Atlas Office in Seattle Closing. A sign of the stress in the VC market – Atlas Venture slashes size of fund, cuts staff

Color Scheme Designer. Might be worth trying to figure out color schemes for pages since I have no abilities in this domain – download page at myWebAttack. OK I tried it. Pretty cheesy software. Not clear that it is smarter than I am by far on color choices.

Haloscan comments. I need to grok this – seems valuable – phil ringnalda dot com: Robust, accessible HaloScan comment links

Privacy Rings and Selective Privacy. Dead on – pseudorandom – a crying need.

Pomona Class of 2007. Congrats L.

FTP Clients for XP. I have been limping along using the native support in XP for FTP but I am ready to buy something. The shell support in XP seems so flakey, particularly when I have a couple FTP windows open. I need something that lets me have a couple windows open, sometimes pointed at the same FTP site but different directories. With an explorer view. Download.com data suggests WS_FTP or SmartFTP.

WS_FTP, FTPx – just installed WS_FTP. It seems robust but doesn’t really provide the explorer view I need – it doesn’t help me copy files from one FTP site to another for instance. Anita recommended FTPX and I just downloaded and tried this. MUCH better. the tree interface is nice. still doesn’t seem to fully permit drag and drop between two FTP windows but I suspect I can live with.

SmartFTP. Finally tried this. Wow this one I really like. Very robust tree operations, very easy to drag/drop files across FTP folders. The best of the bunch so far.

Forest Ridge and WiFi. Nice article about Wifi at Forest Ridge (and other places) – The Wi-Fi Boom

Ignition Holiday Party. A nice evening last nite, it was great to see everyone out of the office and with their families. Thanks Jon and Elizabeth for hosting. Hoops won the hand-made sock contest with his “Ghost of Christmas Past” socks, Deneen won in the store-bought division. I had a lot of great ideas for socks but no time to execute – the story of my life :)

Pure Networks – Win an XBOX! My buds at Pure Networks want some help understanding people’s home network configs. A free Xbox out of it maybe.

URL Remapping under IIS. OK I am finding all the tools for this. www.streamcatcher.com StreamCatcher seems like a complete and supported product. The ISAPI URL Remapper is a lot cheaper but also seems more limited. There is also a tool from a company called ZmeY whose website seems a little confusing.

Permalink Namespace Mapping. I am sure there are solutions to this problem out there. As i futz with the implementation of my blog under the covers, I am causing changes in the permalink namespace for my site, mostly because IIS wants filename extensions to help it figure out which script engine to use, and these filename extensions end up showing up in the namespace. I am sure there is some way to either configure this behaviour out of IIS, or inject some piece of code that does some lightweight name fixup so that my old permalink namespace will always work. Need to dig around on this today.

DNS problems. Man DNS resolution has been terrible the last couple days here.

Categories. Jon Udell’s struggle with categories on his blog. I am not a big fan of categories because I believe that a) people don’t take the time to tag all their content appropriately, and b) our sense of proper categorization changes over time creating a management/mapping headache. I am much more interested in adding a great search interface to my site with really good and adaptive stemming support as the way to find all articles on a topic.

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