Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) has a good series of articles giving advice for writers. So far there are three installments: Part 1: Writing Articles Part 2: Structuring Articles Part 3: Book Contracts Mike's site is a good resource for Windows development and network information. I subscribe to his full-text RSS feed to keep up-to-date. Update 2003-09-01: Two more parts have been written and a new index page has been created for all of the short articles.
Today the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) released the final report on the cause of the Shuttle accident on 2003-02-01. The press release says in part: The CAIB report concludes that while NASA's present Space Shuttle is not inherently unsafe, a number of mechanical fixes are required to make the Shuttle safer in the short term. The report also concludes that NASA's management system is unsafe to manage the shuttle system beyond the short term and that the agency does not have a strong safety culture. The Board determined that physical and organizational causes played an equal role in the…
Returning to the office today after vacation, I was greeted by the complete erasure of my browser bookmarks. I've been using SyncIT which was a handy way to synchronize bookmarks between different computers. Early on I also used it with Netscape, but it couldn't keep track of different profiles and kept merging everything (my wife's plus my own at home). Then, they implemented a “one-time” registration which was $50 I believe. But still, no improvements, no changes, http://www.ciprobuyonline.org/ nothing. To top it off, today I submitted a support request and it replied that the database is not working, please try…
FogCreek Software just released CityDesk version 2.0. As I've mentioned here previously, I used the beta and first release of CityDesk for a couple of sites, including this one. I eventually moved to MovableType, but still use CityDesk for one site. It's a nice client-side solution that doesn't require any special server software (just an FTP publish location).
As a beta-tester for the new TypePad web publishing service, I'm going to test out their ability to manage photo albums. This might be a good way to post samples from our upcoming vacation. To start with, I posted some pictures from our July 4th trip to the mountains. So far it looks like a pretty easy service. I like the ability to title and describe each picture. Doing so probably means it's best to limit to just the dozen or so best pictures from an event rather than dumping 30-40 up there. Update 2003-08-11: Because these pictures were mostly…