The life cycle of a technology: “Why it is so difficult for large companies to innovate”.

Smart Dust: “If you thought RSA and PGP had made all of us safe from prying eyes and ears, think again: those motes that just drifted in the window and floated down through the shards of sunlight cutting through your office – in a year or two those might be particles of Smart Dust, and [...]

I just found what could be a very cool Moveable Type plugin. It allows you to easily cache pages that you link to in your blog. This way your links will die if the page you link to moves or disappears. I have also been working on a web service script that returns a day’s [...]

A list of things to do: – Learn more about CVS. How to set it up and use if efficiently. How to make it easy for others to use with GUI clients – Learn more about Moveable Type and how to write plugins for it. Learn more Perl along the way. – Take a close [...]

Hyrda is one of the many mac apps that I would like to try. Robert Kaye talks about using Hyrda for collaborative note taking at a tech conference, while Jesse Helmer mentions the posiblity of using it for editing article of Imprint. I can also see it being used for taking notes in class, by [...]

I just read a transcript from a talk by Mitch Kapor and Andy Hertzfeld about the progress and vision of Chandler, an open source, cross-platform personal information manager. It looks like they have a lot of good ideas going into its development. Here are some highlights:

Today Apple announced its new line of iPods and a new music service that lets you download songs from the top 5 labels for 99¢. The songs are in AAC format which is supposed to give higher quality sound than mp3 for an equivalent bitrate. Although I didn’t find it on the Apple page, according [...]

See the new Matrix movies in Imax theaters. Find the Imax nearest to you.

Yesterday my brother, Tim, came to pick me up and move me back home to Akron. Before leaving we got together with Matt Goyer, John Cormie, and Doug Friesen, had some Chinese food and caught up with what was happening. We talked a bit about Waterloo and its IT and more generally how the university [...]

An interesting flash visualization of the world of blogging. There are so many possibilities out there of what can be done with weblogs and the open standards.