The Microsoft team has made the Beta 2 version of IE 7.0 available for download to developers and adventurous users. Even if you aren’t brave enough to try that yet, you might find it interesting to view this video of the team leaders who created the new version of the browser. You’ll find it interspersed with a lot of jargon, such as CSS, RSS, etc., but if you’ll just watch the video, you’ll get a sense of the people who make this product and some of the functionality in the new browser. Watching the Channel 9 videos of such interviews as this is a really good way to become familiar with the technology behind the new developments in the industry, providing you can allow yourself to tolerate the ambiguity of not understanding completely what everyone is saying. This is not a problem, by the way, with the video itself but rather with our level of familiarity with the technological explanations of things. I find them fascinating, as I think you will too.
Daily Archives: January 31, 2006
Chastened, I blog again
I’ve just completed a Skype call of about an hour and a quarter with my friend, Juan Gutierrez, in which he observed that my blogging has dropped off of late. Like many of you, he checks my blog periodically to see whether 1) I’ve written anything and 2) whether what I have written is of any interest to him.
I confess that periodically I get a “blogging block” where I either can’t think of anything to write or just don’t have the motivation to do so. And when that mood strikes me, I just drop out for a while. But I guess such stumbling blocks impede the progress of everyone from time to time. So if you see me in one of those phases, just know that after a while I’ll be back and while you are waiting, go read one of the other 8 billion or so web pages that are out there just longing for readers. Eventually, like a bad penny, I will return, because I’ve been doing this for too long to stop entirely.