Yesterday Apple Computer released a snazzy new product. It looks like this: Very clean and pretty, but what is it? A boom box, like the one I listened to nonstop from 1982 through 1985 (until I finally invested in a multi-component stereo system with one of those new-fangled CD players — sweet!) Some kind of …
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You like long walks on the beach too?
Another one of my entrepreneurial ideas has been taken: PersonalsTrainer offers to fix your personal ad so you sound more like you than you can manage yourself. However, the lead example offered on the home page is less than reassuring. The “before” is definitely all kinds of wrong (“I have a nice personality. I have …
And now a word from our sponsor
As you will have noticed, I have added advertisements to My Brilliant Mistakes. It’s an experiment: I’m curious whether any revenue will result. But I find I’m now more interested to see what ads Google selects to display. As they describe the service: Google uses search-based technologies to match advertisements to the content and context …
Available just in time for my birthday
Smaller is better, or at least it will be when it’s available this fall: the oqo ultra-personal computer. Yum.
Will Al Gore claim a share?
The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize.
Blogging is the new black
Rick E. Bruner reviews the latest research on bloggers and blog readers and wonders why more advertisers have not jumped on the opportunities presented by weblogs: Super-popular blogger Glen Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, leaves his traffic logs open, where we can see that he averages around 100,000 visitors a day and more than 2 million uniques …
Whispering in the back of the room
Techie types have taken to messaging and blogging during presentations. Some presenters object to the practice, others support it. I don’t see how anyone can block conference and meeting attendees from using messaging, and I don’t see many good reasons to try. But I do like the idea of a presenter offering a channel for …
The soothing chirp of a room full of pagers
Tomorrow night will not be a good night to have a computer or network problem in the Pittsburgh area, as it’s the first Thursday of an even-numbered month, which means it’s Geek Night. The Church Brew Works will be overrun by application developers, network administrators, tech support staffers, and the recruiters who love them. I …
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We’re number one!
Exciting in a self-absorbed way: The Closkey.com site currently comes up first when one searches Google for “closkey.” Number 1 of about 6,940 results! (The fact that the domain name is the search word probably has a lot to do with it, but still.) It beats out all the McCloskey geneological sites, which is no …
Audio books for your iPod
The Guardian Unlimited offers an overview of digital audio book sources. You’ve loaded your CDs in to your iPod, you’ve assembled playlists and discovered the joys of shuffle mode. But the first flush of gadget love is fading. What can you do to re-kindle the affair? Why not experiment with digital audio books? There are …