A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
22 May 2003
The High-Definition Camcorder Enters the Picture – Sam, you need this.
22 May 2003
Gary has a great reading list – Gary Burd: Blogroll
22 May 2003
| I’m listening a lot to their latest album. Well the Lindsay Buckingham tracks anyway, I can’t stand the Nicks compositions or the performance. It is cool that they let you download the first single – [Fleetwood Mac single download | How It Works](http://www.repriserecords.com/fleetwoodmac/downloadsingle/page2.html “Fleetwood Mac single download | How It Works”) – using paypal for just $1.49. Way better option than making me subscribe to some music service. |
22 May 2003
Just finished A Door into Ocean – great book, surprised I hadn’t read it before. Very well developed alternative society.
21 May 2003
Via Matt Croydon::postneo, the top 75 security tools. good links.
21 May 2003
Dude, quit sending me spam, or at least take your home phone number out of the spam – Google Search: 954-916-6650
21 May 2003
I need to get smarter about SHN – Some SHN Resources looks like a place to start. I have plenty of storage, I’d like to start ripping my CDs in SHN format rather than a lossy format.
21 May 2003
URLScan Security Tool – version 2.5 is available. Not clear it has a ton of new features but I probably should move to anyway…
20 May 2003
Effective Engineering and Blue Point Engineering seem interesting, I need good vendors/sites that help me figure out exactly what pneumatics to buy for animatronic applications. Frightmare has an interesting product too.
18 May 2003
First down to Orting to meet up with Adrian and watch some rockets fire. Some crappy weather, I couldn’t stay long enough to see Adrian’s rocket, but we saw lots of other cool rockets.
Lunch at Burger King. They have new chicken tenders in the shapes of stars and lightning bolts. I don’t even want to think about what we were really eating.
Then Paintball at Splat Attack – a great place, nice people. A little hard to find – print out the directions and follow them religiously, and have your windows rolled down so you can hear the rat-a-tat-tat of the guns.
16 May 2003
16 May 2003
Rob Galbraith DPI: Breeze Systems releases Downloader Pro for Windows – looks like a good tool for photo download from cameras, better than most of the schlock that comes with the cameras.
16 May 2003
15 May 2003
| Huh, the [xbox.com | musicmixer](http://www.xbox.com/musicmixer/default.htm?det=1&nrmode=published&nroriginalurl=%2fmusicmixer&nrnodeguid=%7b81ab5cb2-db12-4abb-882f-813d5916a025%7d&nrcachehint=guest “xbox.com | musicmixer”) is developed by our friends at WildTangent. Certainly the xbox would be a more fun media receiver than the hp media receiver or the sony box. The description of the xbox product makes it sound like i am going to have to manually copy a bunch of stuff to the xbox, I hope that is not the case. |
15 May 2003
At Weblogg-ed Vol.2: Using Weblogs in Education, it’s noted from a Pew study that our kids are way ahead of the schools in using the internet – They’re “far ahead of their teachers and principals in taking advantage of online educational resources” - such as weblogs - the report concludes. Boy no kidding, you don’t have to sit around kids long to see how they take to the internet like ducks to water. Their use is more pervasive and deeper than the bulk of educators. I would love to get involved with designing course material that really pushes the kids on their internet use – most of the time, I think the kids are just coasting, they are so far ahead of the school’s expectations in terms of using the net resources.