Archive for March, 2003
Monday, March 17th, 2003
The news on Iraq today, though not unexpected, was disheartening. I feel certain now that by this time Thursday, we, as a country, will be engaged in the most ferocious single display of military power ever witnessed. I do believe that this conflict will make Gulf I look like a ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2003
This was the classic lazy weekend for me. I spent only a minimal amount of time at the computer - the desktop, anyway. That was time spent on an artcle on Linux in astronomy. Beyond that, I swung through the 65 feeds I'm gathering in Newsmonster, installed the new 1.3 ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2003
Sensing a theme today? In the WiFi mode, this article on Business 2.0 takes a reasonable look at the spread of WiFi as a value add in business.
You know the Wi-Fi hype is at its zenith when McDonald's (MCD) begins outfitting its burger joints with the wireless Internet access ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2003
I'm blogging wirelessly on the Zaurus from an unprotected hotspot in downtown Iowa City. Kismet and Kismet-Qt have worked flawlessly on this little expedition. I'm very surprised at how many unprotected networks I found and was able to access on the way here.
I kept the Z on the front seat ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2003
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Kismet and Kismet-QT for the Zaurus last night. The developers have made some very nice improvements to the GUI since the last version I looked at. Among them are an audible notification when a new network is found. With the weather in ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2003
OK. So I was a bit premature. The trip to Japan is off, for now.
We pulled the plug because the scope was creeping, creeping, creeping with no end in sight. We've had this experience of running to Japan on an open-ended trip before, only to return home with no on ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2003
Monday's the day. I'm off to Japan at 7:00 AM CST. 2 hours + to Denver, 2 hours + to San Francisco, and 12 hours to Kansai International. I like Japan quite alot and am looking forward to the trip. Even Kansai is great. It's a man-made island ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2003
Is The Axis of Evil proving to be one of the great diplomatic blunders of all time? Let's look at the chronology and the facts.
At the time of George Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, America had just accomplished its first objective in the War on Terrorism. Afghanistan had ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2003
Looks like blogosphere.us is in an early testing phase.
So you're an aggregator?
No, not really. We don't spider, and we don't distribute your content. As a matter of fact we don't even read your whole page - we're just interested in your links.
And they made it into the referrer logs.
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Friday, March 7th, 2003
Doc and Dave have collaborated on another remarkable document: "World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else." It's amazing how, when you strip away the BS that's been pushed at us about the 'net the past few years, its essence is clear. The ...
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