With some helpful babysitting from the in-laws, we rushed out to see Whalerider. This movie is set in New Zealand, among the Maori. Good story, well told, mostly about how family and cultural relations mix (or don’t). Originally a book (which I’ve neither read nor heard of), Whalerider was quick and beautiful. By quick, I…

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Mild understatement. P is not sleeping well. No surprise. Argh. Back to bed, if not to sleep.

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What is not mentioned in this post about kissing up to Google-bot is that these are generally good guidelines for usability. Maybe not hard and fast rules, but you won’t go wrong with these. The only one that really bothers me is Radio’s use of the same title tag for each page/post. I know there…

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Ray Ozzie just posted an essay called Extreme Mobility. Starting with the ascendancy of laptops over desktops, he goes on to discuss (software) architectures that support mobility, with different types of mobility explained. Interesting piece, with no direct applicability to my life right now, but worth noting.

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July 3, 2003 New York Times article Opinions to Spare? Click Here The article goes on about how people are getting paid to participate in online surveys, which are becoming more economical for those looking to measure the pulse of public opinion about issues or products/services. Beyond the economics (data collection and analysis is automated,…

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I like this idea: a bicycle repairmain who makes housecalls. Found via Chuq, which I found via Scoble.

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This merger of two RSS search engines happened nearly two weeks ago, but I missed it. I think Feedster was a one-man band: “Although Feedster admittedly started as a “Wouldn’t this be cool technology experiment”, Feedster is now a real business…” rssSearch, admittedly, wasn’t much bigger, but interesting to see an idea move from hobby…

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From a quick visit yesterday afternoon to the San Francisco Zoo, two giraffes (click thumbnail for full-size image). About time I added an image here, although it will be rare. When family goes home, I won’t have time for so much noodling around here.

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Was pointed to this Amazon blog via Scripting News. Made me realize that Amazon, like Google, really is anonymous to outsiders. I don’t know if this is deliberate, and it is common at big companies, in general (including my own, to some extent), but it’s refreshing to get any look ‘inside the curtain’ at companies…

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Mark Johnson opines that Stephen Ambrose is the “Michael Jordan of historians“. Since his comment system appears to be broken (but isn’t, I’ve learned, so my initial post is there twice — Mark, fyi), I’ll post my response right here: Doesn’t the fact that Ambrose has done a bit of plagiarizing bother you? (one report…

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