Year: 2003
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Beautiful Saturday
Start with visiting the farmers market at the Ferry Building to start the day. Visit CompUSA (which I hate) to see a Tablet PC in person with my father. Only one Tablet PC available, and so anti-theft-proofed that it was impossible to really demo. Oh well… but wandering around, we found the Logitech Io digital…
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Backlash cycle moving ever faster
New ideas, products, and services grow in the public consciousness very quickly now, but what I find more interesting is how quickly the backlash against the hype sets in. The most recent example is WiFi. For the last year or so, it’s been the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now, the backlash begins, with a…
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Is the Tablet PC really a computer for my father?
I don’t know if my father, who’s supported my computer habit from an early age, will ever really use a computer. He’s just begun using email, with assistance. The hardest part (well, there are many hard parts) is the typing. Meaning, he doesn’t. Here’s someone who more eloquently describes the problem: There’s one milestone in…
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Choices
Run? (nope) Nap? (nope) Catch up on work? (a little) Play with son? (some) Watch days-old daughter so wife can have a life? (some) Put photos of new baby online? (not yet) Pay bills? (yes) Blog? (a little 😉 This is (sort of) my time off from work. If time == the only true currency,…
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Excitement != business opportunity (RSS)
I’m excited about how RSS has changed my reading habits, but the growing fervor hasn’t yet convinced me there is a new business opportunity here. Maybe if you’re an independent software developer (think Ranchero.com or Bradsoft.com), and you can move faster than Microsoft’s Outlook team. But… really something large here? We’ll see. I’m wondering whether…
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BOOK: The Hours
While at the hospital, I finally finished The Hours, by Michael Cunningham. More famous, I think, for being made into a movie than anything else, but that’s not fair to a Pulitzer Prize winner, I guess — even if Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore were the leads. I didn’t enjoy the book. It…
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Start again
We’re home with Paton now, and it’s time to start again. This time, we know how it works with a new baby, but a few things are different. Most of all, Benjamin is here, and we’re trying to weave him into the Paton picture, and vice versa. Also, Paton will probably be different, although these…
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Welcome, Paton!
Paton Donahoe Roberts arrived this morning. She’s healthy, and so is her mother.
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Simple search = not so…
More on search from Tim Bray last night. Very short, on a topic I’d like to hear more about from him, based on his experience. I know something about this topic from the user end and the product end, if not the technology end, since I worked on the now un-lamented Snap.com / NBCi.com back…
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Skip the essay, check out the software
Someone on the on the online-news mailing list pointed out that Scopeware offers Vision Search, which is what Gelertner was talking about as an interface (screenshot). Scopeware is by Mirror Worlds Technologies, Gelertner’s company. Fueled by the research and writings of Dr. David Gelernter, world-renowned Yale professor and our Chief Scientist, and Dr. Eric Freeman,…