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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

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October 19

10 Reasons to love Google Wave

article by Steve Mathew

There’s so much hype over Google Wave and now some critism is also starting to surface. So a colleague (and fellow Google Wave fan) and I compiled a quick list of 10 things to be happy about Google Wave.

1. It’s actually “live”

2. It’s free

3. It’s Google

4. I have an account :-)

5. It’s html 5

6. It’s XMPP

7. It’s realtime - all info is updated to the second (character by character, as you type)

8. It works like a conversation - structured or unstructured

9. Docs can be shared - in fact almost anything can be shared

10. Works on iPhone and Android

11. Nothing to “install” - it’s in the cloud so just grab a browser wherever you are

Wait, that’s 11! OK, 1 more: potentially works offline because of Google Gears

So folks, back off, this thing is only 2 weeks old. It’s new tech and it has warts and all. Nobody promised it will be perfect on launch day. In fact, they launched it to get input on how to perfect it. See that big BETA sticker? So relax, settle down kids, no-one’s going to get hurt here.

I wonder how many nay-saying commentators on the side of the field have actually shipped code that scales to millions of users?