“So while 3 launches on 03/03/03, I suspect we’ll be waiting until 06/06/06 before we really feel we’re part of something new.” Guardian Unlimited | Online | Preparing for 3G day
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2003 February
“Up to 10 million people on five continents are expected to demonstrate against the probable war in Iraq on Saturday, in some of the largest peace marches ever known.” Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 10 million join world protest rallies
Jeremy Allaire: “A server is just another client — and I’d add, it’s a client with an institutional memory.” And in the context of P2P file sharing, a client is just another server, but a server with a personal memory. Jeremy Allaire’s Radio
“Richard Dawkins, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford, said: ‘I still think it is folly to alienate most of the Arab world, just at the very moment when we need their support in tracking down al-Qaeda.’”
“Well, I say, the bit I was thinking about was when you said how you hated it when young children are described as Muslim or Jewish or whatever when they’ve had no say in the matter. He grins, and says it’s pure Monty Python. ‘It’s like saying the three-year-old child is a neo-Gramscian Marxist child, we wouldn’t do that.’” Guardian Unlimited, Simon Hattenstone meets Richard Dawkins
Searching for people is one of the most difficult problems for search engines. “Surnames cause the biggest problems in genealogy… In one document, my ancestor’s surname appeared as Mury, Murry and Murray. Samuel’s surname is Murry on his headstone. On the stone of his son Levi, it’s Murray.” The most widely used standard for searching for name variants is Soundex, however this does not take account of non Anglo-Saxon sounding names and does not work with a thesaurus of known variants. NameX, which was developed for use on Originsearch was designed specifically for looking at the name variants used historically, as well as phonetic variants. For example, it picks up 56 variants of Mury. It would be interesting to take the Namex concept further and allow you to choose name variants based on the ethnicity or language of the search. Floridian: How well do you know your name?
Hey, a weblog tool specifically for people who create bandwaggons. What’s the bet that Imakenews’ weblog tool offers less than existing software. iMakeNews – Create newsletters and email marketing campaigns – trackable HTML email
More on the way to a PacketPC, John Robb would like this wireless enabled hard drive from Toshiba. Geek.com Geek News – Toshiba’s new HOPBIT wireless personal server
“SnapStream’s primary product is the Personal Video Station, which can turn any computer with a TV tuner card into a device that, like TiVo or Replay, can pause and record live television. SnapStream’s product is inexpensive, about $50 for the software” Dwight Silverman: Hybrid products living up to hype
“Apple has to come up with something, a product, an app, a gadget of some kind, that will put a crippling hurt on another established technology or company.” Why don’t Apple compete with the consumer electronics market and come up with the definitive media PC? Applelinks: Latest Warp Core Praised
“The electronic Holy Quran has become more popular because of it is easy to use and available with English translations. It also gives the Qibla direction and accurate prayer timings in more than 1,000 cities of different countries,” said Riaz, a salesman in another electronics outlet.” GN Online: Digital Quran gains popularity