Monday, October 07, 2002

A New Yorker cartoon on an advertising supported war. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Jake Savin reports on the first-of-month Radio bug fix. [Scripting News]

Microsoft's strategy for web services - More "standard, tailored and customized" crap from Microsoft. Yada yada yada. The only really interesting thing about this (to me) this new programming language for business process programmng - BPEL4WS. "The business process is becoming the new unit of work," Fitzgerald said, pointing to the forthcoming BPEL4WS, a programming language that can be used to describe business processes, as one example.

Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix. Slashback with a success story about video editing on Free software, and ... [Slashdot]

Two articles in today's SJ Mercury News about Aggregators and RSS. - Interesting for the links to other non-RU8 news aggregators.

Ars Technica on Hyperthreading. radiokills writes "Ars Technica has a highly-informative technical paper up on ... [Slashdot]

Brian Buck pointed out the page on Google for advanced operators.  I don't know when and how I'd use them but it is pretty cool. The more I hear about Google as a company, the more I think they're as exciting as Microsoft was back in the 80s and early 90s. Check out Google Labs.

An interesting IE toolbar for writers:  the Merriam Webster toolbar. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Donald Norman On Software And Other Things. small but... writes "New Scientist has published an interview with Donald ... [Slashdot]  Check out Donald Norman's website for a deeper view of his work.

Michael Wilson reviews outlining tools:  Inspiration, Mind Map Pro, and Tinderbox. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]