Archive for February, 2006
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
A genius on SiliconValleySleuth writes:
PS: If you still want to argue that OS X doesn’t have security holes, you haven't been looking at the security updates that the company has been publishing. Then you're probably also ignoring the fact that OS X last year logged more security vulnerabilities than Windows ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
The Calendaring space is very hot right now. Joel Spolsky of FogCreek comments that people seem to be building calendar companies for resale. I figure there'll be lots more AJAX calendaring apps out there before the war is over. It's got it's own mini-bubble. Joel believes that part of the ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
I've volunteered to write a tutorial/reference application for Nitro/Og. It will be a bug/issue tracker, and will make use of some of the nifty features of these libraries. It will also give me a chance to learn more about Nitro (the web part) - right now, my expertise ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
A group of bloggers in Cork are arranging a meetup in April. There's a definite community feel with the bloggers in that area. I think this is something that really needs to develop in the North of Ireland as well.
Speaking to some very smart people the other night and ...
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
I've seen aspoke doing the rounds of the blogs. It started in the Alpha Blogger camp with Scoble et al, and it's now doing the rounds of the little fishes.
Express your individualism. Buy some vinyl stickers for the top of your laptop.
There? Do you feel as if your inner ...
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Guy Kawasaki's blog post on his web stats raised a lot of discussion. Some people disputed the results while others denounced the blog as being low in content.
I think some people need to take a chill pill.
It's Guy's blog. He can write what he wants. I personally found it ...
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Dave Moore at The Norman Transcript asks whether Apple will "do right" by Mac OS X.
This is emotive language. It assumes that by doing anything other than what Dave wants, Apple would be doing the wrong thing. So what does Dave think is the right thing?
The hope is that Apple ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
ZDNet is reporting that the recent Kama Sutra Worm hasn't been nearly as bad as expected. It slid into third place behind MyDoom and Netsky.
Isn't this just ridiculous?
The doom and gloom of virus outbreaks is only lessened by the dull ache of viruses and trojans which have been plaguing us ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Guy Kawasaki has been reviewing the results of his blog in terms of hits after a month. By the end of January, we'd been running this blog for 20 days.
We'd made 38 posts.
According to our statcounter, we had 33108 hits and served 313 Megabytes. We're maintaining an average of about ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
And I didn't get home til 6 am. As a result I'm completely busted today. But it was a great night out and we spent time talking about all sorts of things - everything from Lucy, to how many definitive bones are in the human body, to realising that (for ...
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