read the nine pillars of successful web teams from adaptive path (which i came across from digital web magazine) for some interesting insights on the components of success. i have yet to see a "pillars" approach to web teams and i'm a big fan of "pillars" - it's like, standing on the shoulders of explanatory machinations :)#

Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay "As We May Think" - about the 'future' scientist and the effect the war had on science, it is a very interesting vision that is correct in some regards (except the details) and offers things that we still desire, the 'memex': "Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza." (from Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog)#

the person discussed in this entry at the bikini diaries doesn't seem to understand the point of TBD, that is to return to the roots of the internet and websites in general. not create something of a 'risque' zen garden.#

funny details in kata eleven from pragmatic dave, and it looks like a useful programming exercise too :)#

azarok recommends pirates of the caribbean, i do too.#

kieth from asterisk* thinks that bloggers are only responsible to themselves on a personal site and captures my feelings with this bit: "At the end of the day, my girlfriend, most of my friends and family and my cat (you know, the important people) don\u2019t read this stuff and while I love my readers and I\u2019ve made some great connections, in the larger scheme of my life I\u2019m not too concerned where I fit into some perceived \u201cblogger clique\u201d. ", it's the people not the places . - read it and the links#

dive into mark talks about "Triple-X Disney" and 'beginner's mind' - it's insightful, curious, and interesting.#

first 2.6 test kernel is out. eh.#

don park links Quake II .NET, which just seems wrong but apparently worked out well. one thing that was neat that they did was add some features and 'easy extensibility' with .NET - the 'Item Radar' is cute.#

moxie has a new lover, he's hot. moxie is funny: "Really, being a starving artist isn\u2019t all romantic and stuff the way it seems in the movies. But then again, if we didn't perpetuate the stereotypes, what fun would it be to write, bitch and moan while drinking cheap wine?" - i wish i were a starving artist so i could meet beautiful women in laundromats and fall in love with them because i couldn't afford to own my own washer & dryer. maybe someday...#

tony pierce remembers a dialog that happens every day between high schoolers, and teaches us the best way to apologize... IN BLOOD.#

read this from phil about how software will truly turn into a service industry like construction as it grows - a reflection after oscon. from ted leung#

sgi workstations are so hot - why? why do i think computers are hot? someone shoot me.#

william grosso writes the weblogs very low tech, a regression of technology, that stems from simplicity that push to do it right not flashy and that they are more personal because of the low barrier to entry, the immediacy, and because "it isn't content until it's linked"#

"Todd McFarlane's Hideous Re-imagining of Oz" from Brian Carnell.#

the document is the database from jon udell isn't really about documents as databases, more about a neat way of simplify the code inside an application server.#

tony relates the story of his rise to being recognized as a good writer and talks about the great pat whelan and how he wants to be back with his older newspaper buddies: "in a perfect world we would all get back together and reshape american journalism and reintroduce the concept of rocking out with ones cock out. we would expose the evil doers and love the lovely." (emphasis mine)#

he then talks about his high school diary and is broken dreams :( i had a high school diary but i burned it because i hate myself... or something else that is wicked high school kid.#

dan on direct and indirect feature usage basically about "Big Brain Features" and "Little Brain Users": "You don't provide source filters, continuations, macros, or whatever because everyone will use them, you provide them so the two or three people who will use them can produce things that would otherwise be insanely difficult. What people do use is what those few folks made, and that is what makes the difficult stuff worth providing."#