found [via veen.com] an absolutely fascinating article on Lance Armstrong, who would be an amazing physical specimen even if he hadn’t had cancer. He’s inspiring. Quote from a Nike commercial in 2000 in response to the allegations that he must be on some type of performance enhancing drug:
“Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”
Frankly, I’m sitting on my ass coding. 🙂
‘nuther great site for book readers [from swartz].
Britt Blaser brings to light an exciting and somewhat threatening possiblity: that ‘work’, especially digital work, might someday go to the most highly skilled workers, rather than Joe down on the 2nd Floor who handles our web-based apps. Xpertweb is the manifestation of that theory.
currently blogging from a dorm room at Elmira College where Karen and I are helping Julie get setup for her sophomore year. I got to install the computers!
Couple interesting things about the city of Elmira, NY:
a) Tommy Hilfiger got his start here.
[updated] b) Mark Twain wrote his best books just up the hill from Elmira College [source].
c) um yeah… nothing more.
I spent 10 minutes poking around Elmira’s network… Elmira College uses Imail as their web-based email tool… along w/ some templates from HKSI. Students login to the campus network whereupon a batch script of some kind is run (presumably setting up IP/security stuff) which gives them a mapped drive to store data on some server, which I thought was cool. You don’t have to worry about your PC/laptop crashing because you can always backup homework or papers to your mapped drive and maybe more importantly, you can access your homework/term papers from any computer on the campus. Wow have campus networks have changed since I’ve graduated (and it’s only been 5 years!) Oh yeah, and each student gets their own website (none of which appear to be available publicly).
How come the faculty don’t have their own sites! How cool would it be to be able to read about what your professor is currently researching or thinking about?!
The RSS feed plugin is back (albeit w/ a new owner). Cool.
From Butterfly Economics, a quote by Alfred Marshall, an economist in the late 1800’s: “My only confident dogma in economics is that every short statement on a broad issue is inherently false.” Sounds like truth that should be applied outside of economics.
MINDSEYE was approached by a VC to evaluate this product a couple months ago, looks like they’re doing pretty well. The product itself (I’m sure I’m supposed to be under NDA w/ this, but whatever) is interesting in that you write your Laszlo code using a Laszlo flavor of XML, save it and then the Laszlo engine compiles it into a .swf. So instead of firing up your Flash MX editor to create a SWF, you can use a text editor. If you’re interested in rich internet applications, check out the demo.
Haven’t read it yet, but looks interesting. I think it’s interesting that there aren’t that many books on Content Management. Because it’s easy? Because it’s hard to define? Because it’s product specific? Who knows?
Two weeks ago it was 93 degrees and humid… at night. Now it’s cool.. is summer over? Doc thinks so. Great quote: “Time flies when you’re having fun, yes; but the older you get, the faster it flies. Well, at least I’m having fun.”