Category: Legacy
Murphy’s Generalized Law: Anything that can possibly happen, will eventually happen.
ok, this is a pretty cool use of flash – an xml loaded phone directory. from this /. thread
hey you lucky new yawk people: According to a press release from the Free Software Foundation, Richard M. Stallman will be delivering a speech entitled “Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation” at the New York University campus at 10:00AM on Tuesday, May 29, 2001
MAGCOM – the perfect cell phone? it appears to only be available in norway right now, but it is tri-band gsm. of course, with the wireless situation in the us, who knows.
the state of wireless communications here has been a staple kvetch for me recently. i find myself often complaining to anyone and everyone about the cell phone carriers, with their ridiculous calling/billing plans and horrible customer service, the spotty and incompatible coverage, and the sheer ridiculousness of how they’re lagging both w/ wireless net access, and in providing useful communications devices. (seriously, who wants to carry a pager, a text messenger, a phone, and a pda when they could easily be condensed into one unit, whether it’s a flip-phone form-factor like the magcom, or a clam-shell device like the accompli or a pda form-factor?) and all the while, we’re being force-fed the same mediocrity by everyone. so much for choice in the free market.
here in the us, we may laugh at our canadian neighbors, but in apartments ottawa, they can get a 3M/800K DSL line w/ static ip for $39/mo. that’s 39 canadian dollars, 25 greenbacks a month. for $25, we can get… aol dialup. that’s right, blistering fast 53K/28K (if you’re lucky). weee!
wow: Palm’s Chief Executive Carl Yankowski gave a speech to the graduating class at Boston College this weekend. And that wasn’t all he gave. The entire graduating class received free Palm VIIx’s.
hmm, i had no idea that i could connect my startac directly to my handspring w/ a simple cable and get wireless internet access. ain’t that interesting?
from ars technica:
Oh, and just so you know, I purposely titled this post “email and sex” instead of “email and gender.” Why? Because, as some grammar nazi whose name escapes me once accurately said, “Nouns and pronouns have gender. People, bless their little hearts, have sex.”