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Using the iPhone Plugin for Movabletype
The iPhone apps for Typepad and Wordpress made me jealous. But I found that there's a plugin for MovableType that provides a servicable interface for the iPhone. Typing HTML on the iPhone keyboard isn't easy. But if you have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 23, 2008 9:09 AM
Using bit.ly with MovableType
I've been using the mt-twitter plugin to automatically publish blog articles to Twitter. I find that I get more readers that way than RSS or my newsletter at this point. One problem is that you don't get any good... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 15, 2008 1:21 PM
Velocity 08: Some Tools for Improving Web Performance
HTTPWatch is an HTTP traffic viewer for Internet Explorer. There's a free basic edition, but the professional edition is almost $300! Whew! Firebug for Firefox, of course, remains free. Fiddler is a Web debugging proxy that runs on a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 24, 2008 12:42 PM
Kicking Ass
Kathy Sierra talks about kicking ass(click to enlarge) Kathy Sierra takes the stage again at ETech to talk about kicking ass. She says that people aren't passionate about things they suck at. Finding passion is a way to kick... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 12:52 PM
Unmounting Time Machine Drives
I love Time Machine. I've been in the habit of doing full disk backups, but that won't save me from accidentally deleting a file unless I notice before the full disk backup is made. With time machine I'm protected.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2008 10:32 AM
ActionStreams: Follow Me Around the Net
Adding your IT Conversations profile to Action Streams(click to enlarge) The more you use sites on the Web for keeping track of our online lives and sharing things with friends, the more you'd like to have a place on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2008 9:12 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: The Rude Dog Demo and Working Code
I’m starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I’m planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the eighth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2008 10:03 PM
Getting Free HD TV Programming
As I mentioned before, I bought a new HD TV for Christmas (a Sony 40 inch XBR4). That put me on the hunt for good sources of HD programming. Something I overlooked for a while, and I'm sure I'm... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 7, 2008 2:19 PM
Comments in MT4
blogging, movabletype, spam [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2007 7:02 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: Choosing a Deployment Model
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the fifth installment. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 7, 2007 9:06 AM
The Optical Disk is Dead
My recent travels had me wishing for a lighter bag--that implies a smaller laptop--or no laptop. I'm not ready for the latter, but I'd be happy to give up the optical drive on my laptop to get it. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2007 4:13 PM
Facebook Beacon Demo
If you've been curious about privacy concerns over Facebook Beacon, this demo shows how it works and why some are concerned. I think Moveon.org is totally the wrong organization to take this on, but whatever. If you're a Firefox... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 28, 2007 10:32 AM
Leopard and Mail
I was forced to upgrade to Leopard last week by a Tiger update gone bad. I'm not convinced I can blame Apple--I've updated my machine hundreds of times before with nary a fault and I was, without thinking about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 19, 2007 11:01 AM
I'm on YDN Theater
While I was at Defrag, I sat down with Jeremy Zawodny for an interview on the Yahoo! Developer Network Theater. You can watch it here: Alternately, you can download it. We talked about a variety of topics, including the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 16, 2007 11:13 AM
The State of FOSS in Utah
Clint Savage was the speaker at tonight's PLUG meeting. Clint is the founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation. UTOSF was the power behind the recent Utah Open Source Conference. Clint ran down a long list of activities that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2007 8:29 PM
November PLUG on the State of FOSS in Utah
The Provo Linux User's Group meeting for November will be on the 14th at 7:30pm. Omniture is hosting, so head on over to Canyon Park Technology Center. I'm going to try to make it. Here's the announcement: This is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2007 11:00 AM
CTO Breakfast Recap
The first item on today's schedule was to get an update on the EMC acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems. Scott gave us a report on his recent trip to the Millenials conference last month. This led to a discussion... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 30, 2007 9:42 AM
Fixing MacBook Pro Sleep Problems
One of the things I loved about my Powerbook was that it slept--and woke--reliably. I would go weeks without rebooting my machine and I bragged about it often to the poor saps who had to use XP on their... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 17, 2007 10:08 AM
State Sovereignty Doesn't Count for Much Online
Let me pose a hypothetical situation for you: Imagine some backwater town in your state. Now, imagine that some vandals move through town one night and plaster the local water board office with pornographic posters. The town fails to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 5, 2007 11:29 AM
Microsoft Keeps Plugging Away
Microsoft release the next Zune to very little fanfare compared with what Jobs generated with even the most recent iPod refresh. For all the crap Microsoft took over the Zune ("oh look! it comes in brown!"), you have to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 3, 2007 1:33 PM
A Metadata Interface for Spreadsheets
Mike Farmer asks why spreadsheets (including Apple's new Numbers) don't include ways of getting at data. Now that we have an easy way to assemble our data and make it look great we need a way to get at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 13, 2007 9:59 AM
SearchStatus for Alexa and PageRank
Firefox with SearchStatus installed(click to enlarge) If you've installed toolbars to let you see the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking of the sites you visit, you might like this Firefox extension called SearchStatus. SearchStatus shows the current PageRank, Alexa... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 8, 2007 9:02 AM
Building an Adapter for the iPhone Jack
As you know, if you have an iPhone, the headphone jack is recessed. This was apparently done for esthetic reasons: pulling it out would have resulted in a big bulge--not something Steve Jobs would approve of. I happen to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 6, 2007 1:10 PM
iPod Silence is Disconcerting
I've got a weird problem with my iPod. It won't play music, podcasts, or anything else I load on it. It's making sound--you can hear the clicks in the head phones. And it thinks it's playing the display shows... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 9:15 PM
Perl Web Framework Recommendations
Does anyone have recommendations on a Perl Web framework? I've heard of Catalyst and not much else. A few things make me leery: the blog is infrequently updated and the last release of the code was November of 2006.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 30, 2007 5:09 PM
iPhone First Impressions
Waiting for the iPhone in SLC at the Apple store(click to enlarge) A little less than a year ago, I asked "what mobile device should I buy?" I received a lot of good advice on different phones, but in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 2, 2007 10:52 AM
Why Does HP Software Suck Sooooo Bad?
I have an HP Scanjet 4670 that I've owned for 3 years now. I haven't used it for a year however, and a few months ago when I rebuilt my machine, I didn't reinstall the HP drivers on purpose.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 7, 2007 1:17 PM
Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Three
Tuesday dinner at the Monte Carlo in Mountain View(click to enlarge) If you're interested in following blogs about IIW2007, you can look for the iiw2007 tag on Technorati. First thing this morning (after picking up bagels) I went to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:32 PM
Marc Hadley on WADL: a RESTful API Description Language
Marc Hadley (from Sun Microsystems) is giving a talk called "Describing Web Applications - WADLing with Java." WADL is a RESTful description language for Web APIs. WADL comprises resource, method, request, and response descriptions. Marc gives an example using... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 4:53 PM
Theodore Bullock: HTTPerf is New and Improved
HTTPPerf is a tool for measuring Web service performance. The problem is it hadn't been updated since 2000, even though there had been numerous bug reports in the intervening seven years. Theodore Bullock, recently of the University of Calgary,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 4:16 PM
Understanding Splogs
Have you ever wondered exactly how splogging (spam blogs) work? What's the structure of that industry (and it is an industry)? Yi-Min Wang and Ming Ma (of Microsoft Research) and Yuan Niu and Hao Chen (of UC Davis) have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 2:46 PM
I've Got Fiber to My House
Utopia truck ready for install(click to enlarge) Utopia is Utah's large-scale municipal-broadband project. My city, Lindon, was one of the first supporters of the project and all winter I've watched in anticipation as crews dug up the lawns in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2007 10:09 PM
My Backup Script on OS X
It's sysadmin script day on Technometria. Earlier, I posted and explained by script for cleaning up unwanted files in Linux. Later this afternoon Kelly Flanagan asked me how I did backups, so I decided to clean up my backup... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 4, 2007 8:47 PM
Utah Stories
Richard Markosian is the creator of a Web site called UtahStories.com. I love the idea and I love the execution. The site hosts a collection of short video documentaries about current events, people, and history in Utah. There's a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2007 3:13 PM
Bayesian Networks in Ruby
Carl Youngblood is speaking on Bayesian networks in Ruby. He starts by pointing out that building complete logical systems by building rules is necessarily a futile task. The answer? A system that accounts for ignorance and degree of belief... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2007 1:13 PM
Expose, Dock, USB, and EyeTV Weirdness
Today Expose stopped working. I also noticed that the Dock magnification didn't work (I normally hide the Dock) and the submenus under the Apple in the top-left corner wouldn't open. First I restarted the Dock. No joy, so I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 10, 2007 11:19 PM
January CTO Breakfast Report
We talked about the recent SHA-1 hack and the MD5 exploits that are available. Lockcrack (a password cracking program) apparently has a table of pre computed hashes now installed that make cracking many hashes a job of just a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 10:24 AM
Firebug
Brent Thompson turned me onto Firebug, a Firefox plugin for inspecting and editing HTML and CSS on pages you're viewing. This is a lot more convenient that editing the CSS and then reloading to see what the change does.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 12, 2007 11:57 AM
Installing MS-DOS in Parallels
In the fun, but mostly useless, knowledge category, tonight I loaded MS-DOS 6.22 onto Parallels. I didn't have a copy on CD, only floppies and I couldn't get Parallels to see the USB floppy, but I was able to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 2, 2007 8:29 PM
On Demand Publishing Creates 21st Century Photo Album
Photo Album Cover(click to enlarge) A while back, Moira Gunn interviewed Eileen Gittins, founder, president and CEO of Blurb, about publishing a first-quality, professional-looking books for Tech Nation on IT Conversations and that got me thinking. For Christmas I made... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 27, 2006 12:59 PM
Comment Spam Storms
Update: Be sure to read the comments. There are lots of good suggestions on solving this problem. Here's what I did to stop spam storms About three times per day my server gets hit my a comment storm. Someone... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 14, 2006 9:56 AM
Speed Geeking
Chuck Mortimore demos XMLDAP(click to enlarge) Speed geeking turned out great. I saw some things that really interested me and I got it in a quick hit. The following projects or demos were done: Earthgrid.org - Video worth paying for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 5:07 PM
Introducing User-Centric Identity
Doc Searls(click to enlarge) The Internet Identity Workshop (2006B) has begun. I flew in this morning and spent the time before the conference started shopping for things we need for snacks, etc. Today is not an unconference event--that starts tomorrow.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2006 6:00 PM
EyeTV Hybrid for Macs
A week or so ago, I picked up one of these EyeTV hybrids, a little device that has a USB connector on one end and a cable connector on the other. Plug it into your computer, connect up the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 18, 2006 11:28 AM
Logitech Panic
For a while, I have occasionally had my MacBook Pro panic when I unplugged the USB cable. For you non-Unix geeks, that means the machine stops--dead--and has to be rebooted. OS X hides the reason from you. Even when... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 31, 2006 2:11 PM
Cardinal: Ruby on Parrot
At the next Provo Linux User's Group meeting on the 8th of November, Kevin Tew will be presenting Cardinal, a Ruby implementation on Parrot that he's working on.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2006 9:48 PM
My HTML Mode for Emacs
Some people have asked what HTML mode I finally settled on. I'm using a customized version of Daniel Pfeiffer's adaptation of James Clark's sgml-mode. Yeah, there's lots of SGML stuff that I don't use, but it has a set... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 20, 2006 2:18 PM
DHCP Wars
Here's a little gem for you: Vonage sends out the Linksys RTP300 analog telephone adapter (ATA) with DHCP enabled by default. That's handy when it's the only router you've got, but when you plug it into your network and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 18, 2006 6:10 PM
When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools
This morning I was listening to Karl Fugel talk about tools developers need and thought about Doug Kaye. Here's why... Yesterday Doug sent out a note to a few friends asking what editor they used to writing code on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 18, 2006 10:17 AM
GuruLib Not Hitting on All Cylinders
GuruLib Screenshot(click to enlarge) I don't often put things on my blog that people send me unsolicited, but occasionally it's relevant--or just catches my interest. Not long ago, I got a note about something called GuruLib, an online system for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 2, 2006 3:12 PM
VMWare ESX Performance Report
I've had a student, Terry Wilcox, working to understand the performance characteristics of VMWare's ESX virtualization monitor. Terry's finished his initial work and written up the tests and some conclusions. Overall, ESX scales quite linearly--that is each new virtual... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2006 10:55 AM
Stop Forgetting Attachments
Don't you hate when you send an email that should have an attachment and you forget to attach it? I've often wished my mail client could help me remember. I just found a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app mail client... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 31, 2006 11:00 AM
Which Mobile Device Should I Buy?
I haven't used an organizer like a Palm since 2002. Once I no longer had someone else keeping my schedule, it was more convenient for me to keep the schedule in iCal on my laptop. The gadget freak in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 26, 2006 1:54 PM
Publishing with Atom
Elias Torres has created a Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) plug-in for WordPress. The service allows you to use Atom to POST, PUT, and DELETE entries as well as other things. You might recall that I interviewed Elias for IT... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 24, 2006 11:41 AM
Speeding Up Podcasts
As you can imagine, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I listen to everything on IT Conversations, sometimes multiple times as it comes to production, I subscribe to a few other podcasts, and I review audio for inclusion... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 22, 2006 11:48 AM
An Update to the Microid Plugin for MovableType
Tim Appnel was kind enough to apply his formidable MovableType expertise to my MicroID plugin and made some significant improvements: There is no longer a need for an explicit context argument to the tag. The code senses the right... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2006 1:17 PM
Abandoning SCode CAPTCHAs
The CAPTCHA experiment was a failure. I didn't get any blog spam, but I heard from a few people who tried to post comments and failed (other's succeeded). In the end, I didn't feel like debugging it, or worse... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2006 3:47 PM
Blog CAPTCHA
The last week or so I've been getting slammed by "Nice site" blog comment spam that just wants a link to some dubious Web site. I'd turned on "approval for everyone" but that just means that it doesn't show... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 27, 2006 3:31 PM
Blogger Conference Report
Phil Burn's sets up the banner(click to enlarge) The Utah Blogger Conference started out a lot like a blog: informal, slow, and a little disorganized, but once it got going, there was a lot of energy. I noticed a lot... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2006 9:06 PM
Opening Finder Folder in iTerm
I saw a little script in Macworld that allows you to right click on a folder in Finder and have it open in Terminal. I often find it handy to use the command line and the Finder simultaneously, so... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2006 8:44 AM
IIW2006: Tuesday Morning Sessions
Monday Dinner(click to enlarge) Last night's conference dinner was very well attended and very good. We started the morning in true unconference fashion by putting together the agenda. This happens by having anyone who wants to lead a session write... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2006 11:31 AM
Using Audio Clips
I hadn't started producing a weekly IT Conversations news podcast like Doug did. He's continuing his for the Conversations Network. I may do that in the future. Even so, I want to comment about shows I especially enjoyed. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2006 2:55 PM
OpenID and MediaWiki
Ross Mayfield generously donated a wiki for the Internet Identity Workshop and we used it to good effect for the event last October. This time there was some interest in using OpenID (and even Yadis, if possible) to do... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 5, 2006 8:30 PM
March CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast had around 30 people in attendance. As always, the conversations was geeky and varied. Here are a few things I took notes on. We had a discussion of Ruby and how it's always at the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 30, 2006 2:42 PM
A MovableType PlugIn for MicroIDs
Yesterday's entry on MicroID got me thinking that to be truly useful, blogs and other sites are going to have to including MIDs (as I call them) in every entry and comment as a matter of course. For that,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2006 4:40 PM
Tag Cloud For My Blog
This morning's entry on categories got me thinking and I decided to try generating a tag cloud based on the keywords I put on entries. Here is the result. I like it because it gives an immediate feel for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 14, 2006 11:59 AM
Speeding Up MovableType
Movabletype can be slow. One reason for that is categories. Movabletype's default templates create one big huge index with all of the entries from the category. I've got one category with almost 1000 posts. I found this bit of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 14, 2006 9:59 AM
Firefox Upgrades Still Painful
I've been putting off upgrading to version 1.5 of Firefox on OSX for a while now because it's always a bigger pain than it ought to be. Last week I was forced to for reasons that I won't go... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 14, 2006 8:41 AM
reBlog (ETech 2006)
Michael Frumin and Michal Migurski, the development team behind reBlog are showing it off. At first glance, reBlog looks like an online feedreader (with a nice interface). The difference is that reBlog is aimed at using the information in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 11:19 PM
Alex Russell on Comet: Beyond AJAX (ETech 2006)
Alex Russell, who works at JotSpot and did the DOJO Toolkit for JavaScript is talking about Comet and low latency data to and from browsers (slides). The subtitle is "after AJAX." The goal is responsiveness. AJAX gives you half... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 4:14 PM
Hans Peter Brondmo on Plum (ETech 2006)
Hans Peter Brondmo is speaking on "First You Google, But Then What?" When you have a question, you direct it to the great oracle: the search engines. The problem is that you can't make those results personal, collect them,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 12:35 PM
Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0 (ETech 2006)
Dick Hardt's company has a big sponsorship presence at ETech, the badge lanyards and even the room keys bear the SXIP badge. This morning he's doing the sequel to his Identity 2.0 talk, made famous by his style and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 10:59 AM
Cadena: Analyzing Component-Based Software Architectures
John Hatcliff spoke at this morning's BYU Computer Science colloquium. John is a professor of Computer Science at Kansas State University. He's speaking on Model-driven development, analysis, and optimization in a system called Cadena. The project is based on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 2, 2006 3:53 PM
Algorithmic Authorizations
Yesterday I was reading Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth and Scott D. Anthony and came across a story about how credit scoring changed the loan industry:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 17, 2006 6:40 AM
My First Web Server
Jeremy Zawodny's reminiscing about his first Web server and got me thinking about my first server. In 1993, I left the University of Idaho's CS department to take a position at BYU. I was a formal methods researcher and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2006 7:28 PM
Structuring Citations
Scott Lemon sent me a note about Firefox Scholar, (more) a proposed plug-in for Firefox that would make using citation data on the Web easier. I'm not clear on how different it is from CiteULike other than being browser... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 15, 2005 4:31 PM
IIW2005: Attention Data as Identity
Attention data is the record of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. Two different groups are thinking about attention data in a general way: Attention.xml and Attention Trust. My... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 27, 2005 12:25 PM
IIW2005: Paul Trevithick on Higgins Trust Framework
Identity is a three-body problem. When you use a credit card, there's pre-existing trust between the airline and the bank (brokered by Visa). You're the third party in that equation. Lots of groups that we belong to, lots of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 5:56 PM
IIW 2005: Brad Fitzpatrick on OpenID
OpenID is similar to LID in that URLs are used for identifiers. Identity URLs can be static web pages so there's a low barrier to entry. Also, no SSL is required, nor is a browser plugin. OpenID is simply... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 5:17 PM
KVM Over IP
I'm in the process of buying a KVM over IP solution for my rack at BYU and it occurred to me, that I'd like this technology to be standard on every computer. I'd love for my keyboard, mouse, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 21, 2005 7:31 AM
What to Say About Blogs?
Poster advertising talk (click to enlarge) I've been asked to speak to the Marriott School of Business' Faculty Brown Bag Lunch on blogging (they came up with an awesome poster) the end of the month. The also said they'd... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 2, 2005 5:25 PM
You Want Revolution?
One more data point on the AJAX hype cycle: The Netscape threat that led Microsoft to wage the browser war and cross swords with antitrust regulators around the world is -- at long last -- poised to become reality.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2005 10:48 AM
Hearing Damian Conway in Provo
Damian Conway (who's tutorial was just described) is an excellent speaker. I've never heard him give a presentation I didn't really enjoy. While he's in the US, one of his stops is Provo Utah and he'll be speaking to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2005 5:55 PM
BlackDog Linux Server
These USB-powered, deck-of-card-sized Linux servers from BlackDog look pretty cool. I'm not sure what I'd do with one, but I want it anyway. The Web site's down until Aug 8th, but they had an ad in Make magazine.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 29, 2005 2:52 PM
Turning Off Trackbacks
A few days ago, I logged into my server and typed chmod 644 mt-tb.cgi. Yup, I turned off trackbacks. I found that even with a trackback Spam filter like MT-Blacklist, it was just getting to be too much. Dealing... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 21, 2005 2:17 PM
Apple 30" Cinema Display Problems
Every once in a while, my Apple 30" Cinema Display freaks out and it takes me an hour or so to fix it. I've got it attached to a 15" Powerbook with 128 Mb of VRAM, so the set... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 14, 2005 1:40 PM
T-Engine: Ubiquitous Computing
Back when I started computing, I used Fortran on an IBM 370 and timesharing via an IBM Selectric-like teletype. Many users--one computer. At that same time, I got my first taste of microcomputers, what we'd call personal computers now,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 27, 2005 1:13 PM
Where's My Stuff?
Jon Udell says, referring to OS X's Spotlight that "desktop search feels like an anachronism in 2005." I have to disagree--at least a little. Now, I understand exactly where Jon's coming from. In San Jose a month ago, we... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 9, 2005 6:30 PM
What AJAX Doesn't Do
Rohit Khare has an analysis at InfoWorld about the problem AJAX doesn't solve: pushing data from the server to the client. AJAX is strictly one-way, pulling data with XMLHttpRequest. Rohit ought to know--he founded KnowNow, a company that makes... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 31, 2005 8:29 AM
My New Audio Toy: MOTU Traveler
MOTU Traveler I got a new toy this week, a MOTU Traveler. The traveler is a small, but very capable, digital mixer that links to your computer via firewire. I have been using a cheap Beringer mixer that I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2005 6:22 PM
Quicksilver
Hitting the Quicksilver hot key combo brings up this window which shows the top match on the left and the available actions on the right (launch is the default) As I've played more with Quicksilver, I've come to the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 20, 2005 3:54 PM
Griffin's Problems with Truthful Labeling
I'm just a little angry at Griffin Technology today. A while back, I picked up one of their products called a USB-Audio Hub. From the title, and from a look at the product, I thought it was a 4-port... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 15, 2005 10:05 AM
JavaScript in the Context of a Web Page
Jon Udell has extended his LibraryLookup bookmarklet so that it modifies an Amazon book page to show, right on the page, whether that particular book is available at your local library. He has a screencast showing how it works.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 15, 2005 8:30 AM
Brent Ashley on Ajax and Remote Scripting
Brent Ashley "cuts through the crap" and talks about Ajax and remote scripting. AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript + XML. Ok, now that I've told you that, forget you ever heard it. Ajax (proper case) has already... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 29, 2005 8:33 AM
LaTeXMath, a Kwiki Plugin for Mathematics
Yesterday, I was thinking about math and whenever I start thinking about math I want to write it down. I hate writing on paper anymore and like writing on wikis, so I decided to see if anyone had written... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 12, 2005 9:42 AM
Adobe Fallout and Resolution of Adobe Download Manager Problems
Saturday, I complained that Adobe had sold me a piece of software and then failed to deliver. The problem was the download manager dumped core as soon as it started up. I sent an email to Adobe support and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 22, 2004 3:45 PM
How To Make a Podcast
Yesterday I posted my first podcast. I thought I'd take a minute to write down how I did it for anyone else so inclined. Equipment After asking some friends for advice (like Doug Kaye, Thanks Doug!), I used the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 3, 2004 10:19 AM
Trackbacks and Identity
This morning's CTO Breakfast seemed to keep coming back to the same idea expressed in different ways. We started off talking about pornography filters and the possibility of using something like real-time blacklisting for SPAM to identify URLs and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 19, 2004 3:06 PM
Utah RSS in Government Publisher's Meeting
One of the reasons I went to Salt Lake today was to attend the Utah Government RSS Publisher's meeting. This group meet at irregular intervals to talk about how governments can use RSS. Ray Mtthews is the leader of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 12, 2004 5:43 PM
Some New Mac Utilities
I've run across a few neat little utilities for OS X that I've used for a while and like and one that didn't work out as well. GMailStatus is a little utility that puts a count of messages in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 20, 2004 10:06 AM