The Blog
04 Dec 2001 We seem to be having a seriously heavy blogging day today. But I couldn't pass this one up. "Pentagon Recruiting Bees, Cockroaches and Wasps " Scroll down and see the artists impression of a "bee with an electronic backpack and a helmet ". [A tip o'the hat to Bruce Sterling for snarfing these.]
[ 04-Dec-01 6:18pm ] Some extremely strange stuff to lighten the heart of anyone. FlipFlopBoy and The Critter Corporation
[ 04-Dec-01 6:07pm ] Project Grizzly Suit Buzz Light Year meets Super Gundam. A protective suit for getting up close and personal with a Grizzly bear. uh-huh.
[ 04-Dec-01 5:11pm ] Quick thought. Have you ever run across a corporate policy on the contents of the personal websites of employees?
[ 04-Dec-01 7:23am ] [ 04-Dec-01 7:05am ] Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? Most excellent. But what's this Son crap? I'll have you know my daughter's a Grrrl!
1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs? 2. Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing? 3. Has your child asked for new hardware? 4. Does your child read hacking manuals? 5. How much time does your child spend using the computer each day? 6. Does your son use Quake? 7. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour? 8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"? 9. Has your son radically changed his appearance? 10. Is your son struggling academically? [ 04-Dec-01 6:55am ] Segway, Schmegway, More news than is fit to print in the Segway blog, but we want Extreme Segway or Segway jousting, and how about Military Segway. How long before we see Segway RiceBoys? Segway monster trucks? Tandem Segways? Segway sidecars? Segway choppers? Segway gangs? "So then I Segued into the office and turned into a water cooler." I'm disappointed with the colours too, yet more pastel polypropylene. There's a sort of Retro-futurism feel to all this. Shouldn't we be riding them while wearing silver spandex one piece jump suits? And security? What do I do when I leave it outside the newsagent? Will some Yoof' low life just step on it and zoom away?
Maybe it should have been called Segway.com; hype, lots of bucks up front, high whiz factor and no clear market. [ 04-Dec-01 6:47am ] Financial Times: Broadband's failure to connect Europeans. Both the government's Department of Trade and Industry and Oftel, the UK's independent telecoms watchdog, insist that local infrastructure competition still matters, but increasingly the battle to force BT to let rivals into its local telephone exchanges appears to have been lost. [thanks, Tomalak's Realm] Broadband access in the UK is a complete mess. It appears that most of Europe (with the exception of Germany) is in the same mess. And the corporate shenanigans with Excite and @home in the USA are as bad but for different reasons. This is critical though. Making always-on Internet access widely and cheaply available is really important if we're going to get this steamroller going again. So if DSL doesn't work, and cable is only available in some towns and caught in the whole investment trap, what else are we going to use?
[ 04-Dec-01 6:29am ] CIO: People Who Need People. Good piece about the role of community in coporate web sites. [thanks, Tomalak's Realm]
[ 04-Dec-01 6:24am ] Ransom Project - Theoretic Solutions : The Ransom Project is a software publishing model where the rights to the source code remain restricted until a set amount of money is collected or a set date passes, at which point the code is freed One solution to the problem of compensating programmers for open source work.
[ 04-Dec-01 6:19am ] 03 Dec 2001 Drupal for Klogs. Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, sent this reply to John Robb's K-Logs mailing list, but it didn't make John's cut. No, I don't want to get involved in any controversy surrounding John's policies. He's writing excellent stuff and has every right to moderate as he sees fit. [thanks, Blogarithms] But I got this past the censor. So Drupal still got it's mention.
[ 03-Dec-01 8:08am ] Little mini text ads done as a linkshare system by a guy in India. Now you can be a BlogSnob! Nice.
[ 03-Dec-01 8:02am ] 02 Dec 2001 Anthrax found in email attachment : McAffee have proposed a number of safety measures. Firstly, cover your computer with fine gauze to prevent any spores from escaping through the fan vent.
 [ 02-Dec-01 8:32am ] There's really quite a cool little announcement of a system from IBM to turn any machine into a web server, with dyndns based on your email address and shared cacheing among peers so that the content is still available if your machine goess off air. Here's Slashdot's take on it.Slashdot | uServ -- P2P Webserver from IBM Inevitably, they pour scorn. But the ideas are still neat. Of course, IBM is talking about selling the code. But there's enough detail in the article to be the base of an open source development. And the technology's really not that hard. Bet you could do the entire thing, both client and server in perl/python. Even PHP if you bundled apache/php. And in fact Magi does almost all of this already.
[ 02-Dec-01 8:14am ] 01 Dec 2001 The Home Depot Bet - Home Depot Bet Weblog - Coming Soon : Many people asked what it was like to spend 16 hours in the home depot. For those who want to know I provide you with a transcript of the journal that I kept during the event. It is raw and unedited so be warned. Due to the state of insanity that I was in on this strange day I take no responsibility for what I wrote. File under bizarre behaviour.
[ 01-Dec-01 8:00am ] 30 Nov 2001 I love Friday nights. c/o NTK, I get to discover 10 Things you genuinely never knew about......The Queen Mother
[ 30-Nov-01 8:16pm ] The Register : The industry group set up to help drive the Government's broadband strategy is due to publish its final report on Monday.
The report claimed that the pricing of ADSL is a "huge issue" and warned that the proposed price point of around £50 a month is regarded as a "death knell for ADSL". Instead, the BSG said the cost of ADSL for home users should be between £20 and £30 a month, which would put it on a par with countries such as Korea and Singapore. To which I say "Bollox" The magic price point is £10 per month. And £20 pm for 1Mb/s symmetric with no restrictions. If they really want to see some demand, that'll do it. Come on guys, light up that fibre! Now with Moore's and Gilder's laws are those prices really so unreasonable? I was paying £10 pm 8 years ago for 14.4K, The same price now for 256K is not so ridiculous. [ 30-Nov-01 5:53pm ] The Register : Music sharing operation KaZaA has responded to a Dutch court's order to cease infringing copyright by stating that it is impossible for it to do so. The bext thing for KaZaA to do right now is declare bankruptcy and go out of business. Shortly after leaking their protocols of course. I hope they've got the balls to do this, although I suspect they'll be suckered into trying to keep going and end up racking up huge lawyers fees.
When will the RIAA realize that pandora's box is open? KaZaA's code is currently exposing and distributing more MP3s than at Napster's peak. [ 30-Nov-01 5:46pm ] What if your name was an Acronym? BOND = Being Optimized for Nocturnal Destruction!
[ 30-Nov-01 3:19pm ] 29 Nov 2001 Sending a malformed SMS message to some Nokia phones can crash the phone and lock the user out.Link [thanks, bOing bOing] I'm not in favour of cracking, but this is rather cool. You can kill some Nokia cell phones with a carefully mal-formed SMS message. They need to be reset afterwards and possibly need a new SIM card afterwards or they don't even turn on. So the big question is whether you can combine this technique with a PDA and scanner to deliberately target the infuriating person at the next table in the restaurant. Not that I'd encourage that sort of behaviour!
[ 29-Nov-01 8:21am ] 
  1 to 20 of 3860 |
