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| Tuesday, April 9, 2002 |
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The Present and its Friends 
| | I see Virginia Postrel and I share a friend in Pierluigi Zappacosta. Actually, he's more like her friend and my acquaintence. Not sure how to classify him, except that he's a really cool guy who's responsible for, among other things, the stylish slant that will be his legacy at Logitech for the duration. |
Flogrolling
Make that eleven reasons
| | Halley's Top Ten Reasons to Witness Your Dad's Demise will be the best blog you'll read today. It gripped me by the heart and almost made me wish I'd been there when my old man died of a heart attack, twenty-three years ago today. He was 70. I was 32 and my sister was 30. It still hurts. |
| | Pop's last words were a perfect irony I once called "a coin dropped at the toll booth on the bridge to hereafter": "Am I still alive?" The answer was no. |
Why does everything have to be a weapon?
| | David Berlind calls open source IBM's deadly weapon. He says "SOAP was invented by Microsoft" (wrong) but otherwise gives some interesting history on UDDI and other foundations of what we now call Web Services. One sample: |
| | In a move that would enrage Sun, IBM open-sourced all of its Eclipse code with a contribution valued at $40 million. If SOAP opened the superhighway for RPCs, Eclipse would be the developer's interoperability interchange between target operating systems. Eclipse technology makes it possible for developers to target Linux, Java, or Windows with one integrated development environment. By virtue of their Eclipse support, the tools that plug into the IDE offer a degree of platform independence that their Windows, Java, or Linux-specific sisters can't. Most viewed the move as a way for IBM to get Windows developers to start targeting Linux. Sun saw it as a threat to the tenants of the Java Community Process and the write once, run anywhere promise of Java. |
| | Does this mean IBM is doing something with more scope than Sun suggests with J2EE and SunONE? It seems that way, but when I read IBM ads about "infrastructure," I still get the sense there's a fence around what they're doing. But hey: I'd like to be wrong. |
Service with a blog
| | Eric Norlin, who describes himself as "a guy in a second bedroom with a little too much bandwidth," has been thinking out loud about Web services. |
What have I done to make you treat me so respectfully?
| | As Keanu Reeves put it so perfectly: Whoa. |
| | It's chock full of good stuff (he's another Eric who writes good): |
| | Maybe all press is good press: the old adage of ³just spell the name right,² now changed to ³just get the URL right.² |
| | He notes that some of the most popular blogs, especially Glenn Reynolds' InstaPundit, are seeing a huge bump-up in traffic — Glenn's is moving way past 40k reads per day. I think this is a war blog thing, because the readership of over in this peacemongering blog has held steady at between a few hundred and a few thousand reads per day. Not that anyone's counting. |
Next up: MEGOwhack!
| | By the way, I first encountered MEGO in a William Safire column in the late 80s. (Search for the acronym in this long piece here.) He said a MEGO was a story "too important not to cover and too dull to interest anybody." Or words to that effect. He gave the word "Eurodollars" as an example of a one-word MEGO. |
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