January 19, 2003

Converting an XBox into a PVR and more

“Project Dreamix will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center” (via SlashDot)

January 19, 2003

The TrackBack Flavors

I’ve been scratching my head for the last few days trying to make sense of all the latest TrackBack derivatives, but thanks to Ben Hammersley I can finally put them all into perspective.

Wonderful job!

January 18, 2003

Cold Ride

With the current North East cold spell, here’s something to put in perspective …

“Adventurer Doug Stoup is preparing to be the first person to cycle to the South Pole.”

“Stoup, a 37-year-old from sunny Florida, is currently in Antarctica testing a custom-built ice bicycle he hopes to use for a run at the pole next year.”

However, that’s a sweet ride!

January 17, 2003

YourMom.com has a new home

All right, I’ll admit it … I own the domain YourMom.com. I’ve had the domain and web site for a number of years. It’s a long story how I acquired the domain, but suffice it to say, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to own yourmom.com (ok, bad joke ;).

Anyway, your mom’s past hosting provider went belly up so she now has a new provider. However, I also used this move as an opportunity to port the site to a completely new code base and scripting language. It went a lot smoother than I expected thanks to the wonderful phpLinks, which is essentially a PHP/MySQL-based web link portal management application that I tweaked a bit to manage the hundreds of your mom jokes for the YM site.

January 16, 2003

Cheap DIY Tablet PC

Wei-Meng Lee and Brian Jepson over @ O’Reilly detail how to convert your Laptop into a Tablet PC (cheaply!)

January 15, 2003

Taxomita: web-based authoring application

This isn’t released yet, but … “Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the web.”

January 15, 2003

Digital Camera Chronicles

Derrick Story starts his first in an ongoing series of photo essays demonstrating how to get the most out of your digital camera (Thanks John)

January 15, 2003

Trackback threading

Ben Hammersley is testing trackback threading. Should be interesting.

January 14, 2003

Social Networking and FOAF

Ben Hammersley talks about FOAF in an article published in the Guardian: “Our online cocktail parties will be instantly mapped by who knows who, and our business relationships might just get a little more transparent (imagine knowing who your colleagues all know – what an interesting change that might be).”

I’ve had my FOAF file for a few weeks now, yet I haven’t made any new connections with it so far. So, feel free to link to my FOAF (http://www.hatch.org/static/foaf.xrdf) I’d love to see it in action.

January 13, 2003

Portable WiFi sniffer

iDetect Technology: “Wi-Fi Sniffer, WFS-1, detects Wi-Fi availability by the press of a button. No longer do you have to boot up your laptop or walk around with your laptop turned on, hence reducing the risk of hard drive crashes. Pressing the button on the Wi-Fi
Sniffer will tell you whether access is available.”