• Yep, Earthquake

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I finally found the location on the USGS site that has realtime maps of earthquake activity, so I was able to verify the shaking that I felt. It still hasn’t shown up on the list of quakes, but at least the map there told me there was a big quake... [Read More]

  • Earthquake?

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I’m sitting here reading news and suddenly my monitor start swaying from side to side. Afraid my cheap cardtable/desk is about to give way I hop up, but feel unsteady on my feet. The blinds are swaying back and forth, and I can see the sliding doors on the closets... [Read More]

  • How to Get a Book Deal with Your Blog

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    Biz has a new article up at Blogger.com about how to get a book deal with your blog. It’s a great tongue in cheek article that makes for an amusing read, yet brings up some really relevant points at the same time. According to Biz he doesn’t have a real... [Read More]

  • Microcommunities

    Posted on December 21, 2003

    There’s an interesting entry in John Battelle’s blog about adding a blogging mechanism that allows readers to optionally expose their reading habbits so that others can somewhat “read over their shoulder” (my own term for it). I’ve been interested in this for a while, mostly looking it from the knowledge... [Read More]

  • ussp-push .deb and Bluetooth in General

    Posted on December 21, 2003

    Jim Bray hacked up the ussp-push tool I have up on unrooted.net and made a .deb out of it, should be a nice easy install path now. I made that available a long time ago, and apparently it’s still what people pick up pretty frequently. [Read More]

  • Fedora Linux Schedule

    Posted on December 20, 2003

    There’s a schedule posted at the Fedora site. Sure RedHat may have moved it’s support to only the enterprize versions, but I still think the Fedora version is going to rock. I just wish I had a test system free so that I could muck around with the new releases... [Read More]

  • 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]