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Oh my god, what a bunch of dorks. I'm at the SOHO Apple store now waiting for the WWDC (World Wide Develolper Conference) satellite feed. There is a theatre on the second floor that is showing it. I figured there would be a few people here, but it is absolutely packed. The whole second floor is filled. I've never seen so many gadgets in one crowd at a time. Weird. It's like a Grateful Dead show for computer geeks. I feel strangely at home. Play by play in the thread below if it is possible for me.
Doing some spring cleaning today. I found my old blogger.com username and password and decided to give it a shot. Amazingly, my old stuff is still on their server! Here's my first blogger post:
[10/21/1999 11:01:13 AM | jim b]Maybe I'll dig the rest out and put them into my archives here. My blogger account is 5515. Does that mean I was the 5515th blog? I actually expected this number to be lower.
O.K., yes, back at it again. Things have been really busy for me, but thanks to blogger and their amazing site, I can now post updates right from the web. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time this page requires. If you're thinking about the web, definitely check out blogger.
Worst spring ever.
Transcript of William Gibson's speech to the Director's Guild to America.
Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.... As indeed does the emergent realm of the digital. I prefer to view this not as the advent of some new and extraordinary weirdness, but as part of the ongoing manifestation of some very ancient and extraordinary weirdness: our gradual spinning of a sort of extended prosthetic mass nervous-system, out of some urge that was present around the cooking-fires of our earliest human ancestors.
Blogumentary trailer. (16megs via fimoculous)
Call me crazy, but it seems like having to reboot your phone is a step in the wrong direction.
I guess it's better than having to reboot your car though.
A professional photographer gets hooked on the idea of cellphone cameras: "Why will wireless camera phones revolutionize the photography industry?"
We're dogsitting a little black pug. You know, the ones with the bulging eyes and the smooshed in face. Of Men in Black fame? Anyway, her name is supposedly Fury. But that's just not right so we have taken to calling her Snorty. She's definitely a Snorty. So far no one has seen her and not been reduced to blubbering baby talking "oh you're so cute - yes you are" hysterics. It's amazing. People absolutely love her. Snort. Drool. It's like a law of physics or something.
Single guys should get this dog. I mean if you don't want to be single anymore. Who knew?
Maybe they haven't heard of blogs?
The Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals to develop an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities. The objective of this "LifeLog" concept is to be able to trace the "threads" of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships.(via MeFi)