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Microsoft Links is a Dog

May

2003

I bought Links 2003 and installed recently, wanted to see what state of the art in golf games was. This can’t be it. Buggy as crap — hard to finish a round without a crash. And compared to a modern 3d accelerated game (Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tournament, etc), this is such a slow game. It ...

Our Own Personal Terror Alert

May

2003

We’ve raised our own personal terror alert to Blue — we are “guarded”. We had three police cars in our driveway this morning, after 3-4 young people celebrating a 21st birthday got out of hand, broke into the boat locker in the park next door, stole a canoe, landed at our dock, and wandered thru ...

A Door Into Ocean

May

2003

Just finished A Door into Ocean — great book, surprised I hadn’t read it before. Very well developed alternative society.

Shifting light frequency

May

2003

Very cool — New Scientist. If I was going to college now, I would absolutely be studying materials science, there is just so much cool stuff going on.

Top 75 Security Tools

May

2003

Via Matt Croydon::postneo, the top 75 security tools. good links.

New version of URLscan available

May

2003

URLScan Security Tool — version 2.5 is available. Not clear it has a ton of new features but I probably should move to anyway…

SHN

May

2003

I need to get smarter about SHN — Some SHN Resources looks like a place to start. I have plenty of storage, I’d like to start ripping my CDs in SHN format rather than a lossy format.

Steve Vazquez

May

2003

Dude, quit sending me spam, or at least take your home phone number out of the spam — Google Search: 954-916-6650

A couple new sites for animatronics

May

2003

Effective Engineering and Blue Point Engineering seem interesting, I need good vendors/sites that help me figure out exactly what pneumatics to buy for animatronic applications. Frightmare has an interesting product too.

Total Guy Fest Saturday

May

2003

First down to Orting to meet up with Adrian and watch some rockets fire. Some crappy weather, I couldn’t stay long enough to see Adrian’s rocket, but we saw lots of other cool rockets. Lunch at Burger King. They have new chicken tenders in the shapes of stars and lightning bolts. I don’t even want ...

Naveen

May

2003

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: InfoSpace founder made insider trades, judge rules

Downloader Pro

May

2003

Rob Galbraith DPI: Breeze Systems releases Downloader Pro for Windows — looks like a good tool for photo download from cameras, better than most of the schlock that comes with the cameras.

AP in a Lite Bulb

May

2003

Way cool — O’Reilly Network: The NoCat Night Light [May 16, 2003]

Blogs and Learning

May

2003

No time to read now but this paper looks interesting.

Nokia Ngage not looking so good

May

2003

The Nokia Ngage apparently is bombing with analysts and press. Too bad, I’d love better gaming on my phone. Tho maybe the phone is just a really good voice device and we shouldn’t try to screw it up with other purposes.

Our Kids Are Way Ahead Of Us

May

2003

At Weblogg-ed Vol.2: Using Weblogs in Education, it’s noted from a Pew study that our kids are way ahead of the schools in using the internet — They’re “far ahead of their teachers and principals in taking advantage of online educational resources” – such as weblogs – the report concludes. Boy no kidding, you don’t ...

Cingular vs AT&T on spectrum alloc

May

2003

Cory Doctorow points to public comments on FCC discussions about some spectrum realloc. I like his description of the Cingular and ATT positions — I think that the contrast between Cingular and AT&T is especially striking here. AT&T is saying, yeah, we’re a telco, this is gonna gore our ox, so we’ve gone out and ...

Xbox Music Mixer

May

2003

Huh, the xbox.com || musicmixer is developed by our friends at WildTangent. Certainly the xbox would be a more fun media receiver than the hp media receiver or the sony box. The description of the xbox product makes it sound like i am going to have to manually copy a bunch of stuff to the ...

Harmony SST-768 Remote

May

2003

I received my new Harmony Remote last night. This has real promise. Excepting my RCA Scenium DVD/PVR combo, the website knew all my devices. and it had a reasonable guess for the dvd. So getting a working config gen’ed up for my system was quite simple and painless. The infrared emitter seems to have a ...

Paintball around Seattle

May

2003

We’ve been getting into paintball a little. Just finding a field in the seattle area is tricky. There are a lot of really stale pointers to fields on the web. Splat Attack appears to be the place to play south of town. STP is the place north of town. A “paintball portal” for the northwest ...