My father announced his retirement this afternoon, and called me about it today. I’m glad it was his decision, and is what he wants. He’s a great guy, and it’s pretty lame that I don’t tell him that more often. When I look at myself, I think most of the really good stuff that’s there is due to him in one way or another. I worshipped him as a kid. He may not have known it at the time. As I got older, I found myself time and time again judging myself by standards that were set by him. Here’s wishing you the best in your retirement Dad. You certainly have worked hard as long as I’ve known you:-)
O2 xda might be the nicest looking PDA yet.
news.com - Giants forging Web services consortium This might as well be entitled “Giants forging giant press release.”
If you thought yesterday’s link was scary, try this one on for size. 1997 baby, and now it’s right here living in my database. You don’t know how good that makes me feel. I spent most of the day today doing the grunt work necessary to make this happen. This involved turning my pre-Blogger posts from November 1997 to March 2000 into XML files. Once I got there, the work we did this week with Blogger import took over. Now everyone has easy access to all the meaningless drivel I wrote back then in addition to the drivel I’m turning out now. I’m sure that’s just what the Internet needs.
Return of the test post. This time though, may be the last time.
Hmmmm.
Word of warning, don’t link to stuff at the permalink level on this site for the time being. There will be dust, and it will settle. Linking at the day level is fine, that shouldn’t break.
Wanna see something scary? Check this out. (Thanks Dave and Aaron.)
Browse3D What is this?
MacSlash: Sony vs. Apple For The Digital Hub Title I a lot to say about this. I have, almost exclusively bought Somy home electronic components over the last two years. You can count among that number my Sony Wega XBR Television, my Playstation 2, my portable and console Minidisc players/recorders, my DVD player, and my receiver/amplifier. I also have both Apple and Sony laptops, and a Sony Clie handheld. I think that, if these two companies actually teamed up, they would both benefit. It’s doubtful that would ever happen. I think a more realistic competition comparison here is actually Sony vs. Microsoft. Look beyond the obvious battle for game consoles here, and you will see that Microsoft has plans for the living room that directly compete with Sony.
Test post. Another Test post.
Browse3D What is this?
Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy Everyone should read this article. Especially those of you who are pirating software over the Internet. It’s very depressing to me that the people doing this don’t understand that they are messing with the ecology of software development. (via Mr. Barrett)
Trillian Won’t Heed AOL’s Message I’m sort of torn on this one. AOL is providing a service, they own the servers, they pay for the bandwidth. This stuff is not free. It’s up to them to decide if what they are providing is an open network that people can write other clients for or not. The only real chance they have to recoup their costs is through pushing advertising out to the client software. Now, if they were smart, they would write an API that allowed other clients to become certified for their network which required the ability to push ads out to the client. Then they wouldd get the best of both worlds, other people would be doing some of the innovation work for them, and they would still get the advertising revenue from the third party clients.
So who will it be, Rams or Patriots? I have yet to hear anyone in the analyst community that thinks the Patriots will win. Then again, no one thought the Patriots would get past the Raiders and Steelers either. I tend to agree with them, but I hope the Patriot’s defensive mastermind coach has come up with something to make the game interesting.
Updates are going to be sort of sparse this weekend. I have lots of house stuff to do because I’m having some folks over to watch the Superbowl, and I am still working on getting my blogger entries into Radio as posts. We made a lot of progress on this yesterday. If you are really interested in this stuff, you can read my notes here. I wouldn’t use anything you find there for now. Eventually, there will be documentation of everything that actually works.
A List Apart: Web Services
Is it a coincidence that the Scripting News post Dave mentions me in today is titled “hit a bump”?
Voting for the Anti-Bloggies has begun.
A happy third birthday to Axodys. (Belated)
Arstechnica Cookbook of Bachelor Chow I don’t cook for myself nearly enough, but I do actually know how to cook.