Monthly Archives: February 2003

When Ivan Meets G.I. Alice

By | February 22, 2003

Joi Ito’s Web: Ivan’s adventures in weblog space Whenever I see the name Ivan, a little voice in my head starts singing the refrain from “When Ivan Meets G. I. Joe” by the Clash from the album Sandinista!. Joi Ito has written a brilliant little story that succinctly explains what goes on under the covers… Read More »

Aggregator Explosion

By | February 20, 2003

In the last couple months, and especially the last few weeks, new news aggregators have been coming out of the woodwork like stolen credit card numbers out of Data Processors International. While there were plenty of browser-based (Radio, Amphetadesk, etc.) and three-pane desktop app (NetNewsWire, Straw, NewsDesk, NewsCrawler, Syndirella, spaces, etc.) aggregators, now we have… Read More »

Audblog

By | February 18, 2003

So I’m not the only person who decided it would be cool to build a tool for blogging by phone. These guys are offering it as a commercial service, though. I hope they succeed with it. My offer still stands to anyone who would like their own PhoneBlogger install. However, if you are just looking… Read More »

SportsML

By | February 18, 2003

SportsML — The Sports Markup Language Over an afternoon capuccino at Peet’s, I read about SportsML in the final issue of New Architect magazine. When I invented a simple XML-based markup for SoccerPhone in around February or March of 2002, I didn’t realize that a more general purpose XML-based markup language for sports was already… Read More »

How Secure Is PhoneBlogger?

By | February 15, 2003

Apparently, not very. At least, not yet. And certainly not how I have it currently configured. The two previous posts (1, 2) were not made by me. PB uses an XML-RPC API call to post to a weblog. That API call requires a valid password for a user on the blog. PB captures the password… Read More »

Which OS Are You?

By | February 11, 2003

BBspot – Which OS are you? Yet another “Which __ are you?” style quiz. I added it to my short list of similar quizzes that I found to be somewhat less than a complete waste of time. I am Slackware Linux.

Powerbook Lust Sated

By | February 4, 2003

My lust for the Apple Powerbook was sated today when a box showed up at my front door today containing a 1 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 15.2 inch TiBook. What a beautiful machine, what a beautiful operating system. Even though it’s technically Sandra’s computer, I plan on spending a significant amount of quality time with… Read More »

Category: Mac

Take That, RIAA

By | February 4, 2003

Salon.com Technology | Embrace file-sharing, or die This is a fantastic article at Salon.com by John and Ben Snyder. John is president of Artist House Records, on the board of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, and a 32-time Grammy nominee. Although long stretches of the article consist of quotes from other people,… Read More »