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From the prurient link department: James Joyce's (really quite) dirty letters. Possibly not safe for work if your surfing is being monitored.
My friend T. bought the new 30 gig iPod. I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, but in playing with it for a few minutes I noted some severe sluggishness in the interface. Sometimes it wouldn't respond at all to the "wheel" for many seconds. This is troublesome. I wonder if he might have gotten a bad unit? Or is the 30 gig drive just too big? (He did have it full.) I'd be curious if anyone else can report on this.
The new Nokia 6800 is finally out in Europe. Soon in the States. Very interesting flip open keyboard for text entry. (Yeah, I linked to this one a long time ago.)
And the Danger HIptop (my mobile) is now out in color. Apparently, even with the color screen, battery life has slightly improved. And the seriously underpowered camera has also been slightly bumped, from 120x90 pixels to 320x240. I want more, but that's better than nothing.
But no word yet from T-Mobile on terms. Remember, they only promised flat rate data for the first year. What's going to happen? It's the flat rate pricing that makes this the current best device for me.
Here's a little something new for authors here. You can now break apart a long post, having only the first part show on your page, but the entire post show on the comment page, by inserting <more> inside your post. This will be replaced with a link to 'Read the rest of this post...' as in the post below this one.
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Here's the convergence I'm watching: wireless networking, mobile computing devices, and digital identity.
I haven't said anything about digital identity, despite the numerous conversations on this topic in other blogs. (Here for instance.) The basic idea is that internet commerce is being held back because we lack strong digital identities on the web. In other words, there is no way for people on one side of a transaction to be sure who is on the other side.
I've been uninterested in this discussion mainly because I don't care that much about internet commerce. But with the rise of wireless networks I'm starting to see how important this issue will be. And not just for commerce.
"An experiment is under way in Paris that aims to turn the city into one huge Wi-Fi hot spot, making it what could be the first large wireless city in the world."
Hi Carol. Thanks for lunch.
An edited extracted from Thomas Pynchon's introduction to the new Plume (Penguin US) edition of George Orwell's 1984.