Happy Thanksgiving!!!
by jpreardon on November 27, 2003
I awoke this morning to the sound of helicopters hovering overhead. This means one of several things: We’re under attack, the U.N. is in session, or, it’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I was happy that it was the latter. (…)
Microsoft Car
by jpreardon on November 26, 2003
Remember that old joke about Microsoft manufacturing a car? It looks like the joke is becoming a reality. Bill Gates predicts that in three years 30% of new cars will have Windows CE on board. Let’s just hope that the (…)
High Voltage Internet
by jpreardon on November 24, 2003
Hydro-Québec is testing a high speed Internet access service that they plan to offer over their existing power grid. A similar service is offered by Scottish Hydro-Electric, but another company went out of business trying to do the same thing (…)
Sprint to Offer SMS, Finally
by jpreardon on November 24, 2003
Sprint PCS will start offering an SMS like service soon. It’s about time, I know of at least one customer who dropped their service due to Sprint’s poor SMS implementation, which requires logging into the Sprint website to compose messages. (…)
Quick Links
by jpreardon on November 19, 2003
In random order: Album Covers That Never Were Mini-copter stars at robot show Spam Sandals [via BoingBoing] Middle Earth Shuttle Truth In Guerilla Marketing By the way, does anyone know what’s going on with BoingBoing???
Dead Letter Office
by jpreardon on November 15, 2003
Slashdot points to a service that lets you send some final thoughts via E-Mail after your death: Mylastemail.com has been created to allow you to leave a final personal message to your family, friends and loved ones after your death. (…)
Everyday Low Prices
by jpreardon on November 14, 2003
The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know, an excellent article in FastCompany, shows a side of Wal-Mart seldom seen by its shoppers. No, it doesn’t discuss Wal-Mart’s recent problems with illegal labor, although the contractor those immigrants worked for probably felt the (…)
Coming Home
by jpreardon on November 12, 2003
I appreciate when the press runs a positive story about baldness. So I was happy to see Richard Sandomir’s story in the Sunday Times this week. Sandomir decided go for the big shave after Charles Barkley asked him if he (…)
Bender Passed Over for RHF Induction
by jpreardon on November 11, 2003
The Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover, Unimate, R2-D2, and HAL 9000 were inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame yesterday at the Carnegie Science Center. Conspicuously absent from the list of inductees was Bender (pictured left) of Futurama fame. How could (…)
Computer Viruses Celebrate Their 20th Birthday
by jpreardon on November 10, 2003
The BBC is running a story to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the computer virus. The first documented virus was created by Fred Cohen as an experiment while studying for a PhD at USC. Cohen described a virus as “a (…)