May 31 2003
Interesting…
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Archive for May, 2003
May 31 2003
Got my computer!
OK, so the Dell 8500 arrived on Friday. I’ve been getting it setup over Friday afternoon and today. Very nice machine. It’s not my Mac, but since I need a fast Windows machine, it has turned out to be a great choice. I love the high-res screen. At 15.5″ this means very small pixels (I’m wearing my glasses to use it), but on a pixel basis I have more screen real estate than I did on the 17″ Mac notebook. I also like the notebook design – this model is one of Dell’s new case designs, nicely done. It is lighter than I expected, and feels very solid.
May 28 2003
Nokia and CDMA
So… Nokia has been doing a poor job of trying to enter the CDMA mobile phone market for a while now. Tried to do their own R&D without devoting enough resources. Verizon has complained that the Nokia phones just are not up to snuff. This could be ending…Nokia has closed down their CDMA chip development group and will be working with ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments to develop new chipsets. Should mean some interesting phones next year. I’m not sure if that Love-Hate Qualcomm-Nokia relationship is good or bad…probably good from a competition and product diversity point of view.
May 27 2003
DeepDarkSeA
Thanks to Duston at Deep Dark Sea for setting up a mail forwarder for me. I’m finding that some people are spelling my email address with a SEA instead of a SEE (maybe a sign that I got carried away with the domain name). Now I’ll get mail even if people get it wrong. Check out the site, a good source for Super Nintendo to PC adapters.
May 25 2003
Farewell to Handhelds
Great discussion on SlashDot and the start of a trend away from PDAs and toward smart phones. I’ve experienced the shift myself, and am seeing it start to happen with people around me. The key issue right now is easy syncing of data to/from the phone. It has to be easy – and for this to happen it should be wireless and effortless (read automatic). The industry hasn’t quite caught on to this yet.
May 25 2003
LinkedIn
I’ve just signed up for this networking service and invited 85 contacts to join and link to me. It looks really interesting – protects privacy and allows trusted contacts to pass on requests and information from their trusted contacts.
May 24 2003
Michael Powell is Crazy
We know he has a big business agenda for the FCC, but more easing of media ownership limits? It seems that he will be successful in his agenda…playing to big media outlets, letting them get bigger. Information is so pre-packaged, filtered, and homogenized by the major media outlets already. The consumer loses.
In the Spring of 1980 I was in the far east and europe as a college student. The US was in the midst of dealing with Ayatollah Khomeini and the hostage crisis. For my news, I listened on short wave to Voice of America (VOA), the BBC, and other more local broadcasts based on where I was at the time. For a couple of days I was even able to listen to Radio Tehran (note that VOA or other interference would suddenly blast over their frequency after a few minutes).
It was really interesting hearing about world affairs from so many different perspectives. My view at the time was that BBC was pretty accurate, there was major negative spin from much of europe, and significant propaganda coming out of VOA. I was pretty naive, and expected VOA to represent “truth”, so I was rather shaken up. A lot of illusions about my country and the press reports I took for “truth” were shattered that Spring. When I really thought about it (and I did, it really impacted me), I realized that I was bringing a lifetime of American perspective to my views of the world. If –I– thought VOA was biased and BBC was accurate, with my cultural bias, then I should acknowledge that an unbiased truth, not that there is such a thing, would put BBC over the edge of credibility too.
I’ve never looked at news the same since. I think Powell is contributing to things getting worse.
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