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Moblogging: WAP and SMS Blog Entry
“Joi Ito’s Resource”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html#. Joi Ito has a great list of applications that allow you to take SMS and push it via an email interface onto a blog. wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Hey in the course of installing all these new blogging tools, I was reminded of…
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Quick Review of MT Alternatives
Here is some deeper drill downs base on comments on Movable Type RIP | Metafilter. Folks realy like WordPress (only manages a single blog though), ExpressionEngine, b2evolution, textpattern. NEed to check them out. Others are Pivot, but the top votes are WordPress and ExpressionEngine, so here are notes about each and I’ll put up trial…
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Sony Fires Back
Ars Technica: Sony unveils music player to unseat the iPod’s dominance. Well I’ve been thinking about getting an iPod Mini, fortunately more choices are arriving. The new Sony VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 (boy, they love those long names) sounds pretty cool. Main issue I’m sure is that it uses a strange format called ATRAC3 that I…
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Democracy and India
Democracy triumphs over conventional wisdom in India? | Metafilter. Amazing to me, but sometimes good does win over xenophobia. The fact that the BJP lost in India to the Congress is an amazing thing.
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Cool new Laptops
Well, my trusty Compaq N600c is now dead (it doesn’t recognize batteries) and my old Toshiba 3440 gave up the ghost long ago. I thought for a while I didn’t need a laptop, but what to do on business trips, so in the market for new ones: * Two Hot VAIO Laptops States-Bound: X505 and…
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Thoughtful comments about MT
Teal Sunglasses: Movable Type 3.0. Smart words from chuqui. More about what’s happened with MT. Main points are you have to be careful about the loyalty in your customer base. While you can say its no big deal to leave the first blogging community behind, from my own experience, you have to be super careful,…
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MovableType 3.0 Released: I'm so sad
Well, all good things have to come to an end. MoveableType will now “cost”:http://secure.sixapart.com are essentially $150-$900 for the personal weblogs that I manage right now (this site, Geekfishing.net and the related sites). The real issue here is whether they should charge or not, but they are making a classic “averaging” mistake. That is, getting…
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Creating a private blog
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro. Well, blogs are designed to be public, but what if you want a private one that no one else can see. There are a bunch of methods, but the .htaccess file is the easiest I’ve found for Apache on Linux (what my hoster uses).
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Learning about Longhorn
Longhorn Developer Center Home: Conference In A Box. Smart idea with a hat tip to Scoble, this is a complete information in box about Longhorn. Lots to go through, but worthwhile.
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Webby Awards
The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees & Winners. Always cool to see who is doing cutting edge web stuff. The Webby’s are one place to look. Some are not surprising (ituns for ecommerce, google for best practices). Others were new and interesting: * “Tolerance.org”:http://tolerance.org. Won for activism. * “POV Borders”:http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/index_flash.html. This is about four teenagers crossing…
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Bloglines is cool
Bloglines | Most Popular Blogs. This thing is a combination RSS reader in the sky and a blogrolling application. YOu can find the top blogs for instance. YOu can also see when there is an update. THey have a notifier that runs in OSX, Windows or within Firefox. Interesting to see the top blogs. I…
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Cool new utilities from Hack the Planet
Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet Weblog. Wow, is guy prolific, some great pointers to links: * “Hymn”:http://hymn-project.org/. This enables you to play songs out side of the itunes environment (e.g., Unix). * “Dothan Overclocking”:http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cpu/dothan/dothan-7.htm. It’s in French, but the gist of it is that the new mobile Pentium can be overclocked to 2.4GHz. At that…
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Playing with Blogger
OK, I just realized I’ve been blogging since 2002. Amamazing its been two years. My early posts were stuck on blogger, so here they are: * Tongfamily. A small site * “Rich Tong”:http://richtong.blogspot.com. The old main site * “Connie Mao”:http://conniemao.blogspot.com. Connie nascent site. More up there as I play with this tool.
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Bloglines for Mozilla Firefox
Don’t Back Down: Extending Mozilla. I’m beginning to really love this browser. The CSS edit is really cool way to understand CSS and the RSS Reader extension is amazing. “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com/. Now check out bloglines which add blog support for it. Very cool. This is a free utility that keeps track of RSS feeds fro you…
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Lense Lust
A Long March To Revolution: AFS 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED IF Nikkor Reviewed. Well, this is the top of the line lense from Nikon. Just shipped, this is Vibration REduction and costs a cool $1,600 from B and H with $150 cash back offer, so its about $1,350. Something to wish for. A few…
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Rich Tong's Livejournal
Rich’s Journal. Saw a bunch of entries on LiveJournal. Inspired me to create a site up there so I can be authenticated when commenting up there. A nice freeware application.
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Prince bundles CD and concert tickets
Furdlog :: Prince’s New Distribution Model. Well that’s an innovative idea. bundle your CD with a concert ticket. Why not. It’s 18% of his sales right now.
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Blogger Refresh
phil ringnalda dot com: Holy Crap! That’s Blogger?. Wow, blogger gets a big refresh. Google hasn’t been asleep. Something to track and try.
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XP setup problems: F8 is your friend
CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. _George my buddy has had lots of problem getting his for XP computers working with a whole host of problems._ Some problems have includes having the right drivers. Why doesn’t Windows know about this. He’s also got a strange CD-ROM problem. Intermittent recognition that I don’t understand. What happens…
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Firefox: Review after 2 weeks
I’ve been using Firefox for two weeks now. Some really great features. Here are the highlights. The net is that it is as nice as Opera in many respects, but has a better customization model and better compatibility with sites. Here are the high lights: * Tabbed browsing. A small feature, but I really like…
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Amazing Wheels
HeadAngle – And I thought my wheels were expensive…. _I’m getting well enough to actually get on the bike again, so on to reading about more cool gear._ Reynolds has carbon wheels at $1,500. Campagnologo Hyperon Ultras are $3,000 at 1,345g per pair. Interesting to see that the Topolino wheels are a relative bargain (if…
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DRM is a Folding Chair
Furdlog :: DRM Is A Folding Chair. One of those great analogies that seems strange but makes sense when you think about it. Sort of like saying IT doesn’t matter or Marketing is not Mystery Meat(tm).
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Congressional Medal of Honor
Types of Medal of Honors: Congressional Medal of Honor Society. OK, this probably wins some obscurity award, but in playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault, I ended up on the CMOH Society page and there is a description of all the variants of this award. I’ve heard it also described as Coffin wtih Medal Handles…
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Google: A good buy?
Is Google a Fat Pitch?. _Hat tip to “Peter Atkins”:http://permianpartners.com_ for pointing this piece out to me. Great point about Netflix (although I still wish I’d bought the stock, when it went out 3 years ago, it was a 10, dropped to $2, now is at $30, wow!). On Google, great points about how to…
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ATI R420 equals nVidia NV40
AnandTech: ATI Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition: R420 Arrives. Incredible as it may seem. The new nVidia NV40 chip (6800 boards) shipped a couple of weeks ago. ATI has responded with their R420 chipset that will ship on Radeon X800 XT boards. Amazing as it may seem both vendors have essentially doubled performance.…
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Dave and Marianne Getting Married
Weddingchannel.com. Amazing how cyber weddings have become. Wedding Channel is a great example of a .com that actually makes sense. Bet they are making lots of money. I expect there are lots of site like this or “Classmates”:http://classmates.com or “Reunions”:http://reunions.com that make sense is the expense structure is low enough.
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Tears of the Sun: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Netflix: Tears of the Sun. I must be getting sentimental in my old age. This was a hard movie to watch. The acting certain isn’t anything to write home about, but the story is incredibly compelling (at least to me). Its a dramatization of what happens in Africa, with ethnic cleansing in the most graphic…
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Touchscreens are out in California
Freedom to Tinker: California Decertifies Touch-Screen Voting. _Hat tip to Ed Felton_ Touchscreens particularly by Diebold are in trouble over there for security reasons
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Hawaii 2004: Lanikai and Kailua
BNB-Hawaii.com. We had a great time in Hawaii. Connie has a way of picking particularly wonderful properties. If you have kids or want to get away from the Maui/Waikiki tourist scene, the Kailua area is just great. Its about 20-30 minutes from Honolulu, but feels a world away. It is on one of the most…
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Virtual PC for Windows
a little ludwig goes a long way: VM software. It’s amazing that there aren’t more VM things coming out particularly given all the hyperthreading, Palladium and other things that Intel is doing.