Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Moomin Memories. If you have a child, run, don't walk, to buy these books and read them to your little one. [Blogcritics] 1:49:40 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Adventures in C#: Climbing Out of the Rathole.  "The lesson should be: we should learn as much as we can, all the time. And we should be careful to keep our learning focused on safely delivering the customer the features he needs." [Good stuff from Ron Jeffries, and over here the draft of another smart paper.] [Archipelago] 1:19:01 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

There's a great movie called Shadowlands starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. Hopkins plays a know-it-all philosopher professor, who teaches about courtship and romance and writes kids books. He thinks he's got it covered until Winger comes along. "I like a good fight," says the professor. "That's great," says Winger. "But when's the last time you lost?" Later in the movie he talks about how inquisitive he is, in a boastful way, and she sets him straight. "When was the last time you asked a question you didn't know the answer to?" Learning never stops. People who know all the answers, or pretend to, have simply forgotten to ask questions they don't know the answers to. BTW, it's a beautiful sweet movie, and even though we pity the Hopkins character, in the end he has great courage, and does the right thing. [Scripting News] 12:18:23 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. [4 mentions.] Hardcover, 15 October, 2002  [onfocus.com : Weblog Bookwatch] 11:20:03 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Inbox Buddy Update. Inbox Buddy Update I've been very quiet on the whole Inbox Buddy front for a while now and I wanted to give an update.  So the obvious things are: No we didn't drop off the planet.  No aliens did not abduct me and conduct vile, scary experiments with strange medical tools.  We're still alive, well, sane (mostly) and continuing to make new versions.  We're up to .906 as of 10/29. New features and little touches continue to be added.  Report Spam now deletes the reported spam from your Inbox (obvious but these touches come from great customer interaction; Thanks Matt !). We think we've licked the installation issues but we're still finalizing QA.  Our problem turned out to be security issues with server side PST files on an exchange server.  Automatic routing of all spam to a spam folder is now present (Duh!  It's a spam product; but your product manager, that would be me, has had it manually configured for so long that I just forgot about it). We'll be posting the latest version shortly (tomorrow probably). We're pretty close to moving to a 1.0. I'll probably be starting a 30 Days to a Better Outlook series featuring Inbox Buddy next week (actual date is tbd).  This idea came from a tester, Matt?, and it's a great one.  Thanks! So thank you to Matt, Kjartan, Joe, Buzz, John and others (if I forgot you I'm sorry; it's been a long week).  And a special thanks to John's tireless efforts to help us smote this server side PST issue with a mighty blog.  You rock man!   We really appreciate the feedback. [The FuzzyBlog!] 10:39:27 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

The First 60 Minutes of 24. 24 is back and we were glued to the tube last night for the opening episode. The no-commercials (they were... [Blogcritics]   10:23:55 AM    trackback []     Articulate []