Friday, January 25, 2002

Enron for Dummies. I know I should be outraged by the Enron scandal, but there's a lot I still don't get. For starters, what kind of company is Enron, exactly? [The New York Times: Opinion] 11:49:41 PM

One more time. How to tell if your ass is too small.  I'm sorry.  But, this is funny. 11:35:30 PM

Top Enron executive commits suicide. Clifford Baxter, former vice chairman of the bankrupt US energy giant, is found dead with a suicide note in his car in Texas. [BBC World] Now you know its bad. 3:55:43 PM

New Radio 8 feature. Now you can post to categories without posting to the home page. If you have categories enabled, there's a new checkbox, the first one, called Home Page (it effectively becomes a category). By default it's checked. Now you can easily publish multiple weblogs, going to lots of different locations, from one edit box. Screen shot.  [Scripting News] 3:53:37 PM

Halcyon takes .Net down the Java road [IDG InfoWorld] These folks claim that they will allow you to deploy a web service developed under .NET and deploy them on J2EE platforms. CLI magic? 3:19:46 PM

John Robb: "Many, if not all companies have knowledge workers. Some, are composed entirely of knowledge workers. These people are domain experts. They keep up to-date (or should) with the evolution of knowledge within their chosen domain. They have thinking skills that have been developed to process data within that domain. Everything they think about within the envelope of that domain has value. Unfortunately, most companies don't capture, package, and distribute that insight. "  [Scripting News] 1:14:48 PM

RIM, Motorola to give BlackBerry a voice. Research In Motion will work with Motorola to develop a BlackBerry that will be able to make voice calls as well as handle wireless data. It will work on the Nextel network. [ZDNet Tech News] 8:59:46 AM

IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes - linux in one its to hotspot markets -- mainframes and embedded. 8:53:42 AM

New Radio 8 feature. Now you can change the file extension for rendered files, as they upstream. The next feature in the queue is post-to-categories without posting to the home page.  [Scripting News] 8:49:51 AM