Sydney to Singapore
Core Memory Project
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Great photographs of old-school hardware
OAuth
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 9:56 am
An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
Twibright Optar
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 at 2:34 am
Save your binary data onto a sheet of paper that you can later rescan to recover.
Netflix and Silverlight demo
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 12:06 am
Neil helps demo Silverlight with Instant Watching.
The OLPC Sugar UI
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Kind of disappointing only because they could have reinvented application state and chose to go classic.
S Stands for Simple
Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at 10:11 am
The evolution of SOAP and web services specs as a conversation. Awesome.
Little Fluffy Computing Clouds
Monday, September 4th, 2006 at 8:32 am
A beta tester “writing”:http://www.maluke.com/blog/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2 about Amazon’s “Elastic Computing Cloud”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011, which is a fully programmatic virtual computing environment:
The main point of course is that it can be set up and torn down programmaticaly. It works like this: you upload a system image (Amazon Machine Image or AMI) and then make a call to boot it, you [...]
Perl is dying
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
More like they forgot to change the oil and sparkplugs.
Webserver enabled frog
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 at 9:25 am
No kidding. Formaldehyde-drenched frog photos, so not for the squeamish. Cool, sick and wrong at the same time.
No more Mycrosoft
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 at 8:54 am
Microsoft intends on removing the determiner from its vocabulary.
Bittorrent goes trackerless
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 at 8:54 am
Azureus apparently has this in 2.3. Anonymous, secure torrent announcements should be next…
Remote scripting 5 years later
Monday, September 20th, 2004 at 9:05 pm
Remember when you thought remote scripting would change the world in 1999? Our timeline was off by just a tad.
L1NUX1138
Monday, September 8th, 2003 at 9:22 pm
Linux as a little boy. IBM’s new Linux ad. Weird and very slick. Think THX1138 and the Architect’s room in the Matrix.
Forget Moore’s Law
Wednesday, February 12th, 2003 at 11:35 am
Forget Moore’s Law:
Forget Moore’s law because it is unhealthy. Because it has become our obsession. Because high tech has become fixated on it at the expense of everything else–especially business strategy. It is precisely this fixation, at the cost of other considerations like profit, product, and market, that led to the dot-com bubble and bust. [...]
Ten Emerging Technologies
Thursday, January 16th, 2003 at 4:31 pm
Ten emerging technologies that will change the world. Flubber was number 11 and didn’t make the list.
WLAN Party In The Sky
Wednesday, January 15th, 2003 at 9:32 pm
Lufthansa has started a three-month wireless broadband trial on some of their flights which will allow passengers to connect to the Internet at speeds close to 3mb/s for download and 128k/s for upload from 35,000 feet in the air. Pretty incredible stuff.
Jen told me this story aired on NPR and they had interviewed various [...]
KnowNow Opensources
Monday, December 16th, 2002 at 3:36 pm
The trend towards a client-rich server-poor paradigm for the web marches onward. KnowNow has open-sourced their asynchronous message routing technology as an apache module. KnowNow has developed software consisting of smart routers on the server and local microservers on the client (simple javascript) to create a system which allows for asynchronous messaging with nothing more [...]
