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Biking With the Droid
The weather has mostly been beautiful this week, my schedule has been reasonable (not in that I don’t have a lot of work to do, but it’s mostly development work I do at my own pace whenever I want, rather … Continue reading
I Don’t Hate My iPhone
I don’t hate my iPhone because I don’t have one. I have a Treo. The PalmOS is showing its age, and it doesn’t synchronize that well with the Mac, so I’ve been thinking about replacing it, and the iPhones are … Continue reading
Facebook: Spam Factory
I joined Facebook a few months ago, to keep up with some friends and colleagues who aren’t part of the other social networks I belong to, and to keep abreast of social networking in general, which interests me professionally. Each … Continue reading
Netscape Navigator, 1994-2007
Time Warner has announced that it will stop supporting or updating Netscape Navigator. I didn’t know it was still being produced. Back in the dark ages, before “the Internet” and “the Web” were synonymous to most people (before most people … Continue reading
Apple: Sleek, Yet Useless
Especially at this time of year, the word “airport” generally brings to mind long waits, obnoxious staff, pointless routines, and frustration. This is true, apparently, in networking as well as in travel. “Airport” is Apple’s brand name for its wireless … Continue reading
Protected: Email Problems?
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Email Filtering: A Brief Tutorial
My previous post generated a number of questions about how to maintain multiple email addresses. As I said there, using the same email address everywhere is not only an invitation to immense amounts of spam, it’s also a privacy problem, … Continue reading
Facebook, Beacon and Hysteria
Thanks to the overwhelming hysteria about Facebook’s new “Beacon” program — the one that sends information about what you buy at certain web sites to your profile — it has been difficult or impossible to find any facts about how … Continue reading
The Quote Server, 1994-2006, RIP
More than a decade ago, I flew home from an Internet conference in San Francisco with the first (pink) edition of Larry Wall’s Programming Perl and a printout of the NCSA Mosaic page on how to write CGI scripts. The … Continue reading
Difference Engine #2
At dinner the other night with shunn, bobhowe and our friends Colin, Bill and Christopher, I mentioned the version of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine #2 built at the Science Museum in London. The story of its construction is told in … Continue reading