by Tom | Sep 29, 2005 | Reading
In a beautiful irony, the National Do Not Call Registry carried out a random phone survey of people who had signed up to see whether they were getting fewer calls now. Can you imagine the ethical dilemma? How did they manage to get through (I just ignore most phone...
by Tom | Sep 29, 2005 | Reading
Chatty Tom. It’s nice to be recognised as a bear (scroll down).
by Tom | Sep 29, 2005 | Science
Ray Kurzweil is always worth a read. I should just be alive (if a little augmented) by the time the singularity hits.
by Tom | Sep 29, 2005 | Reading
Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia. Nice idea – get people to edit the article online, then buy the hard copy to show that they were part of it. And you get a quality article out of it as well.
by Tom | Sep 29, 2005 | IT
Zimbra, an AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) collaboration tool is pretty impressive. Would it be right for work? Not as we’ve got Small Business Server. But it would be good to run something like this to share schedules for Caroline and I.
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Government
(And for us, I guess). Local authorities are not going to meet one technically-specific piece of their Priority Service Outcome targets (but that doesn’t really stop them meeting their esd targets). They are, on the other hand, going to start using shared...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Science
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island tells the hopefully true story of a massive treasure hoard. Brilliant that this sort of thing is still possible. Let’s hope there are some more undiscovered cities in South America as well as some undersea ones off the...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Reading
Vending taken to new heights – Catch your own dinner for $2 a try. Not as much fun as getting Christian to negotiate a serious platter.
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Science
Babble uses sound cancellation-like technology to cancel out voices in its range. The core application is for noisy offices / private phone calls. I wonder how far we can go with digital real-time processing of our environments (think Bond’s invisible Aston...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Government
Religious Affairs Takes To E-Government. Nice that we don’t live in a religious state.
