Status-Q

A year ago yesterday, I linked to Dave Wilson’s LA Times article entitled “Windows, Windows, everywhere”, which talked about how the homogeneity caused by a worldwide subscription licensing scheme would cause viruses to have a more devastating effect since everyone would have the same vulnerabilities.

I went back to look at it today, and it’s not there. The link doesn’t work any more and there’s no helpful message to tell me where I might find it. It may be in the archives and available for a fee, but when I found the archives I still couldn’t find the article. This makes me much less likely to link to the LA Times in future. Is it really worth it for them?

Here’s a post from the exhibition floor at LinuxWorld. I ran MacStumbler here and picked up something like 40 wireless access points. This comes to you through one of them. I’ve no idea whose it is, but I’m grateful…

[Original Link] A splendid geeky story about car-to-car communication.

[Original Link] “Hollywood is winning, folks. You are losing. And you’d better start caring.”

[Original Link] This is another of those good ideas that I also thought of but never got around to implementing. There are lots of these. I’m better at the inspiration than the perspiration, which means, in Edison’s terms, that I’m 1% of a genius where Russell is 100%. 🙁

Anyway, the reason I wanted to do this was because it would have been another excuse to buy an iPod. Imagine an audio news aggregator, which would dump the audioblogs you’d subscribed to onto your iPod whenever you synched it. You could then peruse them using the nice iPod interface. A build-your-own radio station. And yes, it would be even better if real radio stations incorporated RSS-type subscription mechanisms. They should be less concerned about syndication than other online publications, because they would still be able to embed advertisments and jingles in the audio.

I’ll get around to it one day. The same goes for that wheel thing I invented a while back…

[thanks to John for the link]

[Original Link] “The free software that found its way into the big league” and “Microsoft Threatened by Alternative Ways”.

“Bill [Gates] isn’t afraid of taking long-term chances. He also understands that you have to try everything, because the real secret to innovation is failing fast.” – Gary Starkweather quoted in a Fortune article by Brent Schendler. Good point.

Rose has just noticed that one of the cardboard boxes we used when moving house recently has a label on the side:
“Made from at least 100% recycled paper. Fully recyclable.”
At least?

[Original Link] “A new study compares Mac-using Web surfers with their PC-wielding counterparts. If you’re reading this on Windows, feel free to take your time on the big words.” [from CNET News.com]