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.”

August 17, 2002

A Plan for Spam

Paul Graham has A Plan for Spam … “I think it’s possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it.” Sounds good to me!

August 13, 2002

Small Business Blogging

A quote from Dan Bricklin’s post about Small Biz Blogging : “An area where blogs can really shine is in crisis management. In addition to internal communications like normal project management, a public blog can be a major way to conduct effective communication with the public and press. Remember the Tylenol package tampering years back? Frequent forthright communication from a senior executive was crucial for maintaining public trust — it is the “textbook” case.”