hmm, i think that this blog will be changing in character over the next few weeks. i’ve been working on it for a while, but i’m going to try to get serious and actually start migrating it over soon. i’ll probably be splitting my journalling/personal blogging over to one column, and tech stuff and link collecting into another… will be a whump-like xblog-ish type thing. we’ll see what i get to over the next two days. probably should have another column for my “to-read” list as well. and maybe one for ramblings and notes to myself, right?
so, i haven’t been reading /. lately, but there’s som interesting stuff. a post on a new math theorem discovered by an eighth grader in study hall, a post from evander on pi day (happy pi day) and a new voicexml article on the asj, and an ask /. on content and what’s going on w/ the failure of advertising, proliferation of donation buttons, etc.
other intersting stuff: yro and perl list contexts, cddb and the riaa (grr), scientists and engineers slag cs ppl @ acm meeting, clay shirky /. q&a – frickin awesome, must read as always, software and business models not patentable in uk, why 8.3 filenames still, ps3 news, nautilus 1.0 came out, and eazel laid off half it’s staff, nanobelts for flatscreens, katz on the net revolution, transmeta releases midori linux (mobile linux for inet apps, webpads, etc.), an industry fundedstudy says privacy is too expensive, and ms announced .net for non ms os’s (yah, and hell is freezing over).
the unreal 2 facial animation looks pretty impressive.
just got back in town from sxsw. had lots of fun in austin, uneventful flights, yada yada, calculating expenses, putting up site, organizing photos and all that. turns out internetworld is going on the convention center the next few days… hmm…
ok, so this is my last post before i step out the door for sxsw. i should get into town at around 2pm today. tons of time to get to the convention center for the scott mccloud interview. i’m bringing my copy of understanding comics so i can get it signed. 😉
i will be back in town on wed, march 14. of course i’ll be checking my email
so this guy makes the best and most interesting flash piece i’ve seen recently, nosepilot, and then gets shafted by his isp, worst of all, seems the isp is acting very shadily
so, i went down to macarthur park today (alvarado and wilshire, history). it’s only about 3 miles away from usc, but i had never gone there. i took the 200 line to get down there. the macarthur monument was covered in grafiti. the boating dock was locked up, it had a large lapd rampart sign on it. there didn’t seem to be many tourists there.
by chance, i met this guy cody, tyrone atkins, who is actually the writer of this recently made movie called macarthur park. the movie premiered at this year’s sundance festival, and apparently has been getting good writeups. hopefully they’ll be screening the movie in town sometime soon.
so, all in all, worth the $2.60 in bus fare
Palm, Handspring lose ground to Microsoft – this is the title of the news article that reports that combined, palm and handspring have 90% of the pda sales in january. palm only had 60.5% vs 65% in dec, while handspring dropped from 27% to 26%. that’s a huge win for m$. haha. “Baker added that the new figures probably don’t signify a long-term change in market share.”
cnet has an article yesterday on the new palms/visors.
oh, while i’m doing the pda kick (instead of work), there are new pocketpc ads after ms got in hot water w/ the ftc and false advertising (yeah, what else is new?). pdabuzz has what seems to be a picture of handspring’s new visor edge. also, brighthand has an omnisky vs yadayada. i was about to make a purchase of an omnisky for my palmv last year, but their 3 page online order form was coded poorly and refused to work, so i ended up giving up in disgust.
more fun palm stuff:
also, it seems that there is an anonymous informer lurking on the boards (he was dead on with the details of the m105 launch, so it seems to me that he’s on the inside track):
The enhancements of these units are many. The alarm system will now have a flashing
power button and a vibrator for a silent alarm. The will be a much smaller expansion
pack on the back of the unit in which many things will fit, ranging for a digital camera
to a 256k back memory card to a number of Sega gaming cards. These cards will be
about ¼ the size of the ones used on the Handspring. The left had rail will be smaller
than that of the V and Vx. Palm has also built a feature to dial phone numbers out of
the address book and beam the command to you cellular phone. After a “hard reset”
you will have the option to restart the palm in a number of languages. The Battery
power claims to be longer and the weight lighter. On the m505 the screen will be
65k color just like its competitor the Prism, and on the m505 it will be a regular
plasma screen. The price on the m505 is $449us and $399us on the m500,
i’m assuming w/ the cell phone beaming he’s talking about the bluetooth add-on, although perhaps the ir-port will work w/ those new nokias out of the box.