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Back to Plaxo

April 26, 2006 | Tags: | Comments

I’ve installed Plaxo more than once over the years, but in the end I was always guilted into dropping it. Enough folks I know use it now, however, that I’m back. Perhaps I’ll stay with it this time since they’re now “less evil”…
Well, Plaxo has finally announced that they’ve harassed enough people into joining and [...]

First Things First

April 17, 2006 | Tags: | Comments

It’s occured to me over the past month that blogging makes much more sense for folks who have some sort of blog entry-sized opinion to offer on a regular basis. It’s not clear that I do. In other words, it’s good to have content before you build a system for presenting that content. This [...]

Beyond Compare

March 19, 2006 | Tags: | Comments

If you’re a software developer, web designer, or simply use files on more than one computer, you need Beyond Compare:

Beyond Compare is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system.
Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate copies of your data. Beyond Compare [...]

For the Record

March 5, 2006 | Tags: | Comments

I can clearly remember sitting at my desk in the Research Activities Building on the engineering campus of the University of Michigan back in 1988 posting to USENET from a trusty old Apollo Domain workstation. Apollo lost the workstation battle to Sun and was absorbed by Hewlett-Packard in 1989. The building where I shared an [...]

Finally

February 21, 2006 | Tags: | Comments

I have a blog. I don’t know how I got along so long without one. Now I just need to post random rantings for the next few months and the next thing you know Charlie Rose, Terry Gross, and Jon Stewart will all be thanking me for stopping by.