Open Source

Thursday, September 05, 2002

BlogBack: Followup on Miscellaneous Random posts Just a follow up to different recent posts.... About this Blog I mentioned rearchitecting this blog (god I hate that as a verb) earlier and here's what it looks like.  I'll make these sub blogs which don't exist yet hightechmarketing101 inbox buddy lessgeekyscott (for at least my mom and perhaps people who want my writing that is understandable to non geeky folks) evectors blogging opensource php & fuzzyoffice searchcritic webcritic Frequency on the sub blogs will obviously be less but this Radio blog will remain my "SuperBlog" and contain everything.  Comments?  This will all happen around next weekend when i have the time.  A preview of 1 of the blogs is a http://www.hightechmarketing101.com/ with a small taste of the content and some problems with the CSS / broken links. All stories will remain here but be pointed to from the other sites Radio makes this all intricate to setup but not hard at all. PHP Stuff I've been coding too much PHP to write some more but work is ongoing on FuzzyOffice and other things.  Checking some of the domain names I've registered recently might be interesting for folks. www.oscommerce.com seems like an awesome open source replacement for the pain that is Miva Merchant.  I'm still getting it running for a new test site but someone I respect greatly has it up and running already (from like Friday).  And you have to love a product so good that it runs a cool online lingerie store. www.phpbb.com is outstanding !!! Marketing 101 John responded to my responses to his article.  Got that ? Rich Editing in Mozilla or "I Don't Wanna IE No More" Andy from www.surfmind.com is taking a swing at this.  If you are interested in it, swing by www.surfmind.com and let him know or IM / email me and I'll hook you up. Xopus is another approach to it. Adam seems interested enough to at least respond to my email about it.  A big name pushing for this would help a lot. Mozilla 1.1 is much better -- it runs well on my machine at least.  And Andy is a huge advocate for Mozilla as always (side note -- it's astonishing how just one enthusiast can change your mind on an Open Source project; project leads take note) Buffy Stuff I saw somewhere online that Faith is coming back for 5 end of season episodes At last 2 post 30 year old Buffy fans have admitted privately to me that they watch the show.  It's ok people -- Joss is an outstanding writer and the humor is wonderful.  I was wrong about Dawn breathing fire being new -- that's last season -- Thanks Deb ! Can you believe that there is an honest to god Buffy paper magazine? Copyright and RIAA WebRadio seems to be dying: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956730.html Napster is more dead than ever (big shocker there) Web Development www.rackspace.com remains outstanding ! (had to plug a great company) Windows Yet another Windows crash last night.  Would you believe I found over 1.3 gigabytes of temp files on just 1 drive. I loathe and despise Microsoft more than ever for their shoddy engineering practices I got the CDs for Redhat 7.3 recently so my desktop Linux workstation will be updated and going back into daily use in a week or two Another bad security flaw in Windows: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-956729.html Other Short Items Eszter is looking for help with cool PC gadgets -- got suggestions?   6:43:53 PM

Recommended: Douglas O'Flaherty Doug is someone I've met a few times and have a really, really good feeling about.  His skills are good and he knows what he's doing.  He's also newly laid off due.  If you are looking for someone with startup experience and good overall skills both technical, marketing and product management, see: http://oflaherty.homeip.net/douglas/resumes/ He's also got a pretty strong Open Source background and I suspect would be open to contract gigs if you needed (although I honestly have no idea on this one; that's a suspicion only). 8:12:38 AM