as if any of my family needed further proof that i'm a superdork.
i'm in grand rapids, michigan visiting relatives for the holidays and this year i thought i'd do something special for myself. yes, that's right - i brought along my 802.11 access point, so that this year i can enjoy the in-laws' big screen tv, eat all their junk food >and< surf the internet, untethered.
just add eggnog and you've got all the ingredients for the perfect holiday season.
i agree with nearly all the predictions made in Carriers moving to 3G alternative in 2002 :
"THE WIRELESS STRATEGIES to stimulate the adoption of mobile data among enterprises that were hatched in the boardrooms of major telecommunications carriers in 2001 are likely to take hold in 2002.unfortunately, given their track record for billing for bandwidth and data services, i'll also predict that the carriers will charge an outrageous premium and throw in really crappy customer service just for kicks.
Chief among those strategies will be a move by carriers like Sprint and VoiceStream -- and possibly AT&T Wireless -- to offer an alternative to their current 3G (third-generation) plans via low-cost, high-performance access to data over Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/a) solutions."
no, no. nothing going on here. and i'm not lobbing the open source research community into the annotated bookmark bin :
"In the spirit of open source, we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. We invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that our community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive."
whoohoo! the rss feeds are now
available
on
syndic8
and i updated
pixie, who now, when asked politely, parses the rss feeds and relays the latest snowdeal posts.
so, if you have a
jabber
client handy, then put pixie@snowdeal.org on your roster and say "hello" to find out what she knows about.
oh yeah, i tried to get her to relay the latest
metafilter
posts, but she's a bit finicky and didn't like the
mefi rss
file.
i guess i'll have to work on making her a bit more forgiving.
the latest SMART Letter contains some absolutely right-on quotes from roxane googin who is an iconoclast and a smarty:
""The goodness of the new network on one hand is a nightmare economically on the other. It is a paradox. And just like oil, society is going to benefit the most if bandwidth is the cheapest. But if bandwidth is so cheap, no one is going to be there to build the bandwidth. So what I saw happening is that the cat had been let out of the bag, the genie was out of the bottle, and people were building these networks and we were headed for this huge train wreck whereby capital would start pulling away from this industry once they realized that this was going to happen."
so, just in case there was any confusion as to how you can buy chicken for 89 cents per pound, i present exhibit a :
"Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest poultry processor, two of the firm's executives and four former managers have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants to work at its U.S. plants as a way to boost profits, the Justice Department said Wednesday."
for that one other person out there that might care, the groove mindmap tool has been updated for v1.3:
"This is a flexible brainstorming outline tool, which you can share with your friends. It's easy to add new items and edit them; then you can drag items around the screen to arrange your thoughts and connect them in different ways."despite its flaws, groove has proven pretty useful for sharin' and collaboratin' at the mothership .
speaking of unfinished projects [ see
previous
post. ]. there's not one, but two,
jabber
books in the works.
Programming Jabber: Extending XML Messaging:
"Programming Jabber offers developers a chance to learn and understand the Jabber technology and protocol from an implementer's point of view. Detailed information of each part of the Jabber protocol is introduced, explained, and discussed in the form of mini-projects, or simple and extended examples in Perl, Python, and Java. This book provides the foundation and framework for developers to hit the ground running, and is the essential book on Jabber."Jabber Programming :
"Enables developers to build their own Jabber-based messaging systems quickly and easily. Examples are in Visual Basic and make use of JabberCOM. Readers will be able to create their own instant messaging clients for use with AOL, MSN, ICQ and other popular chat clients. Includes coverage of installing and running your own Jabber Server."if you have a jabber client you can subscribe to pixie@snowdeal.org and type "hello" to see my stab at developing a rosterbot. she's not too smart. yet.
back in september when i was
playing around
with the topic mapping software
touchgraph
, i had plans. big plans.
i was going to try to begin storing metadata about posts indexed by the
blogger
post ID [ made easier by the emergence of the blogger api ], so i could do all kinds of fancy, schmancy visualization of the relationships between posts. well, like a lot of my big ideas, it never made it past the lame
prototype
that i threw together.
well,
chris langreiter
mocks my procrastination with his excellent
vanilla-vista
:
" vanilla-vista is the umbrella term for quite a few ideas regarding visualizing the space and its (link) structure. In its first incarnation, it's basically TouchGraph plus a few extensions."interesting stuff with a lot of potential - here's the applet .
the
mozilla
0.97 branch
is available for your browsing pleasure.
i'm playing with it now and despite some recent
instability issues
in the nighly builds, things seem quite nice. apparently the
0.97 branch
is slated for "official" release on friday.
things keep getting better and better.
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
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