Archive January 2002
News Can't Sleep
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. Electronic tax filers could get extra 10 days to file. To encourage greater electronic tax filing, President Bush [...]
Why I Loathe AOL
(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 [...]
Same Old PC
Am I the only one who didn't order a new Mac?
Peanut Butter Spoon
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? Fairly Unbalanced.. I haven't heard yet from Walter Issacson (CNN), Neal Shapiro (MSNBC) or Roger [...]
Trillian v0.721 Out
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 [...]
New Faulktoids
(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 [...]
Stealing Code?
(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 [...]
Dithyrambic Raspberries
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 [...]
With My Little Eye
“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?!
Change The Channel
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… Back Microsoft and win an iPaq. Back Redmond and win an iPaq? Strange but true, this was indeed the offer [...]
TRON Ruminations
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 [...]
Channel One
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 [...]
Chris Number Three
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 [...]
Thanks For The Ping
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. 14258 » January 28 10:04 PM. E-Filing Your Taxes This Year? If your [...]
Being A Deviant
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 [...]
