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Mar
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It's been a busy week and didn't get time to blog (maybe I'm becoming a weekend blogger). If I had, here are 3 things I would've blogged about :
First - here's the most lucid argument for net neutrality I've read in a while . According to Tim Berners-Lee (and he should know), the success of the web and the applications we've come to rely on is a direct result of it's open nature. Nobody has to seek permission before they launch the next killer app.
This question should scare the heck out of anyone who's experienced the dismal state of the US cell phone networks (currently stuck in the 1990's) :
"What if the Internet
wasn't designed the way it was? What if it worked more like cell phone
or satellite TV networks do here in the United States?"
Just thinking about this sends shivers down my spine.
Turn this around - what if the networks (cable and cell) worked like the Internet - what if I could get to Vodaphone, Verizon or Comcast content from my Cingular TTUP (Thing That Used to be a Phone). Who wouldn't win in this ideal world ?
Second - I seem to have given up on Performancing (for Firefox) - I'm now using the native Roller editor - AFAIK it does everything Performancing does and I no longer have to modify posted entries to add tags and remove unwanted breaks.
Third, Sun announced the fifth release of Java ES (official blurb here). Pat and Don cover some of the Identity Management Features and Alexis has the full skinny.
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Jan
23
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Two things to be pissed-off about this morning. First Performancing (which produce the spiffy Firefox blog editor plugin I use) looks like they''ve gone belly-up. According to TechCrunch the demise may not be as swift and as clean as you might hope for. I hope the blog editor lives on - I rather like it (though support for the Roller's tags would be nice).
Second blogrant - I'll be on the road for some of this week and next so was just setting everything up for working on the road when I noticed my Treo wasn't able to collect mail from Sun's edge mail service. I tried a bunch of stuff (that mere mortals shouldn't have to know about) but couldn't make it work. The Treo just kept insisting it was out of memory shortly after connecting to the IMAP server. I'm not one to give up easily (especially when fighting electronic stuff) but don't really have time to debug right now. So instead, I installed ChatterMail and was up and running in no time. In hindsight - I probably should have switched from VersaMail a long time ago - ChatterMail is a fine piece of software and I'll probably buy it when my 30-days are up. This is a pretty common complaint I hear about Palm's products - the included apps are generally OK - but you probably want to replace them with much better commercial apps. of which there is an abundance. Kudos to Palm for creating the business ecosystem to allow that - I wonder if that's the path that Apple will take with the iPhone.
