Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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OpenOffice loses this round

I use spreadsheets every now and then for pretty trivial things.  Recently I’ve been using google docs spreadsheets because they were online and editable from different locations easily.  A few days ago I tried to use OpenOffice for a fairly simple sheet.  I’ve used OpenOffice on and off for years and years without ever becoming [...]

Mac OS X — Dock review

I’ve been using Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for a week or two as my main desktop environment, and I’m really liking the Dock for icons and such.  For the last 20 years, I’ve wanted a window manager that combined the quick-launch buttons with the running program icons.  I’ve finally gotten my wish.  But after [...]

Twitter needs to be commoditized.

Twitter needs to be commoditized. What do I mean by that? I mean that the Twitter message streams need to interoperate with all my other message streams. Twitter is just a bunch of logical message streams from different people. I don’t really care if my messages are coming via twitter or RSS or IM.  Why?  [...]

OpenID starting to take off (finally)

I found this on del.icio.us/popular: A video showing how to use OpenID to get a portable login that you can use with many different web sites.  One password, controlled from one spot. And you can get your free login identity from multiple different web sites offering the OpenID service.  Check it out.  Back to your [...]