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April 30, 2003

Opera released for Series 60 phones

Opera released for Series 60 phones: Something to try out tomorrow (a holiday here in Germany).

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Radio book

Radio book: Rogers Cadenhead is working on a book about Radio Userland.

Posted by Matthew at 10:24 PM | Comments (0)

Opening my office

Opening my office: Someone sent me some slides in a format I didn't recognize ".sxi". But of course I found the answer and this evening I installed OpenOffice (for the first time - I kid you not). Digging.

Posted by Matthew at 10:21 PM | Comments (0)

Which language is this

Which language is this: My bad. Often read in emails and heard last night on a West Wing episode. But what exactly does "my bad" mean? Being born and raised with British English, I have no idea. My bad...what?


Later: Scott points me to this. Thanks Scott!

Posted by Matthew at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)

DNS woes

DNS woes: My iBook lost its DNS settings yesterday "out of the blue". It took me a while to work out why I couldn't connect to the Internet through my home WIFI setup. I re-entered the DNS stuff and everything worked fine again. Any ideas out there what may have caused this?

Posted by Matthew at 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

April 29, 2003

Jon Udell on blogs

Jon Udell on blogs: He writes some good stuff, does Jon. More here. (via Dave).

Posted by Matthew at 04:00 PM | Comments (0)

Miles and more

Miles and more: Carsten has pushed a new release of Cocoon out the door. 2.1.M1 is a milestone release and shows that Cocoon is still moving. Forwards.


Later: More information on this release is now provided here.

Posted by Matthew at 02:24 PM | Comments (0)

In the flow

In the flow: Cocoon is becoming a very powerful engine for webapps. Take a look at this article on Flow to find out what's already available.

Posted by Matthew at 11:09 AM | Comments (0)

New home

New home: Steve has moved his blog over to MT and I've (at last) rewired the link on the right.

Posted by Matthew at 08:35 AM | Comments (0)

Apple lock out

Apple lock out: Apple locks out the rest of the world. As Ben says: This is the Internet you daft sods.

Posted by Matthew at 08:09 AM | Comments (0)

April 26, 2003

Hotel California

Hotel California: Russell is at it again. Just when you thought he'd settled down - Bang. This time he's decided to go back to California and take up a mobile/java related consulting position. Sounds just like the sort of thing he should do as well. And California...well...what can I say....envy.

Posted by Matthew at 11:26 AM | Comments (0)

Saturday summary

Saturday summary: This morning I'm waiting for the mob gang to arrive back from their UK trip. I've cleared away all the leftovers from last-nights party (Yeah right) and made sure most of the stuff I bought is hidden or looks as though it has always been here :-). 

Posted by Matthew at 11:22 AM | Comments (0)

April 25, 2003

7 Habits of Blogging

7 Habits of Blogging: I laughed out loud at this. So good.

Posted by Matthew at 04:50 PM | Comments (0)

Founders licence

Founders licence: O'Reilly to release over a hundred out-of-print books for free download.

Posted by Matthew at 01:38 PM | Comments (0)

Read all about it

Read all about it: If you're looking for some of the presentation material from ETCon then go here.

Posted by Matthew at 01:22 PM | Comments (0)

Hydra - a collaborative experience

Hydra - a collaborative experience: The Mac OS X tool Hydra is popular at ETCon. It's being used there to aid group-notetaking at the various presentations. What's even more interesting is the fact that the authors are a group of students out of Munich university.

Posted by Matthew at 08:42 AM | Comments (0)

Alan Kay on children

Alan Kay on children: At ETCon, Alan Kay gave a keynote "Daddy are we there yet" and talked on how children use computers. Interesting picture here.

Posted by Matthew at 08:30 AM | Comments (0)

April 24, 2003

FM on iPod

FM on iPod: Add this to your iPod and you get radio as well.

Posted by Matthew at 01:19 PM | Comments (0)

Stefano, Linotype and weblogs:

Stefano, Linotype and weblogs: Stefano starts his own weblog using Linotype (which is Cocoon plus his own additions).

Posted by Matthew at 08:46 AM | Comments (0)

Blogger meets TypePad

Blogger meets TypePad: In an interesting development on the blogging scene, Ben and Mena Trott (the MovableType husband and wife team) have quietly launched TypePad. Basically an enhanced version of the Movable Type software - but hosted (like blogger). Read Ben's article for more. With the recent "Google buys blogger" move, this means that TypePad will be facing stiff competition. On the other hand I really like MT and so look forward to the start of TP.

Posted by Matthew at 08:37 AM | Comments (0)

Cocoon article on xml.com

Cocoon article on xml.com: I seem to have missed this one. Steve Punte talks about Online Magazines with Apache Cocoon.

Posted by Matthew at 08:00 AM | Comments (0)

Steve's going

Steve's going: Looks like Steve will be at OSCON and doing a BOF on open source in general. This is great and something that should draw crowds (if only because it's Steve). Seriously though, this sort of thing was missing from OSCON up to now - telling people what open source actually is, how they can get involved, what mistakes are to be made (and how to avoid them). Stuff like that. Hopefully I'll be there too and be able to help out with things like this.

Posted by Matthew at 07:49 AM | Comments (0)

Good morning Europe!

Good morning Europe: Spent a lot of time last night on the #etcon channel. Lot of chit-chat going on but not the play-by-play commentary of keynotes etc. I was hoping for. Or I was there at the wrong time.

Posted by Matthew at 07:40 AM | Comments (0)

April 23, 2003

IRC U at ETCon

IRC U at ETCon: I've decided to hang out a bit tonight on the ETCon channel for ETCon (#etcon). There already are quite a few people "there" so come along and join us.


Later: So cool, I've already chatted with Sam and Steve. Fun.

Posted by Matthew at 01:28 PM | Comments (0)

RSS on the move

RSS on the move: Just as I am preparing my RSS presentation, things start moving on the RSS front. I like that - because it means I can add some "last minute" information to the presentation. Nothing worse than a stale presentation.

Posted by Matthew at 12:19 PM | Comments (0)

Sister will kill

Sister will kill: I've removed Joanna from my blogroll on the right because she hasn't written anything since February. She'll love me for doing that :-). Bing.

Posted by Matthew at 11:28 AM | Comments (0)

Session burnout

Session burnout: I'm trying to find a way of printing out the session overview from the upcoming OSCON so that I can look through it and see which sessions are interesting. All that O'Reilly offers is this grid-view which is about 3 browser panes wide. And this list is either by day or by topic. None of which is any good for printing out a complete - easy to read - overview. Bah.

Posted by Matthew at 11:14 AM | Comments (0)

Decisions

Decisions: Well, yesterday I went and bought a new console. After much debate (meaning moving from one foot to the other while standing in front of the piles of boxes) I went for the Gamecube. In the end, the 50 € rebate and the availability of kids games won it over. Unpacked the box at home, hooked up the controller and took a look at the Metroid Prime game that came in the bundle. Impressed. I also got Luigis Mansion as the first kids game. Now all I need is a memory card and a second controller and ..... Oh - and don't mention this around yet - meaning you :-).

Posted by Matthew at 07:33 AM | Comments (0)

April 22, 2003

Fast movers

Fast movers: Fast food comes to Iraq. Only on the bases for now... 

Posted by Matthew at 02:59 PM | Comments (0)

Open source alternatives

Open source alternatives: Does anyone know of an open source alternative to CheckPoint SmartView Reporter (i.e. a reporting tool that can work with Checkpoint log files, do ip based reporting, graphical presentation, offers encryption and password protection. etc.?

Posted by Matthew at 02:33 PM | Comments (0)

RSS book and request

RSS book and request: In finally getting round to preparing my RSS presentation for JAX, I've now received a copy of Ben's "Content Syndication with RSS".


I'm also looking for anyone out there serving enterprise data (i.e. non news/weblog stuff) using RSS. Please drop me an email.

Posted by Matthew at 02:03 PM | Comments (0)

Chandler 0.1 out

Chandler 0.1 out: Mitch announces the release of Chandler 0.1. Russell is not impressed.

Posted by Matthew at 07:23 AM | Comments (0)

ETCon starts today

ETCon: ETCon starts today. Sam has posted the slides for his Web Services tutorial here

Posted by Matthew at 07:22 AM | Comments (0)

Good morning Europe!

Good morning Europe! Up early this morning, as there is a lot to get done today.

Posted by Matthew at 07:19 AM | Comments (0)

April 21, 2003

And they're off

And they're off: Family is strapped into this thing and on their way to see Mum.

Posted by Matthew at 04:11 PM | Comments (0)

It's the babes, stupid!

It's the babes, stupid! Steven kindly explains the reasons behind getting an XBox. Of course he brings up two very good points: DOA and XBox Live - broadband gaming. Hmmm...... Well, the Gamecube also has broadband capability - but as far as I know only 1 game out that currently uses it - and no more planned for 2003.


Later: Another plus for the XBox is that I can also use it for DVD playback (30€ extra) - which is something I was thinking of for the room where it will "live".

Posted by Matthew at 10:52 AM | Comments (0)

April 20, 2003

Steven goes XBox

Steven goes XBox: Steven bought an XBox. I'm thinking of getting a Gamecube and would be interested in why Steven went for the XBox. I like the Gamecube because a) we had an N64 before b) our kids like the Mario style games c) there now seems to be quite a few "grown-up" games for the Gamecube and d) I get a 50 € rebate on the price because I got an Advance SP.

Posted by Matthew at 07:57 PM | Comments (0)

Can't see the Forrest..

Can't see the forrest..: Dave is wondering what Forrest is. Forrest is an Apache project built around Cocoon that allows you to set up an XML/XSLT based publishing system quickly and easily.



Forrest is an XML standards-oriented project documentation framework based on Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the XML source content into a website via command-line, robot, or a dynamic web application.


Forrest removes much of the beginner problems when it comes to setting up Cocoon for things such as web-site publishing. Cocoon itself powers Forrest and provides a wide range of functionality such as - but not limited to:


Posted by Matthew at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)

April 19, 2003

Osterlauf over

Osterlauf over: The Paderborn Easter run is over - without me participating. However our kids ran in the children's races (1 and 1.5 Km) which was fun to watch. Here's a pic of 2/3 rds of our team this year. Taken with the 3650 - so the quality is not as good as with a regular camera.


In all there were around 6000 participants in all the races and aroud 1400 children. Organisation was pretty chaotic with not all the children receiving their certificate - because they had only planned for 1200. Luckily the rain held off until the races were pretty much over.

Posted by Matthew at 05:26 PM | Comments (0)

Open Source support myths

Open Source support myths: A spot-on article that details some of the advantages of open source software from a support point-of-view.

Posted by Matthew at 09:45 AM | Comments (0)

April 18, 2003

It's the company, stupid!

It's the company, stupid! After having being pointed to VentureBlog by Stefan Smalla, the title of this article on how VCs invest in companies and not products has been rotating through my brain for the past few days. Let's just dwell on that sentence for a moment, shall we. Now let's check up on how companies present themselves on the Net. Slightly different picture - isn't it?
Apart from the way a VC sees an investment - isn't it the same way a potential customer will see your company? After all what is a great product without a great company behind it offering support, service and "a face"?
Does your company have a face? A voice? Or just a bunch of products it hides behind? So, the next time I come to your website I'm not going to be looking for the "products" tab - but for the "weblogs" link.

Posted by Matthew at 09:27 PM | Comments (0)

More Gaming

More Gaming: Looks like I might well go and buy a Nintendo Gamecube next week. Nintendo is currently offering a 50 € rebate on the price of a Gamecube if you happen to buy an Advance SP - and of course I did.

Posted by Matthew at 05:36 PM | Comments (0)

ETCon next week

ETCon next week: Lots of fine people will be converging at ETCon next week. I would very much have liked to go and as I have written before - why does this sort of thing only take place in the US?

Posted by Matthew at 05:25 PM | Comments (0)

Those were the best of times

Those were the best of times: I saw the Styx DVD Return to Paradise this week and that brought back memories...

Posted by Matthew at 05:22 PM | Comments (0)

Decision time

Decision time: Heavy-hearted - I've decided not to run tomorrow. I am still not fully over the cold I have been suffering from this week and to run would perhaps not be the best of choices. Luckily there is another local 10 k run in about 5 weeks.

Posted by Matthew at 05:18 PM | Comments (0)

April 17, 2003

About me

About me: Found on a weblog:



So i'm poking around at Matthew Langham's blog via Ed Brill, sort of figuring out who this fellow is. still not sure exactly...

Well in case you're still figuring out who I am - then read this.

Posted by Matthew at 06:43 PM | Comments (0)

Interesting discussions

Interesting discussions: My recent posts on Lotus Notes and corporate weblogging have sparked off an interesting email discussion with Ed Brill on where IBM is on all this. Seems that at the moment the weblogging templates are being developed by a sort-of "grassroots" Notes blogging community that thinks Notes is an ideal platform for this sort of thing - and all that is missing is a template or two.


Being a Notes user and being quizzed by (non-weblogging) colleagues on why we would want Notes to have weblogs - when we have the discussion forums - I tell them that it just isn't the same thing. Digging deeper into the Notes community brings up this article with additional pointers that echoes my feelings entirely ("value is where you find it").


Something else I found interesting was this:



Like many web trends, at first I was a skeptic.  My cynicism reached an all-time high when supposed industry pundits started claiming that blogs would spell the end of Lotus Notes. Since then, though, I have found that I learn a heck of a lot about the world we live in from reading, and more importantly participating in blogs.  So the time came to start my own.


Reading this quote from one of Ed's pages on his weblog and then taking a look at the growing interest in corporate weblogging and you can see why this may be dam just waiting to break. I hope the conversation continues.

Posted by Matthew at 06:26 PM | Comments (0)

Heli-Pressie

Heli-Pressie: Still time to send me an Easter present! This for example.


Later: Of course there are also these small remote controlled tanks (via Frank). Just the job to drive round the desk and shoot up all the junk lying there.

Posted by Matthew at 02:38 PM | Comments (0)

April 16, 2003

Eating with the Dead

Eating with the Dead: Check out this menu of the stuff they're eating at Google. The Chef used to cook for the Grateful Dead. Ovidiu, the secret is at last out. It wasn't cash, it wasn't the perks - it was the food :-).

Posted by Matthew at 09:06 AM | Comments (0)

April 15, 2003

Hanging with Frank

Hanging with Frank: Drove 4 hours down to this part of Germany to hang with the new father. Spent 1 hour standing on the Autobahn - which gave me a chance to send some pictures of the jam using my 3650. Neat-o.

Posted by Matthew at 09:49 PM | Comments (0)

Guido is going

Guido is going: Dave is telling people to go to the Open Source Content Management Conference in Boston. Actually our little group will be attending - with Guido flying over to hang with the big guys. If you want to know what we're doing with Cocoon, Eclipse, Slide and WebDAV in general, then Guido is the person to track down.

Posted by Matthew at 09:47 PM | Comments (0)

Easter break

Easter break: I have a few days off before Easter. Still trying to get over my annoying cold before the 10 k run on Saturday (if you have tips then let me know). Blogging will be light until after Easter so have a happy time hunting down those eggs!

Posted by Matthew at 10:54 AM | Comments (0)

April 14, 2003

New Safari Beta out

New Safari Beta out: The browser of choice for Mac OS X just got better. And yes it has tabbed browsing. Now what do we wait for?

Posted by Matthew at 11:08 PM | Comments (0)

Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies and Gentlemen: Give it up for Fiona Koehntopp! Congratulations Frank and Sonja - and now the main question: How long did the Gameboy batteries last?

Posted by Matthew at 05:14 PM | Comments (0)

Open Source communities

Open Source communities: An introduction to open source communities

Posted by Matthew at 03:26 PM | Comments (0)

Lotus Notes weblogs

Lotus Notes weblogs: A few days ago, I posted about looking for weblogs inside corporations. I've never received so much feedback - especially from the Notes-community. That even included a mail from Ed Brill, whose name I at least recognized. Many thanks for all of that. My next goal is to sift through all the information so that I can expand on the idea of perhaps consulting corporations we know on establishing Notes based weblogs as part of their infrastructure. Many large companies here in Germany/Central Europe use Notes and adding weblog capabilities could prove to be an interesting business case.


Later: I've just noticed Ed's weblog doesn't support RSS feeds. Duh.

Posted by Matthew at 09:20 AM | Comments (0)

Serious gaming

Serious gaming: Looks like Frank is seriously testing his Gameboy SP. We hope all goes well!

Posted by Matthew at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)

April 12, 2003

3650 snapshot

3650 snapshot: I am really enjoying my new phone. I've just transferred a family video that I shot with my Canon A40 via my PC on to the phone to watch. Easy. I am also using the phone as my main gaming device at the moment. Slightly wondering why I went and got the Gameboy Advance. There are plenty of games around for the 3650 and the great thing is that they're cheap. Download Splinter Cell for the 3650 for 3.99 €. The Gameboy version will set you back around 50 € when it comes out. Of course the quality is different - but for quick mobile gaming - I'd go for the 3650. On the down side - the battery doesn't hold out that long and the cursor button-thingy is sometimes hard to control.

Posted by Matthew at 06:14 PM | Comments (0)

Timed Telnet

Timed Telnet? Someting completely OT: Does anyone know of a way to set up Telnet so that the user-id / password combination is only valid for a certain length of time? The idea being to give out user-id / passwords for Telnet but making sure that they are only valid for a certain period.

Posted by Matthew at 05:01 PM | Comments (0)

IM'ing

IM'ing: Quick IM chat with Russell to see what the plan is :-). Hopefully it will include Cocoon - which is of course close to my heart and well suited as a mobile platform.

Posted by Matthew at 04:42 PM | Comments (0)

Sunny Saturday

Sunny Saturday: The weather has taken a turn for the better and it looks as though the coming week will be warm and sunny. As I have a couple of days holiday - this is good news. I've noticed quite a few other webloggers writing about the interesting things they've been doing today (like Steven and Russell). Well, so far today I've been shopping, made a marinade (honey,mustard,chile,lemon juice) for chicken and made a (simple) cake. Unfortunately it seems that we've also been struck with a new round of sniffles and cold-like symptoms. Bad news - seeing as how the Easter run is now only a week off. Tomorrow I had planned on a 10k run to see what my time is like and then I wanted to do some faster paced stuff on Tuesday. And after that it's relax until Saturday. Sounds as though I plan on winning - doesn't it? Well, I'll have to see how bad the cold gets. 

Posted by Matthew at 03:22 PM | Comments (0)

April 10, 2003

Vienna

Vienna: Ok, so one of my favorite songs used to be "Vienna" by Ultravox. Now Andreas Hochsteger from Vienna joins the ranks of the webloggers - and it seems I inspired him to do so. Welcome Andreas! Actually I've just realized that Vienna was released in 1981 - that's over 20 years ago....oh my........


We walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window pane
Lying and waiting
A man in the dark in a picture frame
So mystic and soulful

Posted by Matthew at 04:03 PM | Comments (0)

Snow

Snow: It snowed here last night. Not much but enough to remind you that the war isn't over yet. Oh, wait - I'm getting mixed up....

Posted by Matthew at 11:00 AM | Comments (0)

April 09, 2003

Penguins are human too

Penguins are human too: After some email from Tim OReilly, I have posted some additional thoughts in a new O'Reilly weblog entry today.

Posted by Matthew at 06:54 PM | Comments (0)

Being quiet

Being quiet: I have not been able to post much lately due to a lot of work and new gadgets - like this one - to play with. It'll pass.

Posted by Matthew at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

And then there were 2

And then there were 2: A few days ago I mentioned that one of the technical editors on our Cocoon book editors has a weblog. Well now so does the other. Welcome Torsten.

Posted by Matthew at 12:13 PM | Comments (0)

April 08, 2003

Resignation in the air

Resignation in the air: You know that sort of day, you come to work all prepared to do Great Things - and then something happens that brings the whole plan crashing down. Well today it's this.

Posted by Matthew at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)

April 07, 2003

Discussion started

Discussion started: Yesterdays posting on my O'Reilly weblog started something going (nice title: "The Architecture of Participation"). And I mistyped Stefano (he's going to hate me for that :-)).

Posted by Matthew at 10:02 AM | Comments (0)

April 06, 2003

2 weeks left

2 weeks left: While the rest of the world gets on with more important things, I'm counting the days until the yearly 10 km Paderborn Easter run. Yours truly will be taking part for the third time and this year it's "break the hour or bust". Things are looking good and after todays training trot I do think there is a chance I'll get in under 60 minutes. Murphy willing.

Posted by Matthew at 07:53 PM | Comments (0)

Communities calling

Communities calling: (My O'Reilly weblog) Is Microsoft trying to adopt open source communities?

Posted by Matthew at 02:06 PM | Comments (0)

Another RSS reader

Another RSS reader: SharpReader is an RSS reader that looks interesting. It offers more than readers I've seen up to now.

Posted by Matthew at 09:27 AM | Comments (0)

April 05, 2003

Mobitopians reply

Mobitopians reply: We combined our thoughts on 3G and Wifi into this lengthy article.

Posted by Matthew at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)

Gadget weekend

Gadget weekend: Yesterday, just minutes before the shops closed I went and bought a Gamboy Advance SP. It came with a game (Colin Mcrae Rally 2.0) for 129€. So I also went and bought Rayman Advance to go with it.

And then this morning I awake to an email in my inbox stating that the Nokia 3650 is in stock at t-mobile. So I immediately rang and hopefully one will be arriving in the next couple of days.

Posted by Matthew at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)

Weblogs inside corporations

Weblogs inside corporations: I'm currently trying to establish weblogs as an information system inside our company. We have different groups inside the company and the idea is to give each group a journal (a group-blog written by members of the group). Then by linking the various journals with each other (Trackback etc). I want to create a mesh of information that also has the relevant links to the outside world. I'm up against stiff competition - Lotus Notes - and a strong following. At the moment I'm focussing on guerilla tactics. I've set up two weblogs and I'm spreading the word on them in a clandestine fashion. The day is nearing though when I'll need to leap out of the ditch and yell - "Weblogs are better than Notes for corporate information flow because...". So - apart from my own thoughts, I need anything I can get (links, arguments). Thanks.


Later: Now this is interesting. A weblog system built using Lotus Notes. And here is another one.

Posted by Matthew at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)

April 03, 2003

Secrets of the Deep

Secrets of the Deep: What happens if a small squid swims to close to an atomic powered submarine - take a look. Introducing - the colossal squid. And you wouldn't want one in your pond - that's for sure.

Posted by Matthew at 08:46 PM | Comments (0)

Book sales

Book sales: On the subject of books - we just recieved the first "numbers" for the Cocoon book for last year (actually half-a-year). We didn't do bad. But not great either. Taking the numbers as they are it means we still actually owe the publisher some money. We got an advance on the book and until we've sold the number it takes to make up the advance - we don't get anything.

Posted by Matthew at 02:57 PM | Comments (0)

Not me surely

Not me surely: Looks like Steve is set up to start work on a book on open source for O'Reilly. Actually he's upset that no-one blogged about the first time he mentioned it. Can't imagine who he's referring to. Actually I'm pretty jealous. So there. Need a co-author Steve?

Posted by Matthew at 02:53 PM | Comments (0)

Vomit on demand

Vomit on demand: Russ is enjoying fatherhood.

Posted by Matthew at 12:34 PM | Comments (0)

Photoshop in the desert

Photoshop in the desert: Ben points to the reason we should be believing everything we see or hear on the war. Or did I get that the wrong way round....

Posted by Matthew at 08:35 AM | Comments (0)

Found the penguins!

Found the penguins! Doc replies to my question on where to get the penguins and adds some insight. And now you know the rest of the story. Thanks Doc.

Posted by Matthew at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)

April 02, 2003

Russell on weblogs

Russell on weblogs: I agree with this.

Posted by Matthew at 03:12 PM | Comments (0)

Where are the penguins?

Where are the Penguins? Anyone know where Doc got the penguins he used in this classical presentation? I will be speaking on the commercial use and involvement in Open Source at Jax2003. The presentation is called: "Penguins are human too" and guess why I want Doc's penguins....

Posted by Matthew at 03:09 PM | Comments (0)

Share buying

Share buying: Shares of this weblog are now available for purchase over on BlogShares (get them while they're cheap). I've invested in Ben and Schockwellenreiter.

Posted by Matthew at 11:24 AM | Comments (0)

Bringing down the house

Bringing down the house: The battle for Baghdad has started. I wonder how the timeline is in fact being altered to meet the growing unrest?

Posted by Matthew at 08:55 AM | Comments (0)

MSDN now with RSS

MSDN now with RSS: MSDN now provides RSS feeds.

Posted by Matthew at 08:40 AM | Comments (0)

G'day Marcus

G'day Marcus: Marcus Crafter has a weblog! Thanks to Steven, who set the whole thing up for him, one of our TechEds (from the Cocoon book) is now blogging! Welcome.

Posted by Matthew at 08:10 AM | Comments (0)

April Fools Highlights

April Fools Highlights: Even though April Fools Day was yesterday - this is still worth a read.

Posted by Matthew at 08:04 AM | Comments (0)

The Myers-Rumsfeld Show

The Myers-Rumsfeld Show: Watched the show on CNN last night - oh wait - it was a press briefing - right. When it suddenly strikes me why they are having such a hard time facing the press: They've been Cluetrained! Opening up to allow embedded reporters to file reports from the field and with the tremendous coverage by media and weblogs, every step is being closely watched and commented on. And there is no way back.

Posted by Matthew at 08:03 AM | Comments (0)

April 01, 2003

First SARS case in Germany

First SARS case in Germany: Web.de is reporting on what looks like the first SARS case to arrive in Germany. And not so far away from here either.

Posted by Matthew at 03:32 PM | Comments (0)

Sex sells volleyball

Sex sells volleyball: Tecmo is trying to ban "nude" patches to its volleyball game for the XBox. Don't they realize that patches like that will actually sell more games for them? Perhaps I should get an XBox next...

Posted by Matthew at 02:58 PM | Comments (0)

Guido goes 3650

Guido goes 3650: Guido bought a Nokia 3650 at the weekend and so we all took a look yesterday when he bought it into work. Neat device - but with a slight "plastic" feel to the keyboard. And it'll bulge your pocket for sure. Still very nice in all and I want one.

Posted by Matthew at 02:06 PM | Comments (0)

Shaping the language

Shaping the language: Notice how the war is adding new terms to our everyday life? Last week it was "embedded" and this week it's "friendly fire".

Posted by Matthew at 02:02 PM | Comments (0)

Blogger broken

Blogger broken: And it's not an April Fools trick. Looks like Blogger.com has been hit by serious hardware problems. Mum's published weblog is not working.

Posted by Matthew at 01:52 PM | Comments (0)

Another Cocoon fork

Another Cocoon fork: Oh dear, it does look as though the Cocoon project is nearly dead. Talk of porting the whole thing over to a different language. That's probably it then.

Posted by Matthew at 11:29 AM | Comments (0)

MT Hacker

MT Hacker: Today I hacked my first MoveableType template. We're doing an internal setup for information management and looking at using MT for part.

Posted by Matthew at 09:00 AM | Comments (0)