Don’t Blog!

Great link from Ken Leebow’s Blogging About Incredible Blogs, er, blog. It’s called Don’t Blog, and is very amusing. Like this: Bloggers abandon their families as they compulsively blog. One result: “blog widows.” Common activities: Apologizing to friends for all the “blog talk.” Arguing for quality time for the relationship, for the kids. Learning the … Keep reading

Blogging and Search Poll Results

I have just posted to the Link Blog about the results of a poll run by Phil Bradley, which contained some quite revealing, and surprising, results. Well worth checking out.

Richard Grimes on .NET

Good in depth article here. Link from OS News. I started using .NET when it was in technical preview at the beginning of 2000; at that time it was called COM+2 and the main language was something called Cool. The framework briefly became Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) before some marketing wonk came up with … Keep reading

Blogging as a Career?

Jason Kottke has given up his job and is going to live off the proceeds of his blog. I’ve been self-publishing on the web for almost 10 years now, first with a little site on my school’s web server, then on various ISP accounts, then 0sil8, and finally kottke.org for the last 7 years (almost). … Keep reading