Thursday, April 28, 2005

Blogging on multiple machines. One of the disadvantages of blogging applications that sit on a single machine rather than on a server is that you are tied to that machine when you want to write. Every time I want to shoot something to this place, I have to run over to my laptop. No blogging from work or from the other machines that sit on the home network. If you're going to be blogging from multiple machines and locations, it's something to consider when you are choosing your tools. [code: theWebSocket;] I've run into this myself, since Radio is one of those apps that sits on a single machine. For a while, I was running it on my desktop PC at home, and connecting to it with my laptop from whereever I happened to be. Unfortunately the IT department at work, in its ongoing quest to make life difficult for workers, started blocking my access. Now I keep Radio on my laptop, and just carry the laptop around with me. This isn't a perfect solution, though, because of the reliability problems I've had with my Mac laptops. When one goes down I can move Radio to the other and run it from there, but if both go down at once (which has happened), it's much harder to move to my PC laptop. 11:56:23 AM    comment () Technology Lost. Joe Kissell writes today on the Antikythera Mechanism, which seems to be an analog computer constructed by a Greek in 82 BC. Much of the technology embodied in the device was lost, only to be reinvented hundreds of years later. What does this teach us? [Mises Economics Blog] Very interesting! I have a general interest in "lost technologies" that are popularly believed to have been invented much more recently than they actually were, and this is the widest gap I know of between when something was first invented and when most people believe it was invented. The example I use for this phenomenon in conversation is the ironclad warship, because American schoolchildren are taught that the Monitor and the "Merrimac" (actually CSS Virginia) were the first ironclad warships. In fact, the earliest known ironclad warships were the Korean "turtle ships" built to oppose the Japanese invasion of 1595--almost 300 years before the War Between the States. 10:41:07 AM    comment ()

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