Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Mac Net Journal: The top-10 things I missed in 10 days without OS X 4:17:00 PM

Channel NewsAsia: Microsoft ties up with S'pore partners to launch XML Web portal 3:46:10 PM

Fairport: "First let pass the horses black, and then let pass the brown; Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down." Sound advice for any situation. 11:41:04 AM

Eric Traut: "All I can ask is that you demonstrate just a little more patience and give Apple and Connectix a chance to resolve this issue." 10:12:21 AM

Jon Udell: Remind me why I need a public key 8:41:16 AM

Jon Udell: "Those Silicon Valley engineers, fraternizing with their counterparts in bars after work, had to negotiate the fuzzy public/private boundary with a subtlety that I cannot imagine describing in an XML grammar or implementing in a computer." 8:38:08 AM

Ken Bereskin talks about my favorite feature in Jaguar. The Archive Install always tickles me, since it saves a lot of time. Could Microsoft ever come close to something like this? Probably not, because user stuff is still half in the registry, half on the hard drive. Plus, Microsoft is still working on what they call "xcopy deployment," something that we call "dragging shit from a disk image to your Applications folder and having it just work." 8:22:52 AM

Doc Searls: "So henceforth I'll disclaim away." 6:41:18 AM