I think it's amusing how the American media continue to look to Palm (One/Source) for guidance when it comes to mobile technologies. Newsweek has an article this week on your mobile phone becoming your next computer. Anyone who's had the Epiphany knows that this is obviously the case, but in order to justify this thought the reporter...

I have an Initialization Servlet I've used for quite a while now, it loads up when the web-app starts and grabs a .properties file with the arbitrary options I need to store for the application - everything from media directories to web service passwords. Here's what it looks like: import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*;...

My in-laws have been in town for the past couple of weeks (they leave tomorrow) and we've just about run out of things to do in The City, so I'm thinking about driving down to Half Moon Bay today. I'm hoping the traffic isn't too horrendous, but I think it will be. Depending on how long it takes we may continue down PCH to...

*Yawn* *Stretch* *Crack knuckles* Okay, I'm back. Just in time for the long weekend where no one is going to read this anyways. So where the hell was I and what did I lose? Well, I was here and it was my mind, obviously. Much better now. The break was good. Full reset in all parts of my life and now I'm back on track. So... I wanted...

TEST I love Phish, and LivePhish.com's 24/7 live music stream is just awesome. All live Phish tracks all day. I went to college in New Hampshire back in the early 90s and though I never got a chance to see them live, back then they were just a small local band who played in the local bars. I've been listening to them since LawnBoy...

Happy Birthday Alexander! -Russ

I lost it. Back later. -Russ

I'm reading this Googlemania article in the NYT when I ran across this quote: It is unlikely that the company will turn its attention to Microsoft's traditional desktop computing franchise. Instead, the two companies will probably compete directly over new and immature markets. One possible example is what has been described by a...

Okay, so maybe people will stop bugging me about this. I can tell you I've gotten at least 3 dozen emails and countless comments on this topic. Finally, the American Nokia Configurator supports the Nokia 6600. If you need network settings for the 6600 go there, walk through the wizard and it'll send you an SMS configuration message...

I have 200+ mobile news sites in my aggregator, but some of the best sites out there don't have RSS feeds. Every once in a while - usually on Sunday evenings when I'm jonesing for news before the Euros wake up - I go back and open up a set of Mozilla Tabs and go through my list of sites without feeds. Invariably I find info out that I...

I'll respond to a discussion over at Scoble's site here because I noticed that one of my posts was on the experimental blog which is causing a bit of a fuss. This is something I've been meaning to write about anyways, so here goes. First, I'll make it plain and simple: Everything you read on this site which is written by me is...

What a bunch of complete morons. This story about the ban on pictures of coffins coming from Afghanistan and more importantly, Iraq makes me so angry. The media today is an embarassment and a dissappointment to us all. Look at this quote: "We were not aware at all that these photos were being taken," Bill Keller, executive editor of the...

Dottocomu writes about TV-to-cellphone SD card video recorder to be launched in Japan in June. It "hooks up to your TV and records video in 3GPP format onto an SD or miniSD card for playback on a cellphone." Wow, that's awesome! The form factor of the device leaves a lot to be desired, but the functionality is perfect. This sort of...

I've been invited to join Nokia's pilot program for Python on Series 60! Woohoo! I have to sign an NDA and can't share the code, but I can talk about it. This is very cool - as I've been wondering what's up with the scripting stuff on S60. Just the email invite to join the program alone explains *a ton* about the status of...

I missed this by a few weeks... March 26, 1984: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient...