Month: July 2003
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Coit Tower
During an early dinner on July 4th, I took several family snapshots. I threw in this landscape shot just because, and to see how it would turn out. 4 megapixels isn’t enough to replace film, but it’s getting there. Taken near Hyde and Chestnut in San Francisco. WARNING: The full picture is about 1MB, and…
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Can you do two things…
This New York Times story “The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive?” feels like an old story. Technology lets us stay ‘always on’ and all of us, especially business folks, are taking advantage of the opportunity… perhaps without any true productivity benefit. If you’ve read James Gleick’s Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, written…
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MOVIE: Whalerider
With some helpful babysitting from the in-laws, we rushed out to see Whalerider. This movie is set in New Zealand, among the Maori. Good story, well told, mostly about how family and cultural relations mix (or don’t). Originally a book (which I’ve neither read nor heard of), Whalerider was quick and beautiful. By quick, I…
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I’ve slept better
Mild understatement. P is not sleeping well. No surprise. Argh. Back to bed, if not to sleep.
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One of many articles on…
What is not mentioned in this post about kissing up to Google-bot is that these are generally good guidelines for usability. Maybe not hard and fast rules, but you won’t go wrong with these. The only one that really bothers me is Radio’s use of the same title tag for each page/post. I know there…
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Ozzie posts again
Ray Ozzie just posted an essay called Extreme Mobility. Starting with the ascendancy of laptops over desktops, he goes on to discuss (software) architectures that support mobility, with different types of mobility explained. Interesting piece, with no direct applicability to my life right now, but worth noting.
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Whose opinion counts?
July 3, 2003 New York Times article Opinions to Spare? Click Here The article goes on about how people are getting paid to participate in online surveys, which are becoming more economical for those looking to measure the pulse of public opinion about issues or products/services. Beyond the economics (data collection and analysis is automated,…
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House calls… for your bicycle
I like this idea: a bicycle repairmain who makes housecalls. Found via Chuq, which I found via Scoble.
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Feedster and rssSearch merge
This merger of two RSS search engines happened nearly two weeks ago, but I missed it. I think Feedster was a one-man band: “Although Feedster admittedly started as a “Wouldn’t this be cool technology experiment”, Feedster is now a real business…” rssSearch, admittedly, wasn’t much bigger, but interesting to see an idea move from hobby…
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Giraffes [1]
From a quick visit yesterday afternoon to the San Francisco Zoo, two giraffes (click thumbnail for full-size image). About time I added an image here, although it will be rare. When family goes home, I won’t have time for so much noodling around here.