Archive for March, 2004

Readings on Software Industry structure and economics

Monday, March 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

A collection of readings on software industry structure and economics. The common themes to me are that there is a still a lot of confusion and uncertainty about the ... Read more..

Prince’s distribution experiments; open source Jay-Z

Monday, March 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I don’t understand how the music industry is going to evolve, but I sure love artists that are attempting experiments and not just sitting back and letting the RIAA lob ... Read more..

Gear wishlist

Sunday, March 28th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Random collection of hardware that I’d love to pick up: via Scott Hanselman, the Quaddisplay from Tiger. Beautiful. via PVRBlog, a prebuilt MythTV box (because I am too lazy to build ... Read more..

Off the beaten path

Sunday, March 28th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

qUirKy jAPan hOmePaGE — places you won’t find mentioned in the average guidebook. And via Kevin Kelly, a worldwide hiking trail database — very cool. Read more..

Software History

Sunday, March 28th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A nice eulogy for Hypercard up at Due Diligence. I loved playing around with Hypercard even tho everything I created was an unmanageable mess. And via Scott Hanselman, this great ... Read more..

Offshoring

Thursday, March 25th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Some recent posts — Marc Andreessen explains comparative advantage on John Robb’s blog. Also goes on to explain what the US’s comparative advantages may be. Per Tyler Cowen, ... Read more..

Congrats UIEvolution

Thursday, March 25th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Forgot to mention this last week — congrats to UIEvolution (an Ignition portfolio company) on their acquisition by Square Enix [PDF]. Good luck guys! Read more..

The one piece of software I was motivated to install this week

Thursday, March 25th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Atari Ships Unreal Tournament 2004 … and on two machines even. Read more..

So much software

Thursday, March 25th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I am awash in links to software I’ve been meaning to try: Installspy (yet another spyware detector), noticed at Lockergnome. FirelogXP (ICS log analyser), also via Lockergnome. Outlook Junk Filter Upgrade via Chris ... Read more..

Playing Zork et al via IM

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Via Shifted Librarian, you can add infocombot as a buddy in AIM and play a whole range of old infocom games. way cool. Read more..

Income Inequality

Sunday, March 21st, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Interesting study at Marginal Revolution: Income inequality over time: War and other disruptions appear to damage capital income more than labor income. If that is the case, a healthy and peaceful ... Read more..

Horizon DMX Controller

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Note to self — read Release Notes for latest software/firmware build and see if I need to update my halloween lighting controller. Read more..

The Shizzolater

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In the spirit of Jive and other past efforts, the Shizzolater. Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger. Very funny. Read more..

Bayesian filtering for comment spam

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Installed James Seng’s blog: Bayesian filter for MT tonight to deal with the increasing flow of comment spam. Decided to try this solution because it intrigued me, and because ... Read more..

Coca-Cola Brands

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

I was reading the Coca-Cola annual report tonight. What was most interesting to me was the partial list of all the brands they have worldwide. Diet Pop. Now that ... Read more..

Senators and stockpicking

Monday, March 15th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Senators are really good at stock-picking — nice find from Raymond Chen. As the comments point out, the causality here is not totally clear. Though a strong suggestion ... Read more..

A new Buckeye blog

Sunday, March 14th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BuckeyePlanet - All things Ohio State Read more..

Info Axioms

Saturday, March 13th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Good list of basic principles for network markets. Read more..

Search Futures

Saturday, March 13th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pointer to PPT by the CEO of Northern Light — good articulation of the needs for the future — certainly suggests that Google won’t be the last great new company ... Read more..

Geek blog

Friday, March 12th, 2004 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Note to self — add this to Newsgator sub list Read more..

The Apprentice and the Web

Friday, March 12th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My number one source of Google hits is “omarosa”. Based on one blog entry on my site. Heidi Bressler seems to have purchased the “Omarosa” keyword on Google. Omarosa of course ... Read more..

Tired of fighting spam — it’s time to embrace it

Friday, March 12th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I am tired of fighting spam. I have 4 different spam filters installed on email, they catch 99% of it, but it is still a pain to keep the ... Read more..

Recording your entire life

Thursday, March 11th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nokia’s Lifeblog, Microsoft’s Sensecam, Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits, some CMU students blogging a lot of the activity — lots of early thinking happening about recording your entire life. And a ... Read more..

Rich, for your USB dongle collection

Thursday, March 11th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Now this is one I might actually carry — emergent report : gadgets/general/swissarmyusbflash.html — tho now they have created the first USB dongle that will cause you to commit a ... Read more..

Computerized Building Fabrication

Thursday, March 11th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Way cool — The house-building robot - Engadget - www.engadget.com — I’ve been excited about the work going on with desktop rapid prototyping machines, here is the idea on a ... Read more..

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