Category: Legacy

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My Treo 600 finally got in yesterday. It feels amazingly tiny (good in the hands) and the keyboard is squished, but fairly usable. More review stuff later. Interestingly enough, although it feels much smaller, it’s actually not too much smaller than my co-worker’s Treo 300. Here are the dimensions as compared to my Sidekick:

Treo and Sidekick side-by-side

Treo and Sidekick stacked up

Kevin Werbach made some observations on the size in his recent article in The Feature: The Triumph of Good Enough.

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George W. Bush Loves Michael Jackson (This Is Important)

A number of explosions tore through the British consulate in Turkey today, killing scores of people. George W. Bush is in England, surrounded on all sides by enraged British citizens whose massive protests have required nearly every police officer in London to be put on the line of defense.

This is happening in a nation that has been, both in government and among the populace, one of the strongest allies America has ever known. There are a couple of wars happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which are going very well. A great many soldiers and civilians have died in the last year. Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, and after nearly 750 days, the American people have still been given no explanation for why September 11 happened.

It is 3:16 p.m. on Thursday afternoon as I write this. CNN has been covering, with total exclusivity, a parking lot outside a police station for the last hour. They covered an airplane landing. They covered the same airplane sitting still on the tarmac. They covered the airplane slowly moving into a hangar. All the while, talking head after talking head explored every conceivable facet of the parking lot, the plane, the tarmac, and the hangar, as well as a variety of parallel issues. No stone of data was left unturned.

Why? Michael Jackson is about to surrender to police.

In the last two years, CNN has not devoted this much energy and coverage to any story in the manner that is unfolding right now…

Fuck the media.

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AT&T Wireless Re-Launches mMode

AT&T Wireless today announced the re-launch of its mMode mobile Internet service. Using the new xHTML standard on phones that support it, the service offers richer graphics and is designed to be easier to use. New services include Mobil Traffic, a location-enabled application that provides color-coded multimedia traffic updates for 40 metro areas, including traffic alerts, speed flows, and incident reports.

Ryan has a Nokie 3650, so I decided to chedk out the Mobil Traffic. After several minutes of confusing navigation, I did get to it, where I was confronted w/ a 30-day trial offer. OK, well, I wasn’t going to subscribe him onto it, but I did take a look at the sample. Not bad. Although being able to get my TANN and LADOT reports directly beats that out I think.

ok, here's a pic; TANN on the Treo

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Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of my work time working on WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on) and portal integration, specifically Pubcookie, which we’ve adopted as part of the NMI R3 recommendations, and uPortal [#4 in InfoWorld’s Top 100 IT Projects of 2003] integration (my preferred portal framework).

Unfortunately, previous Pubcookie integration efforts have stalled out, buton the bright side, uPortal’s security framework looks pretty adaptable…

Here’s a great quote:

Middleware is the intersection of what the Network Engineers and the Application Programmers don’t want to do.

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Hmm, so this is pretty interesting behavior. Been noticing that AIM’s been giving me a system message that I’m signed on in different locations instead of kicking me off when I log in from multiple systems. It doesn’t have a jabber-like presence, but instead duplexes all incoming messages. Wackiness.

Ahh: AIM: Instant Message Routing

When you are signed in more than once, messages sent to you will be
delivered to all locations. You can control which locations will
receive messages by setting your Away Message.

When signed into multiple locations:

  • Your messages will generally be delivered to all locations not set as Away (or locations that have gone Idle).
     
  • If all locations are set Away, then messages will be delivered to all locations.

Please note, that you will only receive these notifications from the screen name AOL System Msg.

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Was randomly clicking through the Blogger site (finding the date created link Andy sent me a while ago) and saw suggestions on what to do when your mom finds out about your blog (also, less tongue in cheeck, how not to get fired because of your blog) in the knowledge base.

Good suggestions, but it also highlights the need for more fine grained publishing control (Towards Semi-Permeable Blogging), and (ideally), a concurrent wide adoption of some sort of federated trust infrastructure [this could help to alleviate the comment spam problem. implemented properly, this could retain privacy fairly well, pseudonymity is all that’s required])