Archive for March, 2003

NYC on the cheap (2003-3-31)

Decide in which part of the city you want to stay. New York is generally divided up by areas: Downtown (near Wall Street and the financial district), Midtown South (generally south of Penn Station and the Empire State Building), Midtown East (between Penn and Central park, and east of 7th or 8th avenue), Midtown West [...]

Keeping Tall people Tall (2003-3-28)

In his “Freedom-To-Tinker” blog, Edward W. Felten posted comments in response to statements made by Fritz Attaway of the MPAA to a House committee hearing. Felten's comments are good, and worth reading.

Can't wait 'til tomorrow… (2003-3-13)

Varakei!

Yummmm (2003-3-13)

John Kessler's Top 50 Restaurants in Atlanta by Zone (from the Spring 03 Dining Guide)

Blimp! (2003-3-13)

The Horror of Blimps. You just have to read it…it stands on its own better than I could describe it here. (By way of Byte.org, by way of a post on Where Worlds Collide).

More power! (2003-3-12)

Hmm. This could be interesting…information about boosting the Linksys WAP11 to operate at a full 100 milliwatts. (By way of Cringely, by way of this post). Here's another interesting post about the Pringles' Cantenna, too.

Memory (2003-3-12)

As a follow up to this posting, I am pleased to report that I have finally successfully upgraded the problem server to 512MB of RAM.

Hello? Hello?? (2003-3-12)

Paul Harvey said in a recent newscast that the governor of North Dakota has a new red phone on his desk, to be used only for emergency notifications. In its first week, the phone has already rung THREE times! One was a wrong number. The other two were telemarketers selling pizza.

World of Ends (2003-3-8)

Doc Searls and David Weinberger get it. Fabulously well written and right smack dab on target.

XML, dotNet and Cryptography (2003-3-2)

I've been playing around with several new (to me) technologies lately, in an attempt to gain more control over my connection to OpenSRS. Right now, I'm using OpenSRS-SF (V1.60??) with some relatively benign customizations. I'm not a Perl wizard, and have never been completely comfortable with my changes (I mean…I like what they do, and [...]