS – Macromedia marketing, but still probably intriguing. Whole lotta RSS from HyperGene. Guessing I’ll have seen some of these links, but just in case. What Jim Moore wants from blogging tools – I want XHTML…
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Just open the *%(*^^*@ door!
I had my first experience with public key encryption this afternoon. It was not pretty. Our work servers all use SSH. While I’ve had a Unix login for years, I rarely have used it for anything but FTP. Today, I wanted to install something, which meant I needed to use the command line. I’m not…