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February 12, 2008
The First Web Server
Robert Scoble recently posted this photo of the first web server. This was Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s computer that he used to invent and deploy the first web site.
I love that there is a sticker on it to prevent the entire world wide web being turned off inadvertently!
Personal trivia: I once missed a tour of the CERN facility by about 30 minutes when I was an exchange student in Switzerland. I sat for an hour outside the birthplace of the web, waiting for my bus ride home. This was about two years before Berners-Lee had set up this server.
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November 29, 2006
Welcome Lily Lowe Gammel
Jennifer and I had our second daughter this past weekend. Lily Lowe Gammel entered the world at 5:20 a.m. on Sunday, weighing in at 6 lbs. and 11 oz. Jennifer and Lily are both doing great. We’re slowly remembering all of our baby skills from when Ella was a newborn.
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November 15, 2006
All The Bus Plunges That Fit
The rise and fall of the “bus plunge” story. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
This is a great story about how the New York Times developed an internal cultural bias toward publishing stories about buses plunging off of cliffs anywhere in the world. It all started as a artifact of needing to fill up random empty spots in the layout of a newspaper page.
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August 31, 2005
Katrina
I have been absorbed watching the Katrina news the past couple of days. I fear that New Orleans may be gone forever, at least in its current incarnation.
The Katrina Wikipedia page is a great resource that is updated live (about every 3 minutes today) by many people sorting through hundreds of news sources. Check it out if you haven’t already.
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August 17, 2005
E-mail Me?
If you sent me an e-mail last Friday and I haven’t responded, please send it again. My web host had an extended outage that had the site down for about half the day. I’m caught up on messages I received late last week, so if you haven’t heard from me I didn’t get it.
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June 30, 2005
Source for my favorite William Gibson quote.
For my own future reference:
Tim O’Reilly checked with Cory Doctorow who checked with Lorna Toolis who checked with Barry Wellman who checked with Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi who point out that there’s an NPR Talk of the Nation broadcast from 1999 where Gibson says, “As I’ve said many times, the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.”
The actual citation:
NPR Talk of the Nation
30 November 1999
Timecode: 11min 55sec
Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220
Also: www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
(Via Brainstorms.)
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May 17, 2005
Coaching
I like this definition of the purpose of coaching from the Management Craft blog.
Coaching in a business setting has four purposes:
- Coaching should improve client coachability.
- Coaching should help the client get unstuck and moving toward his or her goals again.
- Coaching should enhance client self-awareness.
- Coaching should facilitate breakthroughs.
That last one seems to be the real purpose in my mind. If not that, why do it?
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April 30, 2005
You’re It!
You’re It! is a new blog on tagging (aka folksonomy) written by Jon Lebkowski, David Weinberger, Christian Crumlish, among others. Looks like this one should be worth adding to your aggregator of choice.
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February 2, 2005
iPod, youPod, Does Bill iPod?
What to do when your own employees prefer the competitor’s product? At Microsoft, the answer appears to be: write threatening memos to discourage it. How bureaucratic. Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill.
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August 2, 2004
O’Reilly Make
O’Reilly is developing a new magazine for 2005: Make:
Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.
Looks like a fun mag. I’ll definitely check it out when it comes out.
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