Robert Scoble’s post “A new kind of conversation is needed with Microsoft” asks us to tell them what we want in Windows Media Player, what kind of podcasting support we want and what we feel about the longevity of podcasting. Like it or not, Microsoft is going to the masses to find out what they […]

I just downloaded Google’s new Google Earth courtesy of a link from (of all people) Robert Scoble. I’ve installed and played around with it and it looks a hell of a lot like MSN’s Virtual Earth demo that I watched back in May (courtesy of, btw, Robert Scoble). They’ve got a free version (the one […]

It will be quite a while until I forget about the stunned feeling I had watching a tape of the 2005 USGP (couldn’t see it live…watched it on Sunday night). Six cars on the start line and hundreds of thousands of American fans saying “What the fu..?”. Nevermind the millions watching slackjawed as the F1 […]

It’s hard to believe that I have actually learned enough to create the GUI for my project database application using wxPython. So I now have a library of functions I created while I was in the process of learning Python that are the real guts of it, and just this week I was able to […]

Dave Winer is developing an instant outliner. Sounds like a very useful concept although I’m not sure I can understand how it is supposed to work in depth. My suggestion would be to do a screencast of it. Dave…talk to Jon Udell…this would expand the discussion greatly I feel.

Zipping from site to site as I usually do when trying to avoid doing real work, I found myself at Sand in the Gears and had arrived there by way of Evan Erwin’s post about his top and bottom five blogs. I had arrived at Evan’s blog via a Doc Searls post. Amazing how these […]