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Yes, Clark got hisself a brand new toy. Boy am I jealous. No, I don't have a purpose for it. No, I never used the one I have (a 120) enough. No, I could not afford it, even at the low price he paid for it.

Mark put up a nifty fridge magnet poetry page and contest. Here's my entry, titled "tablet Haiku" in honor of NEC's new toy.

Robert Scoble responds to my last post:

I find this funny.

My good friend Jim recently released a Mac OS X installer for Plone, a Zope-based CMS.

Doc Searls re Eldred:

We don't turn around a pervasive mentality, anchored in conceptual metaphors older than most oaks, in one court calendar, one congressional term, or perhaps even one decade.

Ok, so we rearranged our office and today realized that we did it backwards. Silly us! Don't you hate that?

One thing I did not mention in my last post about the Ivy Architectural Innovations' site: it has a blog!

Well, yesterday Jodi and I went hiking with her cousins, Brady and Carly. This morning I got up and went mountain biking with them. I've not had this much cardio-vascular exercise in ages, and I'm feeling it!

I composed my R.E.M. and Jesus Christ post in OmniOutliner (for which I still need to get a license - outlines of < 20 lines are useless) and it reminded me once again of my love of writing in an outliner. I really would like to have a "compose-in-outline" mode in Sid one day.

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James Duncan Davidson (Author of tomcat and ant) on Enterprise Java Beans: > [via James Duncan Davidson ]Mike Clark was just muttering about EJBs and how they can lead you over the brink of complexity. And he asks: "Where did we go wrong?" (link) I've worked some with EJBs, and they are some of the most complex component code I've seen. Oy.

[via Michael McCracken - Weblog ] > <<<BLOCKQUOTE: ...A key part of this is the simple things like making sure drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste work between all these different apps.I agree. Brent's RSS clipboard format spec looks solid, and will definitely be a useful contribution. I dragged the above quote from NetNewsWire into Blapp, which doesn't use Brent's clipboard format (but works for me). My question to Blapp users is this: would it be worthwhile to add support for this? >>> (link)

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Jim had this cool idea to use weblog software to generate an iCal-compatible vCal file for a blog. Then iCal users could subscribe to it. I want to try this out.

Mark Pilgrim points to Bruce Schneier's latest article on the entertainment industry. It contains this pithy bit: "They're trying to invent a new crime: interference with a business model."

Doc Searls writes a longish essay on the state of "Big Entertainment v. the populace".

For the last few months, Macrobyte has been working on readying Conversant, their internet groupware application, for release as a 'shrinkwrapped' product. Today marks the first release of Conversant 1.0b1 to Frontier and Radio Userland developers.