Hotmail. Hotmail is declining in utility for me. The hotmail team has obviously started to break the HTTP-DAV interfaces so that I can no longer check email from Outlook or Outlook Express. I guess if I pay for extra storage or MSN8 that I will get the feature back, but given the silent unannounced breakage I am worried that it won’t be turned on very cleanly and supported well. And I have 4 hotmail accounts that I regularly check and I don’t want to pay for all of them separately.

I am going to start looking at other web-based email solutions. I guess I could host my own mail server but I am willing to pay a small amount to outsource it, I am not excited about taking on yet another IT task and management burden.

Adrian Perrig security research links. A bunch of these look interesting – Adrian Perrig research page

Wifi PDA. Really want one of these so I can have another toy to play with during meetings. The Toshiba looks like the best.

Sound Editor. Need a good audio editor for halloween sfx. maximumpc recommends Wavelab barely but Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0 also good

Gulf Islands. Just back from an 8 day trip in SW British Columbia. A couple days in Vancouver, a couple in Victoria, and a bunch in the middle in and around the Gulf Islands. Ganges is a nice little town. Sydney has a beautiful harbour. The baby beluga at the Vancouver aquarium was great.

I used our new Kodak DX4900 4Mpixel digital camera with the Easyshare dock. I really love the dock, recharging and downloading pictures is way easier than with past cameras I’ve used.

Digital Sound Board. A nice digital sound board using CF storage – the electech EM3018B. right now i use banks of cd players for sound effects at halloween but this might be a better way to go…

Microsoft R&D. Paul Andrews wonders if Microsoft can point to a “single successful original product to emerge from R&D expenditure”.

I’d nominate the DirectX game api on Windows. Highly original work. The core of which was done in the company. A huge amount of economic activity stimulated above the interface (games) and below the interface (video and audio and controller hardware). The single most successful API set introduced on Windows in the last decade.

The Plug and Play work first in Win95 merits a mention as well.

Fencing. A plug for my friend Greg Jones’ fencing center – Rain City Fencing. Great folks and they do a great job with camps.

Command Prompt. Another one from Lockergnome – Command Prompt Explorer Bar. I hope bloggerpro gets the search feature soon so i can find all these links again some day.

Useful Blog. Furry Goat – and it points to me.

Summer. Wow been busy. Warcraft III. Boating. Work – Wildseed plus a new one plus seeing lots of plans. Family visits. Video ripping. Great weather. Watching the collapse of AOL – amazing how Microsoft’s competitors manage to impale themselves.

Posting Pics. Looking for a good way to do this – maybe this is a useful solution. ornj.net - Web Album Generator

Another utility. See all the drivers on your system with DriverManager

College. OK the apps are flying in now. Occidental, Reed, Pomona, Scripps are all in. Harvey Mudd I think too. Starting to become very real for Liz.