Day 2 of Gnomedex and so far so good. Nelson Minar had a good speech on an overview of Google, but was nothing I did not know already. Learning more about AdSense was something new for me. Cost per click and past click relevancy are both used to determine page position. Nelson hopped on IRC for the rest of the day, but I couldn't find him at the Meet the Speakers part of the day. Eric Sink was interesting, and reaffirmed that I want to take a look at C#. Rob Malda was great, and unscripted. Met the wife. They…
MIT Media Lab has a new geiger counter-style device that scans a barcode and emits noise based on a database query for environmental and corporate ethics. Pretty cool!…
Today was Microsoft's day-long brieifing of financial analysts. Lots of information out there, and I have not read through or watched any of it yet. Visual Studio 2005 is code named Orcas? Must be a Pacific Northwest thing. I need Whidbey so I can code for Longhorn….
I was hoping that the Veo Traveler for Pocket PC would work with my Tablet. After contacting their sales department I find out that no, it will not work. I have a flap over my USB connectors, so even if I did find something like the Paceblade camera I would have to bend back the cover. PC Card slot and CF slot are exposed, so I am trying to find a camera to attach there….
Creative has a new mobile WebCam with swivel that docks to the top of a laptop screen (or in my case, my Tablet). Smaller than an iSight, but with Windows drivers, and a third of the cost. Still looking for mobile still capture for my Tablet….
I have had my new Compaq Tablet PC for a little over a week now. I have an 802.11b network set up at home with 128-bit WEP and MAC address security. I bring my Tablet to work with me every day. My company is worried about having any devices it has not fully configured hooked up to its network, so I am not able to take advantage of wireless Internet, or any Internet, at work. The best use for my Tablet is loading something on the device and bringing it with me to someone's office to illustrate the code,…
Jerry Springer plans to run for Senate in Ohio. Why he has taken bought airtime for 30 minute infomercials in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, San Antonio and New York I have no idea. Seems like a publicity stunt that will not amount to anything….
Microsoft paid for a study comparing Windows Server 2003 running .Net Framework 1.1 against IBM Websphere (J2EE) on Red Hat and what I am guessing is Solaris….
Fortune magazine has an article in this month's issue about how researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center have come up with new data heuristics models such as the Web Graph Structure to analyze thought trends in text. Researchers are put before clients to drum up revenue and learn about big problems with big revenue potentials. Sounds like a good place to work, with some really interesting projects….
The New York Times (free registration required) has a good article today summarizing the rumored buyout of Sun. Since the rumors first surfaced on May 9 Sun shares have been trading at about four times historical volume. Seems like something is up and maybe it's just a matter of JavaOne before we know what it is. As a member of the Java Community Process I am especially concerned….
A team from Stanford has come up with new enhancements to what the world commonly knows as PageRank. They discovered that 80% of the pages on any given site point to other pages on the same site. Topic specific PageRank can become a reality, which definitely has huge possibilities for business intelligence applications….
What's for lunch at Google today? Google is open about allowing employees to work on outside projects, or even heavily swayed R&D within the organization. How many companies do you know would except a failure rate at the expense of a production line? It is nice to see management thinking in terms of leaps and bounds and not inches….
I attended a presentation by Sun Microsystems tonight and saw an implementation of Grokker by Groxis, Inc. Very interesting client rendering design. At 20 MB on top of a Java Runtime Environment I am curious to look at the APIs when they become available….
