A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.

Kerio Personal Firewall

11 August 2004

[Kerio Technologies Inc. Kerio Personal Firewall](http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html “Kerio Technologies Inc. Kerio Personal Firewall”) – playing around with, nice little tool, tho for geeks – it pops up way too much info for most people.

Build your own movie server

10 August 2004

Via the Gadgets weblog, [eHomeUpgrade Build Your Own DVD Movie Server - August 9, 2004](http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/archives/000546.php “eHomeUpgrade Build Your Own DVD Movie Server - August 9, 2004”). Wow this has gotten a lot easier, the recipe is just one short page.

Software to try

08 August 2004

Noted in various pc mags:

* Zoot software. Talks on the website about pairing with outllook and newsgator to handle rss feeds – which is my rss config. * File Viewer. Apparently a good way to browse/view files. * ThumbsPlus. Supposedly handles RAW files better than most photo viewers.

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

05 August 2004

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig : Travels Through Paraguay is absolutely the best Paraguay travelogue that I have ever read.

OK I’ll go further, it was a very entertaining travelogue period. Gimlette has a good dry style, which is needed for book about a country with such a tragicomic history. Paraguay seems to have a pretty unfair share of misadventures, some of its own making, and sometimes buffetted by outside forces.

During this election season, everytime you worry about our system of government – pick up this book and read a chapter or two. You will feel better.

$%#@@#&&#

05 August 2004

Bulding a new system tonight and dropped the P4 as i was installing it. pins bent everywhere. @#^%#@#%. Thankfully it is a low end system I am building so I am not out $400 or more.

Here’s hoping that Sun gets this wireless chip idea working.

Major blog spam today

04 August 2004

Someone is using a new tool to get around my simple obfuscation techniques. I’ve deleted 30+ comments today. Time for new strategies. Probably time to upgrade to MT3.

Tonight's reading

02 August 2004

* 1 Km bluetooth transfer – hmm I wonder if one could take over a bluetooth keyboard at a PC… * Keyscan remapping – wow I need this to make my japanese import machine work well – generating an underscore or tilde from the stock keyboard is tricky. * Ceramic lenses – sounds to me like digital cameras get even thinner. * Videogame advertising – this is going to be big. Videogamers spend a LOT of minutes in front of a game. * Find Your Spot. Ha, I filled it out, it suggested Seattle…

List of Bests

02 August 2004

From my reading buddy Tim – Lists of Bests : News – great lists of all the best books and movies from various sources, and has an RSS feed so you can get the new lists as they point to them!