Musings

Tim Bray makes a case for not being a “sharecropper” and developing for the browser only or rather - to code to open standards, XML, RPC etc. and so on. I agree 100% - that’s a good thing to do. But he makes the case, that the browser is the best thing that happened to interface design and application design since sliced bread: But it's especially good for the customers to be on the Web platform. The notion of routing everything through the browser (with one significant exception, which I'll discuss below) is incredibly user-centric, user-friendly, and user-empowering. Because once they know how to use the "Back" button, to click on highlighted text, and to fill out a form, then they don't need much training in how to use your application. and ...

I’m in the finishing phase of “the” project, I’ve been working on for the last 6 months or so… On friday we deployed my web solution to the productive environement and it ran (almost out of the box). Today is the day where a couple of small corrections are being made. Tomorrow I’ll start to look for something new to work on…

Tobias, 07:10

Yesterday while going out with friends we talked about what Google knows about us. Myriam said that she had googled for her Matthias before going out with him in earnest. We then wondered what Google might now about Myriam…. I checked - it knows nothing at all. Time to change that… Ohh - you wanted more information on Myriam? Where she lives? The pictures from her marriage? Private details? Ahh - but you have to know her better to get to know these things… _Update:_Try this search to see how fast Google can be: Less than 24 between entering it and Google being aware of Myriam… ...

I recently wrote about the LinkedIn Locked Out problem I was having. Well - LinkedIn changed a subtle thing: You can opt in to receive requests directly from people that are more than 4 degrees away from you. I wondered how I came to suddenly have 60+ people in my network that I didn’t know about. Then it dawned on me, that these 60 people must be the first ones to opt in for the direct contect feature. I opted in too - and the very next morning I had a mail from a Swiss/American guy who was busy patching up the disparate networks. He knew either Joi or Reid himself - so when he invited me to his network, BAM, I suddenly was connected to 1500+ people. This morning, I’m up to 2200+ connections - and boy, some of them look interesting. I haven’t made my own request yet, but this afternoon, I’m meeting Tom, who invited me to his network for some business talk… Good stuff, LinkedIn ;-) ...

Only two days after I ordered it, it’s already on it’s way from the factory at Taiwan. Wonder how fast it’s going to be here… My first piece of Apple equipment - ever since I had to program Modula-2 back on the Mac’s at the technical university. Now this little piece won’t do any computations, but it will keep me entertained…. Joy!