Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Two BREW apps in the market. Satoshi is a long time friend and business partner. It is cool that his applications are now available in the market. Kudos to you.
Archive for April, 2003
Apr 30th, 03
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Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Two BREW apps in the market. Satoshi is a long time friend and business partner. It is cool that his applications are now available in the market. Kudos to you.
Apr 30th, 03
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Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Two BREW apps in the market. Satoshi is a long time friend and business partner. It is cool that his applications are now available in the market. Kudos to you.
Apr 30th, 03
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Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Two BREW apps in the market. Satoshi is a long time friend and business partner. It is cool that his applications are now available in the market. Kudos to you.
User Interface is an Art, but Trackbacks are not…
Apr 30th, 03
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Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art but Trackbacks are not. Satoshi is absolutely right that Trackbacks are way too hard to understand and differentiate from comments.
Interesting to think about the mobile analog to trackback and how that should work. Seems like, when I update, I should get a ping and then see the site, comment on it and that should be a trackback so when it changes, I see that on my mobile phone. Kind of like IMing to a with a web site.
Also it is wierd that when you hit Track Back, that you don’t get the permalink address, but just the overall web site. Not exactly right.
Mothers Day and Other Gifts
Apr 30th, 03
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What to get for the girl who has everything. Well, that is hard, but here are some things I’ve been looking at:
* A Cook’s Wares – www.cookswares.com. First on the list is a Cream Whipper. Amazing way to get whipped cream for those fresh strawberries. BTW, Cookswares, is a very nice online site. So is “Cooking.com”:http://cooking.com.
* “iSi”:http://www.isinorthamerica.com/creamwhipper.html is an Austrian company and appears to be the only folks making these things.
* “Appliance.com”:http://www.appliances.com/x0×2786x2584×2372/181.html. Cheaper one pint version. And, you’ve got to love the company that has the appliance.com URL. First site I’ve seen that uses .Net as well. A little cheaper
* “Cooking.com”:http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=102325. A good reliable site. Great merchandising.
Connie’s New Blackberry
Apr 30th, 03
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RIM BlackBerry 6210- Karbon Systems. Connie’s Blackberry has finally given up the ghost and she doesn’t want to learn something new. We got it two years ago from buy.com and Aether and it was a nightmare service. Things breaking with the service all the time and mysterious failures with the device.
But, it worked super well. So, the new Blackberry 6210 is $349, so a little cheaper, it includes a GSM phone, three POP3 accounts and also wireless internet. And, it is a world phone. Wow. The service plan is of course incredibly complicated from AT&T or T-Mobile, but I think the basic idea is to buy a handset and then take the SIM and put it into the Blackberry. Kind of strange.
Robert over at Karbon Systems is a good guy. Know him from past lives.
Getting Ready: Food and Trainers
Apr 30th, 03
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I’m getting ready for the STP. Just read Chris Carmichael’s training book (the one with Lance on the cover). Was helpful. Increased average speed on my run to work (10 miles almost exactly) from an average of 16 to 17.4 mph just by the pedaling advice and some training. Here are other things I’m doing:
* “Chris Carmichael”:http://trainright.com. Signed up for a $21/month for six months training over the Internet thing. Seemed nominal and I’ll try some other folks as well, but this seemed like an easy thing.
* Hammer Gel Reviews. Need some more gel. This was highly recommended last year. Plus you can use it to mix energy drinks as I recall. And you can buy it direct.
* Clif Bars. I use these all the time. If you look, you can get for $1.15 per bar on sale at Safeway, etc. Haven’t found a good online source yet.
* “Cytomax”:http://www.roadbikereview.com/Nutrition/Cytomax,Cytomax/PRD_20575_1643crx.aspx or Extran are pure energy drinks as well. Haven’t tried them.
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MTB Stem
Apr 29th, 03
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My buddy “Gary”:http://beagledreams.com needs a shorter stem. I volunteered to help him out. He has a Gary Fisher Sugar 3+ and it is a 110mm stem, but he probably needs a 90mm stem. Here are links if you need to do the same thing by checking out Stem Reviews, Specs and Shopping Information.
A good place to find the right stem in the first place. Mountain bikes are a little confusing in that there is DH (downhill) where you need massive stuff for falling down hills, cross country which is light and fast and freeride somewhere in between. Gary has a cross country bike, so good stems look like those that have at least 7 recent ratings (there are some stale ones) and score 4.4 or above:
* “Race Face Deux”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_88919.shtml. Top reviews. Now on sale at Supergo for $50. Wahoo. But the shortest is 110mm.
* “Titec Little AL”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_78988.shtml. A very nice lightweight crosscountry stem. Just $31. But the shortest is 110mm.
* “Kore Lite”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_23128.shtml. Another light stem.
* “Ritchey WCS”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_88841.shtml at $60. This one has also gotten good reviews somewhere else I’ve seen.
* “Thomson Stem”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_69197.shtml although at $80 expensive, it gets rave reviews and lots of them. Very popular
* “Titec Little AL”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_78988.shtml. A very nice lightweight crosscountry stem. Just $40.
* “Kore Elite”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_23132.shtml also very expensive at $90 but beautiful
* “FSA XC-120″:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_85814.shtml. Super light from the Taiwanese powerhouse.
* “Titec Big AL”:http://mtbreview.com/reviews/Stem/product_23157.shtml more reasonable for $30 direct.
To find the best prices, I troll:
* “Qbike”:http://qbike.com/category/stems.html. This has aggregates a bunch of online resellers as well as ebay.
The facts about DeCSS
Apr 29th, 03
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DeCSS Central. Here are the facts on CSS and DeCSS