Sunday, March 05, 2000

Jakob Nielsen: Profit Maximization vs. User Loyalty.

My experience with open source: "I wanted to shake him. Listen to my words dude, I did it, and you can't even hear me."

NetDyslexia explains why their horse can't talk. Why would he want to? No one listens!

Eric Kidd offers "tough love" for MacBird.

I updated the MacBird home page in response to private feedback from Eric. Now it better explains why it's unique, and how I feel about it and what it can do for non-Mac platforms.

Also note that Steve Zellers has checked in the source to a CVS, SourceForge, and has asked us a fair question that we will respond to.

Log analysis for Subhonker1 for Friday. Two reports, one ranking browsers, another ranking domains. Subhonker1 hosts Manila sites only, EditThisPage.Com and others. 95,000 page reads.

On the Weblogs mail list, Jorn Barger says: " US culture for men is very much about pretending to be a football-fan kind of guy, and if you get caught in a more tender-hearted enthusiasm you may never hear the end of it."

That reminds me: "A lot of men, including me, don't feel as if we have permission to speak our truth, to say what we see. The barriers seem to be everywhere."

Cafe Boronne in Menlo Park is a European type hangout place smack in the middle of Silicon Valley. Next door to one of our best bookstores, Kepler's. A block away from Be's headquarters.

History of Menlo Park. "When the railroad came through in 1863, this station had no name, it was just the end of the line, but it needed a designation."

Cross-post on the SOAP and XML-RPC mail lists. "Then the picture all of a sudden becomes clear. Oooops. We got left behind somehow."

The idled workaholic discussion. What if you had been working all your life to get rich, and then you were? What would you do?

Michael Swaine: More Patent Nonsense. "Since I benefit from that program, I have a moral dilemma to face, or at least I will if Amazon starts suing people over the affiliates patent. I hate moral dilemmas. Sigh." Get over it.

Money must be in the air today. On the March 25 site, Fredrik Lundh asks "Is it just me, or does this 'we're making lots of money so you gotta give us your stuff for free' argument feel a little strange?"

Jacob Savin sent me a pointer to an Escher print that's like my sky in a puddle picture.

Another sky in the puddle picture, only it's the light of my camera's flash reflecting off fat in Won Ton Soup. It looks like there's something fibrous on the surface of the soup. I had to look twice to figure out what I was seeing.