Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

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

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 24, 2001

Buy more RAM now!
from CNN “Memory prices drop by 85 percent”
July 21, 2001

Scissoring the climbs
tips on dealing with those tough climbs on your mountain bike …
July 19, 2001

Third Voice + Open Source + RDF = Semantic Web
“Annotea is part of the W3C’s Semantic Web project, which aims to overhaul the basic language of the Web to make categorizing and describing online information faster and easier.”
July 18, 2001

Lance wins Stage 11 with the devil on his back?
I think this has to be the best picture from the Tour yet …
July 17, 2001

Go Lance!
it’s not over yet, but … “Lance Armstrong launched an explosive attack on the famed and feared Alpe d’Huez on Tuesday to take a spectacular victory on the 10th stage of the Tour de …
July 16, 2001

Procter & Gamble develops new products via Knowledge-sharing platform
Procter & Gamble “… recently began linking 18,000 research and development employees through a global intranet called InnovationNet.”
July 13, 2001

Portal Diversity
this article tries to breakdown and define the various portal offerings … it’s worth a read even if it’s a bit obvious is some cases.
July 10, 2001

P2P: Infiltrating the enterprise
From: Infiltrating the enterprise “Content networks are leading the charge to formalize p-to-p technologies to reduce corporate costs and increase collaboration”