Archive | 2003

MIT-Stanford Venture Lab:
“The explosive uptake of blogging, RSS feeds, and self-maintained
collaborative web platforms such as wikis are already having powerful
revolutionary effects on news and content delivery.” [Scripting News]

Don’t Expect a System to Behave Uniformly.
“Q. My Windows Me operating system rarely shuts down properly, and it
freezes and crashes about once a week. I have heard that this problem
is common with Me; should I upgrade to a different system?” By J. D.
Biersdorfer.

It strikes me as sad that the New York Times computer advice column can’t offer hope that a solution is available.

“Upgrading your computer to Windows XP might be one way to solve some of
your computer’s problems if you have the time, money, patience and
hardware to handle the task”

On the other hand, it might not.
 [New York Times: Technology]

A busy week at home is wrapping up with a 40% (forty percent!)
off sale at our favorite unfinished furniture store. Time to consider
replacing the cheap plastic-veener-over-particleboard with some solid
oak office furnture…

Off to Knoxville this afternoon. Y’all take care.

Spent a fun day away from the computer, starting with a trip to the
dump, er, transfer station, followed by a trip to the local hazardous
waste facility to dispose of a couple old computers, monitors and a
dead UPS (NOT aided by MapPoint, that had us take a route that ended in
a corn field and a turn that wasn’t there!). From there, we had a grand
circumnavigation (70 miles!) of Lake Winnepesaukee, the largest lake in
New Hampshire, and a place I fondly remember from several weekends at
my godparent’s cottage in the 60s and 70s. Lunch at the town docks in
Meredith, and a hike on the rail-trail in Wolfeboro, followed by ice
cream. Picture-perfect day, blue skies, blue lake, little traffic. The
joy of post-Labor Day summer.

Wondered why I couldn’t reach the site yesterday… “Feed Validator has
moved. The Feed Validator, previously located at
feeds.archive.org/validator/, now has its own domain:
feedvalidator.org. If you have any scripts, templates, or applications
that point to the Feed Validator, now would be a good time to update
them. (204 words)” [dive into mark]

It doesn’t get better than this., says Doc Searls.’ Christopher Lydon interviews Harold Bloom. If you want to know what blogging, and much more, is really about, give all three parts a listen. Great stuff.’ from The Doc Searls Weblog

Politically incorrect observations about Mac OS X and Windows.
“A few minutes ago, I had to hard-reset the TiBook I’m typing on. This
happens at least once every week or two. Some of these events have been
seemingly random, others I can almost — but not quite — reliably
reproduce. One happens (very rarely, just once or twice ever) when the
machine fails to wake from sleep. The other happens (much more often,
but by no means always) when, after switching Wi-Fi networks, I connect
to my Windows network. Meanwhile, my workhorse desktop machine running
Windows XP has yet to bluescreen. …” [Jon’s Radio]