July 26, 2001

Increasingly Cross-Trusted Variable Groupware

July 26, 2001

Damn, the Internut never ceases to amaze me

currently you can buy a Webvan stock certificate for $510 on eBay! more here: “Webvan, Drkoop stocks winners–on eBay”

July 26, 2001

Distributed file systems

found this post about Microsoft’s Farsite on Geeknews, but it sounds a lot like Ian Clarke’s “distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system” (i.e. Freenet)

July 25, 2001

Slashdot: TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along

hey … i think i know this guy … found on Slashdot: jfruhlinger writes: “The San Francisco Chronicle ran this story about the very first laptop, and the fact that it’s still in use by non-hobbyists. It’s biggest selling point is apparently its indestructable nature.”

July 25, 2001

Tenth Star Trek film lands a director

“Director Stuart Baird (“U.S. Marshals,” “Executive Decision”) has signed on to shoot the 10th installment of the “Star Trek” feature franchise.” From: Tenth “Trek” beams up director

July 24, 2001

Google gets a rival from Jersey

And it’s not a Soprano … New Jersey “technology company Hawk Holdings has launched an internet search engine called Teoma which is set to rival favourite Google.”

July 24, 2001

Penny sized CDs from Princeton

found on Geeknews: “Stephen Chou …a Princeton University electrical engineer has created CDs that can concentrate data 800 times more efficiently than current discs.” [more here]

July 24, 2001

Buy more RAM now!

from CNN “Memory prices drop by 85 percent”

July 24, 2001

People stay in line at DMV after man defecates on floor

after spending a few hours at the DMV yesterday i’m certainly not surprised by this

July 21, 2001

Scissoring the climbs

tips on dealing with those tough climbs on your mountain bike …

Scissoring “…works because of the bodys far greater mass (five or six times that of the bike) and the momentum gained by standing up to lurch the bike forward with the arms. Once youve mastered it youll find yourself cleaning those steepest final parts of climbs that stopped you cold before.”