Decisions, decisions. I would like to update my Linux PC but it’s maxed out hardware-wise. That means new hardware, but now that Apple’s OS X is maturing, I can get a G4 with it and still enjoy the benefits of opensource. Must. Decide. Carefully.

Sometimes blogging has it’s downside.

I’m not currently a practicing Catholic, though not a day goes by when I don’t think about such things. So I read Relapsed Catholic, Kathy Shaidle’s weblog every day, and while it’s not gotten me to clean up my religious act, it’s certainly full of interesting links about religious issues that you won’t find anywhere [...]

ComputerWorld reports that IT job growth was stagnant in ‘01 and uncertain in ‘02, which should surprise no one. Given the recent spate of business’s admitting their results were fiction, I can’t for the life of me see how anyone could say the recession has bottomed out. I think we’re still riding the bad boy [...]

No one is perfect. We all make mistakes, nothing new about that concept. Corporations make mistakes (New Coke anyone?) but they don’t make them very often, or at least they used to not make them very often. One of the reasons that corporations used to make fewer mistakes was because there were multiple people doing [...]

Into mobile phones and technology? Checkout HowardChui.com, a site full of news and reviews. I’ve added it to my bookmarks, since I will be in the market to buy another, sooner or later. My boss just got a new phone, and all of a sudden my StarTac looks old fashioned

Dave Winer is back online, the hospital stay was for a heart bypass operation. Dave, unsurprisingly, was a heavy smoker.
My mom died a couple of cancer a couple of days before I started high school, she was a heavy smoker too. It was, until recently, the single most influential event of my life. [...]

The Big Secret, aka Palladium, offers “new realms of possibilities in the way people live and work with computers”. Oddly, it does this by taking away your freedom to copy digital materials. Only M$ could come up with such verbiage to discribe copy protection built into your PC.

Doc Searls has been all over the new CARP consequences. It’s going to be a long time before all the fallout settles, if it ever does. It’s all about freedom, you know. Nothing is more desired, or more feared.

For all your evil needs, there’s VillainSupply.com.

The Danger hiptop looks like the next generation of PDA/phone combinations. But it uses a PDA OS that is not Palm or CE so it’s going to take some work to get developer momentum. Still, I signed up as a beta test wannabe (though the likelihood of me being chosen is remote).

Linux users have one more reason to be happy, /. reports that native Sorenson playback comes to Linux with Xine v0.9.11a. There were other ways to do this in the past, notably the CrossOver plugin, but this was non-native. Even better would be Apple opening the license and having a Quicktime player opensourced. Given [...]