I particularly enjoyed the latest Gillmor Gang — If 6 Was 9 Gang — I had a front-row seat, so to speak.
Here are some of the highlights, in 4 parts.
Some discussion on the Zune. There was mostly consensus that its success will hinge on the services Microsoft can bring to the table to supply content — Steve argues that Apple has already won this war.
Tags: Apple, Gillmor-Gang, iPod, Microsoft, Zune
A few of my thoughts on the term podcast.
Apple-OverReachesCast (spelled aorcast) and pronounced our-cast.
I have noticed a trend: a watering down of the term “death march”.
Robert Scoble is the latest to fall into it: blogging the reason his new show is delayed, he mentions that the PodTech Web team is on a death march.
Death marches (regarding software, anyway) are projects doomed to failure.
I’m pretty certain that isn’t what he means — if he did, I think Robert would be looking for a new new job.
😉
Tags: blogging, Software-Development
A few months ago, we decided to stick with VSS for the short term. Aside from its many problems, it was working for us. My biggest beef with it is that branching doesn’t work so well. This becomes more an issue as our team works on more concurrent versions — currently 1.3.x, 1.4, and 2.0 are all at different stages of development.
Well, the short term has passed.
Our options now:
So, to any out there who are working with VSTS FS — is it really conceivable that we just drop it in without too much change in process? I don’t care too much about previous history (most likely I would just load the released versions into source control and toss the the greater VSS history).
I thought I’d check out Microsoft Max, but Don Dodge says it doesn’t support OPML.
What? A new RSS aggregator that doesn’t even import OPML?
I’m beyond surprised, and won’t check it out. I’m sure it looks beautiful (as everyone is saying), but without OPML support what value does it bring to me?
Don Dodge asks if newspapers and magazines dying? I guess Steve Gillmor would say, no, they are already dead. Robert Scoble doesn’t read them.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t still have legs. Hell, I read them. Maybe that is why I’m behind in my news aggregator.
I read National Geographic, sometimes Discover (some of the articles are good), whatever tech magazines they keep sending me, Dr. Dobbs, and then whatever magazines my wife reads. Occasionally I read a guitar magazine. And almost anything on an airplane.
That is, now it is 1. I started blogging on September 3rd, 2005 just before going to PDC05. Back then the blog has a different name (Mind From R. Wandering) and was hosted elsewhere, but it is essentially the same. According to WP Admin, this is my 193rd post.
If my readership continues to increase at even a fraction of the same rate, everyone in the universe will be reading my blog within the year.
Long live the divide-by-zero joke. 😉
Tags: blog
If this blog has a topic, this is certainly off it.
I have recently been listening to the musical version of the War of the Worlds. This was given to me as a present by my sister last year. I had never heard of it before, but I guess it was big in England at some point (it was released in 1978). Kind of campy and fun, it’s kind of a disco / rock opera clearly influenced by Jesus Christ Superstar.
I’m not really into musicals, but in the right mood you can coax me into singing “Heaven on their minds.” But, I’m straying off the off-topic.
The music of this piece is too upbeat. It completely misses the horror you would expect from a Martian invasion. It is just too upbeat. While listening to the words:
With the smoke of battle clearing,
Over graves in waves defiled.
Slowly disappearing,
Farewell Thunder Child!
I’m feeling:
Hey, yeah, we’re all going to die! Yeah!
And now, back to your regularly scheduled program.
In a post about Akismet being out of commission, Robert Scoble notes that it has blocked 64,000 comment spams for him. This is since he moved to WordPress (approximately 321 days ago). Akismet has blocked 45,000 for me (over approximately 259 days). This means that my blog has 89% of the readership of his, right?
Of course these are the lowest type of “reader”: the spammer bot.
Look out, Robert, here I come!
Perhaps this means that some spammer bots avoid WordPress.com hosted sites (mine is self-hosted). If this is true, that is another bonus of WordPress: more spammers avoid it from the get-go.
WordPress and Akismet really rock.
I am out of facility for the next week. Off the grid. Disconnected. Laptopless and without an Internet cafe. I expect lousy cell connectivity.
In Antarctica?
Nope, just on vacation with the family.
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