• Havoc Pennington comments about The Linux Desktop

    Posted on March 17, 2004

    Havoc Pennington posted an entry in his weblog about picking a language/architecture/platform for Linux desktop development. I found the post as a whole to be very informative. I think his observations about needing to proceed with a completely unencumbered set of tools and technology are right on: [Read More]

  • Video on Demand

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    I just got back from dinner with a friend who’s working at Akimbo. I hadn’t heard about the system before, but he says it has turned out quite well. It’s a video on demand system with actual content available. Unlike the video on demand systems being setup by cable companies,... [Read More]

  • Why Functional Programming Matters

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    I found the paper Why Functional Programming Matters linked off a page about Haskell. Both make some interesting points about the general features of functional programming. In particular I like the comparison between lazy evaluation and pipes, which is something I haven’t run across before in descriptions of that feature.... [Read More]

  • South by Southwest Transcripts

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    The South by Southwest Music and Media Conference is currently going on in Austin TX. I wasn’t able to make it, but I’ve been hanging around in a couple of Freenode.net IRC channels and listening to the discussions. Fast Company has a series of transcripts that they’ve uploaded to their... [Read More]

  • Interview with Jeff Dionne

    Posted on March 15, 2004

    There’s an interview with Jeff Dionne up at Linux devices. Jeff did much of the original work on uClinux, a port of Linux that first supported architectures without memory management units. He’s been around for quite a while, and I try to listen to what he has to say. I... [Read More]

  • Geolocation and Presence

    Posted on March 15, 2004

    Textually.org posted about an article in The Feature about mobile presence, social networking, and geolocation. I first heard about the GEOPRIV working group just last month, and haven’t had much chance to read up on the project. But Howard covers both general commentary about mobile presence, information about the stadards... [Read More]

  • Wikipedia PDA Hack

    Posted on March 15, 2004

    The Wikipedia is one hell of a badass project. Great information, technically well done, up to date - it’s got everything that most people would ask for. Unfortunately for me, I have some oddball requirements. Such as wanting the Wikipedia to display well on my Clie. There do seem to... [Read More]

  • Pipelined Web Services

    Posted on March 14, 2004

    Russell Beattie has two great posts in his blog, the first about web services becoming more like Unix style tools and then some further discussion about the similarities and differences between the two styles. I groove completely the the beats Russ is laying down. Usages like this are something that... [Read More]

  • Medium Transforming Communication

    Posted on March 13, 2004

    Engadget had a post about a novel delivered to cell phones in 1,600 word installments, which sounded interesting but I held off posting about it for a while. The concept does have some initial “neat” factor to it, but I wanted to mull it over for a little while. This... [Read More]

  • Gnome Notifier

    Posted on March 13, 2004

    A post in Miguel’s blog mentions a system called Gnome Notifier, which provides a way for applications to use area in the panel to get the users attention rather than using popups. I thought that XChat used to have a panel component that would tell you what tabs had activity,... [Read More]