Monthly Archives: October 2003

Here’s something amazing, Amazon is letting you to search for text in over 120,000 books. That’s right, not just title/author/publisher searching but searching of the actual text in the books.

If have a friend (hi Jacqui!) who does medical transcription work. I sent her this disturbing link to a problem with a cut-rate, offshore transcriber who threatened to expose patient data if UCSF didn’t pay her fees.

I switched my work server from an icecast/ices combination to GNUMP3d – The GNU MP3/Media Streamer. It uses about the same network bandwidth but the CPU load is much lower. The interface, which I had hacked ArmiDJ for, is also … Read More →

Walter S. Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal looks at for-pay music services.

The iPod, not just a music player but a whole new application platform.

Apple has put an end to the G3 in it’s product line with the introduction of G4 iBooks. Even the low end is screamingly fast now.

If you’re looking for a small 5 megapixel digital camera, take a look at the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T1. It’s incredibly small, yet offers 3x optical zoom.

If you’re a programmer, you’ve probably argued with someone over programming language choice. Now there’s Every Language War Ever, so you can get those arguments over quicker and get back to coding.