The Ghost in Your Machine
Business Week interview with Chris Forsythe of Sandia about cognitive machines. The Sandia news release is pretty interesting as well....
August 2003 archives
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Community Books
There is a local San Francisco project where people can share books and videos. "The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area." Seems interesting and worth checking out. I posted most of my books online tonight. It was pretty simple to enter a ISBN and have the author, genre, and even a review from Amazon filled out for you....
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WiFi in retail business
Today's New York Times covers the use of wireless technology to improve retail experiences....
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Toyota Prius parks itself
Toyota plans to release an optional feature for its Prius cars sold in Japan, according to Wired coverage. "A car will probably always require a driver for liability reasons." A lot of people are uncomfortable with parallel parking, especially in tight spots, or a spot on the driver's side. Although the article mentions the price tag as a downfall, I know some people who pay for a parking spot just so they do not have to parallel park....
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FeedDemon gets top mark
ExtremeTech reviewed 6 RSS readers and gave FeedDemon the top mark (8 out of 10). "the Cadillac of RSS readers." Congrats Nick! I am a regular user and even mentioned the product in Spider Hacks. I should participate more in the newsgroups to make this a really good app....
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James Gosling: on the Java road…
James Gosling : One of the nice things about developing in Java on the MAC is that you get to develop on a lovely machine. I thought James would be using something like the SPARCLE....
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Henry Hunan Weblogger Dinner
Anyone for a Chinese dinner at Henry Hunan's next Saturday? So far it looks like at least Dave Winer and Scoble will be there....
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Career Calculus
Eric Sink has some really good analysis of looking at acquired knowledge over a career span. I agree that learning over time is vitally important, there needs to be someone there to realize the value of your cluefulness. There are also free ways to increase cluefulness. I look to user groups and their SIGs. Java user group, Microsoft regional site. If you are interested in more San Francisco Bay area resources let me know. I check out conferences in the area I may be able to browse during a lunch break or an evening. Exhibition passes and keynotes are usually...
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Motion Hardtop Keyboard
Motion Computing has a new keyboard available that allows for a docked slate. Looks more flimsy than my Compaq dock, but much better than the standalone keyboard. Last month on a flight from Chicago I sat next to someone with an M1300. We compared Tablets, what we look for in a notebook, and our frustrations with the first generation technology. He was playing a balancing act with his keyboard propping up his slate as it moved around. I envied his 12.1" screen and he envied my battery life and dock. I just lost my dock edge....
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Higher level programming
Over the past few weeks I have been thinking about the current state of programming. Languages seem to be more and more designed for high level interaction with the heavy lifting done at the compiler level. This allows for bad programmers to not do things that will be too harmful. At the same time it allows for sloppy and imprecise code. Most people do not consider clock cycles, memory usage, or disc usage writing code or designing a database. Embedded systems like a cell phone may be different. The use of an int to store a Gregorian year value. String...
