Rough Drafts

My article on open-source development tools [http://www.cio.com/archive/041503/et_article.html] has just been published by CIO Magazine.

I discovered a new use for Google: Web page recovery service for hapless webmasters.

On March 21, more than 60 poets from around the world (India, Ireland, Trinidad, Australia, the U.S., Mexico, and more) submitted their haiku online, and I read them all aloud at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, thanks to a solid WiFi connection.

In its online portal project, the state of California paid one vendor $3.2 million and another $8.4 million without comparing prices or analyzing other factors, as called for in state guidelines.

Tomorrow, which is the first day of spring and also World Poetry Day, tinywords will be hosting the first ever world-wide, WiFi, ad-hoc, open-mike haiku reading.

I’ve got not one, but two articles in the April issue of PC World.

The Bork edition of the Opera Web browser behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. When you visit that site, the browser translates it into the language of the Muppet Show’s Swedish Chef.

I finally figured out how to override those nasty, tiny, fixed-point size fonts in Internet Explorer.

Clay Shirky observes that the popularity of weblogs follows a power law: A few popular blogs get the most links and the most traffic; most blogs get very little of either. Jason Kottke makes the same argument, with better graphics. Dave Winer, typically, misreads Shirky’s essay (probably because it

Posting an unedited transcript, as I just did [https://dylan.tweney.com/2003/0128doctorow.html], is a disconcerting experience. It feels a little like taking off my journalistic clothes in public. But there’s a deeper reason why I don’t usually post transcripts like this.

Cory Doctorow fans and others might be interested in the full, unedited transcript of my interview with Cory Doctorow [https://dylan.tweney.com/2003/0128doctorow.html]. The edited version of this interview [https://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/000348.html] was published on 1/23/2003 by SFGate.

Washington Post book columnist Michael Dirda indulges a fantasy that afflicts nearly every book lover at some time or another — the desire to run a literary magazine [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A977-2003Jan16.html].