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Tuesday, 11 June 2002

MacStumbler - it's NetStumbler for OSX. Apparently you get 10 networks in the middle of Pyrmont Bridge - something I'm going to have to try myself this evening. 4:10:44 PM  comment []      I also appreciate the irony of PwC announcing their name change to Monday on Monday - which was a public holiday here. Perhaps one of the only times people actually like Monday? 2:51:48 PM  comment []      Today Neil Shoebridge totally took apart PwC's new name Monday in the BRW: Sometimes, silly names grow on people and the ridicule they initially attract fades (consider Westpac, Orica, Southcorp). But the folks at PwC Consulting are going to regret their new name for a long time. Reading the press releases that accompanied the announcement of the new name and looking at the Web site created to introduce it (yes, PwC has set up a Web site to explain the new name, www.IntroducingMonday.com), two things are clear: * PwC Consulting executives were so desperate to distance themselves from their parent company - and all the accusations of conflicts of interest between audit and consulting firms - that they lost the ability to think rationally. * PwC Consulting executives are completely clueless about the importance of a brand name. And my favourite quote: You have to wonder what PwC Consulting's clients are thinking. Something like "if Monday is the best they can come up with for themselves, what are they going to do for my business?". PwC Consulting says that as a company, it stands for three things: real business, real people and real experience. And a really bad name. While we're talking about PwC, it might be a good tim to say good luck to the 10 or so of my friends who are starting work there in 3 months. There's only one quote I can think of which sums it all up - "Sounds like somebody has a case of the Monday's". 2:49:30 PM  comment []      Anti-open source 'whitepaper' devastated. MS deserves a refund: "The entire AdTI study is a commercial funded by Microsoft, whose sole aim is to counter the growing adoption of GPL'd software. The report contains nothing constructive or useful. It is a sham." [The Register] 2:34:42 PM  comment []      Matt pointed me to a great piece he wrote about Village Shops in BlogSpace, where he echoes a lot of my thoughts and feelings as a newbie blogger: "I guess that like most people who have just come to weblogging I am not part of the weblogging establishment. More importantly to me, I am also not part of an established community. Although I have found lots of people talking about lots of interesting things, I do not perceive them as the coherent community that I am looking to participate in." Basically this is the feeling I get - and perhaps it ties into other things. Most bloggers seem to spend a lot of their time talking about... blogging! This is fine, but annoys me sometimes because: it's hard to get your own voice heard on other topics - for instance I've emailed Dave Winer a few times about various issues, and been summarily ignored. I'm supposing that it's because the emails weren't necessarily blog entries about blogging or Radio. (Or perhaps he's just too busy - always a possibility) it's very hard to find other bloggers with common interests to me when everyone just talks about blogging. This is the idea behind my list of Java and J2EE Weblogs. If I try to make some effort to collate the community, more people will link to the list, and it will grow - thus I myself find more blogs of interest to me. I'm not sure a software solution to all this will be very effective though - it's very complex to pull the key topics out of a blog by scanning the text of it. Food for thought anyway - good piece Matt! 1:00:29 PM  comment []      James Strachan (a name I know from around the traps - most likely that Jakarta mob ;)) has started a weblog to talk about "Open Source, Java, XML" - all great topics. Now if only I could find his RSS feed! (PS Great win for the poms on Friday night James - Eng-a-land, Eng-a-land, Eng-a-land) (PPS I just found James' other homepage at Apache.org - wow, lots of projects) 10:42:55 AM  comment []      2002 FIFA World Cup GameTracker is a cool Flash-thingy for the World Cup. Not sure exactly what it does though! 10:35:17 AM  comment []      A List Apart: How to Write a Better Weblog 10:34:09 AM  comment []      JGraph vs. JFreeChart vs. others - Roland Reumerman. Comparing Swing charting & graphing libraries. 10:23:07 AM  comment []