I just remembered that I've been meaning for a while to post a tip for Stanford alumni who use Safari: If you've visited InCircle with versions of Safari prior to beta 2, you probably noticed that Safari went into an infinite loop of redirects when trying to load the site. That's been fixed in beta 2, but you have to delete all of your stanfordalumni.org cookies from prior releases of Safari to get it to work.
I had a lot of fun finding Stanford alums at Apple by watching who filed bugs about this.
Robert Scoble is off to Microsoft. I hope he enjoys the job, though I suppose my employer's goal is to help towards the item he says will get him fired -- switching people to a non-Microsoft platform.
More interesting, though, is his comment that he'll hopefully keep doing his weblog and that he's trying to figure out how being at Microsoft (and having signed Microsoft's NDA) will change what he blogs about. He notes that he can talk about anything that's public and to some extent that's true, but somehow I bet Microsoft would as happy about him saying "Here's yet another security hole in Windows" as Apple would about me saying that the 12" PowerBook isn't worth buying (it is, by the way...it's a very nice machine).
There's also the issue of what happens when what he's working on isn't public, and that's the biggest part of why I've had so little to say here lately. I'm often happy to comment on random technology issues, but my areas of interest there naturally coincide with the things I'm working on, and therefore I can't say anything about them. Of course, with Microsoft's penchant for announcing everything it's working on a year or two before it ships, I suppose his attempt to remain silent won't be quite as challenging as mine...I can't say anything until the product is shipping. Oh, well. Such is the price for working on very cool stuff.