Today is the last day of the KALX 2004 fundraiser, so please call in your donation, now, to (510) 642-5259. They don’t have on-line forms, yet, but you can print out a form and mail it in. Check out the designs for the KALX-branded merchandise. I’ve already gotten my t-shirt, and I assure you that… Read More: KALX Fundraiser – Last Day »
Congratulations to a former colleague, Wojciech Matusik, for being named to Technology Review’s list of 100 top young innovators. I wish I could link directly to the article, but you have to either pay to access the articles or have a paid subscription. The article was in the October 2004 issue. I hired Wojciech in… Read More: Congrats to Wojciech »
When I bought my wife a Titanium PowerBook nearly two years ago, I knew in advance that WiFi range was a significant drawback. The Apple Airport card sits below the keyboard and the Titanium shell acts entirely too much like a Faraday cage. After suffering through some Linksys-induced misery, I bought a NetGear wireless router.… Read More: Better PowerBook WiFi »
Earlier this year, my 15-year old 26″ JVC TV started showing its age. About twenty scan lines into the image, about five scan lines would be skipped. The top of the image would shift down to fill the gap, showing the scan lines that normally aren’t visible due to the fact that all CRT-based televisions… Read More: DLP vs. LCoS »
A great article on Voxify appeared in the East Bay Business Times this week. In addition to providing some interesting background on the company founders, page three of the article provides a good description of what we do. In short, we design and build speech recognition applications that enable automated customer service solutions for clients… Read More: Voxify in the East Bay Business Times »
FCC Chairman Michael Powell continues to behave in a startling reasonable way when he announced that he will seek federal control over VoIP regulation. The IP telephony industry is definitely taking off and I think it would be a shame if the small, innovative companies that have jump started the whole thing were to get… Read More: VoIP Regulation »
I just noticed an article on Ars Technica about a $750 discount on Dell Inspiron laptops priced at $1500 or more. Fortunately, I saw a notice about the sale in the RSS feed for More Stuff 4 Less Bargain Blog Monday. I also spotted it at TechBargains.com. The sale started at 4 a.m. Pacific Tuesday… Read More: Did I Really Need Another Computer? »
Even though I migrated from Movable Type to WordPress quite a while ago, I still planned to post some tips on fighting spam comments on a Movable Type blog. Well, no need for me to write that article, because Elise has already done a far better job than I would have done. If you use… Read More: Fighting Spam Comments with MT »
Neil Harrison and James Coplien’s book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development was released this summer and was reviewed today on Slashdot. I worked with Neil at Avaya, and I can attest that he was one of the many smart men and women with whom I worked during my tenure there. Neil was very knowledgeable… Read More: Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development »
Whatever you thought this post would be about, given the title, you’re probably wrong. When I’m out on my bike, I always wonder about the spray-painted words and lines on the street. One of the most common, and yet most mysterious, scrawlings was “USA”. Often, I see “USA” painted on the street next to an… Read More: USA on the Street »