Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Sony home network device/media hub? Looks cool: The Sony PSX. My friend Mike pointed me to this article at CNN, which gives some details on the PSX: The revamped PS2 comes with a built-in DVD recorder, a TV tuner, a 120 GB hard drive and will let owners download movies and music from the Internet. Most importantly, the PSX comes with ALL KINDS of connectors in the back: I'll take 2.  It looks like we'll see these in the states sometime in 2004.  Hopefully someone will port Samba to the PSX platform and we'll be able to stream our music and video over the network. [Matt Croydon::postneo] 6:10:35 PM

Three years ago today, twenty-two pictures from Venezia, fourteen pictures from Firenze. [Scripting News] 5:57:33 PM

Munich breaks with Windows for Linux. The German city decides to switch a significant proportion of its computers from Windows to the open-source operating system, despite an aggressive pitch from Microsoft. [CNET News.com] 2:39:37 PM

From the Canadian Globe and Mail: White House snipes at Chrétien gripes [The Globe And Mail: National] 2:35:42 PM

UserLand guru editing Radio UserLand Kick Start. News to me: Brent Simmons, a former UserLand developer whose initials are all over Radio UserLand and Frontier, is tech editing Radio UserLand Kick Start. This is a relief. Though, of course, as the author of the book I must claim deep expertise in the subject matter, Simmons has forgotten more about UserLand products than I could ever hope to know. The odds that this book will be a disgrace to my good name and that of the UserLand community just went down considerably. [Workbench] 1:38:14 PM

The service is called 20Six. On Wednesday it went live in four European countries, Britain (www.20six.co.uk), Germany (www.20six.de), France (www.20six.fr) and the Netherlands (www.20six.nl), the privately held company said. Net Entrepreneurs Launch European Blogging Venture 12:48:55 PM