Monkinetic Weblog

Good Ole Eric S. Raymond: "As for looking at .NET? Sure, we should be looking at it -- the same way the Samba guys look at SMB file shares. C# is a weak language design, a sort of pale imitation Java. But that just makes it easier to co-opt." Hmmmm. Related perhaps to this article... Dot-GNet?

Yes, I'm 30(!) years old today. Wow.

There's a song I heard on the radio the other day that I cannot for the life of me figure out the title or artist for. I can remember some of the lyrics on the chorus, but that's it. And I can hear the main hook in my head something fierce. The lyrics go something like (please don't laugh):

John Rhodes makes the case that as long as we're concerned about Microsoft's shared source, or smart tags, Microsoft is winning, because they are moving to a service model where they control the infrastructure of authentication and personal information, and internet services. Hmmm.

Tim O'Reilly points to a Jon Udell article on "Environmental Aqcuisition": a fancy name for hierarchy-based inheritance.

Well, ok, not really... But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I've seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!

BTW - GBDirect does a lot of software development for IT-industry site The Register.

With all the bruhaha going on about Microsoft's new Smart Tags feature (esp. in IE6) I have to wistfully note - intead of "Smart-Tags" in IE, Microsoft could have had a PR glory day and been the first to widely distribute a working implementation of XLink, the long-awaited XML-linking spec:

GBDirect, a UK-based consulting firm, has some interesting eBusiness-related case studies on their site, including a good one on implementing an eCommerce site using open-source software.

From the Mac OS X Weblog - Jordan Hubbard is going to work for Apple.

Ok, thinking about Smart-Tags-done-right again... Here's a free idea. I'd like to see a Mac OS X service (probably need to be imeplemented in Java) that lets me download libraries of XLinks, then (optionally by using the service) tags words in my documents with a popup menu of possible links. This would build on work done in XLink, make use of existing Java-based XLink libraries, and be a total opt-in. Everything, of course, that Smart Tags aren't.

Wes Felter's discussion group is one of the most intellectual pieces of 'net property I visit. I only lurk, as I honestly don't always follow everything that's said there. Folks to listen to: Aaron Swartz, David McCusker. David's mind especially is incredibly dense. And I mean that in the nicest way - his brain, as visualized on the intellectual space-time-continuum would be like a black hole. Warning: David's weblog is a journey through a mind that does not work like yours.

Inessential: "Cocoa and Objective C seem (so far) much cooler than I expected. So when I see the mountain of things that are so damn right with OS X -- and Cocoa is just one of many things -- the few things that are not right just bug me all the more."

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Redmonk.Net is switching servers this afternoon. Jim did some benchmarks for me on current site speed (numbers in ticks):

Here are the new benchmark numbers from Jim (in ticks again):

Louis Rosenfeld, co-author of the polarbear book, has started a blog. IAFTWWW is a great book.

Ok, I could SO go for one of these. Herman, oh ye of the Aeron chair, might I leave thy temple?

...This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires.

Sean Gallagher on Microsoft's SDP: "Bill Gates said that Microsoft would still be the one to "productize" anything that comes out of the SDP. In other words, Microsoft would consume the brainpower of its clients, and sell it back to them as software and services."