First light
Cue mood lighting, Thus Spake Tharathustra and a small introductory drum solo.
Cue polite applause.
(More to come in this personal SEO enterprise.)
Groveling for groovy web2.0 toolishness
Must - give - Paul - Fabretti - a - link - to - merit - Evernote - invite.
I’d heard of Evernote before, but just took the time to watch the demo video today.
Simple.
Quick.
Powerful.
Those were some of my first few thoughts. So yeah, I’d like to try it. Hook me up, Paul!
Quote of the day
Gotta love this one … it’s often overlooked in business:
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill
Saw it at Martin Perez’ Merge Left Marketing.
Quote of the day
This is a good one:
“The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
- George Bernard Shaw
If your office is anything like mine … this is a fairly accurate observation.
The brand of YOU
How do you brand yourself for career success? The answer in 24 slides:
(I saw this first on ReadWriteWeb.)
On Alan Dean Foster
It’s hard to see a writer that could be so good settle for so much less.
I recently revisited an author I followed in my teens, Alan Dean Foster, and picked up one of his more recent titles, Reunion.
My mini-review, as I posted it on Shelfari:
Sophomoric. I read a lot of Alan Dean Foster as a teen, enjoying it though realizing this was not anything approaching great literature.
The two most unfortunate things about Alan Dean Foster novels:
1) Gratuitous use of vocabulary
Didn’t an English teacher ever tell him to stop pulling out a thesaurus? Has he never read Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, or Strunk & White? Does he still think he’s 13 and impressing people with big words?2) Poor editing
Has he had such boffo box office that he’s now immune to expert copy editing? Numerous head-scratching cases of oddly counterposed sentences jump out of the text. Example on page 8: ” … the elongated beach resort was one of the least crowded on the continent. It well suited the multitudes that thronged to its shores …” Huh? Is it uncrowded, or is it thronged? The beach can hardly be both.In both these characteristics, Foster’s writing is definitely in the “baffle them with bullshit” category.
Annoying. He could be so much better.
AppleInsider rips Adobe AIR
Interesting take from AppleInsider on the Adobe AIR thing:
Adobe lists a variety of phone makers and chip manufacturers as its partners in the Open Screen Project, but notably excludes any mention of Microsoft, Apple, and Google. How will ARM, Intel, and Cisco have any relevant impact on pushing Flash on Microsoft’s desktop, Apple’s mobiles and the Mac, or Google’s web apps and Android platform?
And how are the existing licensees of Adobe’s Flash Lite on mobile phones (LG, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, and Verizon Wireless) going to do anything to promote Flash-based rich Internet apps when their devices can’t even run the full version of Flash?
Adobe seems to be hoping that nobody notices these problems and that its vigilant marketing efforts can entrance the public into thinking that a drawing app extended into an animation tool and then retrofitted into a monstrous hack of a development platform is a superior technology basis for building web apps compared to the use of modern open standards created expressly to promote true interoperability by design rather than retroactively.
Quote of the day
I love this one:
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
- Oscar Wilde
I just hope it’s not about me!
Smart comment spam is still spam
Now this is a smart comment spam:
I am not sure that I can completely understand your comments. Would you be so kind as to expand on your reasoning a little more before I comment.
I’m not going to link to the site where this originates (or, more accurately, where it points) because I don’t want to encourage or support spam in any way. But you can see who’s doing this here:
It’s smart, of course, because you have to think for a moment before being sure that it’s actually spam. But it’s still spam, as you can see when you go to the site being promoted, and realize it’s a shell site with nothing there but Google AdWords.
Annoying!
Microsoft Mesh and Architecture Astronauts
Joel Spolsky’s latest Joel on Software post is a must read, if only for the entertainment value.
An excerpt:
It’s Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can’t stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.
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