Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Normally, I don't think much of what John Dvorak writes. He often dunks Microsoft with anecdotes and rants - seeing that he has made most of his career pushing Microsoft products till FLOSS came along which he favors very zealously. These two amusing postings by him captures his sentiments about People Networking stuff (suprisingly it has nothing to do with Microsoft) - The New Networking Crock Business Networking Systems, Dead Already? That is a very interesting perspective on something that has well over 6 million users. 2:42:25 PM

This is my first post in Radio Userland this year (and in a very long time). I run another blog at weblogs.asp.net primarily for more technical topics. I have updated my 'About Me' page here still a bit immodest but with more details about me. I had given up on Radio Userland as it was quite buggy - what do you expect of a piece of software that does not get upgraded/patched on a regular basis? Unless, of course Radio Userland thinks it has a flawless piece of software...hmm.. I wonder what's their secret?   10:58:16 AM

	Thursday, June 26, 2003

Expediting .NET GDK library for Ent Int Server (Revisited) Beginning of February, I had posted a thread 'Expediting .NET GDK library for Ent Int Server' in the Groove DevZone forums. Last thursday night at the CT .NET Developers meeting, I saw ClientSoft make a presentation of their product 'ServiceBuilder' that is based on a .NET platform. If there ever was a way to fit Groove with corporate legacy systems - this would be it. By the way, I do mean legacy - CICS, 3270, FEPI, vt100, MVS, IMS, etc... Mainframe applications that are older than the current programmers who maintain them. 490 of the F500 companies still run these apps which number in the millions. 5:23:59 AM

	Monday, June 23, 2003

The amazing HONDA advertisement My thanks for Mike Coughlin for letting me know about this one. Here's the "fantabolous" HONDA advertisement that has taken the advertisement world by the cogs - FLASH 6 version, QuickTime version and some write-ups. It would be great to see some software company come-up with something similar - "Isn't it nice when software just works".   7:27:22 AM

	Sunday, June 22, 2003

The Corporate Blog Is Catching On Today's New York Times has an article with a subtitle (in the index page) - 'when the blogger wears pinstripes'. It's about corporate CEOs blogging. Tim O'Reilly and Ray Ozzie are cited in the text but I can't envision either one of them in a pinstripe, can you? 7:50:44 PM

	Tuesday, June 17, 2003

A brief break in weblogging A client project that demands due diligence is going to keep me away from weblogging to the end of the month. Will try to put in a post or two. 9:12:25 PM

	Monday, June 16, 2003

GToolBox launches GXcel The Groove Gurus, Ashok & Roomy have launched GXcel. This  Groove tool has 'wowed' all those who have seen and worked with it. Rumor has it that even the Great Wizard of Beverly was impressed. 6:53:48 AM

	Saturday, June 14, 2003

Regarding Spam - you can't win'em all The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (aka CAN-SPAM) has its shortcomings [eWeek]. Then there is/was (still being lobbied), the "Spam Tax" which is/was in response to Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (UCE) aka Spam and that has International ramifications [InfoWorld]. I say, leave it to these guys to solve the Spam problem - after all, their work still lingers after decades and they need not be lobbied either with special interest groups (SIG). 11:16:54 AM