Month: January 2005
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This essay can’t be read enough by those of us building websites
From the bookmarks… The Importance of Being Permanent is a guest post by Simon Waldman on the Press Think blog from Jay Rosen. What makes great news organizations great is not simply the work they do on a given day, but the accumulated quality of work done over weeks, months and years. The hardest part…
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Book: Sharpe’s Trafalgar
I bounced into the Sharpe series because my previous “ship” (the Aubrey-Maturin series) had landed. But with Sharpe’s Trafalgar, I find myself afloat with a fictional Napoleonic-era English warrior once more. How does the amry hero conveniently end up in the biggest naval battle of the century? Bernard Cornwell wrote on his website: Sharpe has…
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Multiple iPods is not a problem
I asked a Lazyweb question a couple of weeks ago, wondering aloud whether multiple iPods worked well together on a single computer. Ryan Ozawa found an affirmative answer on the Apple site, and my cousin confirmed this with another family member. Of course, I still don’t have a single iPod, and don’t see a need,…
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Book: Sharpe’s Fortress
The San Francisco Public Library came through with flying colors, sending me email notice that all three of the Sharpe novels I had requested were awaiting my pickup a couple of weeks ago. The first one I read was Sharpe’s Fortress. This novel inserts Richard Sharpe, our British military hero, into the assault on Gawilghur,…
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Apple switches from dates to numbers for software updates
Until now, Apple’s Software Updates for Mac OS X have been labeled with a date, such as Security Update 2004-12-02. Yesterday, Apple released Security Update 2005-001, the first with a new numbering scheme. Not sure, but may just be security updates, not all software updates… not that it matters. I noticed this myself, and then…
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Yes, Steve, I’m listening
Steve Rubel calls me out by name in his prediction that tagging will spread everywhere. At least one major news outlet – perhaps CNET – will also start use tags to organize their stories and feedback. (John Roberts, you listening? I just gave you a free idea!) Rest assured that I’m aware of folksonomies, even…
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Restart the clock
OK, the week-plus “outage” is over. Turned out to be a bad third-part RAM module, so I’ll be testing Ramjet on their lifetime warranty for a 512MB module shortly.
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iMac G5 problems
Blogging from the Apple Store in Corte Madera, where I’m trying to get an iMac problem diagnosed. Been cursing it all weekend… hope this helps. Having a desktop-based blogging software package (Radio) is a problem when you want to blog from another computer, obviously. I’ve backed up the data, but if this requires a new…
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CNETAsia dropping print journals
No fun to read that CNET Networks is shutting down some print journals in Asia. Today Online has the story: CNet Asia closes down print arm to focus on online portal. IN A move that has shaken up the tech news industry, CNet Asia will shut down its entire print arm and focus on its…
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filtered, not stirred
While I’m fond of time here at clock, other metaphors and words strike a chord in my non-musical brain. One of them is filter, so I have to enjoy filtered, the blog of Mark Jones, Deputy Managing Director at IDG Communications in Australia. Then, when Mark writes a post titled 2005: A year of attention…