OK, for the last hour and a half I’ve been sitting here blogging the first panel. I uploaded pictures of the panel to flickr and told it that i wanted to see my photos. So the bloody thing took the explorer window on top of the stack and changed the url to flickr. Wiping out …
Category Archive: Technology
Thoughts and experiences in the world of computers.
Dec 04
Make Magazine
The incredible Make Magazine hit my radar about 2 weeks ago. I almost picked one up while browsing the Computers and Electronics magazines at Barnes and Noble because it looked interesting, but the $15.00 price tag turned me off. Few magazines are worth that. Since then, I kept hearing about it from different sources: blogs, …
Nov 30
Geek Dinner today!
Wow, it’s taken more to get this together than I thought it would! As of right now, we have 57 people RSVPd on the wiki. We were hoping for 50 – we can seat 120, although that would be quite crowded. So we’ve exceeded our own expectation for attendance! On top of that, I know …
Nov 28
Tears for Riya
Dangit. The Riya uploader doesn’t seem to be doing a thing. I’m getting ready to go to bed so I loaded it up and pointed it to a bunch of photos to upload. I clicked on ‘Start Upload’ and it is just sitting there. It looks like Tejas is having the same problem and so …
Nov 28
WooHoo! My Riya invite came today!
I’m totally excited! I got my alpha invite for Riya today. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been watching and anticipating Riya for a while now, I’ve even met with them to discuss business collaboration and seen a demo of it. Now I finally get to use it! Once I get …
Nov 26
Foolproof iris recognition technology?
» Foolproof iris recognition technology? | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com This is a really good read about iris recognition. The coolest thing? —– These guys are basically open sourcing their iris recog algorithms to lower the barrier to entry! Iris Recog methodology was patented by some folks in New Jersey and they basically made …
Nov 22
Simple Shared Extensions for RSS
Ray Ozzie posted today about a new initiative at Microsoft called Simple Shared Extensions for RSS. This looks to be a very exciting development. It allows synchronization of changes via RSS, the best example being shared calendars. There are going to be some really cool applications written with this soon!
Nov 11
Mechanical Turk
While I was at the eBusiness seminar I was chatting with someone and Paul poppped up and said “Phil, you gotta come see this”! So I followed him over to Amazon’s booth and met Jeff Barr who was demonstrating the Mechanical Turk. The funny thing is, I was already thinking about utilizing the Turk with …
