• 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]

  • The Open Palm Environment Project

    Posted on January 1, 2004

    I’m sure lots of people got shiny new Palm devices for whatever winter holiday it is they might celebrate. So I figured this would be a great time to pick back up the Open Palm Environment project. I started out by putting a page up as the home page at... [Read More]

  • 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]