I’ve confronted this…
And reached the same conclusion. I hope we are both right.
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May 2004
Decentralization, again…
Remember when the Berlin wall came down and the Soviet Union ended up breaking up? People talked about the power of decentralizaiton, about how simple faxes were used by individual Soviet citizens to tell the world what was going on and topple the ultimate centralized power? Or the impact of th...
Read more →[GEEK] Is Log4J not doing what you expect, or not finding its properties?
Here’s a handy bit of esoterica: To force Log4J to report on it’s initialization sequence do this: java -Dlog4j.debug=true (And no, I usually don’t use log4j, I use the Java 1.4 built in logging facility, but some of the libraries I like still use log4j.)
[GEEK] Bootclasspath
In order to debug a hairy problem, I need to step into some Java system classes (hashmap.java) HashMap.class is to be found in rt.jar, part of the standard Java distribution (1.4.2_04) but it does NOT have debug info compiled in. So what to do? I think I did a pretty exhaustive set of steps but I w...
Read more →Programming Esoterica
As I delve into programming esoterica, in the past I’ve written down little handy items of information that I discover through a lot of work, for possible future reference. 6 months later, the details will have escaped me, and so I have my written notes to refer back to. Well, I thought, why not use...
Read more →The “dark” side of LinkedIn
Well, not really dark: This is in reference to Shel Isreal’s recent bit about LinkedIn. Shel notes that LinkedInis actually good for recruiting. He cites some examples of folks who assembled a ...
Read more →New version of iTunes
Good evening sportsfans. There’s a new version (4.5) of iTunes for Windows. All I can see after a quick look-over is a new feature called “Party Shuffle” that appears to create a quasi-random mix, based on a few parameters. Suitable for parties, I guess 🙂
A new kind of EVIL Spyware
One of my computers has gone totally haywire with spyware, popups popping all over the place, and more. Here’s the new spin, which I hadn’t seen before. When surfing the web, arbitrary words on web pages are turned into links, and when you innocently click them, you are sent off the deep end with a...
Read more →Howard Stern in New York Times
For Howard Stern fans out there, here’s a good article.
Testing BlogJet
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso And here’...
Read more →Outlook Haters, anyone?
David Coursey writes an interesting bitabout how the competitors to Microft Office (i.e. Star Office, Word Perfect, what not) need to get themselves an Outlook competitor, because that’s the only (or main) reason standing in the way o...
Read more →April 2004
Thoughts about software licensing
Dan Bricklin’s written a bit on a topic that’s been indirectly on my mind lately. It has to do with BlogBridge, the Blogging tool that I’ve been developing as a back room project for a while now (I post periodic updates, s...
Read more →Spain Security Situation
Several people asked me about what the security situation in Spain felt like. I have to admit it did give me pause to be going to Spain little more than a month after the terrorist attack on the trains in Madrid. In fact our travel plans included several long train rides. I checked with friends who ...
Read more →Windows, Windows, Windows Everywhere
In the accompanying photo you can see one of the ubiquitous TV screens sprinkled all around the Spanish subway system. They display up-to-the-minute information about arrivals and departures, in real-time, also ads and other commercial announcements. Very useful! [ that we are away. Granada is a nice little town in Southern Spain, with a Moorish or Middle Eastern influence. We spent hours yesterday wandering around the Alhambra, which was great, although we are paying with our feet today… Tomorrow we leave for a few days in Sevilla. See you there.
How does this work?
Office XP for $59.95! It must be some kind of bootleg, but it’s quite blatant. I wonder what the catch is…
Area codes become meaningless
A good little insight from Rafe Needlemanin his new column over at ZDNet. “The reason it won’t last: If you can get a telephone with any area or country code, the whole idea of a vanity area code will eventually evaporate. It won’t be like a real-world address, which for the most part still represents a physical location. While roaming cellular phones have already begun to make area codes irrelevant, VoIP will finish the job. Soon, area code will be one of those anachronistic telecom terms, like dialing, that doesn’t mean anything close to what it once did. “
GPS and Civil Liberties?
How would you like to be able to “implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being”? I came across this link. It just has to be a prank.