Technology
ThinkPad z61t - I’m in love
About two months ago, my old ThinkPad started to show signs of distress. The wifi couldn’t get an IP address at home (but it could at work). Then it stopped getting an IP at work, necessitating an ethernet cable strewn across the desk to get connectivity. Then overall sluggish behavior took hold, causing ever-lengthier boot-ups.
It […]
The big day is upon us
Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop:
That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update.
Now the fun begins!
Trying Google Reader
I’ve been trying Google Reader for the last couple weeks, and I really like it. The interface is very clean, and it’s taken very little time to get used to as my primary feed reading app. There’s also a mobile version, which renders very quickly on my Treo.
One nice feature is the ‘share’ button at […]
IE7 Shipping - a comment on the stylesheet
Fred notes that IE7’s default behavior is to ignore a publisher’s XSLT stylesheet (if the publisher has pointed to one, which the vast majority of FeedBurner publishers have done), and he’s not exactly thrilled about this.
While poking around my computer config the other day, I noticed a new setting in “Internet Options” that addresses Fred’s […]
TechCocktail - a great party
Last night was the second TechCocktail event, and it was incredible. I had to miss the first because of a family commitment, but I’m really glad I got to make it last night. Eric and Frank really outdid themselves: over 300 in attendance when all was said and done. The founder of Vonage was there, […]
Update on Outlook 2007 and RSS support
Thanks to Patrick Schmid, a Microsoft MVP, we recently discovered that Outlook 2007 doesn’t reveal itself in its user agent when requesting RSS feeds. It instead shows up as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft has more details here.
While I’m not thrilled with the current state of affairs, I’m grateful to Patrick for identifying the original issue […]
Added a comments feed
I can’t really think of a good reason that I didn’t offer this before, but for those who care: you may now subscribe to the comments that others make on this site. If you’re a regular reader in the aggregator, you may miss some good conversations that happen when others stop by and leave a […]
Coral CDN - A new toy!
Unless I’m missing something, Coral CDN is a really big deal. How’ve I missed this? At dinner last week with David Lawrence, David mentioned in passing that he uses Coral CDN for all of his podcast file downloads. That means he incurs almost no bandwidth costs, and the CDN kicks in automatically.
Few steps back. Akamai […]
Firefox 2 Feed Support
I downloaded and installed Firefox 2 RC1 last night, and on the balance I’m really impressed. The memory handling seems (so far) to be vastly improved over Firefox 1.x (I’ve had to kill the app pretty much once/day because of memory leaks). The UI is much more visually appealing, and they appear to have done […]
Resume as a wiki
In the “eventually I’ll get around to it” file was a comprehensive resume on my site. (No, I’m definitely not looking for a job.) I’d been keeping an outline in Bonsai for a couple years, but it didn’t have the old stuff (where I spoke after I graduated law school, which articles I wrote, etc.) […]
