A list of the machines with the longest running uptimes within Microsoft. Guess which OS has the longest uptimes and which has the shortest.
The future of internet advertisement
Wednesday, May 16th, 2001 at 5:43 pm
The future of internet advertisement may be the “takeover ad”, which yahoo featured in early May. The ads are named because of the way they replace an entire page of CONTENT with an entire page of advertising. In the case of yahoo, the home page turned into a huge flash advertisement for a Ford Explorer. [...]
Torvald’s Reply To Mundie
Tuesday, May 15th, 2001 at 4:17 pm
Linus Torvalds’ reply to Craig Mundie, a Senior V.P. of Microsoft. Mundie attacked the fundementals of open source during a speech at the NYU School of Business. You knew the fur was going to fly on this one.
Whenever mudslinging like this comes up, I’m always amazed at how quietly eloquent Torvalds’ responses seem when compared [...]
The staff over at O’Reilly
Sunday, March 18th, 2001 at 8:31 pm
The staff over at O’Reilly has a weblog so you can keep up with news that seem important to them.
If you thought American television was tasteless and mediocre, be thankful you don’t live in Japan where they invented the word. The only difference is it’s entertaining.
The dotcom taxform. Right up my alley. Maybe these guys [...]
A Harvard computer scientist has
Tuesday, February 20th, 2001 at 5:09 pm
A Harvard computer scientist has found a way to create an unbreakable encryption key that can also be mathemetically proven to be unbreakable. This page reprints the article and has some critical commentary on such claims.
So Napster wants to offer the recording industry a billion dollars to get over themselves and get in on some [...]
New Technology from Microsoft may
Monday, February 19th, 2001 at 7:21 pm
New Technology from Microsoft may allow you to take all the features of a Pocket PC and shrink it down into something smaller than a cellular phone. This is very neat gadgetry, but those buttons look awfully small, and no matter how many features you shrink into object, if the interface is still uncompelling, your [...]
Google acquired DejaNews
Tuesday, February 13th, 2001 at 10:28 am
Looks like Google acquired DejaNews yesterday. I don’t like the interface as much as the classic Deja interface, but the speed at which I get back articles is an improvement of about 1000%. Freaking amazing.
divine is changing their strategy and becoming a software company instead of the new economy incubator they had originally incepted their [...]
Sine Non Qua
Monday, September 25th, 2000 at 3:36 am
Streamed Lines is a design pattern for version control and change process management that I’ve been looking into for the project I’m working on.
When I think of anything SAP related, Usability and Human Interface Engineering don’t usually come to mind, but apparently there is the SAP Design Guild. They mention Alan Cooper’s Design firm helping [...]
