June 2003 Archives

This weekend my father and I went to the Nascar Winston Cup race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma -- the Dodge Save Mart 350. We had a great time and enjoyed watching the race live, especially the close battle between Jeff Gordon and Robby Gordon for the last 20 laps or so. The last time I saw a Nascar race... (more)

Whether due to leaked pictures or to get people excited about the pending acquisition of Handspring by Palm, Handspring is now showing a sneak peak at the Treo 600. This looks like it could be a real winner. As have mentioned, this would be a perfect mobile device for updating your weblog or photoblog. There should be some great... (more)

Getting caught up on things... Home broadband usage survey shows that 31% of home Internet users have a broadband connection at home, up from 21% a year ago. That's not too bad. In my neighborhood, our only choice is still DSL because the cable system is antiquated. [Via Phil Windley] Firebird Extras -- bookmarking this list of cool Firebird addons... (more)

Lots of people pointed to the online Wired story Slammed!, but I found the detailed Analysis of the Sapphire Worm to be more helpful for understanding the details. Plus, this report came out on February 4th (the worm attack itself started on January 25). The Wired story is in their July issue. It seems that Ethernet turned 30 in May... (more)

Powers of Ten is a really cool Java app (basically a timed slide show) that shows successive images from the Milky Way down to the subatomic level. Lots of cool images on this site, including microscopic pictures of beer. Another related website I need to check out: Powers of Ten. [Via Ken Coar]... (more)

My aging Motorola phone finally gave it up when its battery died. Not quite ready for a brand new phone (still waiting for the Sony Bluetooth phone on the Sprint network), I planned to just buy a new battery. Sticker shock ensued when I saw that Sprint charges $60 for a replacement -- that's before tax & shipping. A... (more)

With the renewal for my Cantoni.org domain coming up, I decided to dump Register.com and instead move to PairNIC.com (part of Pair Networks which I'm using as a web host). I've had great success with Pair as a hosting company and I expect PairNIC to be as good (plus, you really don't need to deal with your registrar very often).... (more)

Two good networking resources I've been meaning to point to, both from Robert Graham: FAQ: Firewall Forensics Sniffing FAQ Both are good, detailed explanations about all kinds of network traffic, including good links pointing elsewhere for more information.... (more)

I wonder if the Kids.us domain is going to be very popular. A recent story on BizReport.com (Safety Patrol Readied for Dot-Kids) summarizes how the two companies involved are going to patrol web sites in this domain for appropriate contents. As the father of three young kids, I'm of course concerned that my kids only see appropriate material, but I'm not ready to trust one of these companies to control what we can or cannot see. The story has some choice quotes... (more)

Who needs Adobe Acrobat? Kjartan Mannes points out that Adobe is making it difficult for companies who simply need to print to PDF format. Buying the $299 "Standard" edition is quite pricey when you have a bunch of employees whose main need is to simply print to PDF for distribution. I run into this a lot for things like MS... (more)

I'm writing this entry on my palmOne Tungsten C, over 802.11 wireless at work, with the Azure mobile client! Azure requires the Sun MIDP Java implementation, but it's easy to install and is only 600KB.... (more)

Anders Jacobsen's blog: ISO 8601: The standard date format is a good read for anyone wanted a good background on why this format is helpful not only for international users, but also for sorting (my particular reason for liking it so much). Anders also references some good background articles on the format and how to use it.... (more)

Tonight I finally upgraded from MovableType 2.51 to 2.64. Of the new features in 2.6, I'm not taking advantage of any immediately, but I did want to take advantage of the bug fixes (esp. for XML-RPC), so I took the plunge and upgraded. (more)

Azure - a weblog client for your phone -- must check this out soon. Uses Java VM for Palm OS and is reported to support MovableType weblogs. [Via MT Resources]... (more)