Kuro5hin has an article about KaZaA being found legal by a Dutch court.  Well, it’s at least legal someplace.  It should be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

Here’s a neat little OS X service that lets you search Google for terms you hilite in various applications.

From the web page: A simple background service to allow you to select text in (nearly) any application and press “Shift-Apple-G” to launch a Google search for that text. This release is context aware. When you select text from Project Builder, a browser opens up searching developer.apple.com instead of Google. You can define your own contexts (application-grain) and choose what URLs they apply to.

Pretty keen!

I’m playing around a bit with my site some and adding in some categories.  The idea I have is that most posts will have a category, so they will go both in my ‘global’ blog page.  The global blog page is my home page.  But say I have a post to do with Radio, it will also be put into the radio home page.  This enables me to quickly hunt down information that is tied to different topics.

Just thought I’d put out a few rambling thoughts about Radio. 

The instant outliner stuff that is in beta for Radio is cool.  I’ve started using it myself, but just am not sure how to make it fit in with work.  I think it is doable, it is just figuring out the best way.

I’m also running into some stumbling blocks while thinking about work blogging.  With Radio, you are really tied down to one machine.  There are good and bad points for this.  The good is that it gives you a lot more options for things you can do on your machine.  The bad is that you can only do things from your machine.  I have a job where I am always here and there.  Sometimes I’ll be offsite at our data center, sometimes in front of my desk, sometimes hiding off in a little room away from everyone to get things done.

One thing I’d really want is something that is a remote version of radio.  Yes, I can currently attach to the copy of radio on my laptop from my PC via a web browser.  But from that there is a lot of stuff I can’t do.  Moving Radio to my work desktop doesn’t help either, because I use my laptop for more day to day work.

Are there other people in similar situations?  How are they dealing with it? I’m toying with the idea just putting VNC on my TiBook and doing things via that. My other solution is that I will be running a separate copy of Radio for work, since I don’t really like mixing work and personal stuff, even when they overlap. 

Professional Forum Spammers. “They go out and find forums that are ontopic to a customers needs and they carefully spam the forum to acquire link backs, name dropping, and often direct url dropping to bring back customers. The problem? They are getting so good at it.” [via WebmasterWorld] [via jenett.radio]

Yet another reason you shouldn’t trust everything you read online.  But how dangerous is it?  One would hope that even if someone was forum spamming for a crappy product there would be enough people out there who would be able to counter their promotion with real information.

To collect the full share of good luck which is your birthright (but which to date has been withheld from you), you must cast aside your given name and adopt one of these three new super-monikers:
1. Freejoycrispfecundleapingflashdazzler.
2. Surgingsoaringfoxygeniuswhirlingrisktaker.
3. Buoyantimprovisingfearlesswideawakefunwrestler.
APRIL FOOL! It’s true that you have not yet cashed in on a sizable share of the miraculous fortune allotted to you at birth, but nothing so superficial as changing your name will give you the power to pull it off. On the other hand, embodying the spirit of any of the three super-monikers above could do the trick.

<– Courtesy of Free Will Astrology –>

I just noticed someone hit my site from google searching for “interstatial lung disease”. No big suprise there because my old lung page discusses it. (Yes, I’m still waiting for a new one). I had started a blog on that page a while back thinking I’d keep track of how my health was going, but there really wasn’t a lot to report other then: “Things still the same. Still waiting.”

On a whim I went to google and typed in “interstatial lung disease. To my suprise I found that I was the top link. Well heck. Maybe I should start gathering more information and links on this condition. Reporting more things I find on it. This fits into the notion that has been floating around of blogs which are authoratative on certain subjects.

Note, I’m not the top link for Interstitial Lung Disease, the correct spelling. An interesting thing about the web, it promotes poor spelling. I believe when I searched online for what I have I only found it spelled as ‘Interstatial’. I guess I didn’t look deeply enough. (Though now maybe my work is cut out for me.)

Sir Winston Churchill. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

[Quotes of the Day]

Blogs are affecting the ways people write. Or at least how they get their information. Dan Gillmor tells a cool story about blogging a session at a conference. He was corrected in almost realtime by one of the presenters.

Dave Winer has been writing about journalism and blogging a bit over on his site lately. I’m going to have to go back and find those old posts and read more on them.

I just caught the first episode of Scryed. As far as first episodes of anime shows go this one was pretty good. Giving you just enough to get you interested in the show. I think I’m going to have to download more episodes of this.