24 December 2002

Housebreaking My New Dog in Seven Days [day four] GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Holly can now sleep through the night in a bedroom without soiling anything. Plus, she can confine her pee and poo to one sheet of newspaper. She prefers that paper to be placed half-open right behind the front door. We still haven't figured out how to get her to relieve herself while on a daily walk, but we're armed with dog treats to reinforce her behaviour once she cops on to that.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Lewis and Clark With Satellite Photos Margaret Kane -- Margaret describes a NASA remote sensing data set that will remap the Lewis and Clark expedition. I remember reading the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery Journals and marveled at how they created a wonderful snapshot of the natural history of North America, two hundred years ago. Patching together a satellite photo mosaic of the expedition's route represents another snapshot in time. [RSS.com]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

FACT: Online shopping passes $11bn Margaret Kane -- BizRate thinks there's an increase of about 40 percent in the number of online shoppers. BizRate surveys consumers as they finish making purchases in its 2,000 online shops. "The figures arrive amid a discouraging season for retail in general. Major retailers including Wal-Mart, Federated Department Stores and Kmart all noted that sales for the holiday season would be at the low end of their forecasts, or miss them altogether." Sent by Nokia 9210i mail2blog over Vodafone HSD.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

FACT: Millions of bloggers online TEMPLE BAR -- JD Lasica notes "there are now more than 970,000 registered users of Pyra's Blogger software, up from 343,000 a year ago. So perhaps it's fair to say there are as many as a million bloggers today." This tracks with the sublte growth of Irish blogs during the past year. They've more than doubled, with fewer than 10 percent dying of link rot. I've many of the Irish URLs noted as "Irish Sources" on my daily blog page. Sent by Nokia 9210i mail2blog during a moccachino.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Do You Use a News Aggregator? TEMPLE BAR -- JD Lasica is researching an article for OJR on news aggregation tools, without getting too heavily into the technical aspects of RSS. So, if any of you are regular users of news aggregators -- NetNewsWire or Radio, for instance -- and want to answer a few interview questions by email, tell JD. Dave Winer Sent by Nokia 9210i mail2blog during a moccachino.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Mike Fagan, Done and Dusted ZENARK HOTSPOT -- Anyone with an interest in the e-business dimension of Ireland will undoubtedly follow the talking points and controversy around IEDR. Here's a tip: Google for "Mike Fagan" AND IEDR, then let your mouse tell an interesting story. Connected to Buffalo by Nokia D211 Transnote.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

The Smallest Computers That I Use ZENARK HOTSPOT -- I carry two small computers. One is a Palm m505 running Palm OS4. The other is a Nokia 9210i running Symbian. I also treasure my IBM TransNote notebook. In Shanowen, I've used a Cappuchino mini-computer with a thin TFT screen and that gave me the smallest desktop footprint ever. If I had a Compaq T1000, I would have the smallest desktop computer on the market. Each week, people come here looking for the Dell Optiplex SX260, perhaps because of its small footprint. I don't have that computer nor have I tested it but since people are coming on the back of a search engine query string, looking for the "smallest desktop computer," I mention it here.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Ekahau's Positioning Engine 2.0 Pinpoint the location of all the users on your WLAN within a few feet with Ekahau's technology.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Go Figure 41B -- As a seasoned traveler who gives a minimum of EUR 400 to Irish Rail each month, I have something in my bag that marks the fact that I have given Irish Rail enough to buy a 1996 Peugeot 406. I have a new pocket calendar, illustrated with maps of Ireland. However, the country maps do not mark the locations of the rail lines. Go figure out where they run on our own. Sent by Nokia 9210i mail2blog while crawling along Dublin Freeflow traffic.   [Comment on Shoptalk]