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From Jabber founder Jeremy Miller:
“Any progress and work towards a common open IM standard on any front will benefit the entire emerging IM marketplace,” said 27-year-old Jabber founder Jeremie Miller, now a member of the Jabber Software Foundation board. “What Jabber.org has always been was a collaborative project by those interested in creating open interoperable […]

Now this is cool - eWashing machines -
“The souped-up washers and dryers also let students check a Web site for empty machines. From the comfort of their desktop or laptop, co-eds can add soap and fabric softener that is dispensed by the washing machine. Finally when the wash is done, kids can get an e-mail […]

Wow, my Mom (Ann) is reading my blog…and my friends. The circle draws closer.

A generous mention from a friend…I wonder where we’ll be in one year let alone fifty Good Business
“…Plus the name, Navarik, makes the company sound like it’s from Iceland or, even better, Norway, with all its we-know-our-ships cachet. Of course, given our coastline, we Canadians know our ships too, but Navackenzie or Navareh? […]

More is more - Judith nails it - c/o Doc Searls weblog,
“There is a myth that trade secrets and corporate strategies should be kept close to the vest when the reality is that it is not possible or even desireable for most competititors to copy or steal these ideas. The basic problem any community or […]

Grant, the best network admin around (Network Roads) - got the final pieces of my Instant Message client up and running today, mainly the ICQ section. This product - Trillian - is an extremely useful piece of tech, it merges my MSN, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging accounts into one unified interface (it also handles […]

Had a conversation with Ryan Tuesday about ‘grok’…today he provides a full definition - Grok c/o RGM

Gonna give Groove a try I think…been struggling with Software Planner as a collaboration tool with one of our major customers. It meets our basic functional needs (although we’re thinking of switching to JIRA for the UI and speed) but the document management is not as strong (or as organized) as I’d like. It doesn’t […]

Notes is dead - Ozzie’s unrepentant.
“Since V2, [of Groove] I’ve leveraged the cool new ‘change notification’ mechanisms, so that I’ve now got some very smooth Groove/IM production and consumption rhythms — being interrupted when I need to be, and reviewing other stuff when I’ve got the time or the need. Convenient, integrated into my life, […]

Sun bets its future on Java - We use Sun hardware and their OS (Solaris) in our production systems. All of our techies agree it’s by far the best system we could be using in production, but there’s not doubt Sun is under assault on all sides when it comes to hardware sales and linux. […]

So it appears I was wrong…now Pivotal has put the sign on the other side of the building as well. They’re covering all their bases.

I’ve been watching the new Pivotal (Pivotal Software) building go up in Vancouver. It’s on my walking route to work. It’s a great building and it’s cool to see a software company grow like this in Vancouver…however…I don’t understand why they put their sign (which is a great sign) in a location that almost no […]

I stumbled across the blog of the President & C.E.O. of Pyra (the company that produces the blogger software that runs my site - and hundreds of thousands of others). Turns out he’s a Tragically Hip fan; a pioneer in new technology and a fan of great Canadian tunes, I like him already - The […]

A reveiw from the Seattle Times of the new Apple operating system, /Jaguar/ - Jaguar OS X 10.2
“Exchanging files with Windows machines is now built-in and painless. Select Connect to Server from the Go menu in the Finder, and any Windows workgroups show up in the leftmost column. Likewise, sharing your Mac as a Windows-readable […]

Here’s a link to some great photos of the latest Vancouver Symphony of Fire fireworks competition - Symphony of Fire 2002. They’re from my friend Derek courtesy of his digital camera and hosted at his site Penmachine

Now here’s an idea. AOL & Weblogs - I’m amazed at how a weblog ecosystem has already developed amongst my circle of friends and colleagues. Unleashing that sort of technology on such a large company would be an interesting experiment in true ’synergy’. Here’s hoping. Our company is probably going to give it a go […]

So it continues…if the safe harbour provisions currently offered ISP’s are ended we will wake up to a new internet…should be interesting to watch. I should have something more to say on this…as usual…but that’ll come later -
“Wired News: New Salvo in Piracy, Privacy War. The music industry’s trade association is asking a federal district […]

From Ryan’s site
“Scripting News: I actually quoted Nick Denton, who says that when the Net works as a collaborative environment, it’s very capitalistic. Weblogs, because they are not shared spaces, are like capitalism. Mail lists, where the proletariat rule, are communist. Profound. Matches up nicely with my time in Jo’burg. The capitalists downstairs were pretty […]

Sixty years since Dieppe, we as Canadians have so much to be thankful for, for the sacrifices of our veterans. I wonder if our generation could answer that call. Sixty years since Dieppe - c/o Penmachine

PGP Corporation - Looks like secure email continues to gain ground, there was some uncertainty after Network Associates announced they would no longer continue supporting the PGP product line,
“Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) ? PGP Corporation today made a series of announcements regarding its formation, purchase of assets from Network Associates a new product […]