• Jabberwocky Urban Visualization Project

    Posted on April 21, 2004

    SmartMobs reports on a free (and soon to be open source) urban social landscapes tool. The tool is a release from Intel, available as J2ME using MIDP but soon to be open source. Based on the info page the sensing pattern seems to be based on Bluetooth. Very interesting. Here’s... [Read More]

  • Blogroll

    Posted on April 21, 2004

    I’ve been trying to figure out how to include a blogroll version of the site without always putting a big long list my blog all the time. Having a list of users whose blogs you normally read is nice to do because the people who are receiving your readership can... [Read More]

  • db-download Release 1.0

    Posted on April 20, 2004

    Still very much rough around the edges, but there’s a 1.0 release of the download plugin at the Open Palm Environment SourceForge site. The project is a plugin for Pilot-db, an open source package for Palm handhelds which allows users to create and exchange databases from their PDA. With the... [Read More]

  • Jaron Lanier Speaking in Palo Alto

    Posted on April 20, 2004

    Jaron Lanier is speaking in Palo Alto on Friday April 23rd. The talk is supposed to be an update to One Half Of A Manifesto, an article written during 2000 in which he examines the beliefs of what he calls “cybernetic totalism”. He argues that the belief that Moore’s law... [Read More]

  • Gnomedex 4 Blogroll

    Posted on April 19, 2004

    Chris Pirillo has posted a blogroll of Gnomedex 4 attendees. The list is still pretty short (the conf is still a LONG way off :-) but there are already some interesting blogs on there. I even dropped the RSS feed version into my Bloglines subscriptions so I can check out... [Read More]

  • Web Programming with Lisp

    Posted on April 18, 2004

    I found a three part article about web programming with Scheme linked off the Finding Lisp blog. The articles themselves are very good, and they led me to Chicken Scheme, an interesting Scheme implementation I was able to get running on my ancient laptop so I could play with something... [Read More]

  • Why Free Software Matters

    Posted on April 13, 2004

    There’s some interesting commentary about the difference between licensing software and purchasing it in Why Free Software Matters. It’s certainly easy to forget just how much of what we do with computers actually ends up having a lot of strings attached. I would like to relate the discussion about licenses... [Read More]

  • Separating Infrastructure

    Posted on April 12, 2004

    There’s an article titled Separating network and communications infrastructure up at telco revolutions. I happened across the article during some random wandering, but it sums up exactly how I think about providers. Check this out: [Read More]

  • New Intel XScale Processor

    Posted on April 12, 2004

    Intel has formally announced the next version of the XScale series of processors according to ExtremeTech. There are some cool features in there, it sounds like a good processor. But what really disturbs me is that Intel calls this the “Wireless Trusted Platform”, which I think has to mean that... [Read More]

  • Pilot-DB Download Plugin

    Posted on April 12, 2004

    I’ve started a new app as part of Open Palm Environment. This time it’s a plugin for pilot-db. Pilot-DB is a very popular open source database program for Palm handhelds. It allows the user to create their own databases and fill in the records on their PDA. There are existing... [Read More]