[Via Vincent Buck: En français svp]
CodeCon has come and gone, and was a rousing success! Thanks to everyone who attended. mp3s of the entire conference are now available via BitTorrent. Download instructions are here. It's very simple, especially under windows.
[Via infoAnarchy]
Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.
[Via Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
What format do you want it in?
Well-structured semantic XHTML. It's a floor wax and a dessert topping. It's XML (easily machine-readable, opens the door to XSLT). It's also HTML, or close enough that it displays in every browser in the world (even Netscape 4). And it's well-structured (degrades by itself, all the way down to Lynx) and semantic (my tags really mean things: h1, h2, h3, p, blockquote, em, code -- Google cares). Add CSS, and modern browsers render it beautifully (important today, less so tomorrow, irrelevant in the long run). It's not a perfect solution but given the requirement of a single, public, published, permanent URL for everyone and everything, I think it's the best compromise.
[Via the enlighted diveintomark]
Success in CRM depends more on applying its principles creatively than on armies of experts, huge databases and complex software, according to experts at McKinsey.
[Via News.com]
One of the things that can unite Canadians from coast to coast (others are beer and bitchin about americans, hey wait, this game is a three for one!!!)
[Moreover - Canada]