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Wednesday, August 29, 2001This sounds like a killer Groove app. Do check out the movie (51 megabytes..) if it rings any bells. What do you need? Groove (chat, voice conference, discussion, filesharing), PinBoard (top issues noticeboard, polling), EasyWeb (inclusionary publishing for "everyone affected"). Total cost per seat? Less than a hundred quid.
They indicted Skylarov.
Fixed it. And discovered "g:Seek" in the meantime. That's this: the interval is anyone's guess.
Ohhh dear; there's an install problem with EasyWeb - need some willing vounteers to help nail this down. Coding is easy, but deploying it is another whole thing.
Tuesday, August 28, 2001EasyWeb Alpha2 ships.
Sunday, August 26, 2001The fearless Dr. Thompson does have a worthy successor, in eXile.
Friday, August 24, 2001What a day. Two Groove employees visited my office! Smart guys, and they're really determined to make waves around here.
Thursday, August 23, 2001The appearance of magnetism. Amazing.
"You'se a Viper" - been looking for this track for years. "Dreamed about a reefer five feet long..." And it's sung by Jonah Jones (him not him, I'm guessing) - this is not the version I knew. And there's much more great music in the same vein (all RealAudio).
Wednesday, August 22, 2001Goodbye EMBED: Microsoft IE breaks Netscape-style plugins, and it sounds very deliberate. I though Cringely was paranoid, but no.
Windows RG (Real Good).
Why am I still here at 12:30? Because vowe pointed me at mingolf. Well excellent.
Tuesday, August 21, 2001First "customer" reaction to easyweb: "Oh my god, it works!"... "I'm so excited!". (Of course they didn't pay real money for it. Yet.) This is a very little piece of the great re-wiring.
Whew. Easyweb goes alpha. Now I just have to write some documentation!
Monday, August 20, 2001It's a small small world. What is blogdex?
Today's a jacket-an-tie day. So I'm eating breakfast reading venusberg. And, scarily, the International Herald Tribune (via Seething Hatred). Last time I read a newspaper's about ten days ago. Does this matter?
Sunday, August 19, 2001More for the todo list: bookmark disinformation. Hook EasyWeb up with Atomz. Read more of Gonzo Marketing (where is Dr. Thompson when we need him, anyway?).
Junkbot is probably the most addictive thing I've come across recently.
Multimap and Streetmap both continue to amaze me. But not as much as the Royal Mail postcode finder. I just plugged in the house name and town; it immediately returned the postcode. Anyway, I wish I was there. Instead I'm making bread.
Saturday, August 18, 2001Photoshop Tennis. Taylor and Zeldman battlin' the decks.
New toy today: a video camera. But first, the real news: definitive proof that NASA faked the moon landings.
Discovered this crowd via voidstar. Their icon'll be somewhere on this page soon.
Friday, August 17, 2001"Whether on a Mac or a PC, Microsoft Word and Excel spend more time waiting on me than I do on them." (here). Isn't it strange, we still end up waiting; now we wait mostly for the Internet, not for our PC? I used to have a separate machine (Compaq 386/20) just to do builds. Right now my build/test/debug cycles (even with groove's distinct lack of developer tools) are quick enough I don't have time to read inbetween. On the other hand, finding a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band track (don't even ask!) on Morpheus took all night.
EasyWeb (yes, that's its name) is running like a... well... mostly like a dream. Then occasionally it makes a funny noise and I go tinker under the hood. But mostly it's looking really fine. To test it and show off its capabilities at the same time, there's a demonstration site.
The website-publishing tool is getting closer to initial preview release; there's still plenty of work to be done in finishing the template-writing code. But it's hard to write good code (or do anything at all) when there's another obsession hanging in the background. That Agenda-inspired stuff just refuses to go to sleep. (At least with the web tool, I have a rich and robust Groove-aggregator, so half the problem is done already). The other half is assisted categorisation and prioritisation by collaborative use of Bayesian belief networks. Mindbomb.
Thursday, August 16, 2001Tiny cow!
Tuesday, August 14, 2001I mean, Blogger's great and all that, but it's server-based. When it flakes out: is that my problem? my ISP's problem? a blogger.com problem? Desperately wanting to move this into Groove somehow...
You want what? The URL? (It's very very primitive just now. Please be patient).
I guess I'm the first person to be running a regular website with Groove. This is done using a little aggregator tool (my ever-expanding harness), listening to a Discussion tool - or, as many discussion tools / pinboards / outliners as you have in the space -, applying some HTML templates, and FTP'ing pages up to the server. Low-tech. The surprise is, it works quite well! Web publishing is the tip of the iceberg, though; now we have to think about stuff like deletions (...oops...), discussion threading and index.html (...er...), inter-document hyperlinks (...um...)...
Well, last night I eventually dragged myself away from keyboard and screen, went to see Iain M. Banks in Windsor, where he was reading bits from his new book, "Look to Windward". Sounds good. In a week or so I might have read it.
Sunday, August 12, 2001Lots of work over the weekend, putting a proper data-model delegate into Pinboard, together with some OneTimeInitialize. And, to prove it works, hooked into a little aggregator harness. It'll be there in the next build (some time next week). All done in the free-threaded JavaScript host. (What a fun life, huh?)
Saturday, August 11, 2001So Mitch Kapor is starting something up. Lotus Agenda mentioned in Scripting News.
I'm really concerned about the half-million Win2k hosts out there with compromised root access. My ISP obviously isn't, but they should be. What to do? Microsoft currently recommends these machines be rebuilt. Whilst the scanning is slowing down, someone else (or maybe the original author) is preparing a massive distributed-denial-of-service infrastructure.
"The utility of an operating system is not proportional to the number of components whose development has been paid for (paid in developer time not dollars in the case of Linux), but is instead proportional to the number of connections possible between those components" [here]. This is the OS version of Reed's Law. It's also why the first crop of Groove tools are bad. How many ways can you connect to a chat tool? (Zero, probably).
Way too much interesting stuff to read: Plan 9, RPC vs REST (whatever), statefulness vs. statelessness in distributed systems, and the like. Try starting here.
Friday, August 10, 2001XML and binary. Continuation from a groovelog post:
Finally, pinboard is feature-complete. The latest new feature (which has kept me up a night for a couple of days) is voting. I think it's awesome.
Wednesday, August 08, 2001Oh dear. The elevator test.So you're in this lift, OK? And you get to explain everything before it reaches the top floor. And because this is one of those ideas from the States, they obviously call it "elevator" instead of "lift". But there's one other crucial difference between Dublin and New York: in New York they've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold and, well, their lifts go much further than the fourth floor. They have skyscrapers. So their elevator pitches can be much longer than ours - but it's all swings and roundabouts because we talk much faster in Ireland anyway.
Breaking the Bank...
Friday, August 03, 2001Something else for the investigate-properly-sometime list: Curl Surge. It demos well, and the language seems quite elegant. I've not dug far enough yet to see whether we can easily plug Surge inside Groove; if that's possible, it might make a good platform for the types of user interface I'd like to created.
This is a more "occasional" blog than I'd really intended; there just aren't enough hours in the day. Lots of interesting things to note.
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