A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
13 July 2008
Core77 / design magazine + resource / post – I was an avid collector as a kid, these are just cool looking. Admire the innovation.
13 July 2008
After activation woes, the experience has been pretty good. The things I like:
* The Exchange support. Wasn’t completely obvious how to enable. You have to delete your old imap/webdav email account info, and create a new Exchange account type, and turn on the cal and contact synching. It will wipe all your on-device cal and contact info so sync up first! Getting the entourage/ical sync disaster out of my config is a very good thing. * The App store. nice selection, a lot of good choices, and seems to work well. Apps I like so far: ** Urbanspoon. The interface is just cool ** GuitarToolkit. Chord reference and tuner, very nice ** Todo. Integrates nicely with RememberTheMilk for a complete app and website experience. Jott is great too with the nice voice interface but Todo wins for the rememberthemilk integration ** SmugShot. Replaces the iPhone camera and photo apps, and is integrated with SmugMug
Things that aren’t doing it for me:
* What is the new Contacts app for? Seems like a subset of the phone app * The Google app. Not really clear what value this adds beyond the existing search in Safari * Games. They look nice but the interface limitations of the device really hurt. I won’t get rid of my DS. * Still no cut and paste?? Am I missing this somewhere?
13 July 2008
Car stereo stock radio fake-out - Instructables - DIY, How To, ride, music - The Instructables Book Contest Entry – put your crap OEM stereo faceplace over your cool aftermarket install. Awesome.
12 July 2008
C-Thru Music home page – an interesting midi keyboard. way more natural key arrangement.
11 July 2008
VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth – seems like a buying opportunity to me, it is hard to imagine a better systems software CEO than Paul Maritz.
11 July 2008
Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas.
Adds a new fun element to cow tipping as well.
11 July 2008
| [iPhone servers crumble under activation strain | Electricpig](http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/07/11/iphone-servers-crumble-under-activation-strain/) – exactly where I am at this morning. Has screwed up my entire day. Thanks much Apple. Who had the idea to disable every single freaking existing iPhone as part of this process????? |
UPDATE: ok i am past that hurdle and my phone is doing a really slow re-sync. Progress.
MORE: what a freaking disaster. now itunes just crashed hard (on the mac). in the middle of a sync. not happy.
University System of Ohio :: Ohio GI Promise – nice work Ohio!
08 July 2008
Who Embellishes Their National Championship Claims and Who Does Not : Fanblogs College Football Blog – the Buckeyes are pure, whereas UM takes every opportunity to inflate their history.
07 July 2008
| [Common cooking spice shows promise in combating diabetes and obesity | Science Blog](http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/common-cooking-spice-shows-promise-combating-diabetes-and-obesity-16736.html) – I need to learn more about ayurvedic medicine |
…Criminy. Look, I don’t mind stuff I don’t know (I see it every day), and I don’t really mind stuff I don’t know crossing other stuff I don’t know, but only if there’s some way for me to make a reasonable guess…Come on. That NW corner is just dickish.
I have to agree with the sentiment.
07 July 2008
10 Amazing Hotels With Ultra Stylish Minimalist Designs – these all look fun.
* Mitsubishi Ultra Thin Frame Premium Flat Panel TV with Integrated Sound Projector » Coolest Gadgets – cool. I have a discrete sound projector in one room and have been happy with. this is a great way to get surround sound with minimal fuss. * At the other end of the price spectrum, the Li’l Guppie Multi-tool. I am not sure I actually get much value out of multi-tools but they look cool. * Realtime power use monitor – this actually seems pretty useful.
07 July 2008
!>http://jhludwig.smugmug.com/photos/326309800_TAsa6-Ti.jpg!:http://jhludwig.smugmug.com/photos/326309800_TAsa6-X3.jpg first time I’ve ever seen an owl in nature. Apparently a juvenile barred owl. Very curious about us.
07 July 2008
* [0807.0378] Nano Imprint Lithography on Silica Sol-gels: a simple route to sequential patterning – multiple layers of stamping for nanophotonic or microfluidic apps. I love microfluidics, what a crazy and fun area * Scale production of nanotube circuits – I’m not sure what they’ve done but scale production is the key problem * Qubits and branes share surprising features – way beyond me… * Cornell researchers figure out how assemble metals in complex nanostructures – a cool new way to form bulk metals * Controlling quantum state via voltage – interesting work on the way to useful quantum computers