April 23, 2003

Geo IP Stalking

SideBit’s Project
Locate IP will try to figure out where an IP is physically located.
It worked fairly well in my tests.

April 22, 2003

Jazz Legend Nina Simone dies at 70

Ms. Simone, we will certainly miss you. And yes, you indeed, moved us all.

“Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France.”

More news below…

Jazz-Soul Singer Nina Simone Dies in France – MSNBC
Nina Simone dies at 70 – Reuters
Nina Simone Tributes – BBC
Nina Simone Dies – Rolling Stone
Jazz Soul Veteran Nina Simone Dies – Launch
Nina Simone Dies – Fredericksburg
Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70 – MTV
Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies – New York Times

Read and listen to more of Nina Simone’s inspiring
body of work

April 21, 2003

IT business analyst or IT business technologist

Interesting article in eWeek about IT business
analyst:

“…an IT business analyst acts as a liaison between non-IT
employees who have a business problem to solve and the IT department, which
is charged with finding the solution.”

Of course this is a self-serving comment from me, but I certainly agree that
this is a key position in the enterprise.

(Thanks Ted for sending me the link [where’s your blog ;-])

April 21, 2003

Keyboarding: Going Virtical

In a follow-up to my post about the Evolution of interfaces I found this article in ExtremeTech (via BoingBoing) about a vertical keyboard that helps prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI):

“… the vertical placement of the keyboard allows the user to type while keeping the forearms in a neutral position (with the thumbs up). With a standard flat keyboard, in order to type the hands are rotated so that the palms are parallel with the floor (this is called a “pronated” position). In the pronated position, the bones in the forearm twist with the wrist and scissor. This scissoring of the bones causes extra pressure to be forced upon the Carpal Tunnel.”

April 20, 2003

New version of blogger: Dano?

Looks like Blogger is gearing up to release a new version called Dano.

There’s not much info right now other than a short FAQ, but more info should be available shortly (according to the site).

Heh, I also realized that I have a few months worth of old blog posts at blogger. Hmm, it might be worth importing into b2.

April 19, 2003

Ride?

Ahh, looks like a great day for a spring mountain bike ride! I went yesterday, but
today it seems like the trails are just screaming for me to come back!

April 18, 2003

To TiVo and beyond

I think it’s safe to assume that Brad Choate really-really likes his TiVo. However, he has made some interesting points about TiVo’s future uses:

“I also expect that weÂ’ll be using the TV for video e-mail and home-to-home video conferencing. ThatÂ’s a killer application waiting to happen. Something that would drive a market to broadband faster than Superman puts on his tights.”

April 17, 2003

Evolution of interfaces

Some good reads about the current state of web-based interfaces, keyboarding and where they all started…

(via Doc and Don)

April 16, 2003

AOL Spam Fighter, Spammer or Both?

Even though I applaud AOL’s recent Spam lawsuits, catbird points out the irony:

“As much as I detest spam, I am having trouble cheering for a company that sends me unsolicited CDs in expensive and non-biodegradable tin cases every month. Which is worse, email spam or polluting the earth with waste?”

April 16, 2003

Grassroots knowledge management

Well said from McGee’s Musings about blogs and KM:

“Knowledge work, on the other hand, depends on extracting maximum advantage out of the unique characteristics and experiences of each knowledge worker. Knowledge management, from this perspective, has to be a decentralized, grassroots, activity. If you accept that premise, the promise of weblogs in knowledge management becomes clearer. Weblogs operate on grassroots assumptions by design.”