Essays and everything else
Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.
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October 31, 2002
Giving WiFi equipment away?
This article on CNet almost sounds like it’s from 1999: “The nation’s oldest “hot spot” network plans to give away Wi-Fi equipment starting Friday, in an aggressive push to …
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October 31, 2002
Woof! Can you hear me now?
This is a fascinating article from NY Times: “A dog collar equipped with a wireless microphone that records a pet’s barks, interprets them as emotions and transmits them as text …
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October 31, 2002
Raising Jack
John starts blogging pre-Jack: 10 days until the baby’s due date … kind-a like vapor-real-ware ;-)
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October 31, 2002
Brian Kernighan in Princeton
Brian Kernighan (Unix, C, Bell Labs fame) has set “to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts undergraduates at Princeton.” Damn … that would be a cool course to …
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October 31, 2002
POPFile – Automatic Email Classification
I must add this to my to-test list: “POPFile is an email classification system that has a Naive Bayes text classifier and a POP3 proxy. It works with any mail client using POP3.”
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October 31, 2002
The UltraPod II
After reading Top Ten Digital Photography Tips on O’Reilly I picked up The UltraPod II tripod and I must say that it is indeed a “compact, versatile, ingenious device”. In fact, I …
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October 28, 2002
Fun with faces
Eric Myer Photography: Stereotypes
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October 28, 2002
Affordable networked set-top box?
“PRISMIQ has developed a high-end yet affordable networked set-top box that supports your personal media (such as MP3s and digital photos), digital television, IP-based video on …
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October 27, 2002
Wedding ;
Wow … less than two weeks to go before our wedding and it seems like there are still more things to plan… eek!
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October 26, 2002
Outlaw the GPL?
“An attack on the software license behind the Linux operating system has stirred up a free software controversy in Washington.” Congressman Criticized For Attacking Free Software …