I like the observations about security and trust at SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others – Humans gain trust by interacting and “getting to know” people. Transparent technologies that make it easy to see what people and companies are up to (in a sense the opposite of firewalls) are what help me trust. I like Reagan’s saying: “trust, but verify”. It implies that trust requires means for openness, not firewalls and secretiveness.

Might be worth trying – SpamBayes Outlook Addin

Derek thinks the Big10 should invite Pitt to join if the Big East collapsese – BallBlog: Conference Shuffling. Gosh I would hold out for Notre Dame still. I was never that impressed with Pitt as an institution when I lived in Pittsburgh, I just don’t know that they bring much allure to the Big 10.

A great utility for design-challenged people like me – ColorMatch 5K (found via hitormiss, thanks much)

EE Times - Microsoft R&D efforts seek to bolster home networks

BTW yes I know I am basically using the sucky default MT template and that my right column behaves for crap once it gets to the bottom of my posts, at least if you are using IE. I am just too lazy to fix, and eventually my list of posts will grow long enough to fix it. it is amazing to me that MT ships with such a broken template.

Welch Got Money Out of Internet Firm as Others Lost – disclaimer, I am a party to this lawsuit.

The Seattle Times: Local News: Price gave it all away for this? – This is what he risked against a $10 million contract, a reputation and the patience of his family: Lap dances, loud music and secondhand smoke. Very sad.

Ate lunch at Matt’s today with some of the ignition gang. The relish on this dog is not a color found in nature – very reminiscent of Green Apple Jolly Ranchers.

Hey Gary this looks like it might be easier to set up than your Martian Netdrive – XiMeta Unveils First Network Direct Attached Storage Device - Technology - Mobilemag.com. Nothing really that new to this device, just a low end NAS (I think). I wonder what code base they use for their SMB server, I have noticed my cheapo SNAP NAS has some real perf bottlenecks.

Lots of WinHEC coverage on the net today – WinHEC 2003: First Look at Longhorn Graphics is interesting. DirectX finally gets used deeply by the OS.

I’m looking for some good guided hike trips in the north cascades. Cascade Corrals seems to offer some good trips – and you don’t have to carry a pack. Sun Mountain Lodge has some packages with a little cushier accomodations. Canadian Expeditions has some more rigourous trips up in BC. I think I’d prefer the Cascade Corrals level of exertion and rusticism.

CRN : Breaking News : Microsoft Plans Win32 API Cleanup, XAML Scripts For Next-Gen Windows : 10:44 PM EST Mon., May 05, 2003. “Win32 has like 76,000 APIs, and they’re taking it down to 8,000 with Longhorn technology,” said one source familiar with the plans.

I installed the cd30 network mp3 player today. i’ve been playing around with for an hour or so now.

What to like: well it is nice being able to listen to all my music at my stereo location. no more dragging cds around.

What not to like: the interface doesn’t work very well for a 1000+ artist collection like mine. there is no visual interface, just a remote and voice prompts. the remote permits tegic/t9 style entry of artist names and album names so you can get around ok, but there is no visual feedback at all, just voice response, so it is pretty tedious to get thru a large collection.

Also, I could not get the 802.11 link to work. I probably had the wrong ssid or wep settings. or actually the more i think about it, our 802.11 net is outside our firewall, while my cd30 server is inside the firewall, so i probably had firewall problems. whatever, it didn’t work.

Like with the hp media receiver, to get the best out of this device, i need to go author playlists explicitly for the device so that it is easy to navigate my content.

Seattle Weekly: Food: Dining Guide: Dining Showcase 2003 by Roger Downey – this is a great guide to restaurants in the area. Seems like citysearch has been destaffing its Seattle guide, it has become pretty useless for finding restaurants in town. This is a much better guide.