The Daily Grind 892 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, May 29, 2006

On this Memorial Day, I'm especially remembering my good friend (and veteran) Jim Middleton, who passed away over the weekend. Thanks for everything, buddy.

• pbwiki - "Make a free, password-protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich." (via WorkHappy.net)
• GMail Remote Command - Set your computer up to execute commands delivered by Google Mail. Cute, but looks like a heck of a security risk. (via Ido Samuelson)
• Announcing: Scrapbook - Tray-resident application for keeping quick little collections of text & image notes. Free.
• Quintura - Client-side application to add visual clustering and refinement to the major search engines. View a demo here or download it for free here.
• Gilma - Free GUI front-end for Microsoft's ILMerge assembly-merging command-line application.
• Windows Live Gadget SDK - Just in case you want to try your hand at building stuff for Windows Live, here's the dope, in beta form.

• Impatica ShowMate - Gizmo to let you hook your Blackberry up to a projector and show PowerPoint presentations. Wacky.

• Microsoft Adds 'Ultimate' Office To Line-up - Wow, a version of Office that actually includes all the Office family products. I never thought I'd see it happen.
• Silver Bullet - Wesner Moise considers whether there might actually be a silver bullet in software engineering after all. I don't happen to agree, but it's refreshing to see someone thinking about these issues.
• Websites as graphs - Cute way to chart the structure of Web sites, complete with java applet to map your own.

• Controversy about our "Web 2.0" service mark - You know, it doesn't really matter how narrow the legal protection O'Reilly is trying to claim over "Web 2.0". They've managed to blow a substantial amount of their community goodwill with one boneheaded move. Personally, I'd be just as happy if they cease-and-desisted every single use of that unfortunate term.
• Swarm - Interesting and mildly addictive way to see what a cross-section of geeks is browsing. You can install their Firefox extension to contribute to the data yourself.
• Martha Stewart plans online women's social network - That sound you hear is social networking jumping the shark.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.