Technology

So for a while now I’ve been collecting webpages of killers. I haven’t done it by any grand design, but whenever a news story comes out about a killer, very often you hear about (or can simply find on your own) the weblog or other info that the killer maintained before they turned to killing.…

So anyway today I got a Golden Ticket to preview Backpackit. Basically, it provides just the right amount of structure to normally unstructured (notes in your email account; somewhere) or overly structured (things in your company’s sales/ CRM tool, after drilling through nine screens to get a phone number) information. Brilliant. More review to come.

It’s been widely reported that the Vatican used SMS to notify journalists of the Pope’s death. But what about the rest of us? It’s just not that interesting that the Vatican sent a message out to the people they were going to tell anyway just a few minutes later. The interesting thing would be if…

The focus of a small portion of my day job is turning toward Service Oriented Architecture. O’Reilly has an lucid & simple explanation of it here: Now we are able to define a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. A service…