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Supported integration between Google Calendar and Apple’s iCal. Hopefully the iPhone won’t be too far behind.
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Interesting perspective on the role of the designer in agile development.
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More details on the YouTube virus.
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Simple truth: Product managers can live in the marketing or development organization or report directly to the CEO and they’ll still be product managers.
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Setting the record straight about Bush’s “regret” for the failure of pre-war Iraq intelligence.
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Sign the Open Government petition asking President-Elect Obama to publish transition materials in a barrier free way.
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You know those YouTube links you get sent? Check and make sure they’re really pointing to YouTube.
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Documentation of the RSS XSS vulnerability fixed by WordPress 2.6.5. Get out there and patch.
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Shifting from discovering new vulnerabilities to being more proactive about the defenses is good practice. I also think that finding your own vulnerabilities and fixing them before someone else finds them makes good business sense.
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Interesting analysis of Clinton’s new position in the Obama administration.
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It’s interesting how “national security” trumps every basic decency that has come to pass in the last hundred years in this country. Thanks for illustrating that so well, Mr. Bush.
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The new BSO download service gets a lengthy review. I’m very excited to see what repertoire becomes available. (Brahms Requiem 2008 and Gurreleider, please?)
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A much better look and feel for Google Reader.
Day: December 2, 2008
Web birthday#8
This is my eighth birthday… since starting my blog in 2001.
Seems like it was an eternity ago. I didn’t even bother to blog on my birthday then–of course it was close to the end of my third semester of business school and I was going nuts. But then, I didn’t realize that I was starting a tradition.
I went back and looked at past birthday posts. 2001, as I mentioned before, wasn’t blogged. In 2002 I turned 30 and reflected on Bilbo Baggins’ birthday benediction (more on that in a minute). 2003 was gearing up for what turned out to be my last Microsoft Christmas party. 2004 was a reflection on over ten years of no one knowing you’re a dog on the Internet. 2005 was my quotation in Business Week over the Sony BMG boycott. 2006, a dinner with friends and reflection on mortality. And in 2007, turning Presidential and lining up my new iPhone.
This past year is definitely a year of change — new website, a shift to linkblogging, killer new job. But my birthday this year feels more like a homecoming. As my sister says, this is pretty much my first Facebook birthday, and the people I’ve reunited with over there are making it a very nice happy birthday indeed. In some ways, I think this is the first birthday in a long time where I’ve felt something like contentment. Probably a sign that vast upheaving changes are right around the corner.