June 27, 2001

Messaging technology offers new options to widen Web

i must be missing something because this article talks about Juice and KnowNow as if they are doing something special by using “messaging technology” to facilitate enterprise application integration … to me it sounds a lot like a framework for web services. am i wrong?

June 26, 2001

1GB Storage device

ya know you want one of these … too bad you can’t use it during a concert encore ;-)

June 24, 2001

Play Atari on your cell phone

try this one while driving … “British mobile phone developer iFone is planning to put versions of classic Atari computer games on future mobile phones.”

From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Back to the future for Atari games

June 21, 2001

Triumph of the Weblogs

Kevin Werbach mentions us in the latest issue of Release 1.0 (thanks kev!)

June 19, 2001

A Taxonomy of Computer Systems and Different Topologies: Standalone to P2P

Dan Bricklin has started a good primer on P2P vocabulary and how it fits into the computing world.

June 18, 2001

Better than Google?

“Vivisimo’s clustering technology is based on a specially developed algorithm to group or “cluster’’ textual documents … The output is a clear and hierarchical folder structure, allowing users to avoid “link overload’’ and to click only on the specific category of information that they need.”

From: Vivisimo Search Engine Developed at Carnegie Mellon

June 15, 2001

Doh! is now a word according to Oxford

Doh! this is no joke, the following is quoted from the Oxford English Dictionary

doh, int. colloq. — “Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derog.): implying that another person has said or done something foolish (cf. DUH int.).”

“1952 A. BUCKERIDGE Jennings & Darbishire ixii. 183 Doh! An anguished gasp of exasperation rang out loud and clear as Mr Wilkins found his voice again. 1989 Beano 11 Feb. 23 (caption) [Speaker is a man who is knocked against a bus stop.] Doh! 1991 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Friday) H, The movie had one good point: It wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen. It was the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Doh! 1993 HP Professional (Nexis) July 28 Along their long path ISO sort of missed local area networks and network management, which gave the market over to TCP/IP and related technologies. As Homer Simpson would say: Doh! 1996 A. FEIN et al. Simpsons Comics strike Back! 14/2 Look out, you dern fool! You’re gonna cut off your… D’oh!!! 1998 N. JONES Hollyoaks (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 256 44 Cindy: What are we doing here, anyway? Paul: Doh! Use your head, eh?”

June 14, 2001

Best Exercise That’s Also Fun: Mountain Biking

ha! as if we didn’t know … so, who’s up for a ride?

from Men’s Health: “Mountain biking uses tons of energy and tons of muscles and takes a ton of balls, and you aren’t even aware of what it’s doing for your body. A 180-pound guy mountain-biking for an hour will burn almost 700 calories. Bring the mountain to you: Mountain biking has a fitness payoff even when you have no mountain handy. Hit the flat road. Riding a mountain bike takes about a third more effort than riding a road bike, largely because of the increased rolling resistance from the fatter tires and the increased weight of the bike. So if your time is limited and you have a choice of bikes, it’s always better to choose the mountain bike, even if you’ll be riding it on the road. Riding 12 miles on fat tires is the equivalent of doing 15 on skinny.”

June 14, 2001

Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides

NSA released their Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guidese. the site includes INF security configuration templates for the security configuration editor and PDF white papers on windows security.

June 13, 2001

SmartTags, a trigger for hypocrisy

finally, a realistic commentary about microsoft’s new proposed SmartTags feature