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Unwiring Your Home in the Seattle Times “A Wi-Fi network is made up of individual radios on each computer and a central hub, called an access point, which coordinates traffic from the individual machines. The hub often can be plugged directly into a DSL, cable, or dial-up modem, too.” [via 80211b News] A great introduction to… Continue reading Unwiring Your Home in the Seattle Times

As I was reading the Economist today.  It struck me why I don't have a subscription anymore.  I don't want to deal with the paper (it sucks — I can't search it and it clutters up my home).  I also don't want just the website.  It isn't enough.  It seems shallow.  I want a full copy of the… Continue reading As I was reading the Economist today.  It struck me why I don't have a subscription anymore.  I don't want to deal with the paper (it sucks — I can't search it and it clutters up my home).  I also don't want just the website.  It isn't enough.  It seems shallow.  I want a full copy of the website on my desktop.  Full searchable archives for all the issues I get while I am subscribed.  A full list of all issues, by date that I can click on and explore.  I want to take it on the road with me.  Nothing less will do. 

How much is that worth to the Economist?  Say 300,000 feel like I do.  They think the Economist is one of the essential resources of intellectual life.  If the Economist charged $10 a month for that, I would subscribe.  Value, with virtually no change (in fact a reduction in their site costs) in their architecture = $36 m a year.  Enough for them to sit up and take notice?  Yes.  I bet they aren't making any money from their online site, probably even losing money.  This alternative is almost pure profit.  Just a thought.  

Radio could make this easy…. [John Robb's Radio Weblog

Wow.  Jon Udell captures the spirit of Radio.  As a fellow New Hampshire man (by birth), I applaud Jon's analysis.  Wow again. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Just a little note to all the centalized services folks.  This year ~140 m computers will be sold.  They will have on average a 1 Ghz processor and 40 Gb of disk.  In contrast, there will only be ~4 m servers sold.   It is easy to speculate that this year's PC shipments exceeded the combined… Continue reading John Robb's Radio Weblog

For my birthday I went to see the movie Gosford Park and had a delicious dinner at Legal Sea Foods.

Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me!

New Architect: Organized Chaos. Peter Meholz. This is where the principles of emergent systems come in. As centralized schemes grow unwieldy over time, it makes sense to create an alternative information environment where elements are organized according to a few simple rules about how users interact with that information. [Tomalak's Realm]

Business Week: A Library as Big as the World. Kahle's goal to create a huge digital library is shedding light on just how restrictions on the universal access to published works are growing, says Lessig. “He has the technology, he has the money, and he has the business plan,” Lessig says. “All he needs is… Continue reading A Library as Big as the World

PHP 4.1.2 Security Update. Due to a security issue found in all versions of PHP (including 3.x and 4.x), a new version of PHP has been released. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to either upgrade to PHP 4.1.2, or install the patch (available for PHP 3.0.18, 4.0.6 and 4.1.0/4.1.1). [PHP Everywhere]

Until reading this ZDNet article interviewing Don Box, it had not occurred to me that HTTP isn't everything we could want it to be. No sarcasm. People are jumping all over this story, but sheez, he makes some good points.   On the other hand, the fear such a bold idea evokes is quite reasonable… Continue reading article