How to please a 14 year old geek

Sean is now one very happy kid.

Caring for Your Introvert

There's a wonderful article at The Atlantic called Caring for Your Introvert. As an introvert married to an extrovert, I cannot recommend this piece too highly—go read it. Now.

Dean for America

Jake Tapper of Salon has a good article on Howard Dean. At this point in his presidential campaign all press is good press, as his biggest problem is his lack of name recognition. So far, he's still our pick for 2004.

JavaScript in Mac browsers comparisons

Apple's posted a great article in their Internet Developer site on JavaScript in Mac Browsers, written by Peter-Paul Koch. In it, IE, iCab, Mozilla, OmniWeb, Opera, and Safari are compared head-to-head, trying to do both simple and complex JavaScript tasks. Lots of good stuff here, including some hard results backing up my low opinions of both Opera and OmniWeb.

Cool T68i accessories

I haven't listed any cool toys in a while, so here's a couple for the geek you know with a T68i^*: the Sony Ericsson blue torch (flashlight) and laser pointer. The latter is even cooler when you take into account that Jonas Salling is working on an app called the "Sony Ericsson Clicker," which will turn your T68i into a remote control for the Mac. Forget the Keyspan Digital Media Remote and the green laser pointer—all I'll need is my cell phone!

^*Don't know a geek with the T68i? Hi, nice to meet you, my name's Dori.

MS Buys Connectix

Oh crap: Microsoft To Buy Connectix To Enter Server Consolidation Market. Somehow, I just don't see MS supporting Virtual PC in the long term. Crap.

Bloogle

Headline: Google Buys Pyra

Okay, now that I've read a bunch of people variously pontificating, punditizing, and frothing at the mouth about this, I'll throw in my contrarian viewpoint/guess: it'll have no effect on the blogs that you see on the Web now. Okay, yeah, Blogger and Blogspot will be a little more stable (as if that'd be difficult!), but blogs won't change, and searching blogs won't change.

So what's the point? Think about the combination of blogs and the Google Search Appliance inside corporations. Google can now combine a lightweight knowledge/content management system with heavy-duty searching. All your internal documentation in one searchable place. All your internal memos. All your press releases. Etc. Have a thought, throw it up on an internal server, and everyone in the company will be able to find it and respond to it.

Now that's a sweet concept, and I bet Google sells a zillion of them.

Later: more thoughts have been added to the comments.