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Month: January 2006

  • Thanks Bill

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    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…

  • Outlook, Clear Context and MindManager Pro GTD

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    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…

  • Userland – thanks for nothing

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    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…

  • more thoughts on Web 2.0

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    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…

  • Google, we hardly knew you

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    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.