You are connected to 3592267 people through 15 friends...

...or so Orkut tells me.

Today I logged into Orkut for the first time in many, many months. It just sort of slipped off my radar.

I remember the invite-fest that followed its initial launch. It seems to have calmed off dramatically - well short of verb status. Am I alone in thinking this? Has the thing been a runaway success without me noticing?

Jython at 59%

The results of the Java Republic Poll are in.

Digital Fractionation

Fractionation - boiling down analog assets into digital derivatives is this week's ITWorld e-Business in the Enterprise article.

When in Rome

What does a geek do when in Rome for the weekend? He visits the Anfiteatrum Flavium and checks out the Serif typefaces.

He also scores an Escher exhibition at Musei Capitolini that he stumbles upon quite by accident.

He does not access his e-mails though. Then, when he comes back on Monday night, there are about 800 of them infesting the inbox.

Sometime thereafter, he rediscovers the fundamentals of tenses in the English language and resumes making sense (after a fashion).

XTech - last chance to act on that new year resolution

...the one where you promised yourself you would write up and present a paper on your ground breaking XForms/XAML/XUL/Mozilla/Safari/Opera/Mobile project.

XTech 2005 Call for Proposals.

Time, cost, quality revisited

This just occurred to me so I'm writing it down:

Simple, elegant, wrong. Pick three.

:-)

Names, numbers, E-mail addresses

This week's ITWorld E-Business in the Enterprise article : E-mail addressing - from numbers to names and back again.