Dave Winer says:
“The “Long Tail” makes me want to barf. I’m not in anyone’s tail. I’m a head, a heart, if I must choose an organ, kidneys or lungs. Anyone who calls bloggers a tail of anything has his head up his ass.”
Huh? Maybe I’m missing some sort of sarcasm or quick-witted reference on this […]

One of the many things I’ve been fooling around with lately is Inkscape. This is an open source vector-based illustration application (phew..that was a mouthful!). So instead of creating raster based images like you would with Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, or the Gimp, you work with lines, shapes and fills to create Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) […]

A quick update on Microsoft Max. I realize this is a pre-release product. Probably it is meant to show what is possible with the WinFX runtime. It has an elegant and pretty interface. But I’m still trying to figure out what the heck to use it for!
So I can create slideshows (with apparently no choice […]

I’ve taken another kick at the Linux can… About 9 months ago I installed Suse Linux (9.2) on my machine and dual-booted it with XP. While I found it interesting, I didn’t have the time to really get it up and running smoothly enough to really evaluate it. In the past couple of weeks, I […]