Saturday, May 3, 2003

SJ Mercury: IBM makes nanotech breakthrough. IBM researchers have created the world's smallest solid-state flashlight -- a tube 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. It emits a glow that is invisible to our eyes, but ideal for devices that use light to send data in fiber-optic cables and the like. [Tomalak's Realm] IBM continues to make astonishing nanotech breakthroughs. Look for your first auto-immune robot to come from IBM. 1:21:50 PM    comment []

Video of Howard's O'Reilly Etech Talk. Lisa Rein has made available the video of the keynote I gave at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference, on "Innovation and Collective Action." [Smart Mobs] 1:16:07 PM    comment []

Alan Kay ETech Video. Lisa Rein posted her video and audio of Alan Kay's ETech (ETCon) presentation. [lemonodor] 1:11:27 PM    comment []

Microsoft refuses to play with W3C. Microsoft have withdrawn from the W3C's Web services choreography working group. The article on ADTmag says that they have withdrawn due to a disagreement over the direction of the W3C debate. According to the article, the Microsoft statement on the issue contended that W3C:"is not the only vehicle in which to impact and evaluate a set of technologies. [CapeBlog] Geeze. Is the W3C really that hard to work with? I really don't know. And then there's Microsoft - if we can't do it our way, we'll just go do it ourselves. I guess web services are supposed to make SOFTWARE interoperate better, not companies. 1:07:36 PM    comment []

The Real RIAA (and other True Crime Stories). Letters [The Register] Some letters of outrage about the RIAA's current practices. 1:01:55 PM    comment []

Jon, a friend of mine, has turned me onto network theory and emergent behavior. I find myself thinking about it often. It looks like I've caught the bug. Expect to start seeing strange posts about biological networks as I plow through some reading. 12:35:42 PM    comment []

Followed Jeff's lead and changed up my blog title a bit. I still have no clear blogging direction. I think my blog is evolving into a mix of postings about programming, software architecture, operating systems, a bit of computer hardware, and the smallest pinch of personal items. I'm just not sure how to summarize that in a one line description. I'm not going to force it. I'll just give it more time. 12:33:06 PM    comment []

I have worn out the "Evanesence" CD since purchasing it last weekend. Love it. It's way produced, and I don't seem to mind. What I can't figure out is why the record company spent so much money on production of a first albumn for a band. Is it possible that someone pulled their head out of the sand and recognized the talent and invested in it? I like to think of them as hard rock, but even my wife likes it so I'll have to back off that categorization for now. 12:22:26 PM    comment []

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