Howard on January 30th, 2006

Bill, as in Billmusic.net, has offered up a free copy of their album “Birthday Suit” for download to interested listeners. I heard about this on the Daily Source Code from the other day. Downloaded and enjoying it – the song “Sound Scientist” is the ‘hit single’ in my opinion, the other songs are good but [...]

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Howard on January 30th, 2006

I’ve been using the excellent “Clear Context” plugin for Outlook to help me organize my incoming mail stream into tasks in Outlook. I like the way you can almost instantly turn mail into a task. I also use ActiveWords to copy the body of a mail message into a task if I want to do more [...]

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Howard on January 30th, 2006

Userland software took down all the old weblogs – no notice. My howardgr.editthispage.com is gone – including my tale of my experience on 9/11.
An email asking for a fee or offering a download of the data would have been nice.
No, I haven’t touched it for a while. Yes, I would have liked to have it. [...]

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Howard on January 27th, 2006

Interesting discussion of Web 2.0 over at http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/01/13/the-hype-and-the-hullabaloo-of-web-20/
Very similar thoughts to what I said at the NYSIA meeting the other night, probably because we both used the Tim O’Reilly bullet points as a place to start the discussion. Tim has the advantage of having framed this conversation very well, and we’re playing in his model. [...]

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Howard on January 26th, 2006

Interesting piece in the Int. herald Tribune on Google’s decision to work with China’s censorship machine. Similar to MS and Yahoo, of course. Submitted for your consideration without comment.

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