No sooner do I get a Blackberry 8700c than reports appear of the Blackberry 8800, with several of the things that I really miss from my Treo 650 (camera, joystick trackball rather than thumbwheel, swappable memory card) and one feature whose time has come (WiFi). Plus it’s even thinner…. Oh well.
Read More Everything you buy is instantly obsoleteAll of the above are captured in this collection of pictures. Enjoy.
Read More Chris visiting, furniture, and weird fruit drinksAmazon uses Red Hat Linux for almost all of its servers and developer desktops – some lingering RH7.2, lots of RHEL3, an increasing amount of RHEL4 – and so I decided to play with the new Fedora Core 6 on my usually-WinXP laptop. Since my apartment network is entirely WiFi, I downloaded the 3.8GB ISO…
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Read More I guess I'm not in Boston any more….Olbermann tells it like it is. 10 minutes of straight talk about the politics of fear.
Read More Essential viewingDon’t watch this when you’re drinking or within reach of any sharp objects. As reported in Best Week Ever: The cast of The Times They Are A-Changin, the new Broadway musical featuring the music of Bob Dylan, dropped by The View this morning to butcher perform the classic song “Like A Rolling Stoneâ€.
Read More The horror, the horrorI’ve been getting a bit behind with my blog-reading (and blogging) for the last few days, mostly because Chris has been visiting. This evening I spent an hour or two catching up on my regular feeds, and then wandered over to Samizdata.net. Buried among a piece on the return of the Transport blog and a…
Read More Slouching towards a police state, one fingerprint at a timeAlec has been doing the email equivalent of dumpster diving, and the result is this delightful piece, covering the launch of www.sun.com and the attempts by Sun IT to beat back the rise of WWW traffic. It all seems so terribly quaint, doesn’t it?
Read More Ancient history (i.e. 12 years ago)The two hottest books for thinking persons are Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion (currently #2 at Amazon.com) and Andrew Sullivan’s The Conservative Soul. I don’t have a lot to say about Dawkins’ book, beyond noting that I admire and agree with almost all of it. (Check out his website for various comments, pro and con.)…
Read More Andrew Sullivan's one-dimensional analysisI just completed my first test of Flexcar, and I thought I’d write it up for fellow geeks. It’s a nice example of a business model that relies upon satellite data, cellular communications, and RFID technology. At about 1 o’clock this afternoon, I decided that I ought to go out to do some shopping before…
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