Month: November 2006

  • Perpetually catching up..but not quite

    Many pundits who review software are saying that Microsoft has "caught up" with Firefox in Internet Explorer 7 (here and here, among others). I beg to differ. Since the mid-1990s, what Microsoft has done — time after time — is deliver pale imitations of others' UI inventions. Have you ever used the View menu in…

  • A video blog you have to see

    Sometimes, the combination of a new medium (podcasting, in this case the video version of it some people call vlogging) with politics and journalism produces something very, very special. Alive in Baghdad is an impressive example. I won't go on here about what it means…or how it affected me. That's for you to discover for…