Month: March 2003

NY Times: Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. [Tomalak’s Realm] I’ve…

Mapping the Penalties of Failure. Below is a picture of of a map that hangs in my office; it shows an area in the Balkans and was created around 1790. I bought it in a dusty little bookstore in Juneau Alaska, but that’s another story. It’s inscribed in French, Polish, and Turkish (written pre-reform in…

Documentation writers shouldn’t write documentation. GEEKS should write documentation. After all, they know the product inside and out. And for most things needing documentation, well, most likely it’s gonna be geeks using it. Ok. I’m just a little miffed. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how assign a port so I can use…

Argentina Makes Its Software Play. Driven by peso devaluation and a domestic downturn, Argentine technology companies are marketing the country as a great place for other nations to outsource software programming. Eleonora Rabinovich reports from Buenos Aires. [Wired News] Here’s a list of other great places to outsource programming. California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas,…

Something I think would be neat in FMRS, select the text of an article you’re browsing then right-click to the menu where there is a “Post” option. I’m still using it BTW. I like how it’s integrated together. I can’t wait to see what they come up with when they get it outta beta.

So the Bloggies are done. Interesting. I didn’t know we were having a contest.

NASA already planning shuttle changes, return to flight. NASA is currently investigating a number of safety improvements to the shuttle program as it… [spacetoday.net]

Cameron Barrett is back with both guns blazing. He’s been to Siberia, and now is in Austin. I don’t agree about the US, but he states is point of view very powerfully. A must-read. [Scripting News] Cam IS back. And with an interesting point of view, some revelations about America and the Bush Administration, and advice…

As a hiker, backpacker, fly fisherman, and outdoors man I maintain vigilance with the world around me. Unspoiled land and habitat may be the savior of the human race. Even now pond-slime in an English bog has yielded a possible cure for AIDS. So when I see things like this it makes me stop and think. Another…

One of the things I’ve noticed about FMRS is it seems to be having a problem with the feeds I’m subscribed to. It imported some, but not all my feeds. When I click the page to add the rest it doesn’t add any. With as many feeds as I’m subscribed to, entereing all the feed URL’s…