I saw FileWatch 5 from Kevin Gearhart recommended as the way to watch for any changes on your system. Helpful for when you are installing games and downloaded software to see just what they are doing. I haven’t tried yet but intend to…

BTW I’m aware that my comments are semi-broken. If you try to leave one, you will receive an error message about not have permission. in fact the comment is captured, but i don’t currently allow the actions of anonymous users to cause a rebuild of my index pages. i am thinking about ways around this, need to look for other commenting packages that people have used.

Just found this in my referrers log – Seattle weblogs – interesting collection of Seattle blog content. I added trackback ping support for…

I wonder what happened to this product – announced in January but no sign of any followon press or releases – Linksys: Press Releases.

An interesting way to transport home movies maybe – USB 2.0 Portable Disk with Multimedia Playback Feature. A lot pricier than a firewire or usb2.0 disk, but has the player/decoders built in so you can watch the output on a tv instead of depending on a pc being available. 20G seems a little small tho.

Saving this for future reference – accomodations - commencement - Pomona College

HighMAT and Microsoft have just announced HighMAT CD Writing and Viewing software for Windows XP – 20030507 Lockergnome Digital Media. I agree with the Lockergnome analsys – I’ve read the HighMat site three times now and I still can’t figure out why I would want to be creating HighMAT media.

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.