A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.

Home-based Web Services

27 August 2002

Home-based Web Services. What Danny O’Brien said – I have a ton of computing power and storage at home…it is on the net all the time…why am I going to pay people for simple services like file storage and mail? The problem with my home network is reliability but I have 4 machines at home on the net, can’t software bind them together and make them reliable enough for me?

Fireball

27 August 2002

Fireball. Brad Chase is looking at the Escient Fireball as a potential media hub. certainly claims to do it all. expensive – i wonder if it is worth it. It all depends on the integration – I can do all this much more cheaply with a PC but I have to use 25 different pieces of software. If the fireball really makes it easy to do all the things it claims, the integration would be worth something.

Dynacenter

27 August 2002

Dynacenter. New company for which I serve on the Board of directors. Great office location in Leschi

Sight Gags

26 August 2002

Sight Gags. The Gag Works looks like the best source…I need some of the “arrows thru head” for my Custer costume. Or maybe a nice Monk Robe or another if I go as the hunchback again.

RSS on PocketPC

26 August 2002

RSS on PocketPC. Steve Makofsky turned me onto his PocketFeed RSS aggregator for the PocketPC. Wow this is great! The web has been nearly useless on my toshiba wifi pocketpc but this makes a huge difference. I haven’t been a huge fan of RSS but it provides me a ton of utility on my small screen device. I use Radio to create my list of sources and then import the OPML from Radio into the Pocketfeed app. Way cool!

Microcontrollers 101

26 August 2002

Microcontrollers 101. Also from the MOM group, a set of documents courtesy of parallax that intro the entire concept of microcontrollers – Stamps in Class Curriculum. (A real headache inducing background bitmap on this site)

Torvalds on Patents

25 August 2002

Torvalds on Patents. Couldn’t agree more – LWN: Re: large page patch. I refuse to look at patent material when startups try to present their patent portfolio to us. In fact, any startup that leads their presentation to us with “we have this bank of patents” I view with great suspicion – I suspect they are simply seeding the world with info about their patent so that they can claim knowing infringement later.

OSU 45, Texas Tech 21

24 August 2002

OSU beats Texas Tech. A good first outing – Recap - Texas Tech at Ohio State - 08/24/2002. Great running game – linework, Maurice Clarett, way to go! A passing game that wasn’t a drawback tho there could be a lot of improvement. Signs of defensive strength tho they let too many points get on the board. On to Kent State!