NY Times: Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users. Ms. Strongin and her staff said they were more concerned that the cafe, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, had turned into a place devoid of sound except the light clack of keys, not the focus of lively interaction that she and her husband, […]
Day 2: Communications
David St.Lawrence was writing the other day about communications. Well, about getting another person to listen to you, which is partly about communicating. As the guys in the sessions I taught would probably tell you — I know I said it more than enough times throughout the course — there’s something I consider paramount to […]
Just Write It
Woah. I just came across this in an old draft that I apparently never finished for posting: I don’t remember if I’ve recently pointed to Mark Bernstein’s 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web or not, thanks to Alwin for reminding us of it: …a great guide for anyone who is either starting to write […]
Watch It Anyway
Jon Udell: “I suspect few outside the geek community read those postings or “got it” if they did.” I agree that a single password used everywhere is A Bad Thing, and this is a reasonable solution to the problem. I’m not sure how many “outside the geek community” are going to get past the ‘bookmarklet’ […]
Elements of My Philosophy
As with many things, this is a work in progress as I attempt to put my brain into bits. Knowledge is not power If your worth is determined by what you know today, what will be your worth tomorrow when things change? Value the ability to learn Reflect upon what worked and what didn’t. Learn […]
Who’s Heard of OneNote?
Mike: “OneNote is one of the best things Microsoft has done lately. … But there are still lots of people who’ve never heard of it.” Right. I was on a meeting yesterday, taking notes in OneNote and everyone could see via NetMeeting. The folks I was meeting with aren’t stupid, or out-of-touch, but they’d never […]
Setting Unix File Ownership from Perl
Here’s a little bit of Perl code from a module we use. These functions are used by our cron-driven Perl scripts to (re-)set file ownership after they’ve finished working their magic. They’re probably nowhere near perfect and I welcome any suggestions you may have to improve upon them. Feel free to use this code in […]
Common Navigation Keystrokes in OS X, Windows
A few weeks back I was looking for a good comparison chart of “common” navigation keystrokes between the two operating systems. It turns out that David Pogue already had it online, I just didn’t think to look there or find the right words to toss Google’s way. It’s a valuable resource for switchers, either direction: […]
OneNote Demo Video
I’ve used Microsoft OneNote off and on since its public beta, but never have gotten into the habit of making it the “one place for all my notes” that it wants to be. Mostly that’s because my co-workers don’t use it and so sharing information with them wouldn’t be as seamless as it could. This […]
Blog This
A few years of weblogging… using Frontier/Manila since 28-Feb-2000, then Radio Userland starting in 2002. (And now as of 8/2005 everything good’s been moved to Blogger. Some of those links no longer exist and some have been rebuilt with the new tools.)