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This deal plugs your Palm Pilot into your car so you can figure out why the “service engine soon” light is on. It displays diagnostic codes, makes some cool graphs, and gets you through smog check.
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Archive for February, 2003
Cool stuff for your Palm
February 28th, 2003 
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Vivato’s smart antenna
February 18th, 2003 Glenn Fleischman interviews Mr. Omninet Phil Belanger for Wi-Fi News: Vivato Unleashed and mines some interesting details about how the Vivato system works. It’s clearly a generation ahead of the other “smart antenna” systems in the works, and stands out for its combination of technology and channel marketing sense. If I were working for a [...]
The Internet is not a potato, it’s a napkin
February 18th, 2003 David Weinberger has been thinking about the Internet, and the webheads and greedheads. He’s especially fascinated by a 20-year-old paper on network design:
I’ve been thinking about the end of the Internet. No, not its collapse, but as in the”End-to-End” (E2E) argument, put definitively by David P. Reed, J.H. Saltzer, and D.D. Clark in their seminal [...]
BBQ Spaghetti
February 12th, 2003 storySouth / southern barbecue BBQ culture and foodways tells how to make BBQ spaghetti, more or less:
But the curious highlight was the spaghetti, of which I was initially skeptical. Quite simply, this was large vermicelli, cooked well past al dente (but not mushy at all) and sauced with the Cozy Corner formula we’d enjoyed on [...]
IRA backer bashes France
February 12th, 2003 I’m going to have to re-evaluate my criticisms of France now that IRA supporter Peter King of New York is bashing them. Click Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Rod Liddle: We’re their allies – so why aren’t they ours? for details:
And then, rather disconcertingly, it suddenly occurred to me that this was the same [...]
A little history
February 12th, 2003 It turns out that German foreign minister Joschka Fischer has a long and checkered history of beating and burning police officers, and of harboring terrorists. See Germany’s Mr. Tough Guy for details.
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Sun’s drive to stay relevant
February 12th, 2003 EE Times – Sun employs startup’s technology in server blade processors
SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes to leapfrog competitors such as IBM and Intel in the emerging area of server blades by launching multicore microprocessors that can handle as many as 32 separate threads. The technology will form the basis of new Sparc processors [...]
Davis recall drive
February 12th, 2003 Justene Adamec’s Calblog is your definitive source for info on the Davis recall drive, which is gaining traction according to media sources.
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Substitute and examine
February 12th, 2003 From The Gadfly’s Buzz, a quote from Professor John Findlay explaining Godel’s first theorem:
We cannot prove the statement which is arrived at by substituting for the variable in the statement form ‘We cannot prove the statement which is arrived at by substituting for the variable in the statement form Y the name of the statement [...]
Job opportunity
February 12th, 2003 This is a legit job open at UNMOVIC
Vacancy Announcement: UNMOVIC-FS-005
Post title and level: Chief Communication and Information Technology Section, FS-7
Duty Station: Baghdad, Iraq
Organizational Unit: Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
Indicative minimum gross annual remuneration (including post adjustment): US$82,695.00gpa
The incumbent is responsible and manages all the Communications and Information Technology Networks located within the mission, including [...]
