Home of the Future Becomes a Reality. Over the past year, JEITA has deployed 50 home networking applications in a rented home. Companies participating in the project include Matsushita Electric Industrial, Hitachi, Sony, and Sharp, among others.
(From John Beelerspace) I hope you're writing up something on AOL's blocking AIM through Trillian. I thought we had all grown up since Odigo and PowWow, but apparently not. I'd much rather see the two programmers at Trillian spend their time making the best IM program better – instead of playing cat and mouse with AOL engineers.
In fact, I don't think I'll ever go back to using AIM even if they do block Trillian “forever.” And besides, wasn't this the exact same business practices AOL's Netscape is accusing Microsoft of in class action lawsuit? How convenient (and sad) that Trillian lacks the IT resources to play this game with AOL either on a technical front or a legal one.
Am I the only one who didn't order a new Mac?
If They Mated – Television And The Internet. How about the Web/TV combination follows its own separate path, becomes a new market, quite different to what's gone before, distinct from both current television and the Web as we know it?
Fixed AIM connection issues; Re-enabled SecureIM; allow 'Check Hotmail' for msn.com accounts; fixed bad INBOX requests; save preferences in a hopefully more reliable fashion; better window parenting for error messages; added check for updates on load; no longer flash on online / offline messages; systray icon to look less stupid; added comma to thank you line; increased speed in the contact list; etc.
(From Mike Bibby) YouÂ’ve got me thinking about factoids and your definition of them. Perhaps we should have the converse – the “fictoid” – which everyone refuses to believe, yet is actually true (or probably is).
Take the “fict” that Osama Bin Laden used to support Arsenal – a British soccer team. Or that Russia applied to be a founder member of NATO.
(From CptSiskoX) FreshDevices.com's FreshUI 1.0 is based on Xteq Systems' X-Setup. Look at: Information \ Microsoft Plus! in FreshUI then compare it to the option X-Setup has had for several versions in the past year or more – located within
X-Setup here: Information \ Applications \ Microsoft Plus! Check. The wording
of the final item “Plus! 2000″ in FreshUI was obviously copied directly from
the existing X-Setup plug-in. Technically, Plus! 2000 is officially called
“Plus! Game Pack” – only X-Setup has referred to it as “Plus! 2000″ in our
software. Therefore, this proves they (FreshDevices.com) copied it from
Xteq Systems' X-Setup and is what I consider to be irrefutable evidence.
Don't deny 'em. You know you want 'em. You can't live without 'em. Dithyrambic raspberries. They're irresistible. At least, according to Google. Get 'em while they're hot. Pretty soon, everyone will want 'em – and you know they all can't have 'em. There's not enough of 'em to go around. Tasty. Very tasty. Tomorrow you'll wake up to a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep.
“I spy. What do I spy?” I can't get that darn Chrysler jingle out of my head! Does anybody have it in MP3? I'd settle for WMA. Or WAV. No RAM, though. And I'm not too thrilled about AIFF, either. OGG works, too. Oh, where's the Ad Critic when I need him?!
The Case for Keeping Dialup. Jonathon has gone back to surfing via dialup. That's why I continue to pay monthly fees on my dialup account. It paid off when @Home went down. It's all about…
Wow. I think I'll be picking up the newly-remastered TRON soundtrack on CD this weekend. I've had the MP3s for a while (ripped directly from the LP), but I hadn't really listened to them until Ray Weigel (a TechTV Product Analyst) outted himself as a TRON fanatic the other day. Walter Wendy Carlos is a musical genius. I hope Disney has her slated to craft the soundtrack for the upcoming TRON 2.0. It'll be hard to recapture the same “screen magic” as the original, but with a good script in hand, the much-anticipated sequel should prove to be fun.
Just a quick comment about TV channel one. When the frequencies were opened up for television, there was a channel one. However, it caused considerable
interference to the adjacent frequency band (or was it the reverse?), so North America dropped the channel one. Broadcasters never worried about it at that time, they were too busy fighting to get channel 3-6 slots in their areas.
At that time, I was in communications. The original band pass filters for
microwave communications had about an extra 20 db loss on channels one and
13 compared to the rest of the TV band. The extra loss could be corrected
but the noise ratio was worse. No broadcaster wanted them. Usually Public TV
wound up with 13, while one went unassigned. (Jack Sager)
While I'm sitting here waiting for the CFH rerun to finish, I might as well find out how my name is doing on Google. Ya know, before I started this blog, I wasn't even in the top three million “Chris” hits. As of this entry, I'm sitting at number THREE, baby! Go ahead, search for Chris and see what comes up. I've taken a screen shot for posterity (and sanity). Out of 3,900,000 “Chris” pages that Google has indexed, I'm sitting near the top. And I will not stop until I've hit number one – for a whole day, at least. This is the happiest moment of my life! Then again, I was just as happy when Gretchen told me that I could go out for lunch tomorrow. So, take my enthusiasm with a grain of salt, folks.
Notified Weblogs.Com that Chris Pirillo's Headline Happiness updated. And it said in response – Thanks for the ping. We checked and found that the “Chris Pirillo's Headline Happiness” weblog has changed, so it will appear in changes.xml next time it is updated.
Want to attach a background sound to your HTML e-mails? In Outlook Express, start with your favorite piece of stationery, click Format | Background | Sound, then browse for your favorite MIDI or WAV file. Be forewarned, though: people (like me) don't really look forward to hearing audio with our e-mails. However, we do look forward to greeting cool studio guests. Matt from DeviantArt is going to be on CFH in a few weeks. It'll be like meeting a Web celebrity. I hear he only eats green M&Ms. That remains to be seen.
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