Archive for October, 2005

Google Mail Drafts

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I was writing an email in Gmail this morning when I noticed this text: Draft autosaved at 9:11 am This is a great new feature, part of a package of new features they released today. I’ve lost more than one email to a browser crash (yes, Firefox). Good to see another desktop mail client feature […]

Still no HDTV capture

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I don’t really know how this is going to play out, but it’s obvious that the world is slowly moving to HDTV, and it’s also obvious that keeping people from recording HDTV is a goal of the content producers. Boxes that output HDTV won’t output an unencrypted digital signal, so there’s no support in something […]

Google Office

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

So the rumour is that this announcement will have something to do with Google and Sun working together on an office suite. Personally, I don’t think so. I could see that happening someday, but at this point I think that’s just too big a target to take on. Office is big, and there’s nothing really […]

JASJAR, Syncing through Bluetooth

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I picked up a bluetooth adapter, and configured the PDA to sync through Bluetooth. This works realy well – when I get to work, I don’t have to plug the device into anything, I just open it up, and in ActiveSync, click on “Sync via Bluetooth”. An improvement would be for it to sync without […]

How popular is blogging, really?

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

We hear statistics all the time about how popular blogging is becoming. MSN has millions of blogs, and you hear statistics like 40000 new blogs per month. But a quick survey of posts on the Weblogs.Com Recently Updated Weblogs page shows that over two thirds of the blog entries showing up are advertising, with most […]

Writeboard: stevex

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I’m not sure I get the point. Here’s my writeboard. Looks like a wiki to me. The password is ‘secret’ if you want to edit it..

SNL on Technorati

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I see “Saturday Night Live” is one of the top searches on Technorati right now. Cool.

Serenity Review

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I saw Serenity last night. Very good movie. I’ve never seen the TV show, but it felt like a TV to Movie Adaptation. There was a lot of stuff shown in the first few scenes with no explanation, and the crew had a familiarity with it that you wouldn’t get in most movies. But I […]

50 Years from Now

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

What is life going to be like 50 years from now? I assume I’m still going to be alive. Although my current life expectancy is 76 years, however people are living longer, so I expect to outlive 76. In 50 years, I’ll be 87. Looking back 50 years ago, nobody could have predicted what was […]

Native PDF support in Office

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Well, this seems like big news.