Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog
Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood
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Also on this website A Basic Course in Dvorak · The Pickle Machine · The Mentos Gallery · Cocoa Table Tester · Making your Wedding Make a Difference ·
Sites I also work on BikeAlameda · A Progressive Alamedan (my political blog) · Karelia Software
I'm also here: danwood on Twitter
Microsoft innovates again: G-A-D-G-E-T-S
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Yes, it's Microsoft Gadgets. Will wonders never cease?
Have you ever wondered how new technologies get developed in Microsoft? Wonder how a cool idea goes from incubation to release? Well, we’re excited to announce that we’ve started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog and we’re kicking it off at the PDC.
What are Gadgets? Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on your homepage, an RSS Gadget that pulls in your favorite feeds, or an extension of a business application providing just-in-time status on the pulse of your business.
My favorite is the one that shows how much trash you have. (Reload the page a few times to see an assortment of WiGadgets.) And yes, that's my smarty-pants comment....
Independent Investigation needed
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Back when Clinton was president, there was an independent investigation of his financial activities.
After 9/11, there was an independent commission to investigate the security failures that led to the attacks.
So, in the wake of the bungling of the post-Katrina operations, shouldn't there be an independent investigation as well?
If you think so, sign the petition.
(And, as long as I'm linking to MoveOn, let me point out their housing project which has provided over 250,000 beds so far! And to think this is the group that the right wingers denounce as the enemy....)