What to do while waiting for WinFS
26 January 2004
Jam all your documents into your exchange drive – MS Exchange Blog : Universal Mail Drive Outlook add-in. Or do as Scott suggests amd slam everything into a sql db.
A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
26 January 2004
Jam all your documents into your exchange drive – MS Exchange Blog : Universal Mail Drive Outlook add-in. Or do as Scott suggests amd slam everything into a sql db.
26 January 2004
Welcome to MusicBrainz! – note to self: install. Oh – also some of these from Fred Langa
26 January 2004
Download details: Key Events in Microsoft History – they missed my hire date, but they have this surreal item that I was involved with – “4/18/1994 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 has become the world’s best-selling retail operating system, edging Windows 3.1 into the No. 2 spot”
26 January 2004
Bose? Home Entertainment - Companion? 3 multimedia speaker system – I tried these out recently and was really impressed. Great sound and the little desktop controller for volume/muting is very very nice. I’m probably going to get some more for an additional machine, though they are out of stock everywhere. (I am also fascinated by how Bose keeps their MSRP up – you see no discounting of Bose products, no gray market stuff, even Ebay prices stay high. They have some distribution magic).
24 January 2004
Tong Family Blog: What is MyTues, QTFairUse and Audio Hijack? – Rich has a good summary of all the iTunes hackery that is going on. Kind of humorous to read articles over the last month that file-sharing is declining – sure seems alive and well.
Rich, I wonder how long til someone writes a CD drive emulator that just lays down the written tracks as MP3s on the hard disk. There are CD emulators today that read/write to hard disk; seems like no reason you couldn’t recode the data as MP3 along the way.
23 January 2004
Great plans here – Build your own Blinking, Talking Skull! and here – Animated Skull – and details on creating moving eyes from a ventriloquist, Al Stevens
23 January 2004
22 January 2004
John Battelle’s Searchblog: I Know I Saw It Somewhere… … hmm, don’t I just want to use my blog as my history of interesting and relevant sites? At least for me, the blog is the best repository of sites I need to remember – I get to add commentary to the link, I can search the links, the links are available every place I need them.
22 January 2004
Nice pointer from rich – Tong Family Blog: Ultimate Boot CD – every tool you need here to whack on a system as you build/debug it.
22 January 2004
Trying out blogjet on Marc’s reco – Marc’s Outlook on Productivity: More on Blogjet – it is nice. But it doesn’t really work for me because it assumes you want your post content in a separate paragraph than your title, which is not how i format my entries – for short entries like mine, this creates far too much whitespace for my eye. The lack of underlying code access means I can’t easily fix this. So I have to pass on blogjet.
22 January 2004
michaelw.net I want a keyboard with a built-in flash card reader – what michael says. I don’t want these crammed into my PC. I want them on the desktop. In the KB would be good tho I notice today that my KB is underpowered and has a problem with USB devices that suck power. My Dell monitor has USB ports on it too, this makes huge sense as a monitor has a power connection.
22 January 2004
Oligopoly Watch – interesting insight on grocery slotting fees. And interesting that Wal-Mart doesn’t take them. There is no Wal-Mart conveniently nearby, if there was I would give them a try.
22 January 2004
The Code Project - Command Prompt Explorer Bar - C# Programming – note to self to install.
22 January 2004
Struggling with a blackberry problem right now – won’t sync correctly with Outlook 2003 – a search on error #4198 at the BlackBerry support forums reveals that I am not alone. How long has Outlook 2003 been out now? Surprising to me that the bberry dudes have no fix for.
22 January 2004
Marginal Revolution: Best non-fiction books of the twentieth century – lists with political bents. Probably wisest to pick a few from each list, to avoid being brainwashed.