Don’t just think outside the box… use it for kindling…
July 31, 2005
Tenatively christened as 2003UB313, this will potentially become the 10th planet. It was discovered by Michael Brown from CalTec. Its quite a commute to this new planet some 1.5 times the size of Pluto — the distance meter will register at least 9.7 billion miles from the sun! Don’t forget, we Earthlings live more than [...]
July 30, 2005
If I were lucky enough to have another camera fall in my lap, I’d go for the Epson RD-1 — an entry-level digital rangefinder. Sure, a $3K USD body is a little steep, but go price out the classic Leica M 50mm f/1.0 Noctilux M Manual glass and see what it takes to get it [...]
July 27, 2005
Paramedics will turn to a victim’s cell phone for clues to that person’s Identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE. Check out this real-life rescue story at Firehouse.com. "ICE" stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry [...]
July 25, 2005
Weeks after all the other carriers posted their Treo 650 updates, Cingular finally gets off the dime… Get it while its hot! Street says the new firmware is much more stable, but better — memory reclaimation of 5-7MB!!!
Get it while its hot — Liferay’s 3.5 portal platform is now available on Sourceforge.net! Enjoy… Reminder — for the impatient, you’ll need to rename/zap LEP35_HOME/common/endorced/xml-apis.jar in order for the Tomcat quickstart bundle to run. Ok, now enjoy…
July 23, 2005
Canon has finally fessed up and is repairing their BG-E2 grips (and BGM-E2 magazine, though nobody actually uses that since a 20D burns throuh six AAs in about 20 pics). This has been discussed for months. Its about time…
July 19, 2005
There was a telling story in the current issue of Fortune magazine titled, "CAN AMERICANS COMPETE? Is America the World’s 97-lb. Weakling?" that points a bleak, evolving story about our ability to compete in the world market. Strike one… The same week there was a article on CareerBuilder.com entitled, "Chinese Growth May Mean Change for [...]
July 18, 2005
You know I’ve been too busy when I’m just getting around to updating my Linux boxen to Suse Linux 9.3 Professional! This distro rulz and its only gotten better since Novell picked them up a few years ago.
The hot topic last week in the blog universe was the study published by the Catalyst Group, interestingly named "Net Range", A Study of the Bogs and Usability. Basically, it stated that most blogs suck, and then go into 20 pages or so detailing it out. While its mostly correct, it makes the fundamental mistake [...]
