52 magazines or bust (kottke.org) – a great idea, read 52 new and diverse magazines this year, one a week, things that I wouldn’t normally read.

I was overwhelmed at the magazine rack and decided the only way to implement this was to work my way through the alphabet. Magazines starting with the letter “A” the first two weeks, and so on thru the year. So my first pick is Archaeology. Circulation 215,000; fairly well educated. My stream of consciousness on the contents…published by a 125 year old organization, not a johnny-come-lately…they also offer “Dig” magazine for kids with an archaeological bent (seems like a tough sell)…amazing copper-alloy bowl from 2nd-century Roman occupation of Britain…maybe even more amazing 1000BC conical hat from Germany, what were they thinking?…book review of a brief history of the human race, sounds good…an Erich von Daniken themepark???, holy cow…they run some cool trips…a metal detector owner is called a “detectorist”.

OK net/net, this is pop archaelogy for the college educated. A fun read, not too deep. Not sure I could read this every 2 months, there is not a ton of news in this field, but fun to pick up and look at. Completely apolitical, very little opinion content that I could find.

The Furrygoat Experience: WikiPad – looks cool but the last thing i want is a client app that locks up all its data on one of my machines. I need a real server wiki that has a great editting frontend like wikipad.

Deep Green Crystals: Microsoft best of PDC highlights

I’m a sucker for color pickers – Don Park’s Daily Habit - Mad About Colors – you’d think my site colors would look better. I’m like the bad golfer who keeps buying the latest trimetal, titanium, depleted uranium, carbon fibre club – I’m sure if I just improve my gear, my skills will automatically improve.

cre8d journal: Blog Design Showcase Archives – i should learn from.

multineedia.com

Don Box’s view on the role WinFS and other technologies might play in getting apps and data cleanly separated. A noble goal, I would particularly love to get easy access to all my PIM data.

We aren’t using the right exchange version yet but I am anxious to flip over to this – Configuring the Outlook 2003 RPC over HTTP Client – so long VPN!

Here in the age of XML and personal publishing, we all better start brushing up on ontologies – Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. Or maybe just a faceted classification, though it sounds a lot cooler to say “ontology”.

It’s Comeback Time for Luxury Watches – I fell in love with Audemars Piguet pieces thru an advertisement and sent away for their catalog. Now that’s a luxury watch – some of them are priced at ~$400K. I concluded that, at that price, someone would cut my arm off as I walked down the street, just to steal the watch.

The Occupational Adventure (sm) Blog: Goal people and river people – good article. I think I am mostly a river person but with occasional bouts of goalishness. Found via Rebecca’s Blog.

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog: Is a name worth 10-14% discount

Rael Dornfest via MobileWhack: “I’d like to see consumer mobile devices – palmtops, hiptops and handsets –scriptable” – hear hear. Not just mobile devices of course but my tivo box, my comcast settop box, etc….

Tong Family Blog: 19” LCD Monitors – me, i’ve gone 20 now with the Dell 2001FP and I can’t go back. the display looks really great with the ati 9800 on my one machine – not quite as sharp with my oem nvidia machine. but still wonderful. A little more than rich wanted to spend but worth it. My 15” at work looks totally pathetic now.

From this comments stream re tagging jpegs with metadata – Pixvue and jhead.