It has come to my attention through my website reports that some of you are stil using Internet Explorer. Are you mad! Good god, my dear person, won’t someone think of the innocent computers, i.e., mine, that are subject to spam and hacking zombie attacks caused by people who use IE and have their computer’s… Read More »
It seems like only a few months ago (August 22nd, to be exact) that I upgraded my Linux install from Fedora Core 1 to Core 2. Now, Fedora Core 3 is already out. For now, I’m going to leave FC2 on the desktop PC, but I will put FC 3 on my new laptop. Anyway,… Read More »
Perhaps due to the influence of having lived in Texas for ten years, I was overcome about five years ago by the need to buy some cool-looking cowboy boots. Unfortunately, they weren’t the pair you see on this page. While I had thought my boots were pretty cool, my next door neighbor has since tipped… Read More »
After many months of getting no more then a handful of spam comments per day on this blog, last week I started getting 50-100 spam comments a day. While almost all of them were caught by WordPress and put into the comment moderation queue, I was wasting a lot of time each day deleting them… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »