One Of Those Days...
Actually, it has been one of those *months*. You know, where no matter how hard you work and how many hours you put in, at the end of the day your task list is longer than when you started? Yeah...I need a vacation.
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Actually, it has been one of those *months*. You know, where no matter how hard you work and how many hours you put in, at the end of the day your task list is longer than when you started? Yeah...I need a vacation.
So I've written a local weather page for my phone. Yeah, I know what you're thinking...what's the big deal, any phone with a data plan can get weather information. True, but this is *my* weather page and has the data that *I* want, all in a nice compact page that you can view from a WML browser. Maybe you'll find it useful. Just type the following URL into your phone browser:
http://www.jorgev.com/cgi-bin/weather.pl
Tommy's finally opened up a store in San Diego. If you've never eaten at Tommy's, you really should try it out. Good eats.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to the PDC last year. If you were able to go, then you undoubtedly recall the video of Bill Gates with Napoleon Dynamite. It's pretty flippin' hilarious (assuming you've seen the movie). Sadly, the only copy I have been able to find is one that was apparently video-recorded by an attendee, so the quality is very poor. But if you want to check it out, here it is.
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Thanks to my buddy Leo for this link. The sound is much better, although the video is handheld.
No, not that dream. My dream is that someday people will be able to use their IM client of choice and communicate with any other IM user, regardless of network or client. Old timers will remember something called RVP, which stood for rendezvous protocol. This was a collaborative effort on the part of several large companies to produce a standard for communicating via instant messaging. Unfortunately, RVP never went very far. In the meantime, ICQ, AIM and MSN continued to get more and more users locked into their proprietary IM systems. Well, Google has at least taken a step against that trend. And with their recent 5% stake in Time Warner, they could soon have the largest user base.
Actually, to be honest, this dream is a microcosm of my larger dream...that we will all be able to communicate and collaborate regardless of platform, network, whatever. One of the major keys to this is using the web as a platform, which Google is sort of championing. I've sort of changed my mind about Google. Initially I sort of disliked them, mostly because they seem arrogant and narcissistic. But they have some pretty bright people working for them, and I think they're on the right track.
Lego has pretty much revamped their Mindstorms system and will be coming out with a new kit in August of this year, named Mindstorms NXT. Wired has an article on it. For the nexth month or so, you can sign up to try to get into the developer program, although only 100 names will be chosen so I'm not keeping my hopes up.