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PT Barnum lives

Someone is selling Absolutely Nothing on e-bay. So far he has 17 bids.


Jim on 02.26.04 @ 11:59 AM PST [link]

ooh la la!

the definition of cheeky underwear.
Jim on 02.25.04 @ 05:38 PM PST [link]

HTML O' the day

to the bone cemetery to die...."


They are loved by all, cops and women.


Behind the lens.


Since 1987, Your Supplier, Your Partner, Your Friend!


Can you find the nine dolphins?


There will be a Post Run Celebration at Daisy's.


Perhaps Top/Bottom would be a preferable alternative for our
modern times?


I don't understand why this wasn't part of the LotR movie.


That's gotta hurt.


Firefighters arrived around 10 a.m. and began skiing 5-gallon
jugs of water down to the bathroom.

Jim on 02.24.04 @ 02:16 PM PST [link]

HTML O' the day

Stallone uses the name of Wepner for marketing and commercial
purposes, by capitalizing on the fact that Rocky is based on a
true storey, namely, Wepner's.


A site for which I'm sure many of you have been waiting.


What you can't say.


Previously, patients could obtain sterile maggots only from
certain hospitals and research centers.


Everything old is new again.


You'll lose a few cup sizes before the night's over.


He was just the funniest guy!

He's my hero because he got to do what so many of us have only
dreamed of.


"We suggested in future that he go to places where that sort of
thing might cost a bit more, but would definitely be safer for
him."

Jim on 02.23.04 @ 01:42 PM PST [link]

far more satisfying than chips

Think how history would be different if the guys in Seattle who invented the Pringles can antenna had instead used this.

Jim on 02.23.04 @ 10:54 AM PST [link]

INTC + RF = 0

I wrote this on a whiteboard once back at Wayport. Tranlation: Intel has a long (for the semiconductor industry) history of failure when it comes to radio.

About the only thing they've ever done with any success is Centrino, and that is built from other people's technology.

Now this, Intel puts the axe in Bluetooth, pulls out of the IEEE's UWB efforts and decides to go it alone with something they like to call "Wireless USB".

Still holding.


Jim on 02.19.04 @ 10:12 PM PST [link]

This is so wrong

Cumin, masala, lemon cheesecake, liquorice, affron and passion fruit flavored Kit-Kat bars.
Gimme a break
Jim on 02.19.04 @ 01:08 PM PST [link]

LESS is more

Rich Mac Kinnon is a long-time acquaintance from Austin and a fellow refugee from the VC wars. Back when I was involved with Fringeware (another link), Rich was involved with the first Internet opera at UT's ACTlab. Way back, he was involved with Portal, so he groks the Internet from its earliest public days.

The press release is dry. (Aren't they all?) When I had coffee with Rich last week at one of their installations, I was floored. Not because Rich and his crew have a nifty iTunes hack to hook into SXSW, or even that the whole business run on Linus. Thats cool, but the deeper scoop is that Rich understands that WiFi in public places should be free and has developed a business model that actually generates cash. I won't expose it here, call Rich if you really want to know.

So, you can pay Starf*cks to listen as Sheryl dredges up the past, or you can use the WiFi and listen to over 24 hours of cutting-edge bands, and pay nothing. Pay to be sold to, or not pay to experience. Your choice. I prefer the gonzo approach.

Seems that most of Fringeware has gone WiFi one way or another. The original "founding fathers": Jon Lebkowsky and Paco Nathan are both experimenting with WiFi. Monte McCarter is the webhead at Wayport, and Patrick Deese is running an Internet Cafe down in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Jamie, of course, is Netgate.


Jim on 02.19.04 @ 10:37 AM PST [link]

Pill lets lunks get laid

music: Inner Circle & The Fatman Riddim Section/Heavyweight Dub - Killer Dub/Copper Bullet

You heard it here first
Jim on 02.18.04 @ 05:20 PM PST [link]

Intel gets a clue, film at 11

music: Dub A Come, Lee Sctatch Perry/Upsetter in Dub
mood: slightly intoxicated

Smarting from criticism from open-source programmers, Intel commits to release Linux versions of essential supporting software at about the same time it releases Windows versions.

Looking to placate open-source developers, Intel will start delivering Linux drivers during the same release cycle as Windows drivers, though not necessarily the same day.
link

Jim on 02.18.04 @ 05:01 PM PST [link]

Another take on chaos theory

music: Scooter - Fire

http://www.ucomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2004/01/31/
Jim on 02.18.04 @ 01:22 PM PST [link]

my friend Phil

music: Dope on Plastic v4/Indian Summer/Danny Saber

My friend Phil made Glenn's blog .

Belanger is among a set of early (but not founding) Vivato employees that joined the company during the ascent to the top of its ride who have now left the firm. Most of the founders had already left or reportedly been forced out.

Phil resigned (as I did), and while two of the four founders are still at Vivato, the company has cancer in its management, and surgery would kill the patient. I've known Phil since he was at Aironet and I was at Wayport. Phil is the man who convinced me to go with the as-yet-nonstandard 802.11b in early 1998. He was right, and the result is that Wayport managed to survive.

I was recently back in Austin for 30 hours, and had time to pour margarita's down the gullet of a few friends still at Wayport. What I heard amazed me. 10,000 plus connections per day, nearly all of these Windows notebooks, and all of them, essentially *inside* the network (e.g. behind the captive portal, and gifted with an IP address from the same big pool). Plus the added fun of daily subpoenas from FBI on DCMA and kiddie p0rn complaints. Absolute carnage without the essential hardness of linux at the control point(s).

Other providers, such as STSN, CAIS (now out of business, but not before they sold what was left of their software group to CIsco, where it became a product known as Broadband Service Manager (BBSM)) and everyone who ran Cisco's BBSM, run their networks (including the captive portal) on Windows NT, or 2000.

Imagine the scene when one or more of the early big Windows-specific viri hit. Your captive portal runs on top of IIS, and the machines hitting it can't be stopped without taking down the ability to bill for your 'service". Soon you have 100s, or maybe 1000s of remote Windows boxes all down. Each requires the purchase of a plane ticket to bring it back to life.

And the hits just keep on coming.

The guys left at Wayport couldn't imagine trying to run things without linux. Funny thing is, back in 1998, we were all prohibited by the VPs of Marketing and Sales, as well as the CEO (all of whom loudly proclaimed their loyalty to linux) from saying the "L word" to any current or potential customer. Linux was a dark secret at the time, because the fools who ran the hole-tels couldn't grok a computer that didn't run Windows.

Jim on 02.18.04 @ 01:04 PM PST [link]

Could be said about my previous employer

mood: caffinated

"their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." -- Douglas Adams So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

Jim on 02.18.04 @ 11:19 AM PST [ previous employer ">link]

HTML O' the day

mood: still grumpy

Human dominoes

Faster! Faster! Faster!

Optional bucket of icy water for your feet not included.

WTF?

This could replace the lava lamp. [Possibly offensive: AC]

Moooooooo!

Barf!

[Mattera is] is majoring in Hypocrisy with a minor in Irony. -- Patrick M. Rhody.

Types of reality.

Interesting in a "moth to a flame" sort of way. [Offensive: AC, FV, GV, SSC]


Jim on 02.18.04 @ 11:00 AM PST [link]

First Post

mood: grumpy, as usual

Just a test
Jim on 02.18.04 @ 10:43 AM PST [link]