January 30, 2004
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I was trying to explain to a friend of mine why I'm switching to Linux or GNU when ever possible. Tried to explain some of the trusted computer outcomes. But theres nothing like pointing someone to a bias website to … Continue reading
January 29, 2004
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Started doing more work on the Calendar part of my website. Finally got cocoon to read inside of a Xcal. So now its more a matter of how do I actually put the xcals in the webdav directory. Once there … Continue reading
January 27, 2004
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Was flying through Openoffice.org today looking for enough information to contribute to the National Archives Pronom application. And came across this nice openoffice ebook which is free to download and read online. What is Pronom? Well let them tell you… … Continue reading
January 27, 2004
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Andy pointed me to a crazy website which does odd things on the first page. Actually its so bad on Opera that you have to pretend to be IE for it to load a page. But it turns out to … Continue reading
January 27, 2004
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Rushkoff stirs the content management pot at the feature. Content Management is for losers. Young people may have discovered the dark truth about digital media: the person who wins the right to store a piece of data has actually won … Continue reading
January 26, 2004
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I briefly saw this in my offline reader while reading my news in the car on the way to the Twin cities but was obviously offline so couldnt check it out futher. However in the back of my head i've … Continue reading
January 24, 2004
by ianforrester
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Finally got a machine setup for Smoothwall 2.0. The Machine is a Pentium 2 233mmx with all of 64meg of 100mhz memory and a 3 gig hard drive. Unfortually I've run out of video cards so I'm using a FireGL … Continue reading
January 23, 2004
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In my post a couple days back, I emailed alot of leading heads of the internet about talking at the college. Well I'm pleased to say Richard Stallman has agreed to come talk in May. I should be in the … Continue reading
January 22, 2004
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One of the things which bugs me about mobile phones is the location trianglation which is possible to find where I am at the time. And I always thought the profiles on mobile phones were powerful but not natural enough … Continue reading
January 21, 2004
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I've been writing emails and back and forth to some of the leading lights of the internet. Hoping to get them into college to do talks to students and staff. Some of the people in my hit list include, Howard … Continue reading
January 21, 2004
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If you want to understand cities today and especially in the future, keep mobile communications in mind. Ten years from now, understanding the way people use mobile media will be as fundamental to urban planning as understanding the buildings they … Continue reading
January 17, 2004
by ianforrester
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Birch sent me a link which basicly said all what I had said about the twin cities. In Birch's own words I coined it, that article is everything you already iterated. Birch (19:29:05): Did you ever call it or what? … Continue reading
January 17, 2004
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The jxCAL project aims at providing a calendar publishing framework based on Cocoon/XML/XSLT. It can aggregate multiple sources of events and display them using nice SVG views. Comments [Comments] Trackbacks [0]
January 16, 2004
by ianforrester
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You are invited to the thirty-ninth AIGA Experience Design London meeting. Your computer is broken! We have been using the same graphical users interfaces for 20 years, since the Apple Macintosh (launched on 24 January 1984) killed the command line. … Continue reading
January 15, 2004
by ianforrester
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Yes you heard it first, i'm not paienting it, i'm not going to keep it to myself and i'm certainly not going s ll the idea. This has GPL written all over it. So what’s it all about? Well when … Continue reading