• Balancing Work and Research

    Posted on January 4, 2004

    Today most of my time was taken up fooling around with getting the XMLRPC library for the Open Palm Environment at least chugging along. It’s shaping up pretty quick, but I know it will be at least a couple of days worth of work before I have it parsing actual... [Read More]

  • Multiple Device Software

    Posted on January 4, 2004

    There’s an entry in Tim O’Reilly’s blog regarding the evolution of software into systems that link together services running on multiple devices. I think would prove particularly beneficial for mobile computing. Personally, I don’t care for the sync-to-the-desktop model that devices like Palm handhelds try for. I would much rather... [Read More]

  • Go Text!!!

    Posted on January 3, 2004

    I knew that if I said something like this post at Gadgetopia I would just get accused of using it as an excuse to justify my very text-intensive site. But now that someone else has said it I have a foothold at least. Text rules!!! Graphics are nice, I just... [Read More]

  • Weblogger Meeting

    Posted on January 3, 2004

    Jason Shellen invites webloggers in the San Francisco area to come join up for lunch on Jan 6th. C’mon out and git yer geek on. I’ll be there.

  • Vent Cerf on the Future of the Internet

    Posted on January 3, 2004

    An article over at BBC provides information from Vint Cerf. Dr. Cerf has been involved with the Internet since the very beginning, and continues to remain active in steering activities. I found his comments interesting because he also seems to think that hooking all sorts of devices to the Internet... [Read More]

  • Personal Tracking Devices

    Posted on January 2, 2004

    There’s an article at textually.org, SMS ‘Smart Bracelet’ for Medical Emergencies, which made me think of the Wherify GPS watch and the planned project called Wheels of Zeus launched by Steve Wozniak. The world certainly seems to be converging on a “sensor network” view of computing, in terms of pervasive... [Read More]

  • Paul Saffo in Palo Alto

    Posted on January 2, 2004

    Paul Saffo is going to be speaking in Palo Alto on January 15th. I’ve read a few essays by Paul that I was impressed by, in particular his Failure is the Best Medicine piece from last year. This speech is supposed to focus on the role of media in the... [Read More]

  • Creative Destruction and Open Source

    Posted on January 1, 2004

    I’ve been reading Creative Destruction recently, and I just wanted to share some thoughts related to the points in the book, particularly with relation to open source. The title of the book is a reference to a concept which apparently seems to stem from Joseph Schumpeter. The idea is that... [Read More]

  • Bookmarklet and Sidebar for WordPress

    Posted on January 1, 2004

    There’s a post at TechGnome describing how to setup a Blog This bookmarklet and sidebar for WordPress. The WordPress forum responses seemed to indicate that there was some bookmarklet code included with WordPress already, but I haven’t been able to find it. This version seems to work, but this is... [Read More]

  • MozillaZine Year in Review for 2003

    Posted on January 1, 2004

    There’s an article at MozillaZine listing all the happenings month by month for the Mozilla project. I use Mozilla every day, I’m a Linux user and it’s my browser of choice. But I don’t have time to follow most of the goings on with the project. It does seem like... [Read More]