Passage by Connie Willis
24 August 2003
As one of the Amazon reviewers says, Passage is a “fascinating topic, so-so novel” which “seems bloated and frequently dull”. I liked the Doomsday Book by this author (who didn’t), but Passage was trying.
A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
24 August 2003
As one of the Amazon reviewers says, Passage is a “fascinating topic, so-so novel” which “seems bloated and frequently dull”. I liked the Doomsday Book by this author (who didn’t), but Passage was trying.
24 August 2003
Saw this – Special Lockergnome Offer for Foldermatch – on Lockergnome, looks worth trying.
24 August 2003
A fun read – Tech News - CNET.com
19 August 2003
Dana is concerned about the US falling behind China and China becoming the dominant world power – he even calls them the “enemy” at points. I don’t know. From a nationalistic point of view I guess I can see his point, but as a human being, I have a hard time getting upset about the largest population in the world taking on a larger role in the world.
19 August 2003
I of course installed – Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - NewsGator 1.3 released! – this is my favorite way to read RSS. One thing I haven’t tried is running newsgator simultaneously on multiple machines. I use outlook at home and work and both machines stay on all the time. I’d like to install Newsgator on both so that the full admin interface was available at either place. But I am afraid to do so as I think the machines will likely battle to download feeds and I will see some ugly races and duplications. Alternatively I’d like a web interface to all the admin operations so that I don’t need to install on two machines.
18 August 2003
Ha, from my friend Tim. Probably a classic but I hadn’t seen in memory:
Who Reads What and Why
I’d guess Seattle is some amalgam of LA and SF, with maybe a little New York Post.
18 August 2003
Hack the Planet points to a good article on Infoworld about Sun’s work to get a supercomputer on the desk. “…heat management is by far the toughest problem…” – i have this problem in spades now, we have 3 PCs around a table in my office at home, and two more in the closet + cablemodem + firewall + 2 printers + 3 firewire drives, and heat is a huge issue. Heat output will be a primary criteria in my next PC purchase.
17 August 2003
Great set of pointers to security blogs and feeds – i’ll be subscribing when I get to my newsgator machine – SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro’s Toolkit
17 August 2003
Good pointer from Rob – Mnemo-zine
17 August 2003
Rael hates the large pickups on the road and points to stats published by the NYTimes about their impact on others in collisions. I don’t love the system we have on our highways, but as long as there are large trucks and pickups on the highway, I personally am not going to put my family at a big mass disadvantage. I’d love it if we all rode bikes everywhere in our society but we don’t.
17 August 2003
Bucknuts.com – The running back situation – damn we need someone to run the ball. This is pretty worrisome.
17 August 2003
Boy a lot of this resonates with me – Joi Ito’s Web: Going P-time – rss feeds, blog comments are climbing in the priority list while email falls. Couple this with the effect of spam on the utility of email – email is taking a hit.
17 August 2003
16 August 2003
We are getting very close to the kickoff of the season for the Buckeyes…
16 August 2003