Monday, August 16, 2004

iSCSI gets some respect. Having received a renewed boost from those who see it moving out of niche markets, iSCSI (Internet SCSI) may finally be getting some much-needed respect. [InfoWorld: Top News] I know it's been a long time coming. Hopefully, hopefully iSCSI will eventually be a technology whose time has come. I'm sure it will require a much bigger price differential vs. FibreChannel before there's a groundswell of interest in iSCSI. Although I liked the idea all along of re-using the SCSI protocol over a network interface. The engineering know how that went into making it an open spec. should not be wasted but used to help drive it into the core of the Computer & Networking Enterprise. 6:44:15 PM    comment []

US kitchen queen Julia Child dies. The woman credited with bringing French cuisine to US households has died in her sleep, aged 91. [BBC News | Entertainment | TV and Radio | UK Edition] I hate to note this passing, but just like Alistair Cooke, Julia Child too will be missed. She was the Sister Wendy of Cooking. Very friendly, affable and totally inviting to the TV audience. How could you not get interested in what she was talking about,... it was in a word infectious. Some of the other cooking hosts have tried to fill her shoes. Molly Katzen does a good job, so does Jacques Pepin and Martin Yan. She did great things to promote Public TV in the US, nearly as much as Alistair Cooke did. Hopefully someone will be able to fill their shoes. A Ken Burns only goes so far. You need people to do those difficult 24+ episode schedules year in and year out. That's real pulbic TV, not pledge time TV. 6:40:07 PM    comment []

For Art History Scholars, Illumination Is a Click Away. A vast digital library of world art called ARTstor could revolutionize the way art history is taught and studied. By By KAREN W. ARENSON. [The New York Times > Technology] This may make things a ton easier on a lot of Universities with Art History depts. no doubt. They have for the most part either sat on their haunches waiting for something to happen, or took the initiative and simply started digitzing their own collections. Hopefully the success of JSTOR will bleed over to ArtSTOR. I for one hope the prices come down to the point where our University would jump at the opportunity to subscribe. 6:36:27 PM    comment []