• Piracy Hurts Open Source

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    There’s an article at Gadgetopia in response to a discussion about piracy and the general economic effects. The discussion centers around the inflated numbers that are thrown around by commercial developers in order to justify the laws they need to get passed. Some interesting points are raised, especially that most... [Read More]

  • Understanding Open Source

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    There’s an article at Groklaw by the General Counsel of Red Hat Inc. about what exactly open source software is, the groundings of open source in copyright law, and how those rights are managed by open source licenses to enact the different goals embodied in different types of open source... [Read More]

  • Kannel Open Source WAP/SMS Gateway

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    I was wandering around looking for info about why it is that my old Palm m515 doesn’t work with some WAP sites, and I ran across Kannel, an open source WAP and SMS gateway. I still haven’t figured out what the hell the deal is with the Palm, but at... [Read More]

  • Stanford Pilot Users Group

    Posted on January 5, 2004

    The Stanford Palm Users Group meets on the first Tuesday of each month, the next meeting is Jan 6th 2004. The page for it isn’t regularly updated, but the group is alive. I know a lot of you probably got cool new toys to play with this holiday. Come on... [Read More]

  • 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]