Thunderbird 1.0 is out, but does it matter?

December 10, 2004

I’m a relatively new Firefox user – .7 was a little buggy for me so I waited it out – but 1.0 is a superb app.  It’s also an extraordinary thing to see the cumulative effect of the development community’s work on the project, and to think how much harder (impossible?) a collaborative effort like […]

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US Regulators Nudge Closer to Lifting Ban on Celphones in the Air

December 10, 2004

The NYT (free reg required, no permalink) is reporting that the FCC is about to start reviewing safety issues and price competition issues related to celphone use aloft.  The story focuses on three angles: first, whether there are safety issues, though it addresses this only superficially.  Second, the loss of one of the last remaing […]

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Can you balance your desktop on your knees?

December 9, 2004

The Globe and Mail has a story today (no permalink available) that … er …. well, here is the nub of it: Research published today in the journal Human Reproduction has found that laptops, combined with the thighs pressed-together posture needed to balance them, give off enough heat to raise the temperature inside testicles by […]

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The anti-motivational Christmas gift

December 9, 2004

An anti-motivational calendar.  Dark but hilarious.  The un-perfect gift.

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Do Not Call Legislation

December 8, 2004

It is about time.

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I love the iPod, but …

December 8, 2004

There are clouds on the horizon.  More ominously though, as CD copy protection spreads, where will the masses get their music?  With DRM spreading, and the online music stores positioning themselves to be irreconcilably format-incompatible, what will happen to the digital music player market?

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Deal lawyers

December 8, 2004

Dennis Kennedy has a post on Guy Kawasaki’s observations about lawyers who get things done (and those who don’t).  Ouch.  A simple point, but true. Lawyers persistently claim in advertising that they are (oddly enough, uniquely among their peers) solutions-oriented.  This would be a good thing.  Too often, though, it simply isn’t true.  The stereotype […]

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Has community-building technology reached a tipping point?

December 6, 2004

A tipping point?  After early false starts with apps like Hotline, the explosive growth of technologies such as wiki, RSS, groove, del.icio.us and flickr (and there are many more) suggests that we are in for a sea change in the near future, with intense growth in technologies designed to connect us to our communities.  This […]

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LexThink! Chicago Posts

November 26, 2004

Here’s a sticky post with links as-I-get-them to some post-Lex posts about the goings-on at LexThink! Chicago Matt Homann’s first post about LexThink! My first impressions Monica Bay’s thinking about Lex (yes, that is yours truly in photo #2, talking to Bob Wiss of CaseSoft) Matt Buchanan’s stream-of-consciousness Doug Sorocco’s thoughts about LexThink and TechShow […]

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