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Friday, April 12, 2002 |
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Heh. Was expecting a couple of different e-mails today, through my handy-dandy popmail account. Every once in awhile during the day, I'd pull up oddpost, but nary a peep. Surprising.
Just got home and found that I'd left my e-mail client running, all day, alone, and it had dutifully collected the handful of e-mails I thought I might be getting. Guess I'd better remember to close Outlook next time before I head into the office. Sheesh. |
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Inventing the Future Great article from Tim O'Reilly on emergent technologies: What's more, I don't believe that the story will emerge
whole-cloth from any large vendor. The large vendors are struggling with how
to make money from this next generation of computing, and so they are moving
forward slowly. But network computing is a classic case of what Clayton
Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, calls a disruptive
technology. It doesn't fit easily into existing business models or
containers. It will belong to the upstarts, who don't have anything to lose,
and the risk-takers among the big companies, who are willing to bet more
heavily on the future than they do on the past. |
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Mother says boy was kept inside because of bruises. Denise Patch testified
Thursday that during the last week of her son's life, her boyfriend wouldn't
let her take him outside their Lakeville apartment because of the boy's many
bruises. |
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Sweet (or, more appropriately, suh-wheat!): Oddpost is mentioned in a Wired article on the Rising Costs of Free Web E-Mail. Though slow and unreliable, at least those Web-based e-mail services such as Hotmail and Yahoo are free. But the trend is toward charging for services, which is spawning a new breed of smaller, leaner Web-based mail sites.
It's great to see this kind of recognition for a simple, powerful tool, developed by a couple of guys just tooling around on their laptops. Love the photo odyssey. |
Last update: 8/17/2002; 5:01:11 PM .
