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Here's another OS X bluetooth phone remote control program: Romeo 0.5. And this one is freeware (the one I mentioned a few days ago, Clicker, is $9.95 after your 30 click free trial expires.)
- jim 2-28-2003 8:19 pm [link] [add a comment]

Well, since I got an email answer to my question yesterday (thanks Mark!) I might as well keep trying.

I know Safari v0.62 has been leaked, but I can't find it. If someone can send me some sort of clue it would be greatly appreciated.

C'mon. Please?
- jim 2-28-2003 7:41 pm [link] [add a comment]

Is there (must be) a free image editing app for windows? Just something simple that will crop and resize. Thanks if anyone can help.
- jim 2-28-2003 1:12 am [link] [add a comment]

Obligatory link to the high resolution (1 meg) photo of London at night taken from the ISS.
- jim 2-27-2003 8:38 pm [link] [add a comment]

Woah. Is this why google bought blogger?

At Google we're focused on developing technology that brings highly qualified customers to our advertisers in cost-effective new ways. The Content-Targeted Advertising™ service is our latest addition. It displays Google AdWords™ ads on web content pages related to your chosen keywords—so you're provided broader exposure and greater reach for your AdWords campaign.....

Targeted Google AdWords ads will be clearly displayed on content pages, as well as search pages, of sites including HowStuffWorks, Weather Underground, Blogger, and others.
Found this mentioned here.
- jim 2-27-2003 7:59 pm [link] [add a comment]

Ha! William Gibson agrees with my feeling about the best design for the former WTC site. I mean, unless he is joking. (Last item in his blog.)

It might be slightly interesting to note that searches for Gaudi (in various forms) comprise one of the top two traffic generators for this page. Searches for Jennifer 8. Lee constitute the other one. I guess it's all been worth it...
- jim 2-27-2003 6:54 pm [link] [add a comment]

Welcome to Jahshaka: The worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. (via doc)
- jim 2-27-2003 6:27 pm [link] [add a comment]

Chandler 0.1 target release "before the end of April."
- jim 2-27-2003 6:23 pm [link] [6 comments]

This is the dream scenario for the people's internet: the wireless future.
- jim 2-27-2003 2:21 am [link] [2 comments]

Here's John Perry Barlow with an interesting take on Cheney and what might really be going on in his head. I'm not agreeing with everything here, but it's really worth a read.
- jim 2-26-2003 8:25 pm [link] [13 comments]

Yeah, I guess I'm just going to keep mixing the anti-war sutff in with the geek gadget stuff. You should just pretend that the one doesn't make the other look pretty unimportant. Or worse.

In any case, I've been finding lincoln plawg to be the best source for the important stuff. Take this one for instance:

.... The technique of the War Party is not a million miles away. It's designed to focus the Average Joe's mind on inessentials; and to make him feel as if he's already agreed to go to war. Now, there's something in the psyche of most of us that we're reluctant to go back on a deal we've already made. Hey, that's welshing, isn't it? It's bad, m'kay? Hell, it's unAmerican!

The whole idea of the War Party is to get folks - the guys with votes who don't count now, but will count come New Hampshire - to assume they've already ordered the most expensive thing on the menu, and make them so embarrassed that they don't choose to send the dish back to the kitchen.

And how, exactly, is that done? By assuming that the fact that Saddam has not complied with 1441 and its predecessors is a valid reason to go to war. The War Party say, Everyone already agreed at the time UNSCR 1441 was passed that non-compliance, material breach, were as good as an invasion of Kuwait as a pretext for war. Surely everyone realised that? All except the retarded and the mental, that is. And everyone committed to serious consequences if he didn't.

So, he hasn't. And now we're going to give him serious consequences. And - now you're whining, you lousy sons-of-bitches? But you already agreed! You some kind of welsher?

The whole show - PT Barnum, eat your heart out: this is Sucker Heaven! - is designed to keep folks' minds from what they know: that violence is only justified in self-defence: against an actual attack, or the real threat of an imminent attack. They know that applies in Podunk, USA; and are pretty damned sure it applies everywhere else....
You've got to keep your ears tuned to the phrase "material breach." The administration repeatedly uses this phrase as a trigger for war, and yet it's not at all clear that this is justified. (I mean under international law, which, granted, our administration cares little about.) The fact that I have yet to hear any real questioning in the mainstream media about what "material breach" actually means is a bit disturbing.
- jim 2-26-2003 8:02 pm [link] [1 comment]

Gizmodo visits famed Japanese electronics district Akihabara, and has the pictures to prove it.
- jim 2-26-2003 7:05 pm [link] [add a comment]

First full report on the SonyEricsson P800 super 1337 uber cellphone. Sounds like the long wait has been worth it.

Having bought the danger hiptop I can't possibly contemplate getting a new phone for quite a few more months. But I cannot wait to see what will be around when I'm finally ready. Cellphones are the one consumer electronics niche that is still holding my interest. I'm very optimistic about what the next 12 months will bring.
- jim 2-26-2003 6:52 pm [link] [add a comment]

New from daypop: word bursts.

For background, check out the work of Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell University.
- jim 2-25-2003 11:41 pm [link] [add a comment]

Got lucky with an invite to dinner last Sunday at the latest Jean-George venue, 66. Wow. They're open for lunch too (I wonder if it's easier to get in then?) Best meal since Austria.

The sesame noodles and the tuna tartar are absolute must have orders.
- jim 2-25-2003 11:25 pm [link] [1 comment]

Alluvium

The technology behind the next generation of file sharing legal battles was unveiled at CodeCon today. Brandon Wiley describes Alluvium as "Peer to Peer radio" - which it is, but it also blurs the distinction between streaming and downloading once and forever.

- jim 2-25-2003 11:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

I was raised in the Catholic church (meaning I grudgingly went to church every Sunday.) And perhaps I'd still be somewhere on the outskirts of the Chrisitian fold if I had run into any clergy members with the depth of thought I find in AKMA's writings. He's my second favorite religious blogger (Mr. Wilson gets the alpha position, of course.)

Read AKMA's take on the upcoming war with Iraq.

There may be no room for pride in war, only penitence; there may be no room for pre-emption in war, only response. (A righteous combatant will not strike a first blow, because she or he doesn’t know that the adversary actually is a combatant until the adversary starts the fight.) The Bush administration’s actions in North Korea illustrate that there are indeed other ways of addressing unstable tyrants who possess weapons of mass destruction. When Bush singles out Hussein and Iraq as “deserving” a pre-emptive war that will surely affect non-combatants disproportionately (perhaps even deliberately so), his selectivity falsifies any claim that this could be a “just” war.
Amen.
- jim 2-25-2003 11:10 pm [link] [add a comment]

CNET interview with Dave Winer who has been tapped to bring blogs to Harvard University.
- jim 2-25-2003 10:44 pm [link] [add a comment]

(via JOHO)

From Risk Digest, via a mailing list:

ATM vulnerabilities and citibank's gag attempt

Ross Anderson
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:58:47 +0000

Citibank is trying to get an order in the High Court today gagging public disclosure of crypto vulnerabilities:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_gag.pdf

I have written to the judge opposing the order:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_response.pdf

The background is that my student Mike Bond has discovered some really horrendous vulnerabilities in the cryptographic equipment commonly used to protect the PINs used to identify customers to cash machines:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-560.pdf

These vulnerabilities mean that bank insiders can almost trivially find out the PINs of any or all customers. The discoveries happened while Mike and I were working as expert witnesses on a `phantom withdrawal' case.

The vulnerabilities are also scientifically interesting: http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm

Source URL: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/go/risks/22/58/6
- jim 2-25-2003 10:40 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Clicker, a shareware app for OS X that lets you have some control over iTunes, DVD player, Keynote, and Powerpoint by using a Sony Ericsson bluetooth phone (like the t68i) as a remote control. Wow.

"Further, Sony Ericsson Clicker has a built in 'proximity sensor', allowing you to trigger actions when you leave or come back to your Mac." Double wow. This is the first cool use of bluetooth I've heard.
- jim 2-25-2003 3:31 am [link] [add a comment]

Excellent. Apple's new Safari browser is getting tabs. As soon as they post it for download I'll switch to that as my main browser. This is a small thing that makes me strangely happy.
- jim 2-25-2003 3:24 am [link] [add a comment]

If someone decides to teach a class on weblog theory they now have the perfect introductory text. Nothing new here if you've been following along, but it's great to have it all layed out in one place. Excellent collection of links. Very nice job.

These tools are being developed and we are on the verge of an awakening of the Internet. This awakening will facilitate the anticipated political model enabled by technology to support some of the basic attributes of democracy, which have eroded as power has become concentrated within corporations and governments. It is possible that new technologies may enable a higher-level order through emergent properties, which will enable a form of emergent direct democracy capable of managing complex issues more effectively than the current form of representative democracy.
We can hope, right?
- jim 2-23-2003 8:53 pm [link] [1 comment]

William Gibson has had the camera/cellphone ah-ha moment. These things really will be a big deal.
- jim 2-22-2003 7:01 pm [link] [1 comment]

Heh. I just got an email that had, at first glance, no headers. Weird. Then I realized what was going on - they were there, but not visible because they were white text on a white background (I could see them if I selected the text.)

How in the world can you specify the text color of email headers? It makes no sense that you can do that.
- jim 2-21-2003 8:55 pm [link] [add a comment]

Wow, I actually did some work on this site yesterday. Amazing. And I revised my links over there on the left. But I'm still finding it hard to post much of anything.

Maybe you can help. Got something that should go on this page? (Your guess is as good as mine...) Why not send it in? Use the lonely contact link. Other bored readers will thank you.
- jim 2-21-2003 6:06 pm [link] [add a comment]

I have not one single insightful thing to say about google buying blogger. This must be the most important blog related story ever, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why.

Obviously I'm reaching here, but maybe it has something to do with internet developing beyond a polling type consciousness. The old model goes like this: check a bunch of sites, see if anything new is happening; wait n seconds; check again; repeat. That's polling. You can make it near instantaneous by reducing n towards zero, but it's still polling. This is what gives us the 15 minutes of lag on google news.

Perhaps with the acquisition of blogger, internet (which, if conscious, is so through google) moves to something like trigger based consciousness. Instead of having to constantly check to see if anything is happening, it will already know when anything is happening because people will be blogging it through google's system. Bloggers become the neurons of the active consciousness.

The rate of posting (combined somehow mathamagically with outbound link targets) becomes the standing wave of consciousness for internet.
- jim 2-17-2003 7:34 pm [link] [5 comments]

Wow. Very large crowd. Great vibe. Great day.

We're eating some oysters at the bar in grand central and warming up a bit. Not sure we accomplished anything, but it was fun trying.
- jim 2-15-2003 11:43 pm [link] [6 comments]

We'll be at the anti-war march protest on Saturday. Meet on the steps on the NY Public Library at 11:30 if you want to join us.
- jim 2-13-2003 9:31 pm [link] [3 comments]

It appears as if the whole world is conspiring to make me feel smart. And the crazy thing is, this doesn't seem like a good thing to me. I'd actually prefer if someone, you know, in a position of power was playing the role of having a clue.
- jim 2-12-2003 10:24 pm [link] [3 comments]

I've noticed that I get the same spam emails to many of my multiple addresses. This gave me an idea for filtering spam. Set up an email address for yourself that you never give to any person you want email from. But you make it widely available on the web. This account should get all spam. Now have your regular accounts check every incoming message against the messages in your spam account, and throw out any matches.

This doesn't really solve the bandwidth wasting problem of spam (it actually makes it a little worse,) but it would be pretty good against the time wasting problem.
- jim 2-12-2003 7:14 pm [link] [add a comment]

This is the first time I've been out of bed in two days. Still not fully recovered, but on my way. I haven't been sick like that in a long time. Really high fever. I didn't even look at the web once.
- jim 2-09-2003 7:30 pm [link] [20 comments]

I walked into the coffee shop today and Tim was sitting at the counter. "Jim" he said, grinning, "I've come over to your side." At first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Had he slept with a girl? No, he bought a Mac.
- jim 2-06-2003 1:10 am [link] [add a comment]

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