Tech Ramblings

Business Pundit has an excellent write up on the leadership lessons of the quest to scale Mt. Everest. Interestingly many of the lessons are the same as those cited by Jim Collins in his book Good To Great. One of the key points that stuck out for me was the difference between actual leaders and [...]

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Hi [FILL IN YOUR NAME HERE]: This post has been specifically written just for you! Ok, so I’m trying (probably unsuccessfully) to be funny. Jupiter’s report on web personalization seems like the typical hack job done by someone who only partially understands what they’re talking about. The study says that most companies would enjoy a [...]

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As Ville pointed out there seems to be an existing project (Mailbucket.org) doing something very similar to what I’m attempting to accomplish. I just found it the other day while working on my gateway so I thought I would take a look and compare the two. Here’s what I can tell are the major differences: [...]

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A couple of days ago I got a wild hair up my backside and started designing an email to RSS gateway. It all started when I read an article over at Lockergnome about RSS feeds replacing newsletters. I became mildly obsessed with the idea because I have a lot of different interests and the only [...]

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Many Mac users consider me a Mac hater. I don’t know why because I don’t hate Macs but they think I hate the Mac operating system, Mac users, and them in general. Ok, that’s a half-lie, I do know why they think I hate Macs but since I don’t actually hate the Mac OS I [...]

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The press seems to have finally picked up on the trend in IT outsourcing. While IT outsourcing to India and Eastern Europe has been going on for some time now it seems that the subject is just beginning to pick up steam both in online discussions as well as in the media. IÂ’ve found two [...]

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Within the Internet and technology space I’m always amazed at how some simple things can be made to sound very difficult. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one such topic. People who practice SEO seem to speak about it as if it were some black art. That only they master all of the little tips and [...]

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Now that I’ve mentioned what I’m working on, how about the stuff I don’t have time for? Here’s some ideas/projects I wish I had time to explore more fully (I may get around to them someday but if you read this and beat me to it . . . whoo hoo): Information Indexing: How many [...]

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I wanted to have a space to share as many of the Window Six projects/products are developed between contract assignments. That means that while I would have loved to get a new version of TextAds out the door last year I had too much paying work coming in to devote any serious time to it. [...]

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Just what the world needs; another weblog. The Window Six weblog is not designed to be another Slashdot, Techdirt, or any other news oriented site. I won’t be giving my opinions on politics, the RIAA, Microsoft, or a whole host of other issues that literally thousands of other weblogs seem to find enough fodder to [...]

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