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Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
 Just because I can. Here's my wife, the beauteous Kathryn, in full dress-up mode. I'm a lucky guy...
3:53:35 PM 
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I've got to go buy a Tivo (or equivalent). Not because I need to watch more TV (I don't), but because one of my new projects is helping "a major consumer device company" design the service infrastructure for their next-generation PVR (personal video recorder). I've considered buying one for a while, but now it's (1) market research and (2) deductible. As a bonus, the project should be much fun. Doesn't get much better than this.
PVRs are interesting beasts. They're at the nexus of computers, entertainment, media, advertising, digital rights, and networks. It's just too great an idea to hold back, in spite of the stranglehold the advertising model has on TV. So getting a chance to affect their evolution, for better or worse, will be worthwhile.
3:37:08 PM
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Figures. After a long drought in new projects, now a third project opportunity has gotten a green light this week. It's not raining, it's a damn monsoon. I'll go from working 20 hours per week networking/marketing, to 75 hours/week delivering the goods. Welcome to the stochastic life of an "independent" consultant.
11:44:49 AM
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If you still don't think 802.11 and wireless access has reached critical mass, take a look at this www.whizboat.com/ . You've gotta love it - a business that installs wireless access and service on boats off the east coast. Thanks to Ray Ozzie www.ozzie.net/blog/ for pointing this out.
If all these 802.11 clients were configured as peering points, how strong would the resulting mobile mesh be? Move it to land, change to automobiles, and you've got the biggest, most robust data network in North America. I want one.
8:54:15 AM
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I've been reading Bruce Sterling's science fiction forever (highly recommended and not well known: Dream Baby), and this rant www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/08/05/sterling.html?page=1 from the O'Reilly Open Source convention is a strange but accurate depiction of the software industry today. Read it if you've got time.
8:14:40 AM
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College reunion coming up this weekend. I've never been much of a reunion person, but I'm looking forward to this one. I think it's because it's a real group of friends, people who had a connection way back when, as opposed to just everyone with the same graduation date. Lots of fun planned, including golf here http://opera.cincinnati.com/golf/coursedisplay.asp?id=26. Amazing - this course will cost $23 to play on a weekend. An equivalent course in Socal would be at least $80 on the weekend.
7:42:12 AM
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We survived the visit of the Ancient Relative and his 7 (!) multi-generational dependents last night. It was both better and worse than I thought it would be. I found my self feeling sorry for this odd, a little-too-loud 60-something cousin of mine who has now inherited a second and third generation to raise. I can ignore all his Archie Bunker-ish traits when I consider the nightmare it must be to see no end in sight, raising four young grandchildren while at the end of life. Good luck, George.
7:24:39 AM
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