Monthly Archives: May 2004

eBIG Show

By | May 27, 2004

I saw quite a few cool things today at the eBIG FutureTech and Gadget Show. My friend Ed from TeleVoce was there showing off a prototype of the TeleVoce Duetto. The Duetto is a special cordless phone that can take both VoIP calls through a connected computer and regular PSTN calls. One cool feature of… Read More »

eBIG FutureTech & Gadget Show

By | May 26, 2004

Tomorrow is the East Bay IT Group’s (eBIG) FutureTech and Gadget Show from noon to 7 pm at the Carr America Conference Center in Pleasanton. I joined eBIG about a month ago and I definitely plan to be at the show. A friend of mine (and fellow San Jose Earthquakes fan) will be there from… Read More »

CA Open Source

By | May 25, 2004

Yahoo! News – CA Charges Into Open Source Computer Associates has always struck me as being the least interesting of all the really large software factories. They build (though more often, deliver through an acquisition) boring software for running core software at other behemoths. The only interesting thing about CA over the last few years… Read More »

SourceBeat

By | May 25, 2004

I’ve been meaning to write about SourceBeat for awhile. My friend Michael told me about this company a couple weeks ago. SourceBeat has a very interesting business model for publishing technical books. The basic idea is that you pay about $30 a year to subscribe to a book. That may seem like a lot for… Read More »

Switch to WordPress

By | May 20, 2004

I decided to make the switch from Movable Type to WordPress. I’m really happy with what I’ve seen of WP so far. There’s still plenty of clean-up work to do on my blog, but I went ahead and started redirecting the main index.html page and all the individual archive pages from my old blog to… Read More »

A Funny Stewart

By | May 19, 2004

The funniest man in America, Jon Stewart (no known relation, unfortunately), delivered the commencement address at William & Mary to the extremely lucky Class of 2004. I have no memory of the deliverer or the content of the commencement address at my graduation from Rice, although I am quite confident the speech wasn’t nearly as… Read More »

WordPress

By | May 18, 2004

In the continuing fallout from the Movable Type 3.0 licensing debacle, I decided to tryout WordPress. My original list also included Blosxom and PyBlosxom, which I might also try out. So far, so good. I wrote up my notes for installing WordPress on a DreamHost hosted website. I have a test blog up and running,… Read More »

Treo 600 Software Update

By | May 16, 2004

PalmOne updates software for Treo 600 smart phone | CNET News.com Late last week palmOne released another software update for the Treo 600. So far, it’s available for SprintPCS subscribers only. Either they care the most about us Sprintians, or they think that we will make good guinea pigs, and therefore they care the least… Read More »

MT 3.0 License Update

By | May 16, 2004

Should I stay or should I go? Six Apart updated and clarified the license for Movable Type 3.0. The most important update for me was the removal of the single CPU limit. It appears that they accidentally forgot to delete that restriction when they copied the text from someone else’s software license. The most important… Read More »

Avaya to Voxify

By | May 15, 2004

After nearly eleven years at Avaya/Lucent/Mosaix/ViewStar (strung together by two acquisitions and a spin-off), I’ve decided to move on to Voxify, a speech applications startup in Alameda. My last day at Avaya was May 7th. The killer blow for me was that this month Avaya is moving the R&D team from the Dublin office to… Read More »