• New MyPalmLife Site

    Posted on December 31, 2003

    The mobile computing site MyPalmLife has moved to its new home. Along with the new look, there are user forums as well. There’s usually quite a bit of interesting information there, and there are going to be three posters for the blog so that’ll probably even increase some. I particularly... [Read More]

  • New Board Members for Wireless Ink

    Posted on December 31, 2003

    I just met with Dave from Wireless Ink just a few days ago, so I admit I had a tip off to look for some interesting news from them. They’ve just announced that they’ve added Howard Rheingold and Adam Greenfield to their Advisory Board. I would be happy just to... [Read More]

  • PDA Friendly Web Sites

    Posted on December 30, 2003

    There’s an article at PalmInfocenter.com about PDAPortal.us. PDAPortal is a collection of sites with content formatted in a way that displays well on PDA screens. Very convenient. I’ll have to try using this portal to look for sites instead of using the scripts I was using to massage content into... [Read More]

  • Back Home

    Posted on December 30, 2003

    I’m back in the Bay Area, just taking the train back from the San Jose airport. I had a good trip, and managed to pack in some interesting business activities around the family gatherings. I brought a new book and a few recommended readings back with me. I’ll have a... [Read More]

  • Out of Town

    Posted on December 27, 2003

    I’m going to be out of town till Tuesday some time, I think I forgot to mention that. I might post every once in a while, but in general it’ll probably be a few days before I really have a chance to comment. I’m visiting with some people while I’m... [Read More]

  • Opening up Commenting

    Posted on December 25, 2003

    I had commenting turned off by default, but I’ve decided to turn it on for a while and see what happens. I had it off originally because there seem to be so many problems with blog spam. But there seem to be quite a few people reading now, and I... [Read More]

  • Alpha Release of MySQL 5.0

    Posted on December 25, 2003

    There’s an alpha release of MySQL 5.0 available. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I use MySQL quite a bit, so I’ll hop on this one pretty soon. This new release includes support for stored procedures, which is one of the commonly sighted shortfalls of MySQL according to business... [Read More]

  • Year End Roundup at textually.org

    Posted on December 24, 2003

    There’s an entry at textually.org linking together the 10 year end posts. I’ve been reading the info at textually and picturephoning on a regular basis, they have great coverage. This year end summary provides a great opportunity to spin through the top items of the year and review ones I... [Read More]

  • What is Blogging All About?

    Posted on December 23, 2003

    There’s an Entry in Seth Finkelstein’s blog pondering why it is that people keep blogs. He mentions some of the common reasons in there, like exposure to a new audience if you’re running a business related blog, and the simple need to communicate which is fulfilled by a daily diary.... [Read More]