The irock looks pretty freaking awesome, especially for $29.99.
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July 3, 2002
eWEEK has a good story on the early release of the next update to Mac OS X (codenamed Jaguar). I like the article’s rundown on all the new featues Jaguar will have for us. Pretty cool. My TiBook runs OS X 10.1.5 right now, and it’s awesome. When I get our PC laptops this month, I can draw direct comparisons to Windows XP.
July 3, 2002
I had a tilt table test last week, which confirmed that I don’t have a heart issue. They made me pass out on the table to confirm the diagnosis, which wasn’t a pleasant experience. What I have it vaso-vagal syncope, an exaggeration of the triggers that everyone has to slow down or speed up their heart. My case is pretty mild, so I just need to make sure I drink lots of fluids and eat plenty of salt (no lie–my blood pressure is pretty low, actually–108/72, generally). If I feel faint I need to lie down to get blood to my head. I haven’t had an incident since the one time in March, though. My wife says that a diagnosis involving lack of blood flow to the brain would explain a lot (but she says that males think with another part of their anatomy anyway, so I guess that wouldn’t be a problem).
Seriously, it’s good to define what was happening to me. As I lose more weight and get back to being more active, I think that the symptoms will go away permanently. Lots of camping and hiking this summer for me, which is awesome.
June 27, 2002
I think Warchalking is a potentially powerful idea, but who provides the access? Do they know or approve of the people connecting to their network? This idea has spread like wildfire over the net in the last few days (yes, Brad and Mike, it would qualify as a meme). Warchalking is on websites all over, but this link is from The Shifted Librarian:
Matt Jones Births WiFi Markers.
“Okay so here is the first draft of a warchalking symbol card. Having not very much experience of war-walking or war-driving, I’m really looking to others for suggestion as what would be useful to represent in the warchalking symbology. Hopefully we can get the card to V1.0 pretty quickly and start chalking up the city!
I’m going to talk to some folk tommorrow and try and get the discussion going at “PRIVATE REVERIES, PUBLIC SPACES” and hopefully, DIS2002.
You can download:
A PDF of the card to print out and use [31k] An EPS of the card to download and improve [800k]“
“Ben gets the inaugural warchalking pic – he’s chalked up his kynance mews access point, and damn – it looks good even though I say so myself…
[click the picture for a bigger version, 74k]He’s also written a little piece over at his O’Reilly blog, which explains why warchalking your town or city is a good idea much better than I ever could.”
This meme is really rolling right now, but I think it has staying power if enough folks hop on board, especially libraries. If your library is providing public WiFi access, put up a rune! If you’re not and you’re at a public library, look at this phenomenon and realize how you could contribute to it, the benefits to the public, and the benefits for you!
You can also read the comments about this over at Slashdot.
June 26, 2002
Today is my brother Joe Mancuso’s birthday. Please send some happy vibes to him over in Guam!
June 25, 2002
TechXNY: Tablet PC OS slated for November. Microsoft also details next version of Office [InfoWorld: Top News]
June 25, 2002
9/11 Suspect Lived Lavishly. They’ve traced the 9/11 trail to a man in the Phillipines who lived a pretty hedonistic lifestyle as he plotted to kill the decadent Americans. A hypocrite as well as a terrorist.[AP World News]
June 25, 2002
Yes, even the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile isn’t immune from suspicion of terrorist attack. Not that the Wienermobile was in danger of being atttacked. Actually, it’s the Wienermobile that was the potential terrorist tool. I guess you can’t be too careful these days!
June 23, 2002
Okay, now we know why he was gone for a week. I hope he’s feeling a lot better and speeds to recovery. I wonder if he would’ve been a good candidate for a stent? Too late now, I guess. My dad’s had two stents and runs around like a twenty year old.
Here’s hoping Dave kicks his nicotine habit, too. Cigarettes are powerful stuff.
June 21, 2002
Is Microsoft losing it? Why are they being so arrogant to the court? They were convicted already–they’re being sentenced for a crime. Yet they act like they should still be acquitted.
I guess they don’t have much of a choice at this point. With things looking this grim for Microsoft, what do they have to lose, right?