Scripting News

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:53:46 GMT

Here's something that doesn't happen every day. On Tuesday, Cambridge blogger Betsy Devine's husband got a phone call from Sweden. Frank Wilczek, who I met at Betsy's house last year, shares this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. What to say but wow, congrats and much love and pride to Frank and Betsy! Way to go!

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:16:47 GMT

MSNBC's all-new RSS support. Excellent!

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:50:45 GMT

Earlier this week I was emailing with Martin Nisenholtz, an executive at the NY Times, about various technical subjects involving RSS and podcasting, when he suggested we talk on the phone. He asked if I was up on the Valerie Plame case. I said I was. I found out that I wasn't.

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:47:15 GMT

Jon Stewart is on CNN Crossfire, he's taking them apart. They won't let him finish a sentence. He keeps saying "we need help." This is must-watch stuff.

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:37:07 GMT

Transcript of the Stewart appearance. A discussion on BOP, and (bing!) BitTorrents in WMV and AVI formats. Russ Beattie has an MP3.

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:13:45 GMT

Greenspun: "George W. Bush attracts all of the hatred."

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:14:53 GMT

AP: "President Bush's top political adviser has testified today before a panel looking into who leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer."

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:39:37 GMT

Old-time political reporter Hal Bruno was on CNN today. He predicts something ominous. "Last time there was one Florida, this time there may be many." Brrrr.

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:18:55 GMT

I was interviewed by Jon Gordon at Minnesota Public Radio about podcasting.

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:32:08 GMT

Dave Massy: "We feel it is vitally important for web sites and applications that worked with yesterday's IE work with today's IE, and continue to work with tomorrow's IE."

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:30:27 GMT

Don Park reviews Google Desktop Search.

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:43:10 GMT

Jon Udell: "Everybody seems to have a different reason to care about Google's desktop search tool."

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:24:37 GMT

PC World's Tom Spring raises a totally legit security concern re GDS.

A coincidence?

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:24:47 GMT

Heads up, with a grain of salt. Yesterday, as you know, I installed Google Desktop Search. It spent the whole day indexing my system, and when I retired for the day, it wasn't done, so I let it run all night. Arriving at work this morning, it was still running.

Now, perhaps independently, my computer was almost totally unusable yesterday. It would disappear for a few moments, even the mouse wouldn't work. Listen to the audio blog post I did for an idea of what it was like.

When it was just as bad this morning, I decided to exit Google Desktop Search. Now I'm sure it's a total coincidence, but all of a sudden my machine is quite zippy. All of a sudden it's as if it never lost its mind.

Anyway, being the superstitious sort that I am, I'm going to leave it uninstalled as long as I'm in crunch mode on various projects.

Evangelism 101

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:29:46 GMT

Don't tell the girl you want girls.

Tell her you want her.