Jim Barton has an extensive article detailing the challenges faced in designing and rolling out the TiVo service. The two burdens that are probably most annoying to the user are a complex and difficult control interface and lack of reliability. Reliability is not just about whether a computer system functions or not. It encompasses expected […]
Google Calendar has launched if you want to check it out. There is also an overview of the features available. Will this be a compelling calendaring solution? After looking it over and checking out the website, I think it might be for me. I’ve setup DAV on apache before so that I can have a
Via BoingBoing, I ran across this item, about how a supporter of the DMCA and DRM technologies found he couldn’t access 2 years worth of television programs on his own video recorder. For those who aren’t familiar with Mr. Giovanetti’s work, he’s a frequent and pugnacious commentator on intellectual property issues, and an avowed supporter
I followed through and created the t-shirt, you can get yourselft one at my zazzle store. This is the “Original Illegal Immigrants” t-shirt.
Via Cafe Hayek comes this link to some basic facts about Latinos. I’d love to write more about the current immigration debate, but so far all it has inspired me to do is want to make a t-shirt with a picture of either the founding fathers or some pilgrims with the caption “The Original Illegal
I’m not sure what to take away from two links I came across this morning. First, theres a piece on the Huffington Post linking Bolivia’s water war to a failure of “Trickle-Down Economics.” I had a hard time following Charlie Cray’s thought processes along, as I could not find any distinct threads tying together the
If you’re a tivo user as I am, or are considering getting one, you might want to know that TiVo’s lawsuit against EchoStar (DishNetwork) over a patent dispute began today. PVR Wire has a summary of what happened today, and so does the unofficial Tivo Blog. The best summary is at Thomas Hawk, and there
Chevy and NBC teamed up to let internet users produce their own Chevy Tahoe commericials. The people have responded but not in the way our corporate overlords wanted. The story has now been picked up by NPR, Nightline, and the NY TImes. My friend Jason pointed me to the site and I saw it again
I sent my friend Nam-ho a link to the new release of Lightbox JS, a slick Javascript based way to overlay images on a webpage. As far as a javascript onlly solution, it could be an impressive method for displaying a slideshow. In response, Nam-ho sent me to SimpleViewer, a much slicker Flash-based solution for
I came back from a client meeting today to find 1 person looking for me, and then two people aiming me to let know the first person is also looking for me. Sometimes I hate AIM. Although one day I turned off IM thinking I’d get some work done, but then I got a call
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