alpha 1.4

spaces alpha-1.4 is now available for download. Most important fix/change for this version is Mac OS X compatibility. Features such as web access (using the spaces built-in HTTP/servlet server) and proper IMAP support will be ready for alpha-2.

massify!

Maureen Dowd comments on this op-ed piece in the New York Times on the massification of Eminem's "rebel attitude"--which of course spells out the end of its rebellion. It's hard to be a rebel when everyone thinks that what you are doing is so cool that you become mainstream.

the end of hardware

A BusinessWeek online article :

IBM's decision to put $1 billion into services R&D is a telling sign that the ground under info tech is shifting radically

It seems to me that Business Week has arrived at this conclusion a bit late. The "hardware era" ended a few years ago, possibly the day that Netscape released Navigator 1.0, possibly even before than when Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and showed that you could be the most powerful company in the computer world simply by creating software.

tool-induced stupidity

A hilarious Fortune article about the evils of overcommunication and how today's tools make it harder, not easier, to do what we need to do.