Steve’s Stuff

Although I don’t always agree with Walt Mossberg, I do agree with his assessment of Xobni.

Visit the Xobni Blog for a link to his review.

xkcd has it right.

NASA has teamed up with the Internet Archive (home of the wayback machine) to put NASA’s image archive onto a public web site.

Cringley writes about why software makers can make things so difficult.

You are driving down a street in your car and up ahead there is a squirrel at the side of the road eating a nut. You aren’t on an intercept course, there is no way you are going to hit that squirrel. So what does the squirrel do? At the very last possible moment, rather than watching you drive by, THE SQUIRREL DARTS STRAIGHT FOR YOUR CAR, passing inches in front of or behind the front tires.

Why does he do that?

If all goes well, we’ll be releasing another update to CCIM MailBridge today. This version handles US vs. non-US properties better, adds an “anti-flooding” algorithm that spaces out emails from single senders so you won’t get more than one per day from any one person, and clarifies/improves the Product/Services flavor of General messages by adding a few new categories.