Maszman Speaks!

Despite the pre­vi­ous com­ment, Salon​.com has the occa­sional good arti­cle. The ghost of Bruce Spring­steen is one of them.

Are all “Nice Guys” inse­cure losers? Dis­cuss.

I’m way behind on blog­ging this, due to my vaca­tion: User­land has announced they will host weblogs for Salon​.com. I’m not sure what to make of this, I used to enjoy Salon, but it’s been in finan­cial trou­ble for a while and has (IMHO) gone down­hill of late.

Reuters reports about a study that shows rein­stat­ing the motor­cy­cle hel­met law in Mary­land result­ing in fewer deaths. This hap­pened even though there were more riders.

My hel­met was respon­si­ble for sav­ing the left side of my face. Need I say more?

InfoWorld has an arti­cle stat­ing that Sun and Apple are not work­ing on StarOf­fice for Mac. There is an alpha ver­sion avail­able, but it is the work of indi­vid­u­als, not an offi­cial project.

Dave Winer is won­der­ing what he should do after he recov­ers. Here’s my answer: men­tor, men­tor, men­tor! Keep your hands in the craft, but let oth­ers get the ben­e­fit of your expe­ri­ence. It’s some­thing that pro­gram­mers need to do.