I’ve been reading Todd Cochrane’s Podcasting book that I won from the Chuck Chat Technorama Show 50 contest. My impressions of the book have been really positive. It’s really written with enough techincal information to keep the geek in all of us interested, while still being easy enough to follow for the newbie. It covers…
Saw this post over at the J-Walk blog. Apparently, someone has decided to do a study of how much we all read blogs at work: Workers in the U.S will this year waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs, a study has suggested. Yup, all those tips, ideas, solutions, and general tech information that…
I got my copy of Todd Cochrane’s Podcasting, the Do-It-Yourself Guide in the mail yesterday. In addition, my wife’s early Xmas gift for me, a backpack case for my laptop was in the mail as well. I’m looking forward to reading Todd’s book, and I’m looking forward to having a lightweight way to carry my…
I’ve had these sorts of conversations before, but in a smaller company, like everything else, it’s usually not as frequent an occurrence as it is now. Anyone who’s worked supporting users knows exactly the sort of conversation, and while we all appreciate the fact that the user is curious and wants to learn, we all…
This looks interesting: We’re calling it Dabble, with emphasis on the Db: it’s a database system for dabblers. We’d naturally be happy if professional developers, DBAs, and business analysts find our system useful, but we won’t be satisfied until we have something that works for everyone in the millions of small businesses and teams for…
I installed Miranda IM the other day. I liked the fact that I could connect with Google Talk, which I can’t do with the free version of Trillian, but I wasn’t realy excited about the fact that there’s no voice features, which would be kinds nice to have with GoogleTalk. I also just didn’t like…