THAT STEVE JOBS SURE CAN INSPIRE A COMMENT THREAD.  I don't have an iPhone, but if I did I wouldn't hack it.  Buy an Apple product and you do what Steve says, for good or bad.  But that's not the point.  Rather it's the 332 comments to Saul Hansell's NY Times Bits post.  Amazing! That's something else I wouldn't do.  Once the comment thread gets to, say, 20 comments, why bother adding another?  But 300?  Great article, btw.

I THINK AT THE HEART OF THIS IS THE DECLINING VALUE OF SILOS.  Seth Godin churns out another insightful post (probably in about 10 minutes) on how authors might best promote themselves in "Who is Philip Roth?"  I first heard the term "information silos" when I was doing a Dilbert gig in the mid-90's to which I wore a suit every day.  Some IT exec type wearing a more expensive suit than me said during one of those interminable meetings I had to attend that the company's over 1500 employees would be more productive if each department didn't have its own Access Database Silo.  And the definition of information silos continues to evolve.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET DUGG.  First thing, and then the second thing.  Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that!  About getting Dugg, that is...

GREAT COFFEE PIC.  I'm enjoying a nice long run with the freshly brewed Vermont Coffee Company dark beans that fill my office thermos in the morning.  Here's a wonderful coffee photo/image/something on Flickr that has nothing to do with the Vermont Coffee Company, but I wanted to give them a plug none-the-less.

USE FIREFOX TO DEBUG ASP.NET APPS.  I had VS2005 configured to use Firefox when debugging ASP.NET for quite a while, but when I rebuilt my machine not long ago I forgot how to do it.  Thanks to Matt Blodgett for reminding me how.

THE DATABASE THAT WON'T DIE.  Steve Harmon tells us where to get the Northwind database, but his post title is a good enough reason for the smattering.  "Get Northwind, the Database That Won't Die, On SQL Server 2005."