Year: 2006
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Are there any successes in the analog displays of digital information?
One of my worst purchases ever? The Ambient Executive Dashboard. This device, with its three faceplates, and swinging indicators, promised to open up analog, real-world display of information which is normally constrained (not locked) in digital arenas. The problems? First, the device’s wireless coverage was miserable, in an office building in the heart of San…
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Which webhost would you use?
I’m not satisfied with my current webhost, TextDrive.com, and I’m looking for suggestions/alternatives. TextDrive has provided good support, mostly, and the $25/month for shared hosting is reasonable, though clearly not the cheapest out there. I have a handful of domains (<10), and pencoyd.com, running clock is the only active one. The 2GB storage and 10GB/month…
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Movie: X2: X-Men United
I watched X2: X-Men United mid-week on DVD. The impetus was the release of the third X-Men movie. Although box office numbers have been great for the one in theaters now, I don’t want to see it without having seen both of the previous films. Pretty solid film. Magneto (Ian McKellen) is quite a villain,…
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Book: Shadow of the Giant
During Memorial Day weekend, I finished Orson Scott Card’s final novel in the Ender series, Shadow of the Giant. Ender himself is almost nowhere in this novel, as Bean is once more the lead character. The spotlight is shared with Peter (the Hegemon) as post-alien war Earth continues to shake out. As an exercise in…
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Video chat with more than just Macs
I’m a huge iSight fan, and I’ve converted three other family members (though it wasn’t hard). The more challenging video chat issue remains going between my Mac and my mother’s Windows machine. The camera doesn’t appear to be the problem, but so far we haven’t succeeded in getting video and audio. That’s trying AOL Instant…
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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced
Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced…and it doesn’t look much different. Oh well. Still, kudos for trying.
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Movie: Inside Man
Until the afternoon before seeing the movie, I had never heard of Inside Man. Despite Spike Lee directing, and Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Willem Dafoe acting, the marketing for this movie just passed me by…even the editorial marketing (reviews, etc.). Fortunately, two months after its release, it’s still showing at one theater in San…
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Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The official website of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines doesn’t load: http://www.terminator3.com. It’s only three years since the movie’s release, but duds sink fast, clearly. As duds go, this wasn’t the worst movie ever. But it was 100 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. The first two Terminator movies really earned all…
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WebsitesAsGraphs – Visualization of clock’s HTML source code
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.mobi for the mobile web is a non-starter
Various publications covered the introduction of .mobi as a Top Level Domain (TLD). Basically, everyone who has a website in .com, .net, .org or one of the other TLDs is being encouraged to think about .mobi for their mobile content. (Details in the CNET News.com article about “dot-mobi”.) Let me come right out and say…