What Chandler is and isn't

* Chander is a PIM: Personal Information Manager
* Chandler is a platform for an integrated General Information Manager: Documents, Photos, Music
* Chandler is not a feature list or a set of tools for getting things done (ie. toolbar)
* Chandler is a way of getting things done
* Chandler is a way to manage your life information
* More of an approach to life, less of a diet pill

They've come a ways since the last time I checked in on them... conceptually, it's compelling, but I'm not sure it's ever gonna make it. We'll see.

Chandler - Intro

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

I think there are other reasons, Ted.

There's so much wrong with this foolish diatribe. Shouldn't he at least be paying someone to explain technology to him? Being old and a senator is fine, but being uneducated about a topic over which you have control is not fine, not in any way is it fine. -k

Seantor Ted Steven explains the Internet

By a 20-13 vote Thursday that partially followed party lines, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would require broadband providers to abide by strict Net neutrality principles, meaning that their networks must be operated in a "nondiscriminatory" manner.

About time.

[ Agreed. It's preposterous that this is even under debate. -k]

House panel votes for Net neutrality

Waterproof enclosures for your elicit urban wifi network.

[ Sweet! Maybe it's time my apartment complex got some WiFi at the pool :) -k

p.s. "elicit" means to draw out information or provoke a response. you meant "illicit" which means unlawful or unsanctioned. ]

Weather-Proof Enclosures for Remote Wi-Fi� WLAN Equipment

So-called domain tasting is one of the more unpleasant developments in the domain business in the past year. Domain speculators are registering millions of domains without paying for them, in a business model not unlike running a condiment business by visiting every fast food restaurant in town and scooping up all of the ketchup packets.

Such bullshit. I hate domain speculators. For that matter, I hate anyone who buys a domain with the express intent of reselling it or absorbing typo-traffic. Unfortunately, I haven't been satisfied by any of my own arguments against their rights to do that stuff. Alas, even with all my hate, I can't make an effective case to say they *can't* do it.

In Bad Taste

Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.

Chax is awesome.

Chax 1.4 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker

ASP.NET 2.0

Work has started in some of the features of 2.x in Mono. To run these applications you must use xsp2 (which loads the 2.x assemblies instead of the 1.x assemblies).

Current features:

* Client callbacks.
* New Configuration engine (partial)
* New controls:
o ButtonField
o CheckBoxField
o DetailsView
o FormView
o GridView (client and server side sorting)
o HyperlinkField
o ImageField
o Menus
o MultiView
o TemplateField
o Trees
o View
* Masterpages
* Two-way bindings
* ObjectDataSource

I was very pleased to see Mono supported from of the 2.0 framework. Has anyone here do any work using Apache and mod_mono? How well does it scale? Any major projects using this setup?

[ Interesting. I was just bemoaning the fact that a project at work is requiring me to learn ASP.NET 1.1 because it's the version that the gov's standardized on. I hate learning something for the first time that's already outdated. Perhaps I'll give mono a try. -k]

Mono supports some of ASP.NET 2.0

Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.

Hard to say if I'm more aligned with the title of the meme or the position of the story. There is an abundance of poor product design out there. But there's also an abundance of impatient and ignorant humanity.

It's obvious to anyone who has worked in software development that the last thing you want is developers designing interfaces. We don't think like the users will, and what makes perfect sense to us, and our like-minded friends, will be incomprehensible to normal humans. It doesn't surprise me particularly that other industries are finding out the same thing.

Time to start hiring human interface experts who understand how people want to interact with their environment, I guess.

Most product quality problems exist between terminal and chair

At the end of the day, Google's Davidson says that his biggest worry is not for Google but for the prospect of bringing fresh innovation to the Internet. After all, if worse comes to worst, Google can pay AT&T or BellSouth to maintain its role as the Internet's dominant search engine. But the bright young start-up with the next big innovative idea won't have that option.

This is exactly my concern.

[ I second that. Or, uh, third, I guess. -k]

Who really gets hurt by 'prioritization' of the Internet

The wasps are trained with sugar water by using the classical conditioning techniques made famous by Pavlov's dogs. Rains says the wasps are sensitive to a host of chemical odors, including 2,4-DNT, a volatile compound used in dynamite.

To do their work, five wasps — each a half-inch long — are placed in a plastic cylinder that is 15 inches tall. This "Wasp Hound," which costs roughly $100 per unit, has a vent in one end and a camera that connects to a laptop computer.

When the wasps pick up an odor they've been trained to detect they gather by the vent — a response that can be measured by the computer or actually seen by observers.

Lewis says the wasps, when exposed to some chemicals, "can detect as low as four parts per billion, which is an incredibly small amount."

I love low-tech like this!

USAToday - Scientists recruit wasps for war on terror