Just finished preparing all the documents to ship back my SX6000. I should send it by the end of the week.
I also resumed my re-reading (another 100 pages or so tonight) of Jon Udell's book on groupware: Ever fascinating. Ideas are poping up in my head non-stop while reading. More tomorrow...
Yesterday night I re-read the first 100 pages of "Practical Internet Groupware" by Jon Udell. What a terrific book! When I first read it, as it had just been published (finding it in Hong Kong then had been a real steeple-chase race), I said to myself "This book is full of outstanding ideas but I don't know Perl". Now after more than 4 years in my current job and gained knowledge of Perl, I realised that my work environment is full of opportunity to improve communication and knowledge retention. I think that the elegant NNTP-based solutions he proposed combined with weblogging could make us a much better team. Like every teams it seem, we tend to over-rely on e-mail. I also found a mine of good ideas in the group about blog & knowledge management John Robb leads on Yahoo. I'll install INN on one of my Linux boxes over the week-end (time permiting) and start playing with these ideas. I wonder if there is a way to mirror the content of a weblog to a newsgroup on a News Server? Or the content of a newsgroup on a "team blog".
I looked for comprehensive documentation about the scripting language of Radio Userland on the 'net and found nothing "comprehensive enough". I like to RTFM... I also read more about blogging by e-mail. It seems it takes a dedicated e-mail account to do this. A cheap work around this would be to use an Hotmail account coupled to an Hotmail-to-POP3 gateway. Radio could retrieve the mails from the gateway. This would be very useful as I'll start to hit the road frequently during the fall (I hope!). That's another thing on this week-end to-do list...
