I've decided that I'm going to start writing book reviews after each book I read.  Remember in grade school when you had to write book reviews and turned them in on Fridays and all you needed was the weekend to finish the book?  It's little things like this that we forget about as we get older that have so much benefit that we ignore.  Writing book reviews help me think about the books I've just read and how they apply to me and the world around me.  Too few people take time to graft knowledge from others into their lives in any discernable fashion like mere thought, let alone writing.  Just think how much clearer life might become if you just took an hour or two after each book to solidify your thoughts.  Think about doing this after reading a magazine article or a document from work.  Your thoughts and reflections become a permanent record that you can come back to, modify, and expand upon when life demands.

12:48:19 PM   comments ()  

This is good news for all computer users and the economy.  New chips mean inventory turnover and new manufacturing.  These new chips are the first to reduce size while increasing speed and cache size.  But how far can reducing size and increasing speed and cache go before it hits physical barriers?  What's next?

New Pentium 4s to alter competitive map. The design of the Northwood chip, to be introduced on Monday, lets Intel dramatically shrink processor size, meaning lower costs--or higher profits--per chip. [CNET News.com: Enterprise]

12:39:53 PM   comments ()  

This is the first big bug that I've seen out of AOL.  It kind of makes you wonder how many other bugs they fixed without publicizing.  However, this is a benefit of owning your own world.

AOL IM vulnerable to hackers. Instant Messenger security hole leaves users exposed, company says. [USA Today : Front Page]

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I don't believe that the Internet is shrinking, as the title of this article states.  The Netcraft survey sees a reduction in the number of available domains.  The number of domains has no coorelation to the size of the Internet.  The reduction in the number of available domains could simply indicate that people are beginning to understand how to fully leverage the nature of a domain, so more domains are simply not needed.  However, without more data the we can not determine which, if either, is the case.

Survey: Internet shrinks as domain numbers fall [IDG InfoWorld]

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So this is how the US maintains it's technology advantage over the rest of the world.  I had no ideas that the US regulated the amount of MIPS or MTOPS that could be exported in a single computer.

U.S. loosens computer export restrictions [IDG InfoWorld]

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