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{ Yearly Archives } 2008

Montréal in August

Summer wouldn’t be summer without a summer conference or two. There’s something about walking the streets or sitting in cafes, talking about technology, in balmy weather (well, when it doesn’t rain like it did at last year’s CSW XML Summer School in Oxford). This year I’m off to Montréal for Balisage in the middle of [...]

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Twitter Musings

Tim recently posted about Twitter, and it got me thinking I should blog some of my own thoughts on the subject of Twitter (and related services such as Jaiku). Tim’s not the only person to move from tweeting a balanced mix that includes apparently superficial trivia to mainly, or even only, tweeting work or business-related [...]

Company Websites 101

I’m not in marketing, so I’m not going to pontificate on how companies should design the look and feel of their websites, nor on what they should say on their websites. But there are some really basic things that companies should do to make their websites more usable, at least to a first degree.
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Norm’s Leaving

Norm’s leaving Sun. I’ve never worked with Norm on a Sun-internal project, as his projects didn’t overlap with mine, but I’ve worked with him on others, most particularly the OASIS Entity Resolution TC. He was also one of the reviewers and session chairs I could most rely on when I was chairing the XML conference.
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More Asus

As intended, I did take the Asus eee pc along on my trip to Maui last month. It was certainly a lot lighter in the backpack than the usual laptop. I even used it a bit (it has a fairly decent sudoku game on it). The wireless connection was a little flaky; I could sometimes [...]

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BPA - Who’s Prepared?

Bisphenol-A, a chemical found in many of those hard plastic water bottles (look for polycarbonates with the recycling number 7, although not all of those have BPA in them) has been in the news recently, culminating in today’s announcement of a ban of baby bottles containing BPA by Health Canada. This continues a trend from [...]

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