From the monthly archives:

May 2007

This just in

by Bruce Keener on May 31, 2007

Folks, I don’t know what is going on, but today my spam filter is just not doing its job. I have had to manually delete a lot of spam from the comments this afternoon, and I haven’t had to do this in a long time: I use the latest comment-spam-filtering software available.
I am not [...]

Three huge tech developments this week

by Bruce Keener on May 31, 2007

Update: Make that Four huge tech developments this week. Marc Orchant notes that Google Gears is a Game Changer, and I think that is a good assessment.
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This has been one of the most interesting weeks I can remember as regards tech product releases (or promised releases):

Palm’s introduction of the Foleo intrigues me very much. At [...]

Update on Site Design

by Bruce Keener on May 30, 2007

This post had some detail on an updated site design. However, the material became out of date when I changed the design even more, so I have removed the out-of-date details.

Are You Asking the Right Questions?

by Bruce Keener on May 30, 2007

You have probably observed the following truisms over the years:

CEOs generally ask better questions than Vice Presidents
Vice Presidents generally ask better questions than Managers
Managers generally ask better questions than the front-liners

And so on.
The principle that seems to apply is that more successful people ask better questions than “less successful” ones.

Great PPC time-saving tool: Calligrapher

by Bruce Keener on May 28, 2007

Calligrapher is an extraordinary replacement for the Transcriber handwriting recognition tool that is built into the Windows Mobile/Pocket PC operating system.
One area in which Calligrapher far surpasses Transcriber is in its macro capability:

It can generate text phrases, such as the by the way phrase shown below. For example, a friend of mine has almost 400 [...]