• Database Independence

    Posted on January 23, 2004

    There’s a post by John Udell about database lockin. I think the issue with SQL dialect lockin is probably more troublesome. I agree that transport independence is a problem though. Databases have been like this for a long time - a standard language to query them, but different libraries for... [Read More]

  • Palm Emulator Bluetooth

    Posted on January 23, 2004

    This site describes how to use a physical bluetooth device from a POSE session running under Linux. That’s just really cool. I with the people actually at Palm would realize the market they lost in open source advocates, but if that isn’t going to happen at least a couple of... [Read More]

  • High Speed Photography

    Posted on January 23, 2004

    There are images online from a couple of people who constructed a high speed photo lab using a BASIC stamp and some off the shelf parts. I have no idea how expensive high speed photography normally is, or just how hard it is to construct one of these, but the... [Read More]

  • RSS WinterFest Resources

    Posted on January 22, 2004

    RSS WinterFest is an RSS webcast that went on over the last two days. Along with the webcast went a wiki a weblog and tons of other resources linked in through both of those. There are some great points brought up, and some points that I really don’t agree with... [Read More]

  • SF Weblogger Meetup

    Posted on January 22, 2004

    I went to the Weblogger Meetup in San Francisco last night, but only one other person showed up. I think that it just isn’t going to happen at all. During December lots of people showed cause the crew from Blogger.com were there. But besides the people that Jason Shellen invited,... [Read More]

  • Lively Discussion?

    Posted on January 21, 2004

    Last night I went to what I thought was a panel discussion at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. The event description claimed that Whitfield Diffie was going to moderate a discussion covering topics like untapped areas of the security market and the implications of shift to a risk analysis based model for... [Read More]

  • Social Entrepreneur

    Posted on January 19, 2004

    Joi Ito had a post yesterday that mentioned he thinks of himself as a “Social Entrepreneur”, and pointed to this definition at Stanford Business School. I found the commentary to be a pretty interesting overview of entrepreneurship in general. I’ve just discovered that I’m a huge Schumpeter fan, and now... [Read More]

  • Palm GPS Solutions

    Posted on January 19, 2004

    MyPalmLife reports today on a GPS solution from TomTom, and last week there was news about an option from Navman. Both of them seem to offer Bluetooth based GPS devices, which I would love to get my hands on to try out. Of course, I would be more interested in... [Read More]

  • Free RSS Webcast

    Posted on January 18, 2004

    There was an event close to where I lived about RSS, but I had to miss it. Looks like there’s a chance to make it up however, a webcast about RSS called RSS Winterfest. I signed up and I’ll probably drop in on some of the sessions. I wish they... [Read More]