Status-Q

This is the first post to my AT&T intranet weblog. I've created this as part of my experiments with the Radio Userland software.

Some things here (such as the earlier postings below) will be cross-postings which also appear on my main weblog at Status-Q. Others will be AT&T-only stuff. This page is on the intranet and so only accessible within the lab.

"After 2.5 years of Linux, I've finally found joy in a Unix operating system", writes John Hummel about his conversion to Mac OS X.

Peter Martin in the FT: ruup4 multimedia messaging?. The service-providers' enthusiasm for the new MMS phones is because "At least in its WAP form, there has been very little public appetite for third-party content. Meanwhile, user-generated content, in the form of SMS messages, continues to grow. " Will this apply to multimedia?

Computerworld: Wireless LANs gain over cellular. "A growing number of U.S. localities, including the California cities of Glendale and Oakland and counties of Orange and San Diego, have embraced Wi-Fi technology as the high-speed wireless backbone of their networks." [Tomalak's Realm]

Wi-Fi (802.11b) really isn't designed for this kind of deployment but, hey, if it works, then I guess that's already an advantage over 3G. I'm dubious about covering a county, even a very small one, with just 12 base stations, though.

I've installed the 'htdig' search engine here now, and the search box on the right will use that instead of Google. The Google link worked well, but sometimes wouldn't index Status-Q often enough, and would discard bits from time to time. I realised that I was having trouble searching for things and I'm supposed to know roughly what's in here. I think the new one's a big improvement.

Hywel Williams has a fascinating site about the Disused Stations on London's Underground.

John Hiler produces some good stuff. He wrote an interesting article a couple of weeks ago about the effect of weblogs on search engines. In this latest piece he discusses weblogs in terms of Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point".