Category: Personal
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Another Decade, Time for One More Blog
What’s the next decade going to be like in technology? I found myself pondering this a lot recently. It seems we are in for very revolutionary changes … like the becoming irrelevance of the PC. Or the move to NoSQL. Or all web apps being connected to each other, with RSS/Atom and OpenID being the…
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From 1 to a billion in 5 years. What a little URL can do.
It was at the end of 2004 when I decided to start telling the world about this silly little idea I had had about a year before: give every person on the internet a URL that they could use to identify themselves to any website. Fully decentralized, no permission needed from anybody, under control of…
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The End of an Era
I just carried out two big boxes. All music CDs have been banned from our house, starting immediately. No more music? Nope. Just the realization that all our CD collection still does is collecting dust and taking up space. I don’t remember when I last inserted a CD into the stereo. It must have been…
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Too many messaging clients on my desktop
There is: e-mail (Mail.app) VoIP (Skype) RSS (NetNewsWire, and Mail.app) Twitter (Tweetie) sometimes IM (iChat, others) sometimes IRC (Colloquy) That’s in addition to websites that also act as messaging clients, like Facebook, I’m sorry, how many feeds am I supposed to monitor in how many pieces of software? What about somebody develop a real nice…
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Five Bears in One Day!
We went to Yosemite this past weekend. In the past, we’ve seen deers, coyotes of course, an occasional rattle snake, a bobcat once, and every few years, a bear. And this Sunday morning, in two encounters, a total of five bears, right from Tioga Road without even getting out of the car! Here are two…