Monthly Archives: July 2003

Sidi Genius 4 Lorica

By | July 29, 2003

Eat your heart out, Sarah Jessica Parker. Now, these are shoes to die for. My new Sidi Genius 4 Lorica cycling shoes are the closest thing I can imagine to a glove for your feet. Well, a glove with a really hard bottom surface, but the fit around the top and sides of my feet… Read More »

First Known Anti-Tobacco Ad Campaign

By | July 24, 2003

A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco In a surprisingly forward looking ad campaign, King James I (a Stuart, I might add) struck out against the dangers of tobacco back in 1604. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest… Read More »

Gallery 1.3.4 Instructions

By | July 22, 2003

I updated my install of Gallery to 1.3.4 last night. After a much too difficult upgrade, I finally got my photo gallery back online. I still think Gallery is a very nice online photo gallery program, I just wish it was a little easier to install. When I installed Gallery 1.3.3 the first time, it… Read More »

Tracking News About Friends

By | July 18, 2003

It appears that the friend of a friend was the driver in the terribly unfortunate tragedy in Santa Monica. I’ve been thinking about possibilities for Friendster and FOAF lately, and for some reason this sad event triggered a tangential idea – automated tools for tracking news about friends. If many of your friends maintain weblogs,… Read More »

EFF digital MIX in Oakland

By | July 17, 2003

Friday, July 25th, the EFF will be hosting Digital Mix in Oakland as a benefit for the EFF and Creative Commons at the Oakland Box Theater (formerly the Black Box) at 1928 Telegraph Ave between 19th and 20th. This very cool event will celebrate music, digital film, cyber-rights, and illegal art, with speeches by Fred… Read More »

Microsoft Speech Server

By | July 14, 2003

Microsoft Beta to Make ’em Talk Microsoft has released a public beta of their Speech Server and a new beta of their Speech Application SDK. Microsoft had previously teamed up primarily with Intel to propose a new standard called SALT that is somewhat competitive with VoiceXML. As of now, I contrast the two as: SALT… Read More »

Join the Bright Club

By | July 13, 2003

The Bright Stuff by Daniel Dennett It’s nice to read an opinion piece every now and then that you can completely identify with. Daniel Dennett’s recent NY Times piece on having a naturalist world view really struck home for me. Dennett’s name was a familiar one from philosophy courses I took long ago, particularly one… Read More »