Lars Pind

A couple interesting stories about Palladium: Broken Trust and the Anti-Palladium FAQ.

Heard this for the first time a year ago when my cousin, Henrik, read it aloud. Just found it again, and I love it. Written by an 85-year old Nadine Starr:

“If I had my life to live over, I’d try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I’d be sillier than I have been on this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets. I would burn more gasoline. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I’m one of those people who lives sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I’ve had my moments and if I had my life to live over, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead each day. I’ve been one of those people who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a rain coat and a parachute. If I had my life to live over, I’d go places and do things and travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over I would start barefoot earlier in the spring & stay that way later in the fall. I would play hooky more. I wouldn’t make such good grades, except by accident. I’d ride more merry-go-rounds. I’d pick more daisies.”

-Nadine Starr

I was talking to a friend last night about the way the ministers of the Danish government are almost always picked from members of parliament. The result is that it’s completely random whether some particular individual ends up being responsible for taxes or health, treasury or foreign affairs, culture or science.

The ministers have no expertise in the area in wihch they’re governing, leaving things to be controlled by a combination of amateurs and bureaucrats.

Why not abandon the convention and bring instead bring in professional government. They’d obviously be hand-picked by the prime minister, and you’d expect that a number of the key figures would be very visible during the campaign (like Colin Powell was during Bush’ campaign). But they’d nevertheless be people who knew what they were talking about, and knew how to get things done, so we could avoid humiliating episodes like Per Stig Møller’s interview in Hard Talk.

Looking at an RFP from MIT/Sloan, and I’m noticing two very useful institutions that we could definitely learn from here at the universities in Denmark.

First, they have a Career Development Office, responsible for tracking what jobs people are getting, what the employers needs are, and making sure that the education serves its purpose: Getting people the best jobs.

Second, they have a separate Course Evaluation department, responsible for surveying the students about the courses offered, and delivering the results anonymized to professors and others. In Denmark, the professor himself is the one who puts together the survey and collects the results, before dumping them in the garbage bin.

We’re back from a brilliant OpenACS social in Amsterdam, with an impressive turn-out of around 25 people. It was, of course, especially good to finally meet with OpenACS maintainer Don Baccus, after years of online friendship. It was great seeing you all. Get ready for the next social in Copenhagen :)

Collaboraid ApS worked at making sure we could put different templates on our back end. http://www.pinds.com/ Lars Pind, was employed at ArsDigita, the company that created ACS. He created the workflow engine, and the content management system based on ACS that Siemens is using.

From greenpeace.org.

The Danish site rejseplan.dk is brilliant for finding your way using public transportation. But sometimes it presents you with some odd choices.

When I look for Trepkasgade 4 (the name and house number where I live), its first choice is Trondhjemsgade 4. Five options down is Trepkasgade, no house number.

It appears their algorithm favors getting the house number right over getting the street right. What an odd choice of logic.

Just launched, and it’s already stirring up controversy.

The Greenpeace web site just launched, running our code ;-)

(and it’s built on OpenACS)

I’ve been running this neat piece of software which, when you right-click an image file, displays a tiny thumbnail of the image right there in the context menu. Really cool.

Except in the latest version they figured “Hey! Why no generalize the preview feature to any multimedia file?”.

Yeah, great idea. Now, whenever I right-click an mp3 file, the music immediately starts coming out of my speakers, embarrassing me and annoying my coworkers. Especially since I usually have my PC’s volume cranked up pretty high, so that I can adjust the volumne meaningfully using WinAmp.

Today’s lesson: Just because to an object-oriented programmer “image” and “music file” are just two different instances of the general class “multimedia file” doesn’t mean it feels that way to the rest of the human population.

Got a chance to check out the United Spaces office in Copenhagen last night during Reboot 5.1.

Unfortunately, while it’s a great meeting space (I’m especially fond of the lounge chairs overlooking the harbor), and though we are in the market for office space, I can’t see that we could use it.

The biggest problem is that there’s simply too little workspace, the desks are too small. And I don’t think I could ever get used to having to move to a new desk every day. Besides, where would I put my big monitors? (I know they give dispensation for people with large monitors, but still … you need a dispensation to get your work done?).

Apart from that, it’s very overpriced. For what we’d have to pay for four people, we can get 150 m2 in other places. But I like the network idea, and it seems like it’s working somewhat. Great. So I’ll just stop by for meetings from time to time.

Just so you know it, the bboard on this server is quite broken. I need to upgrade it, but I haven’t had the time. If you want to post, you’ll usually have to hit “Confirm” a couple times, and then suffer the “this posting has already been posted” complaint. Tough luck, running a pre-alpha version and not having time to upgrade.

It’s now more than a week since I moved this site and updated the DNS, and the site is still getting in the order of 20 hits per day at the old IP. I was a bit puzzled, until I checked the access log and saw the user agents: “Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)”; “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”; and the request “GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir+c:\ HTTP/1.1”. I guess I can safely take down the old server after all.

Spent midsummer night at Reboot 5.1, the afterparty and had a great time getting loaded on Champagne. Thanks, Thomas, for making this happen. Always great things happening around you.

My favorite graphic designer, Michael Vonderburgh fixed me up with a new design for collaboraid.net. Still not completely done (some fonts missing and such), but it’s headed in that direction.

I’ve updated the .LRN demo site. If you’re interested in seeing what it looks like, just try it at dotlrn.collaboraid.net. Guest login is provided.

Thanks to MIT Sloan and OpenForce for making this happen.

Collaboraid’s site has also been moved to a new server.

I’ve released my watchdog package. It’s a pretty simple clean-up of DVR’s old ACS 3.x watchdog package, including his Perl script. Works fine for me. Download from my Downloads page.

(And Peter, you can now access the downloads page at /download.)

The site’s back up on a new server.

It may still take a day or two until the new DNS has been propagated. Until then, you may experience a few glitches.

Just to let you know that I’ll be moving pinds.com to a new server over the weekend. Expect some downtime. You’ve been warned.

Just to let you know that I’ll be moving pinds.com to a new server over the weekend. Expect some downtime. You’ve been warned.

Google Voice Search: I’m amazed. I had to try it. And it actually works! You know, it’s not like it works-works, it’s pretty bad at deciphering what I’m saying, but it’s still pretty cool. You say something into your phone, and stuff happens on your monitor. I’m still waiting for the service that’ll let me hum a tune and Google will tell me what the song is.

Google Voice Search: I’m amazed. I had to try it. And it actually works! You know, it’s not like it works-works, it’s pretty bad at deciphering what I’m saying, but it’s still pretty cool. You say something into your phone, and stuff happens on your monitor. I’m still waiting for the service that’ll let me hum a tune and Google will tell me what the song is.

“I’m a fountain-soda-girl” ... Beau Morley.

“I’m a fountain-soda-girl” ... Beau Morley.

I’ve heard rumors of a report saying that the country that wins the world cup in football increases its GNP with 3% on average. Does anybody have the URL or the reference? I looked, but didn’t find it.

I can see how it works, though. Denmark just won against France, and it’s a major booster of national self-esteem, as was the 1992 European Championship. Who’d have thought we’d win 2-0 against the former world champions of France?

I’ve heard rumors of a report saying that the country that wins the world cup in football increases its GNP with 3% on average. Does anybody have the URL or the reference? I looked, but didn’t find it.

I can see how it works, though. Denmark just won against France, and it’s a major booster of national self-esteem, as was the 1992 European Championship. Who’d have thought we’d win 2-0 against the former world champions of France?

John Sequeira has made an RSS feed out of the OpenACS bboards. It’s at http://amped.dnsalias.com:8000/cgi-bin/openacs.pl. Thanks, John.

John Sequeira has made an RSS feed out of the OpenACS bboards. It’s at http://amped.dnsalias.com:8000/cgi-bin/openacs.pl. Thanks, John.

Anybody working in the software business knows beyond doubt that Microsoft is hurting innovation. Almost any interesting software business idea you can think of that involves the desktop will eventually put you in direct competition against Microsoft. And everybody knows that, with Microsoft’s seriousnes about taking competitors out of the market, coupled with their bottomless coffers and aggressive (illegal?) business tactics, this means either get acquired by Microsoft (aka “line up” in the quote below) or your air supply cut off like Netscape’s (aka “smashed”).

It’s incredible that there can be any doubt that Microsoft is hindering innovation. Anyone who’s been to a place where innovation happens knows that innovation does not (only) occur inside Microsoft or any other big companies. But this is an area where the misunderstandings are widespread.

The personal computer wasn’t invented by the computer industry. In fact, it took IBM, the owner of the computer market, six years after the first personal computer, the Altair, to develop their personal computer. The Altair was developed by a tiny and unsuccessful calculator company, not by a large computer company. The web wasn’t developed by a software company, but by a physicist. SOAP wasn’t invented by Microsoft or IBM, but was based on XML-RPC from Dave Winer’s tiny company Userland.

That innovation is done by individuals and not by big companies is one thing. The other aspect is that the real innovation is in how things are being used, something that requires innovation by the users, at the edges of the system. The telephone was never intended for letting people chit-chat across a distance, but that’s how it turned out to be most useful. The internet wasn’t designed for the web, and the web wasn’t designed for commerce like Amazon or communities like Yahoo! Groups, but that’s how it turned out to be useful.

These shifts in how the technology is being used from something useless dreamt up by some company envisioning a market, to something useful thought of by the users or someone close to the users, could only happen because the technology was left relatively open. WAP is an example of another useless new technology, but because it remains closed, people have no way of going out and finding new uses for the technology, hence it’ll remain useless.

Innovation really happens in the interplay between individuals wherever they are, just like it’s always happened in academia. This has been the cornerstone of scientific progress for centuries, but somehow this lesson seems to be forgotten in the media. It’s time we change that.

Anybody working in the software business knows beyond doubt that Microsoft is hurting innovation. Almost any interesting software business idea you can think of that involves the desktop will eventually put you in direct competition against Microsoft. And everybody knows that, with Microsoft’s seriousnes about taking competitors out of the market, coupled with their bottomless coffers and aggressive (illegal?) business tactics, this means either get acquired by Microsoft (aka “line up” in the quote below) or your air supply cut off like Netscape’s (aka “smashed”).

It’s incredible that there can be any doubt that Microsoft is hindering innovation. Anyone who’s been to a place where innovation happens knows that innovation does not (only) occur inside Microsoft or any other big companies. But this is an area where the misunderstandings are widespread.

The personal computer wasn’t invented by the computer industry. In fact, it took IBM, the owner of the computer market, six years after the first personal computer, the Altair, to develop their personal computer. The Altair was developed by a tiny and unsuccessful calculator company, not by a large computer company. The web wasn’t developed by a software company, but by a physicist. SOAP wasn’t invented by Microsoft or IBM, but was based on XML-RPC from Dave Winer’s tiny company Userland.

That innovation is done by individuals and not by big companies is one thing. The other aspect is that the real innovation is in how things are being used, something that requires innovation by the users, at the edges of the system. The telephone was never intended for letting people chit-chat across a distance, but that’s how it turned out to be most useful. The internet wasn’t designed for the web, and the web wasn’t designed for commerce like Amazon or communities like Yahoo! Groups, but that’s how it turned out to be useful.

These shifts in how the technology is being used from something useless dreamt up by some company envisioning a market, to something useful thought of by the users or someone close to the users, could only happen because the technology was left relatively open. WAP is an example of another useless new technology, but because it remains closed, people have no way of going out and finding new uses for the technology, hence it’ll remain useless.

Innovation really happens in the interplay between individuals wherever they are, just like it’s always happened in academia. This has been the cornerstone of scientific progress for centuries, but somehow this lesson seems to be forgotten in the media. It’s time we change that.

Reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, and I found this quote (p211):

It was clearly not enough for Microsoft to beat the competiion; Gates wanted to eliminate his opponents from the playing field. “Bill learned early on that killing the competition is the name of the game,” said a Microsoft executive who was with the company in the early 1980s. “There just aren’t as many people later to take you on. In game theory, you improve the probability you are going to win if you have fewer competitors.”

And on the next page …

“There was absolute determination on Bill’s part to take Digital Research out of the market,” said Curry. “It’s part of Bill’s strategy. You smash people. You either make them line up or you smash them.”

Interesting. It’s of course particularly interesting when you realize that this book was written in 1993, well before the antitrust trials and the Netscape incident.

Reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, and I found this quote (p211):

It was clearly not enough for Microsoft to beat the competition; Gates wanted to eliminate his opponents from the playing field. “Bill learned early on that killing the competition is the name of the game,” said a Microsoft executive who was with the company in the early 1980s. “There just aren’t as many people later to take you on. In game theory, you improve the probability you are going to win if you have fewer competitors.”

And on the next page …

“There was absolute determination on Bill’s part to take Digital Research out of the market,” said Curry. “It’s part of Bill’s strategy. You smash people. You either make them line up or you smash them.”

Interesting. It’s of course particularly interesting when you realize that this book was written in 1993, well before the antitrust trials and the Netscape incident.

The latest, yet unreleased, version of Amphetadesk works just fine with my RSS feed. Thanks, Morbus Iff, for updating me.

The latest, yet unreleased, version of Amphetadesk works just fine with my RSS feed. Thanks, Morbus Iff, for updating me.

Went to the graduation party at the Danish Film School with great animated films by Martin de Thurah and Anders Morgenthaler of TV-Animation fame. I’m impressed.

Went to the graduation party at the Danish Film School with great animated films by Martin de Thurah and Anders Morgenthaler of TV-Animation fame. I’m impressed.

And they’re now officially over one week late in delivering a FedEx letter to me. It was sent Tuesday last week from New York, supposed to get here on Friday, May 31st. Now it’s early morning Sunday, June 9th, and it still hasn’t arrived. Perhaps you should rely on UPS or some other carrier, for your shipments to Denmark, until FedEx gets their internal mess sorted out.

And they’re now officially over one week late in delivering a FedEx letter to me. It was sent Tuesday last week from New York, supposed to get here on Friday, May 31st. Now it’s early morning Sunday, June 9th, and it still hasn’t arrived. Perhaps you should rely on UPS or some other carrier, for your shipments to Denmark, until FedEx gets their internal mess sorted out.

Daypop: Today’s hottest web log links.

Daypop: Today’s hottest web log links.

BPDG one-page critique.

BPDG one-page critique.

We’re having visitors from New York, and they brought with them the brilliant Time Out Copenhagen guide. Here’s a quote:

If you ever find yourself wanting to open a can of worms in the company of Danes ask them about Janteloven, the Law of Jante. Jantelov is a uniquely Danish phenomenon created by the misanthropic writer, Aksel Sandemose. His 1933 novel En flygtning krydser sit spor (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks) is set in a fictional Danish town called Jante. Based on his experiences of small-town Danish life, Sandemose depicted Jante as a suffocatingly law-ridden rown for oppressively small-minded people (and the writer eventually upped and left for Sweden). (Lars: Norway, wasn’t it?)

Jantelov essentially distils Denmark’s collectivist, conformist, homogenous nature and blends it with Sandemose’s unique outlook. Its basic tenets include: “Thou shalt not presume that thou art any wiser than us” (no. 3); and “Thou shalt not presume that thou are going to amount to anything” (no. 8). Generally, “getting above oneself” is frowned upon; instead, modesty and understatement is the accepted norm.

Though it is a fictional creation, many Danes still genuinely believe Jantelov to be a Medieval creed. You should never underestimate the influence of Janteloven – it pervades all of Danish society, much to the irritation of the current queen who has spoken out against its self-defeating influence. It is why, for example, everyone drives egalitarian Peugeots as opposed to exclusive Mercedes (the preserve of taxi drivers). If a Dane does buy a Mercedes, he should be prepared to put up with friends asking “How much is the fare to the aitport?”, by way of a joke. As hard as it might be for foreigners to understand, Danes genuinely find it embarrassing if one of their friends exhibits their greater wealth in such a way.

In other words, Danes are masters of the tall poppy syndrome, though they prefer to describe it using an old Danish proverb: “The higher up a monkey climbs, the more you see of its bottom.” (Though exceptions are made for the Danish football team, Victor Borge, and other popular heroes.)

Though Jantelov is more closely adhered to in the provinces, do not be fooled by thrusting, cosmopolitan Copenhageners who claim it has no place in their modern lives. Scratch the surface of the city, and Jantelov isn’t far beneath.

See also how this is influencing me.

We’re having visitors from New York, and they brought with them the brilliant Time Out Copenhagen guide. Here’s a quote:

If you ever find yourself wanting to open a can of worms in the company of Danes ask them about Janteloven, the Law of Jante. Jantelov is a uniquely Danish phenomenon created by the misanthropic writer, Aksel Sandemose. His 1933 novel En flygtning krydser sit spor (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks) is set in a fictional Danish town called Jante. Based on his experiences of small-town Danish life, Sandemose depicted Jante as a suffocatingly law-ridden rown for oppressively small-minded people (and the writer eventually upped and left for Sweden). (Lars: Norway, wasn’t it?)

Jantelov essentially distils Denmark’s collectivist, conformist, homogenous nature and blends it with Sandemose’s unique outlook. Its basic tenets include: “Thou shalt not presume that thou art any wiser than us” (no. 3); and “Thou shalt not presume that thou are going to amount to anything” (no. 8). Generally, “getting above oneself” is frowned upon; instead, modesty and understatement is the accepted norm.

Though it is a fictional creation, many Danes still genuinely believe Jantelov to be a Medieval creed. You should never underestimate the influence of Janteloven – it pervades all of Danish society, much to the irritation of the current queen who has spoken out against its self-defeating influence. It is why, for example, everyone drives egalitarian Peugeots as opposed to exclusive Mercedes (the preserve of taxi drivers). If a Dane does buy a Mercedes, he should be prepared to put up with friends asking “How much is the fare to the aitport?”, by way of a joke. As hard as it might be for foreigners to understand, Danes genuinely find it embarrassing if one of their friends exhibits their greater wealth in such a way.

In other words, Danes are masters of the tall poppy syndrome, though they prefer to describe it using an old Danish proverb: “The higher up a monkey climbs, the more you see of its bottom.” (Though exceptions are made for the Danish football team, Victor Borge, and other popular heroes.)

Though Jantelov is more closely adhered to in the provinces, do not be fooled by thrusting, cosmopolitan Copenhageners who claim it has no place in their modern lives. Scratch the surface of the city, and Jantelov isn’t far beneath.

See also how this is influencing me.

pull my finger….

pull my finger….

Found this list being maintained by Guan (whom I missed at yesterday’s Reboot).

Found this list being maintained by Guan (whom I missed at yesterday’s Reboot).

Spent the day at Reboot (now with OpenSpace®), And it worked quite well. Here’s my take-away from the day:

I was totally inspired by Howard Rheingold. His talk reminded me that the personal computer revolution, and the internet revolution, and indeed anything worthhwile, was done by normal people, like you and me. This resonates with the story told by Tom Wolfe’s Hooking Up, about how it all happened because of random people in the mid-west, not even the snobbish so-called smart people on the coasts.

The second point of interest was my own open space contribution entitled Why isn’t it I … (who comes up with the next great idea … (and realizes it)), which was obviously very interesting. However, it all basically came down to Nike and “Just Do It!” Lots of good excuses for not making it happen, but really, the only remedy is action. Fortunately, the whole Reboot concept was geared towards getting you to act.

My second open space meeting was about open source. And here, too, my conclusion was that there wasn’t any deep insight out there, that I wasn’t aware of. Most other people out there are as confused and uncertain as I am. While it didn’t bring me any further, it did convince me that at least the space is open enough for me to just plunge ahead with whatever I happen to belive in. And that, I suppose, is one of the greatest outcomes you can hope for in an open space setting. Or?

Finally, the whole day, and not the least Thomas Mygdal, in terms of “why isn’t it me” arranging the conference that I’d like to see, or whatever other forum might bring me closer to my kindred spirits.

Thanks, Thomas, for making this day happen.

Spent the day at Reboot (now with OpenSpace®), And it worked quite well. Here’s my take-away from the day:

I was totally inspired by Howard Rheingold. His talk reminded me that the personal computer revolution, and the internet revolution, and indeed anything worthhwile, was done by normal people, like you and me. This resonates with the story told by Tom Wolfe’s Hooking Up, about how it all happened because of random people in the mid-west, not even the snobbish so-called smart people on the coasts.

The second point of interest was my own open space contribution entitled Why isn’t it I … (who comes up with the next great idea … (and realizes it)), which was obviously very interesting. However, it all basically came down to Nike and “Just Do It!” Lots of good excuses for not making it happen, but really, the only remedy is action. Fortunately, the whole Reboot concept was geared towards getting you to act.

My second open space meeting was about open source. And here, too, my conclusion was that there wasn’t any deep insight out there, that I wasn’t aware of. Most other people out there are as confused and uncertain as I am. While it didn’t bring me any further, it did convince me that at least the space is open enough for me to just plunge ahead with whatever I happen to belive in. And that, I suppose, is one of the greatest outcomes you can hope for in an open space setting. Or?

Finally, the whole day, and not the least Thomas Mygdal, in terms of “why isn’t it me” arranging the conference that I’d like to see, or whatever other forum might bring me closer to my kindred spirits.

Thanks, Thomas, for making this day happen.

I’ve updated the web site of Collaboraid, my open source (OpenACS) software company, with new content and a new design.

It’s still a bit not-quite-done-yet, but it’s getting closer.

I’ve updated the web site of Collaboraid, my open source (OpenACS) software company, with new content and a new design.

It’s still a bit not-quite-done-yet, but it’s getting closer.

I’ve now implemented the LINK tag to show crawlers where my RSS feed is.

I’ve now implemented the LINK tag to show crawlers where my RSS feed is.

Yon Feldman started an Oracle port of the latest version of my blogger package. He says that all that’s left is to do the www/* files, and to regenerate the .info file.

Want to help finish this? Grab the tar-ball, and please do let me know if you continue work on this, so we don’t have two people doing it at the same time.

I haven’t tested it, so I can’t tell you too much about it, but it’d be cool to get it done before I add new features.

Thanks, Yon! (He said he started doing it to celebrate Denmark’s victory over Uruguay in the world cup.)

Yon Feldman started an Oracle port of the latest version of my blogger package. He says that all that’s left is to do the www/* files, and to regenerate the .info file.

Want to help finish this? Grab the tar-ball, and please do let me know if you continue work on this, so we don’t have two people doing it at the same time.

I haven’t tested it, so I can’t tell you too much about it, but it’d be cool to get it done before I add new features.

Thanks, Yon! (He said he started doing it to celebrate Denmark’s victory over Uruguay in the world cup.)

There was a bug in the code that determined whether the RSS needed updating.

Documentation. Download.

There was a bug in the code that determined whether the RSS needed updating.

Documentation. Download.

It’s the second blogger release of the day. I really should be doing other things.

But here it is. And here’s the documentation.

What’s new? RSS feed, as if you hadn’t guessed.

It’s the second blogger release of the day. I really should be doing other things.

But here it is. And here’s the documentation.

What’s new? RSS feed, as if you hadn’t guessed.

Finally! I have a RSS 1.0 feed of my blog up and running. Check out http://www.pinds.com/blog/rss.xml.

It works with Feedreader, NewzCrawler.

It doesn’t work with AmphetaDesk, not sure if it’s because AmphetaDesk doesn’t support RSS 1.0, or because I’ve messed up my XML. All I know is that AmphetaDesk doesn’t read Aaron’s, either, and his should be correct, since he’s a co-author of RSS 1.0.

Finally! I have a RSS 1.0 feed of my blog up and running. Check out http://www.pinds.com/blog/rss.xml.

It works with Feedreader, NewzCrawler.

It doesn’t work with AmphetaDesk, not sure if it’s because AmphetaDesk doesn’t support RSS 1.0, or because I’ve messed up my XML. All I know is that AmphetaDesk doesn’t read Aaron’s, either, and his should be correct, since he’s a co-author of RSS 1.0.

I’ve released the latest version of my blogger package. The new feature is the ability to ping weblogs.com with updates. Visit What’s this site running to download.

I’ve released the latest version of my blogger package. The new feature is the ability to ping weblogs.com with updates. Visit What’s this site running to download.

I’ve added support for weblogs.com update ping to my blogger package, and while I was at it, I also fixed a couple other bugs. It’ll be quite easy to use and it can be turned on and off as you wish.

Will be released soon (and hopefully RSS support will follow soon, too).

I’ve added support for weblogs.com update ping to my blogger package, and while I was at it, I also fixed a couple other bugs. It’ll be quite easy to use and it can be turned on and off as you wish.

Will be released soon (and hopefully RSS support will follow soon, too).

Just finished reading Fire in the Valley, about the birth of the personal computer, and everything that followed. Amazing book. My parents used to have a software company, which was early enough out that they wrote the first version of their software for both MS-DOS on the IBM PC and CP/M on the Texas Instruments. It was great to get it all in perspective.

Just finished reading Fire in the Valley, about the birth of the personal computer, and everything that followed. Amazing book. My parents used to have a software company, which was early enough out that they wrote the first version of their software for both MS-DOS on the IBM PC and CP/M on the Texas Instruments. It was great to get it all in perspective.