I couldn’t make a decision about which phone to get, so I went for both. Having read SPV Vs. Treo 600, usability and features I decided to get the Treo for me and the SPV for Caroline. Watch this space.
Archive for November, 2003
The Bad English League is an automated Google check for bad English usage on the net. I like.
Search 500,000 Documents, Review 160,000 Pages In 20 Hours, And Then Do It All Over Again is a breathy puff about the US Patent Office. Given the number of ludicrous patents that are issued, the process can’t be as good as described, surely?
Hacking Billy Mouth Bass in Linux is today’s stoopidest thing.
Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books is a thought-provoking piece by Umberto Eco.
Enter an IP address to find its location is a free check on where an IP address is located (roughly). Apparently iMPOWER’s external IP is in Barnsley. Marvellous.
David Fletcher notes some comments from IBM on e-government and corporate blogging.
Fortune asks Can Google Grow Up? Is it a company that is running by the new rules forged in the dotcom boom or is it just out of control?
Caroline tells me that the formula for the perfect xmas game has been discovered. I’m not so sure myself!
An initial summary of taxonomies in weblogs. No idea what the right route here might be. They need to coalesce, at least.
Don Park suggests a real-life BitTorrent model for selling those “knowledge required” goods that in-store sales people often can’t sell properly.
Who knew? Bush pays surprise visit to Iraq reads like a West Wing episode. More from the NYT.
If you have to use internet explorer, I recommend the lite version of MyIE2. It is basically a wrapper for IE that has tabbed browsing, pop-up stoppers, etc. Nice.
Nine Reasons NOT To Use MS Access To Power A DB-Driven Website. Just don’t do it!
Interesting to see IBM and BEA respond to market forces and releasing a joint specification.
The Spamdemic(TM) Map has a nice map of who’s been spamming various people. Surely this is a the beginnings of an approach to dealing with this?
I agree with David Fletcher - government can’t be replaced by a web app. Many parts of it could be, though. Like most of the city halls and council offices.
Windley points to several ways in which the US is looking at using open source in state and local government.
