Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Read 'n Blog. Tiernan Ray of eCommerce Times in Wireless Newsfactor: Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World. I gotta roll, so I'll let the rest of ya handle this one. [The Doc Searls Weblog] This link provides an interesting perspective on blogging and the corporate world.  I agree that current blogging tools are creating heaps of information that are largely uncategorized.  However, I will take a search engine indexing blog content over not capturing tacit information any day. 9:01:18 PM    comment []

Visio UML Templates If you don't like all the hoops the Visio 2000 UML support makes you jump through, check out these.  They provide you all the shapes and you provide all the look and feel. 5:45:53 PM    comment []

Apple Music. When you give people what they want, the announcement isn't much of a surprise. I think the new iPod is worse than the old one in some ways; it has shorter battery life and it uses a non-standard connector. Non-USA whiners please relax; the entire music industry can't be remade in a day. (BTW, two out of three times I've updated my iPod, it's gotten stuck in the "do not disconnect" state.) [Hack the Planet] I still want one.  I think it's disappointing that I have to get a 15 or 30 GB version to get the remote, carrying case, and dock.  It's kind of expensive.  I still want one. 12:53:21 PM    comment []

Recent Advances in Cognitive Systems. ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The April 2003 issue is dedicated to cognitive systems. It contains no less than 21 articles which are all available online. In this column, you'll find a summary of the introduction and what are the possible applications of these cognitive systems. There's also a picture of the cover, a little robot with a very nice looking blue wig. And in A Gallery of Cognitive Systems, you'll find a selection of stories, including links, abstracts and illustrations (the whole page weighs 217 KB). There are very good pictures of autonomous soccer robots, swarm bots, cognitive vision systems, and more. [Smart Mobs] These are some good links on cognitive systems.  I may have found some new sites to monitor! 8:29:46 AM    comment []

Warspying: eavesdropping on X10 video cam images. Cool how-to about building a portable device for viewing X10 wireless videocamera transmissions. Link Discuss (Thanks, Kevin!) [Boing Boing Blog] Wireless is so convenient, especially for video cameras.  It's a shame that consumer wireless cameras are wide open.  It's like the old days of cordless phones when you could tune yours to the channel of your neighbor and hear their conversations.  Maybe this will change as the technology gets more popular. That said, it's a pretty nifty hack!  :-) 8:20:38 AM    comment []

MS issues Visual FoxPro OS statement .... To VFP fan sites [The Register] MS moves to stop Visual FoxPro developers from using Linux as a development or deployment environment.  Another instance of MS trying to tie their dev tools to the operating system via the EULA.  8:17:36 AM    comment []

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