October 2007
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Yes, it was.
“I saw your dad playing basketball yesterday,” a girl in my kid’s school told him yesterday. “It was weird”, she said. Continue reading
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Watching sky scraping
Got a few shots of downtown Toronto earlier this week while I was there on a whirlwind in-and-out trip. It was unseasonably warm, and foggy as well. Many of the shots at the link above were taken as the fog burned off. The camera wasn’t my usual Canon SLR. Instead it was my wife’s little Continue reading
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Loose linkage
What’s the oldest car you’ve ever owned? In my case it was probably the 1980-something Subaru Wagon that I drove from the early 90s until I gave it to a friend last year. The best car I’ve ever owned was a 1985 Camry sedan. That was also the only new car I ever bought. Gave Continue reading
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Here to help
Got some good hang-time this afternoon with William New of Intellectual Property Watch. William lives in Geneva and watches the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at close range, along with issues such as open access and intellectual property policy around the world. Anyway, at one point I asked him if the term wiposuction had ever Continue reading
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America: On Sale!
In Toronto I exchanged $100 U.S. for $88.60 Canadian. That’s less than cab fare each way from the airport. Continue reading
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Mileage from silage
Last night the kid and I drove back down to You-Do-It in Needham and picked up some thin RG-59u coaxial cable to run under the edge of the rug from one side of the living room to the other. Your standard fat black TV cable (the very stuff known as “cable”) would never do it; Continue reading
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Phone Phun
Blogabarbara reports value subtraction by AT&T on its mobile service to the Santa Ynez Valley. Details: Until yesterday AT&T phones worked on a combination of AT&T and other provider cell towers. Without any notice to the customer, AT&T switched to their own cell towers only yesterday (10/2). Their “network engineers” have studied the area Continue reading
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Gizards of OSes
Blimptv‘s ad for Vista is funny, but still not the equal of Ubergeek‘s Switch to Mac and Switch to Linux. Continue reading
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Ranklings
Nice to see from Dave (and Gabe) that this blog is #97 on a new Techmeme Top 100 list — especially since this blog is currently #465,937 in Technorati’s Top Zillion, with an authority level of 14. My old one, which peaked in the top few at Technorati, is still at #877, with an authority Continue reading
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Wonder if…
The reportedly late blog by Aedhmar Hynes is actually dead, or just schleeping. Or something. Continue reading
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Music supply meets demand in the middle
Brad Kava, my old buddy who was for many years a radio and music writer for the Mercury-News, writes, Radiohead, one of the smartest, most progressive bands out there, will release its new disc, “In Rainbows” Oct. 10 on the Internet. Price? What you want to pay. I’ve been waiting years, no decades, Continue reading
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What the carriers could learn from Amazon
In respect to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for IP-enabled services, Susan Crawford writes Thus, the IP NPRM suggests that the Commission views its regulatory authority as extending to end-user software, network hardware, corporate and community websites and more. IP in this case refers to Internet Protocol, not Intellectual Property. Although, where the Continue reading