We're looking into Redhat's Interchange eCommerce product. We have a possible client with a limited budget. Using an open source product like Interchange, running on Linux and PostgreSQL, we should be able to create a solution for them with $0 in software licenses, as opposed to $30,000 for MS CommerceServer, SQLServer, Windows 2000 Server, etc...

This weekend I was encouraged to check out Locke's writings on government, specifically the Second Treatise Of Civil Government. This post is so I (and others) can find it again later.

I've never really considered myself an information architect, but I've done quite a bit of work that would fall into that category over the years. Jesse James Garrett has an excellent article titled A visual vocabularyfor describing information architecture and interaction design. I've just printed it out and will be perusing offline for a few days.

Sid 0.5 has been released for download here. Coolest new feature: Labels. Sid can download and save a list of your conversation's labels, allowing you to set the label for a message in Sid, rather than having to edit it again in the browser to set the label.

Via HTP: The Man Who Bought The Internet.

Fortune sees: Savvy CEO cleverly manipulates the system to make mega bucks, with a guaranteed revenue stream.

I see: freedom online being eroded by corporate interests.

Steve here, coming at you from the new Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. (Posting from a TiBook over Airport - drool drool drool)

Sid is moving along again, now that the interface to Conversant's labels feature is finished. You can now select a label for your post from the popup. Labels are cached and saved, so you only have to reload them if you know they've changed.

U2 is playing at Washington DC's MCI Center tonight. Gues who's going to be there? ;-)

A week ago, after months of working on smoke-and-mirrors demos of our current project, we were allowed to actually go to work on a functional spike of the process - an end-to-end prototype. Yesterday we got it running. Browser to web app server to application to back-end, encompassing two different operating systems and at least four tiers.

Sigh. Sid was just getting exciting... I had the linking code working the way I wanted it to, I had done some minor re-architecting which had made adding functionality easier, and things were going swimmingly.

The best thing about this article is this page. <g>

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... with Sid is really getting fun. The latest build (not yet available for download) make it REALLY easy to get links into your post. Let's Have Fun!

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I'm not an inveterate flamer. In fact, I rarely even post on most of the mailing lists I subscribe to. But today this post on Omni's WOTalk list just left me steaming. I jumped in while the iron was hot and banged out this response.

foo baby

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R.E.M.'s site points to this interview with the band's guitarist, Peter Buck.