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Wot!

My buddy Lestat sent me the link to this YouTube of Captain Sensible's Wot! One of my favorite tunes!!!


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Spacejock Software

Simon Haynes is a very good SciFi writer who also happens to be an excellent programmer. Take a whirl at Spacejock Software for his many very well written and useful programs that he just gives away! While you're at it download his first book free! get Hal Spacejock 1 now!

iPhone me!

It was fascinating "watching" the real time blogging going on at the Apple WWDC Jobs keynote on Monday. Macrumorslive.com used some Web 2.0 technology to continuously update their blog stream and no refreshing was necessary. It actually worked seamlessly and never crashed. I was very impressed.

As for the "keynote", typical Jobs and Apple. They still do it better than Microsoft. The 3G iPhone is as close as current technology is going to get to the do it all device we all long for. I'll be getting one. At $199 and $299 how can you not? Exchange support is a bonus.

The replacement of .MAC with MobileMe is a good move. Of course like all other big companies, they are wasting the me.com domain having it redirect back to apple.com. Here's hoping it's only temporary until the service goes live.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

It's the Kevin Bacon game for Wikipedia. Like searching for the center of the earth, find the center of Wikipedia!

Here's the skinny:

Six Degrees of Wikipedia: "The same idea could apply to the articles Wikipedia. Instead of taking 'in the same film' as the relation, you can take 'is linked to by'. We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the 'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness)."

XO 2.0 Very close to a Star Trek pad

Pictures of the XO 2.0 (the One Laptop Per Child OLPC) show a radical departure from "standard" laptop designs. The article says much like an e-Book. To me it's more of a foldable tablet or an oversided data pad from Star Trek the Next Generation.

Here's a pic:





Here's the skinny:

Emerging Technologies - Desktops and Notebooks - OLPC Provides First Look at the XO 2.0: "The XO 2.0 takes a radically different approach from the current version of the XO laptop. This version is designed more as a e-book reader than as a traditional laptop."

Google`s $500M WiMax Bet

So google gets search and ads and android to Sprint. Clearwire gets money. We all get WiMax by 2010? Cool.

Here's the skinny:

"WiMax, which pipes data at up to 70M bps to an area that covers up to 30 miles, has been praised as a technology but has struggled to find widespread traction. Clearwire, with backing of Sprint Nextel, Google and others, plans to change that."

Google WiMax Play