Year: 2002

It’s official. Microsoft announced early Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase mid-range accounting software company Navision. The purchase was structured as a stock and cash purchase and is valued at approximately $1.3 billion. [Electronic Accountant]Combine this with their announced development of Microsoft CRM, and things get interesting. They now own Great Plains (higher-end accounting,…

The Matrix Reloads “The Wachowski brothers are currently in residence at the Fox studios in Sydney, Australia, simultaneously shooting Matrix Reloaded (part two) and Matrix Revolutions (part three). The movies won’t come out until 2003 (Reloaded in May, Revolutions in either August or November), but the hype has already begun. This month a trailer for…

it looks like jenny , jim mcgee and rick klau are contemplating getting together chicago-area bloggers. it looks like jenny , jim mcgee and rick klau are contemplating getting together chicago-area bloggers. although i just moved from the chicago-area to grand rapids, michigan, i still technically work in chicago [ well, o.k. motorola is technically…

More changes: removed the calendar (I received a lot of feedback that many visitors who aren’t weblog afficianados didn’t realize it was an archive of past posts) and replaced with a Radio macro that generates a list of the last 10 posts to the site. Since people often find the site from a search engine…

Nothing earth-shattering, but I’m starting to play with the presentation of the site a bit. Your comments are welcome. Changed so far: added navigation bar at top, removed Google “related sites” box, changed “currently subscribed to:” list of weblogs to an edited list of weblogs that I think are most relevant to people who’ll be…

At Large in the Blogosphere. Blogs — online news commentaries written, usually, by ordinary citizens — are the antidote to the blow-dried anchor and the unsigned editorial. By Judith Shulevitz. [New York Times: Technology]I can’t help but think that this article in tomorrow’s Times misses the point entirely. I am both a blogger and a…

One of the great things that Radio does is create an XML feed of this weblog. ( The XML version of this site is here.) Anyone who owns a copy of Radio can “subscribe” to this feed – Radio will monitor the XML file and anytime there is new content, it will display the new…

Reading this article makes you think of Jon Lovitz as Michael Dukakis: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.” How do these companies stay in business? (Answer: some don’t. Others shouldn’t.)

Add this to my Radio wish list: I’d like a way to indicate what categories have been added to a post. This would be an effective way of showing how I think a post should be categorized, and would also reinforce the notion that there are other ways to browse this site. The more I…

I was thinking about getting a group of us in the Chicago area together at some point… there’s Jenny, Prof. McGee, me, and I’m sure a bunch of others. It just seems like a natural extension of the community that’s forming here in Radio-land. And I think “prairie blogs” is a great name. (For those…