October 24, 2002

Nigerian Spam

I think it’s scary that, according to this Slate article referencing that Nigerian spam message that you’ve no doubt seen (and deleted) at least once today, “enough people fork over enough cash to sustain an industry that ranks in Nigeria’s top five” … Wow!

October 22, 2002

Folding@Home Reports Success

Read the first post in the Slashdot thread and I bet it’s your first thought as well :-)

October 21, 2002

Download your dreams

Interesting Slashdot thread about downloading the human mind … I can never remember my dreams, and I’ve always wanted to be able to download them so I can review them later — kind of like a Tivo for the mind!

October 21, 2002

Racer X

Mount an X10 wireless cam to your nitro-powered R/C car, sit back and enjoy the ride :-)

October 20, 2002

Interpersonal Information Manager

Looks like Mitch Kapor is up to something again: “The software is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers.” [more here]

October 19, 2002

Nice!

Well, this is my first post using Michel Tidakada’s b2 blogging tool and I must say, I like it. Nice work!

I’d also like to thank my buddy John Federico for the server space … man, this server rocks!

September 25, 2002

WiFi Trek badges

Found this one on Boing Boing and I can just imagine the commercial with the never afraid of crass commercialism William Shatner saying ….“Scotty … Can you hear me now?”

“WiFi Trek Badges” — The Vocera Communications System consists of Vocera Server Software, residing on a customer premise server, and Vocera Communications Badges, which operate over a wireless LAN (802.11b). The badge – which weighs less than 2 ounces – includes a microphone and speaker, LCD readout to display text messages, and an 802.11b wireless radio. It can be clipped to a shirt pocket or collar, or worn on a lanyard."

September 18, 2002

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | And now, Hitchhiker the movie

“Cult novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to be turned into a Hollywood movie .”

September 17, 2002

DVD 2 PC

Or perhaps this one … “Oak Technology demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum last week a prototype that uses a recently approved communications specification to transform a commercially available DVD player into a connected part of a home network. The setup lets the DVD player access digital media files, such as digital video, images and audio, that are stored on a PC” [ more here]

September 17, 2002

PlayStation 2 gets TiVo-like functions

From CNET : “Sony’s PlayStation 2 video game console will gain TiVo-like video functions with software to be announced Monday by two start-ups.”