John C. Dvorak, the one-time Apple journalist who has a history of incredibly inane predictions of doom and gloom for the company he used to cover, has completely outdone himself this time by predicting that Apple will drop Mac OS X completely in favor of Windows.
Dvorak still, pathetically, does not get it.
Apple is a hardware […]

This BBC story says that “former senior Communist party officials” have written and published a public letter denouncing at least one form of government censorship in China.
The officials include:

. . . Chairman Mao’s former secretary, Li Rui; the former editor of the Communist party’s own mouthpiece, People’s Daily, Hu Jiwei; and ex-propaganda boss, Zhu […]

I’ve recently been considering re-doing my blog skin, and wondering about all the pieces, chunks, and components of a modern, integrated blog.
There’s a ton, at least on my site. At least 13:

header with “station identification:” name and so on
introduction to the site and author
list of categories
list of recent posts
RSS paraphernalia
[…]

Ran into an interesting crashing condition on Mac OS X’s Mail application today …
If I open a new message, insert the cursor at the bottom of the message, under my signature, and hit the delete key twice, Mail crashes and burns. Every time.

I made a little movie of it while I was testing. Click the […]

OK, I’m back. Back using del.icio.us, I mean. I took about a 6-month hiatus.
Bookmarks suck. They especially suck if they’re just on one of my computers, but they even suck when they’re on the web. When they’re on del.icio.us.
Well, perhaps I should modify that. They don’t suck (at least not very hard) when they’re on […]

Wow I’ve hit the big time now … A-list here I come!

What’s the “comma-stupid phrase” for your business? job? department?

Do you know what the “comma-stupid” phrase is for your product or service? In other words, do you know what is most meaningful for your users? Because whatever that word or phrase is (i.e. the part that comes before the “, stupid!”), it should be driving everything […]

The National Education Computing Conference NECC 2006 keynote speakers were just annouced.
It hasn’t hit their website yet, but apparently Nicholas Negroponte will be there to give a speech about his one laptop per child project. NECC sent out an email about it this afternoon:

ISTE is pleased to announce that Nicholas Negroponte and Dewitt Jones will […]

I recently heard the Venture Voice episode with Fabrice Grinda, recently of Zingy.
Here are his 9 rules for selecting new business opportunities.
Worth checking out - Fabrice is an extremely clueful and business-savvy entrepreneur.

Dick Hardt pointed out this very cool new USB keychain wristband:

Love ‘em! (And I don’t even use USB keychains.) Note that they’re only available at Target - a clothing store!