Month: October 2002

Asia Bests U.S. in Broadband Race. The high-speed Internet is catching on around the world. But as North Americans convert to standard DSL, the Chinese are skipping ahead to a newer, fatter Internet pipe. By Will Wade. [Wired News]

I adopted a new kitten on Saturday. Here are a couple of pictures of her.

Borders and T-Mobile to put hot spots in 400 stores by early 2003: T-Mobile and Borders Books announced today that T-Mobile would create hot spots in 400 Borders store by early next year. This begs several questions: Starbucks is the exclusive national partner for cafes for Barnes and Noble — did B and N blink?;… Continue reading Borders and T-Mobile to put hot spots in 400 stores by early 2003

IV = Instant Video. Last month, John Shoch responded to a message about Video on Demand (VOD) on Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list. I found the thread interesting because I do use NetFlix rather than my cable company's pay-per-view VOD service, but John's post made me realize how quickly I *would* use it if they… Continue reading IV = Instant Video

Dreamweaver Certification Challange – The Dreamweaver MX Certification exam is almost ready. We have been working on it for some time and some of the leaders in the community have had their fingers in it to some degree or another tweaking the questions and the answers and it is really rather tough. I think you'll… Continue reading Dreamweaver MX Certification exam

Building a Linux-Based Appliance: “For both ease of development and cost-effectiveness, Linux offers a perfect platform for building a robust, standalone appliance.” Source: Linux Journal [Archipelago]

Joel on Software. “Feedback from my posting about FogBUGZ Setup fell into four categories.” [Gee. I just thought “That's a good idea.” Still is.] [Archipelago]

BusinessWeek: David Farber: Tech's Deep Thinker. Now, more than ever, Farber believes sound policy is the cure to the New Economy's ills. The best route out of the telecom nightmare, he believes, is to make the FCC completely independent. “The only way the FCC can make effective policy is to remove it from the day-by-day… Continue reading David Farber: Tech's Deep Thinker

Using PHP to Make Basic vCalendar/iCalendar Events. If you maintain a web calendar, the vCalendar/iCalendar specifications can help you share calendar events with users through your site. By clicking on a simple link to a text file, your events can be added to your users' Outlook, Palm Desktop, or scheduling program of their choice. Such… Continue reading Using PHP to Make Basic vCalendar/iCalendar Events

Peter, it's great to hear your thoughts; I couldn't agree more.  John just gave me a demo of the latest & greatest, and I'm truly pumped.  He demo'ed it to me using a WinForms web services program running against localhost, which kind of blew my mind as we were brainstorming about the kinds of “outboard” cross-telespace utilities that… Continue reading Peter