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Started reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver today.
And oh yeah, my phone is not working. Or, rather, you can call it, and it rings, and I can answer and even speak to you. But I can't hear anything you say. So it will be a rather one sided conversation. You might have doubts, but I did not arrange this on purpose.
Email works though, so send stuff here, or right to my phone if you have that address.
I'm back after a few days away. Not the best in my life.
And, in better news, Mimi is back too (first of three entries.) With baby Nora. Somehow this makes me very happy. Congratulations.
After upgrading to Panther mail.app is still flagging junk mail, but it's not moving it to the junk mail folder. What gives? I am completely dependent on that action now that I am used to it. (Yes, I've checked the preferences and they are set correctly...)
Had a drink and then a nice dinner last night with Chris from house8.net. Really nice guy as I suspected. This is the first time I've hung out with someone I met on line (I mean someone who wasn't already a friend of a friend or something.) So far so good.
If anyone knows any prayers or incantations promoting the efficacy of crazyglue computer repairs feel free to say them now.
Last night I overheard a man at a nearby table talking, not too favorably, about the food he ate growing up. He said that years later his Mom confessed that although she liked vegetables, she was always unsure how to kill them, so she would just use canned vegetables, which were obviously already dead!
Okay, yes, sure, last night was "Night of the Panther" at all Apple Stores, and you would have expected me to be there waiting in line for my copy of the latest Mac OS, but it didn't work out that way. So I'm going over now, head in hand, a full 16 hours late. I'm hoping they don't take away my secret Apple decoder ring. I promise to be on the ball for the next release.
Details of the new release to follow...
In the late 1980s, Dartmouth College was the most wired campus on the planet, running 10Mb Ethernet into every dorm room. Today, Dartmouth is the most unwired campus on the planet, with 560 access points covering 200 acres. At a recent conference here, Larry Levine, the head of computing services, challenged attendees to find a single spot on campus and surrounding areas that did not have 802.11 coverage. Even the boathouse, adjacent sections of the Connecticut river, the ski lodge, and sections of the ski slope are covered!Read on for more...
If you wanted to know where wired communications were headed in the late 1980s, all you had to do was go to the Dartmouth campus and look at their homegrown email application, Blitzmail. As any regular user of Blitzmail will tell you, it included a server-side address book and remote private and public folders before almost any other email application. Watching a regular user of Blitzmail, you could have predicted the rise of LDAP, IMAP, and most importantly Instant Messenger - Blitzmail was so fast and so ubiquitous, that people used it for IM-style back-and-forth conversations long before IM became popular in the larger environment.
At the conference, I looked for similar insights regarding wireless networks on the Dartmouth Campus. A few observations:
Apparently at least some camera phones can tag jpeg pictures with GPS coordinates.