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a weblog by cameron reilly
December 2003 - Posts
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Cmon Aussie Cmon. Kazaa tops Yahoo's list of 2003 search words . Kazaa is run out of Sydney. Finally, another Australian company (okay so Sharman bought it from the Dutch... so?) gets world recognition for something related to the internet economy. Okay Read More...
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That’s what they are calling a prototype two-way speech-to-speech system that translates medical information from Arabic to English and English to Arabic and runs on an iPaq handheld computer. The Speechalator. Pretty cool. Original article here. Read More...
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Being the lucky recipient of a new Fender Strat (Santa ROCKS), but also a GEEK, I have mixed feelings about plugging my axe straight into a PC. I’d be fascinated though to know what Lou Reed thinks about this. He’s spent 40 years trying to Read More...
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This is an old article from AlwaysOn (dates back to March 2003), but if you missed it then, read it now. It is a very candid interview with the Chairman and CEO of Sony, where they discuss Palm v Microsoft, Linux v Microsoft, PS v Xbox, Oracle on Linux, Read More...
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From the Economist: “ WHERE do you go when you want to know the latest business news, follow commodity prices, keep up with political gossip, find out what others think of a new book, or stay abreast of the latest scientific and technological developments? Read More...
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this is probably old news to y'all, but it was a revelation to me tonight. myRSS enables anyone to build custom RSS channels for virtually any news site they desire. myRSS requires no programming experience, is completely automated and all channels are Read More...
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I realize this is quite an old post, but I just got around to reading it and it's terrific. 640KB ought to be enough for anyone Read More...
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I like it. I like it a lot. Chess. Plus. Boxing. Chessboxing. Play four minutes of chess. Then do 2 minutes in the ring against your opponent. Repeat. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?? [via Memepool ] Read More...
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The Top Ten Word List for 2003 from yourDictionary.com... Here's something I learned: Most frequently spoken word on the Planet: 1. OK Still the most popular word in languages around the world. "OK" originated in a joke in the 1830's, spelled "oll korrekt" Read More...
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The Inquirer has this article on “the IT industry is moving away from Microsoft” (by way of Slashdot ). While it contains a lot of typically vague and vehement Inquirer/Slashdot statements, it IS worth a read, especially by MSFT folks. I do Read More...
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Why do we clink glasses at a toast? I’ll use this anecdote a lot over the course of the next week to be a smartass during lunch. This from Kuro5hin: The vast majority of actions or words we use today are things we saw or heard from others. Many Read More...
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again I find myself frustrated with the current state of e-business. Here's my scenario: I recently tried on a pair of shoes that I liked. The only problem was, they didn't seem to be very sturdy, being of the glued variety, and not stitched. For some Read More...
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okay okay I know it has nothing to do with .Net (flame me anyway if you must kids), but let's get our priorities in order! Movie Poop Shoot has an update on the controversy surrounding Jerry's co-stars' lack of participation in the DVD due to non-compensation. Read More...
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Any comments as to the relative merits of MyIE2 vs. Firebird ? I've been playing with the former for a couple of days now and it seems pretty much equal to Firebird in any way a mere user like myself can tell. Lots of plug-ins available. Does tabs. Fast. Read More...
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well I am now one week into my trial of Firebird and I will confess I have changed my mind about it. Although I've had some issues with it , the overall experience has been positive. I have, however, reverted back to using IE as my default, mainly because Read More...
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I like this opinion piece by Charles Wright in The Age : “ We seem to have undergone a generational change of suffixes: moving from the era of "est" - as in fastest, smallest, even cheapest - to the age of "ity" - utility, simplicity, even perhaps Read More...
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According to David Adams in The Age , the folks at Wishlist say: “ The technology uses a custom-built platform running on Microsoft ASP and SQL7 and processes payment transactions via a Camtech payment system.“It's actually more than capable Read More...
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From The Age : This story about SquizBiz . Using an ordinary web browser, Richards can study close-ups of snouts and trotters on his surgery computer and see real-time footage of his piggy patients transmitted from the paddocks using broadband wireless Read More...
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Scoble is a true geek ... “ My wife and son thought I was checking out the female greeters. Heh, that's funny. I actually was drawn to the screen by how the female greeters were carressing their LCD monitors. It was quite sexual, at least for this Read More...
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KC Lemson on the Microsoft playa haters .... classic... never thought of it like this before... hey I feel more like fred durst now... time to go back to wearing my cap backwards... Read More...
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I downloaded the User-Agent Switcher extension as suggested by Scott Mitchell, and now the buttons show up, but some of them (hyperlink, cut, paste, etc) don't seem to DO anything. Any new ideas? Read More...
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apart from technology, my other main geek interest is Napoleonic history, so the arrival of this purchase made xmas come early... it's a first edition 1859 English translation of “Idees Napoleoniennes”... Read More...
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My manager has just approved me to spend a week at the C ornell Theory Center Workshop on High-Performance Computing (HPC) in New York in January! Which is exciting for a whole bunch of reasons. 1. I'm passionate about seeing more HPC deployments on Windows. Read More...
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maybe that's a deliberate feature.. ;-) seriously, when I try to write a new post from inside Firebird, the formatting buttons that pop up in IE don't appear. Is there a setting/plug-in I can use to fix this? Read More...
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When integrated camera phones started hitting the shelves I was pretty skeptical. I seriously couldn't think of a single application that would make me personally bother. Now I'm not so sure. There's been a lot of press in Australia over the last year Read More...
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eclecticism carries an interesting example of how blogging might alter elements of the social fabric. Read More...
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Dylan Greene's Office 2003 crashed and he likes the way Office helped him to fix it on the spot. He's also got some sensible ideas for improving the process. Read More...
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Robert McLaws on Sun's recent statement about Microsoft end-of-lifing Win98. Like we need another reason. Read More...
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just bought the dvd “ Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart ” and loved it. Saw Lou live for the first time a couple of months ago. Closest thing to a religious experience I'll get. This dvd gets five stars. BTW, “ Sweet Jane ” has my Read More...
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I recently had a tour of the VRC at RMIT . It's pretty impressive. Urban Futures Consulting uses the lab to create a “real-time immersive setting” where they “procedurally generate a building envelope model for a precinct as a commercial Read More...
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“Maybe you can pass those sentiments onto the IE team. Theyre still about 4 years behind the game. Just look at the work being pumped into Firebird, and it becomes terribly obvious how rudimentary IE is these days.” my 1337 nephew Deke says Read More...
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Dylan Greene's got some good ideas on his blog, mostly related to marketing..(via Scoble ). I remember when our marketing locally were adamant that “One degree of separation” was a good idea... perhaps it was, what would I know. It never made Read More...
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Seattlepi.com has an interesting series of articles on the work that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing on improving world health. I know it's easy to be cynical about Gates' investments in such things, but the sheer scope and numbers are Read More...
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From this morning's ZDNET . Microsoft on Wednesday said it won't raise prices for its upcoming BizTalk 2004 integration software, as the company looks to attract new customers. Read More...
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One of my beliefs about Microsoft was there is a centralized machinery that micromanages everyone. Not the case at all in my experience. It's more like an ant-hill. The ants know what to do and they do it. Not always true in my experience, but this is Read More...
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David Coursey (ZDNET) on the Top Ten things Microsoft needs to do in 2004. Read More...
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From the NY Times (brought to my attention by esteemed colleague Adam Carter earlier today): “... the Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA released Volume 1 of its report on why the space shuttle crashed. As expected, the ship's foam insulation Read More...
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Great to see Microsoft Office 2003 (or MOS [Microsoft Office System], as it seems to be called internally these days) take out first prize, and also great to see OpenOffice.org 1.1 get runner-up. I'm a big fan of great software, no matter who puts it Read More...
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“ Destra Corporation Limited (ASX:DES), Australia’s pioneering Digital Rights Management (DRM) provider, have re-launched their online music service to enable consumers to legally purchase music tracks over the internet for as little as 99c Read More...
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I mean... c'mon... they DNA tested him.... riiight... I'm going to believe what I see on CNN, don't you? Here's my take on events... 1. Dubya's popularity numbers are lower than a “spider hole” 2. Rumsfeld calls up Saddam who's been living Read More...
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Don't buy that plasma TV just yet... LCD is coming fast . Read More...
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The arctic ground squirrel can drop its internal temperature to as low as minus three degrees Celsius. While another animal's blood would freeze in its veins, the hibernating squirrel's keeps right on flowing. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Read More...
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Physicists say they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way, an achievement that could someday help scientists develop powerful new computers. Next stop: lightsabers Read More...
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"Microsoft is certainly the company that grasped onto the concept of Web services first," says Thomas Murphy, a senior program director at Stamford, Conn.-based Meta Group. "And now they're taking it into the operating system." Read More...
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Frankarr mentions a positive development for small software developers in Victoria. Read More...
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I've spent a lot of time over the last 7 years trying to figure out what B2C might look like when we get it working with some degree of adoption. And it bugs me in a major way that we still seem so far away. Example: here's one simple scenario. Let's Read More...
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Interesting interview at SFGATE with the wonder boy . On November 11 this year, I'm sure you all celebrated with me (yeah suuure you did) the 10th anniversary of the launch of Mosaic. It's been some decade, huh? “In the final analysis, Netscape Read More...
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Slashdot: atari2600 writes "Finally it has happened. Zeropaid is reporting that the Kazaalite K++ project has been shutdown by Sharman Networks. The project, which had been set up to block spy and ad ware within the Kazaa Media Desktop Program has achieved Read More...
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SBC DotNet Weblog brings to my attention the new MS development 'Journal'. Read More...
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About 80 per cent of Australian bosses used high tech spy equipment to keep tabs on their staff's emails, phone calls and internet usage, a workplace surveillance expert said on Thursday. I've never understood this whole concept about blaming technology Read More...
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According to Ray : “In my mind, we will ultimately saturate all of the matter and energy in our area of the universe with our intelligence, and I suppose you could say that's an end in itself. All of this dumb matter and energy around us will wake Read More...
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Rebecca Dias has posted up a slide deck she presented with HP at a recent Gartner Application and Integration Conference on SOA. It's worth a look. One slide quotes a Jan 03 CIO Magazine poll: 369 CIOs were asked which platform is preferred in building Read More...
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... is http://weblogs.asp.net/cameronreilly The "gotdotnet" blog address at Microsoft was temporary while we figured out a longer term solution, so now most of us are moving to weblogs.asp.net. Update your RSS aggregator to THIS address. Read More...
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today is the 199th anniversary of the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte as the Emperor of France. What have YOU been doing with YOUR life? Read More...
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blog entries that don't get fully downloaded into my rss aggregator. annoying enough having to go to a browser on a broadband PC, but even more annoying on a PDA. Read More...
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had a strange dream tonight. I walked into a very large, very famous (totally fictitious) bar in NYC, ordered a drink , then raised my glass and shouted a toast: "to george reilly!". And the whole bar responded as one: "to george!" george was my dad who Read More...
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thanks to Scoble for pointing to this interview with Steve Ballmer in Business Week. Steve makes the case for Windows as costing USD$12/yr. That's value! Read More...
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