October 2004 Archives
Maciej has put up a web-service "language guesser". Cool.
I just got one of these in my change from the dépanneur and yeah, the ink is already almost totally gone. "Revolutionary technology" my arse. It's a bit of red and black ink on a roughly textured surface. And it's gone. Just like most of the veterans... cough...
"Now all the Tories look as silly as Boris"
Wireless Networking via lighting? Can this be?
Hm. Wiki + Sticky Notes + RSS feeds. Try it out!
Try to write something...
"reputation management may trump brand management"
"reputation can impact prices consumers are willing to pay online"
Bingo.
The Guardian weighs in about all this terror alert bullshit. What do you call it when so-called leaders use fear-mongering to influence the populace. And I thought a democracy is where the people are supposed to influence their selected leaders...
"Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the UCLA Medical Center."
"Aubergine - A secret term used to refer to computers in the presence of computerphobic third parties."
This has been bugging me from day one in OS X. Thanks Francis!
SK combines the technolust of Japan and the market dynamic of China. Lookout, world.
The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming + ever more problematic to access + reconstruct: in contrast the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening + ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.
Zonks!
/me clicks subscribe...