Category: Technology

  • In catching up with my RSS feed reading this afternoon using my WiFi connection and my TabletPC from all over the house pseudo-watching the kids play, there is definitely a trend of "a lot" of Apple rumors that are probably going to be proved true or false at Jan05 MacWorld.…

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  • Visio Cafe has announced official IBM stencil collections and updates to the HP Collection. I wish there were more companies supporting this: Microsoft, Cisco, Foundry, Dell, etc.    

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  • I have created a K7 phone number for voice mail and comments related to this weblog and my podcast.  The number is: 206-337-1533.  Any message left there will be sent to my personal email address.

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  • I just started to get RSS feeds from the-gadgeteer.com and boingboing.net.  Thanks to Phil Torrone over at Engadget Podcast for pushing me over the edge to subscribe. Speaking of of Engadget Podcast … I just finished listening to #19 (12.06.04) and there is a great list in the podcast of…

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  • An interesting pattern emerged over the last week relating to books.  On my trip to DC last week I started to read my complimentary and signed copy of Guy Kawasaki’s "The Art of the Start."  I had sent in a couple of ideas to Guy after he posted awhile back…

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  • Here is an update on my new home PC (aka "Zion") that I custom made and ordered via NewEgg.  I had some challenges getting Windows XP installed because I decided incorrectly that SATA drives (HD and CDROM/DVD) are supported completely in the BIOS and in Windows install.  They aren’t ……

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  • "VMware is launching a RSS trial for customers interested in receiving regular updates and news from VMware without relying on email. For more information about RSS and subscribing to VMware RSS feeds, go to: http://subscriber.simplefeed.com/vmware/."

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  • I got my upgrade to my trusty Creative Labs 128 MB Nomad Muvo MP3 Player player last Friday.  It is the Samsung YP-T5V Portable MP3 Player.  It is definitely a significant improvement over my Muvo (which is now my wife’s MP3 player). Things I like a lot: interface (seeing the…

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  • The following items were interesting enough for me to do a little more digging: “While You Were Out” Outlook Add-In [excellent tool, plus possible framework for other solutions in the same genre of add-in to Outlook’s functionality] The ACM OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, andApplications) conference will be held in…

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  • eWeek has a good summary of "Critical Java Bug Targets Java Virtual Machine".  I have been following this since early on Tuesday I think.  It seems pretty critical that folks do some patching to protect themselves.

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