• Interview with Alan Cox

    Posted on December 20, 2003

    There’s an interview with Alan Cox at ITWales.com. He talks about patent law in Europe and open source for businesses. If he ends up doing user interface work instead of kernel work when he goes back to RedHat it could be really interesting. Projects like Gnome and KDE are rolling... [Read More]

  • Coffeehouses and the Internet Compared

    Posted on December 20, 2003

    There was a link to this article in Evan Williams blog. It takes a look at the social, political, and scientific networking which was commonly done in coffeehouses, and compares that interaction with what currently happens through the Internet. I had heard plenty about the use of coffeehouses as seats... [Read More]

  • Cellular Billing Advances

    Posted on December 19, 2003

    There’s an article at TheFeature describing the challenges in billing presented by cellular services trying to create personalized service packages. It sounds like a great solution that Portal Software has come up with, but I still think this is a step in the wrong direction. I just don’t want my... [Read More]

  • Examples of Cameraphone Uses

    Posted on December 19, 2003

    There’s an article at picturephoning.com about how some small businesses are using cameraphones to save themselves time and money. Excellent concrete examples to site for certain industries. There’s an obvious benefit for contractors, who can snap pictures of trouble spots and either get customer or third party feedback. Great example.... [Read More]

  • Bay Area Linux Events

    Posted on December 19, 2003

    I’ve been poking around quite a bit lately looking for interesting events in and around Menlo Park (where I live), and I finally found the Bay Area Linux Events listing. It’s probably something I should have known about as soon as I moved into the area, but I’ve been living... [Read More]

  • Updates at Weblogs.com

    Posted on December 17, 2003

    There’s a few news items at weblogs.com, including an announcement about moving the server to a new location. The service does seem to be a lot quicker, but that could just be subjective. There are also some other items about additional features and problems with some users who seem to... [Read More]

  • Interesting Uses for Cameraphones

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    There’s an article over at picturephoning.com listing lots of interesting applications involving cameraphones. This is the kind of stuff that cellular providers should be showing in their ads. And I’m sure there’s more intersting stuff on the way, such as the SENT show scheduled to open up 2004. I had... [Read More]

  • Online Writing Style

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this page on the Inverted Pyramid writing style before, but it was still interesting to read. It describes the atributes of good journalistic articles, which are written in a way that encourage the reader to stop whenever they get bored. Instead of writing a story... [Read More]

  • Open Source Available in Public Libraries

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    There’s an article at NewsForge about the effort that Bob Kerr has made to get open source software into public libraries. The article serves as a great example of how the challenges of promoting wider open source adoption can be overcome. Plus I think the cause itself is fantastic. Bob... [Read More]

  • Rapid Prototyping Approach to Software

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    I was getting ready a couple of blog posts on the topic of rapid prototyping, but decided instead to put the information on a permanent page on the Bitsplitter site. The information is apparently pretty randomly organized, but I still wanted to put it up. I think it’s a pretty... [Read More]