Scripting News

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:39:52 GMT

A security hole was closed in Radio Community Server last night. Highly recommended that all RCS installations update asap.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:39:43 GMT

Here's a feature request cast into the wind, not for anyone in particular. When I post a comment on weblog, as I do more often these days, I'd like to be notified when someone else posts to the same item, or perhaps the same weblog. It would automate something I do manually now. It would require a lot of cooperation to make such a feature work. More ideas here, in a comment thread, of course. ";->"

1/1/1904; 12:00:00 AM

Introducing the North Carolina Ladies of Liberty. "Their turn-ons are long walks on the beach, candlelit dinners and free-market economies."

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:29:05 GMT

John Robb: "I still think that the only way out of this mess is to force people to pay to communicate with me."

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:30:14 GMT

Thanks to Web standards, now the text on Scoble's weblog is impossible for me to read. This is progress?

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:34:31 GMT

The BBC's Ivan Noble is blogging the treatment of his malignant brain tumor, diagnosed in August.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:07:10 GMT

Tara Sue: "It's not about music, it's our privacy stupid!"

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:54:38 GMT

Tara, it's not just privacy (although that's important) it's also about protecting private property. When Hollywood hacks our computers, they might destroy my property while they try to protect theirs. What if they destroy a recording I made, that I own the copyright on? Wouldn't that be ironic. I wonder if Michael Eisner would let me come check his system without a search warrant and delete stuff I didn't think he should have? No I didn't so.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:23:25 GMT

Help Halley get WiFi for her conference in Cupertino.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:21:02 GMT

Did you know that there are almost 60,000 ex-Apple employees floating around out there? Organizing a reunion is quite a job, it turns out.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:52:35 GMT

I delayed the release of the new channel compiler I talked about yesterday. I'm seeing some problems I want to look into. It's a pretty delicate piece of code.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:29:33 GMT

Are you going to Digital ID World in Denver?

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:16:39 GMT

Jason Lefkowitz: "If you asked the average citizen to tell you where important things were happening in American politics today, odds are that not many would point to Guilford County, North Carolina."

Morning coffee notes

1/1/1904; 12:00:00 AM

It's been a while since we had a little pseudo-intimate conversation, also known as Morning Coffee Notes. I write these in the morning, while drinking coffee, of course. At the beginning of a MCN you're getting the mind of a well-rested Dave, but one whose alertness hasn't yet been enhanced. But by the end, you're hearing from a new improved Dave, you might think of him as "Dave Plus" -- and the extra not so secret ingredient is -- you guessed it -- coffee!

First note. Thank heaven for Joel Spolsky. A pundit almost everyone can disagree with. Let's pop the stack on that one. First everyone likes Joel, but he says outrageous things that set my head spinning and make me want to rebut him and of course point to him, which is probably the secret to Joel's high flow.

Yesterday I read on Brent Simmons' personal site that Joel had dissed the Mac again, saying you had to be a hobbyist to develop for it, because you certainly can't make a living selling software for it. Now Windows, there's a platform a developer can profit on, boasts Joel. He quotes Robb Beal saying that venture capitalists run the other way when they hear "Mac" -- but that's too easy to dispense with, they do the same thing when you say "software" or "Windows" (they believe in the power of antitrust), or "Internet" (how times change), and aside from that, these days, who the hell cares what VCs think anyway? They're about as influential as an ex-CEO of General Magic, or a Lisa product manager from the early 80s.

Further, as I said on Brent's site, today's Mac market is ten times the size of the PC market in 1982, the one that made Mitch Kapor a mega-gazillionaire with his hit spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3. The Mac market may actually be 100 times the size of that market. Further, it's a lot easier to reach Mac users through free marketing channels, the kinds of channels a sole practitioner like Brent can afford.