What could be more boring and unnecessary than a weblog? Why a celebrity weblog, of course. I realize I indirectly indict myself with this, but given my readship (0), it’s not like I’m boring anyone, now is it?

Ever notice that most of the weaving, out-of-their-lane drivers seem to have a cell phone pasted to their ears? If GM has it’s way, they’ll also be day trading, as this article in ComputerWorld reveals. OnStar used to just give you directions and aid disabled motorists, but GM has realized it’s got a captive [...]

Has anyone tried the Half Keyboard? It’s, as the name implies, a half of a full sized keyboard for Palm, Mac and PC. The interesting part is that it uses full sized keys and layout, but has only the left half. You use the space bar to toggle the keys to the right hand side. [...]

Remember CueCat? It was a barcode scanner specifically for scanning barcodes in advertisements in periodicals (cue laugh track) to visit web sites. Yes, why type in those awful URL thingies when you can haul your magazine over to your PC and then swipe this thing over the page? It’s not catching on, as this article [...]

Speaking of Sun, again, apparently there’s been a security hole discovered in the Java Runtime Environment, or JRE. This is ironic given that Java’s original concept was no code could access anything outside the “sandbox”, like files or directories. But in order to allow Java to do real work, various schemes were added to allow [...]

Mozilla is taking over more and more of my browser chores on Win32. Seldom do I use Netscape or IE, though it’s still not crash-free. It’s a slightly different issue at home, where I’m running nightly builds, but I’ve automated the CVS stuff to the point where it’s not much work to update and build.

I have always considered the US Navy to be a pretty honorable and brave bunch, despite the occasional lapse. Perhaps this was because my father was in it in WWII (managing to survive a ship sinking and numerous attacks) or just because. Sadly, the recent sinking of a Japanese training ship by a surfacing submarine [...]

Here’s a link to a commentary on Groove from Robert Scoble. I have to agree with most of it, though some of the aspects of being a “open” app mean less inside of a company intranet than they do over the Internet.

Since I’ve talked about Peer to Peer here before, and in particular Groove, so you know I’m interested in it. I didn’t attend the recent conference on it, but I did note this from ComputerWorld. It seems Sun announced a new programming language called “Juxtapose” for creating Peer to Peer enterprise applications. This brings to [...]

If you’ve ever read this weblog (I know I’m talking to myself, but I like to pretend I have readers) you’ll know I’ve mentioned Dave Winer in the past. Dave is an interesting fellow, to say the least. I’ve read things from him and used some of his software (remember Aretha on the Mac?) on [...]

Addendum to the previous post, you’ll need Acrobat to read the files, as they are PDF’s. Unfortunately, they are scanned images and you can’t search for text, although I guess you could run it through some OCR software and see what you get.

An FBI agent was arrested for being a spy today, despite having been sending information to the Russians since the 1980’s. Yahoo!, wishing to give background, has a sidebar with lots of tidbits, including this one, the FBI’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Reading Room. It lists the formerly classified information people request the most [...]