A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

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

DVD FAQ

16 June 2002

DVD FAQ. Super useful, particularly as I try to understand what kind of writeable DVD drive to buy – DVD FAQ.

VPNs

14 June 2002

VPNS. I’ve been thinking a lot about VPNs. Today’s products are so inadequate. There are two user scenarios they fall down for:

1) Home users. Increasingly corporations are trying to “lock down” the machines that are allowed full protocol access to the intranet, which creates a dilemma for home users who may have very different computing environments than the corporate policy supports. It is kind of crazy to give home users full protocol access to the intranent.

2) Business partners. I just want to share a few documents with my lawyer, attorney, etc. Or a few apps. Not the entire intranet. And security/account management is so confusing. Products like Groove purport to solve this but they are soooo heavyweight – I have to install this huge client with a whole new metaphor just to share a few documents. and of course the documents get copied to some groove directory and aren’t in sync anymore with my intranet copy.

Lots of opportunity here yet. We are seeing some startups thinking about. I hope we see a company that nails this.

CoolMon

12 June 2002

Coolmon. I like the playlist i have on my website. I’d love to autopost some other info from my system – CoolMon might be the path to that.

The White Stripes

08 June 2002

The White Stripes. Saw them at the Moore last night. Wow. Jack has amazing stage presence. And is just a fun guitarist. This band is headed up. For those of you who live near Detroit, make sure you catch them for a hometown show, I bet that would be fun. Their recordings are so sparse, they sound very similar live.

I was about 24 years older than the mean age of the crowd and I am pretty sure the only person with a blackberry in the crowd, blogging my notes about the concert.

I obviously missed the red hair dye memo. Good thing I have that earring – I am pretty sure you couldn’t get in without at least one piercing.

The opening act was a raw trio from grand rapids. All I can say is they were earnest. The second act was the well bred boys, acceptable pop/rock.

But blown away by the White Stripes. Great American flag backdrop. Jack all in red, Meg in red and white. Played nearly all the songs from their latest cd and a few new pieces. Not much from the older catalog. Meg sang on one song. Jack had some brutal guitar efforts.

Words for us all from the White Stripes:

“Well you’re in your little room/ And you’re working on something good/ But if it’s really good/ You’re gonna need a bigger room/ And when you’re in the bigger room/ You might not know what to do/ You might have to think of/ How you got started/ Sitting in your little room.” – “Little Room”

HD Failure Monitoring

04 June 2002

HD Failure Monitoring. This tool will monitor your hard drives and warn you of potential failures via e-mail or “instant” messages. – “The program uses Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all newer hard disks, and can predict problems with your hard drive(s).”

Halloween.

04 June 2002

Halloween. (*&(#@!*$&(&$. There is always one more thing you need at Home Depot. In this case an assortment of machine screws and nuts.

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