Sunday, September 28, 2003

Martin Luther King Jr.. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  

Chandler 0.2

The 0.2 release, now available, contains more of the Chandler's underlying infrastructure but little in the way of end-user features. We're making progress, even though there's little visible evidence of it. That will start happening after the .3 release around in early 2004. Data Model and Repository: a very flexible... [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]  

iCal explorations

A couple of people wrote to point out that I'd given the impression that iCal was an Apple-only thing. Not so, of course. iCal is a standard with many implementations. One that I hadn't tried until yesterday is Mozilla Calendar -- it's available as an XPI-style extension and works, for me, with Windows and Mac versions of Firebird. (I had to also use the QuickTools extension in order to get Calendar to show up on the menu.) ... [Jon's Radio]  

catch-22

The novel catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a masterpiece of literature, funny, and simply a great piece of writing. It's also about a concept that, sooner or later, we all encounter in our daily lives. The concept of catch-22 is,... [d2r]  

Segway Pulls Scooters Off Street

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the motorized scooters are dangerous when batteries are low. The company agrees to recall them, but offers a software upgrade as well. [Wired News]  

JetBlue Customers Feel the Pain

The decision by JetBlue to hand over millions of passenger records to a firm doing a government terrorist-screening study comes as a blow to the airline's loyal customers. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]