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a weblog by cameron reilly
January 2004 - Posts
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This says a lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a terrorist. Via ExtremeTech . Read More...
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shopping on Broadway today, found a great store called Yellow Rat Bastard and bought a couple of shirts, including this one . Oh mum, you'd be so proud. Read More...
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wow, this is the power of blogging... Chris Pratley talks about how OneNote came about. Great post. Read More...
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Warning: A fatal exception has occurred. Source: bkchung Read More...
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At Cornell today I chatted with Basudev Chaudhuri who is a Senior Research Scientist in Software Development and Scientific Computing with a Cornell-based company called Gene Network Sciences . GNS “accelerates the drug discovery process by creating Read More...
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A blogger from Japan writes a positive review after attending training on the soon-to-be-released BizTalk Server 2004. Read More...
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This seems like a well-written site dedicated to making the design and implementation of integration solutions easier. WARNING: It's platform agnostic. :-) Read More...
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According to Nature , plants seem to optimize their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations through a distributed computing scheme. " Plants appear to 'think' , according to US researchers, who say that green plants engage in a form of problem-solving Read More...
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“The Sound Blaster Wireless Music is a small receiver module that plugs into the analog line-in or optical S/PDIF inputs of a home stereo or powered speaker system. Its built-in interface lets you use the included remote to browse, organize, download, Read More...
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tim marman's got a great story to elucidate on how cold it is in New York at the moment... we're talking about catching up when I get back to Manhattan on Friday which should be fun! Read More...
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I've been reading Whiskey Bar's recent “ Davos Discovers the Blogs” post and I realized a couple of things. First, that I have hardly looked at mainstream media sites for a couple of months. If I am reading online, I am usually reading a blog. Read More...
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Yesterday was day one at this brief training course I'm fortunate enough to be attending at the Cornell Theory Centre (CTC). CTC is a high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research center located on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University, Read More...
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#27: DON'T buy a smoothie when it's only -8' C outside. You know how when you drink a smoothie, you normally have to wait until the crushed ice melts before you can finish it? Well it doesn't melt in these temperatures. So you only get to drink HALF a Read More...
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ugh... where am I? what day is it? what's that I'm wearing? It's been a hectic few days. Still wicked cold here: -8' C today and they are predicting a light snow. Went out with Paul and Meridyth to a crazy place down on orchard street called “ The Read More...
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okay, so I'm, like, in New York City. First time I've ever been here in winter and it is magical. Took a walk through Central Park this morning and it was so beautiful. Whiter than my skin in winter. Speaking of which... damn, its cold here! Not as bad Read More...
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Yesterday I wrote a blog entry while sitting in LAX waiting for my connecting flight to NYC. As I didn't have net access (the Starbucks in LAX apparently don't have the t-mobile hotspots), I wrote the entry in Microsoft OneNote for posting later. So, Read More...
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Here I am sitting in the Qantas Club lounge at Melbourne International Airport, on my way to NY. It's good to see Qantas Clubs have finally put in some sort of a WiFi solution! But I'm not overly impressed with Telstra's pricing. $14 for 60 minutes of Read More...
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well this was the highlight of my day : "We're getting off of our religious crusade and we're going to sell people what they want to buy," Larry Singer, Sun senior vice president of global market strategy, told IDG in an interview. Sun "in some cases" Read More...
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I've been getting deeper into Activewords over the last couple of weeks, figuring out new ways to make it hum, and have just installed their "Knowledge Access" application . Very funky stuff: now if I select any word in any application and kit my Activewords Read More...
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As I leave for NYC in a week, I've managed to convince Mrs R (after several years of negotiation) that buying a digital camera would be a good idea (she likes her prints and old-fashioned analog photo albums and doesn't like having to mess with a PC to Read More...
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an interesting perspective from AlwaysOn about the business model of large enterprise software vendors: “Another problem is that software vendors typically develop functional components that must be 'bolted together' at the customer location. This Read More...
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I was very impressed recently with the customer service I received from ResultsWare, the vendor of Taskline, and I want to share the story. A week or so ago, I was reading some blog, I can't remember which, but someone mentioned an application called Read More...
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I just bought “ New York: The Rough Guide ” formatted for Microsoft Reader from Amazon so I don't have to carry the physical book with me while I visit NYC next week. As far as I can recall, even though I have been an avid ebook reader since Read More...
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this is something else I have been waiting for since forever... ArrowVision is proud to introduce a new concept door lock - Shepherd 210 Fingerprint Identification Door Lock. If you run one of those shopping centre key-cutting franchises, it might be Read More...
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IRVINE, Calif. – CES, Las Vegas, January 8, 2004 – Linksys ®, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., and the leading global manufacturer of broadband, wireless, and networking hardware for home and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) environments, Read More...
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Using a small wireless device worn on your wrist, you extend your finger into a beam of light to operate the electronics around you. Sound like the future? Well the technology is available today. check out the video here (hi res). and then check out the Read More...
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from jason calacanis' weblog , an overview of his recent experience with the Gateway Connected DVD, which sounds exactly what I've been hoping for since I got my 802g setup at home: a device which connects all of the digital content on my home PC to my Read More...
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I bought one of these recently for my pet ferret “BillG” and I can testify that it works. The PFHT [Pet Foil Hat Technology] contains space age materials, and is guaranteed to work for your pet. All government I/O is cut off. It's like a firewall Read More...
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here's an interesting article in today's edition of The Age. “The research involves the development of an open source programmable platform designed to exploit commercial grade network devices such as routers and switches, load balancers and firewalls. Read More...
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WARNING! WARNING! Not technology related!! ......... okay. so for those of you still tuned in... I just read this MSNBC story on calorie restriction diets and thought it was worth blogging. I've had so many people come up to me over the last 12 months Read More...
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this is the smack... been playing with this software ... very ... umm... meditative... "BallDroppings is an addicting and noisy play-toy. It can also be seen as an emergence game. ....Balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the lines you Read More...
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Chris Johnson complains that you can't register your car online in NZ. Of course, we can do it here on the mainland (that's Australia of course). Chris makes a good point though. There are still plenty of simple services that haven't gone online yet. Read More...
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hey, even a dummy like me can understand this : “Xbox Media Center will allow the Xbox to become the center of your digital home with features including MP3/WMA playback, Movie playback (AVI/MPG etc), net connection to music services (Napster) and Read More...
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From this article in eweek: “Bottom line, I'm not complaining about the competition that Linux and the others bring because it only serves to keep MS honest with better prices and better innovation, but … Licensing 6 is beginning to look good Read More...
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I don't know whether or not to take this seriously... but this guy is selling a female android... called “Valerie”. Only $59,000. Hey - what with the cost of a divorce these days, platic surgery, etc... that's a bargain! The ROI analysis would Read More...
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As I posted recently , I'll be attending some high-performance computing training at Cornell Theory Centre in NY late Jan and will take a few days afterwards to do some R&R in NYC from Jan 30 - Feb 1. Any NYC locals want to show an Aussie around? Read More...
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The Chicaco Sun-Times has this interesting interview with David Bowie where he talks, among other things, about the future of the music business (he thinks it is 'imploding') and what he likes about iTunes (he's tempted to start writing songs and releasing Read More...
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My direct manager for the last 18 months, Christophe Dumonet, aka “the frenchman”, aka “The Napoleon of Microsoft”, aka “bloody Christophe” (that's only at review time)... resigned yesterday. I'm genuinely going to Read More...
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Microsoft Portable Media Center (aka Media2Go) was announced at CES 2003, but this is from a current article in SeattlePI : “ The Microsoft Portable Media Center with a 40-gigabyte hard drive is expected to hold up to 175 hours of video, 10,000 Read More...
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How did I miss this ride? Reading this post by Ed Almos in Slashdot this morning, I was astounded to learn SCO’s stock price has risen in the last 12 months from $1.09 to a high of $22.29 and is now sitting around $18.19. Wow. It makes a pretty Read More...
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To all my friends who love to tell me how “guns don't kill people“... A new report quoted in The Australian shows that in the last ten years, deaths from firearms have dropped in Australia by 50%. That's amazing. This stat particularly jumped Read More...
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Wired News is running an article on new search paradigms. I went to check them out. Grokker sounds interesting (“.. a downloadable program that not only sorts search results into categories but also "maps" the results in a holistic way, showing Read More...
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Scott writes : “It's not the consumers fault that MS is losing money on each XBox sold. That kind of argument doesn't fly with consumers.(awwww, poor multi-billion dollar Microsoft is lost money on this XBox it took me 4 months of saving my allowance Read More...
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