a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
Just caught this off the BBC…
“I’ve always wanted to do it. I bumped into Pierce Brosnan and we talked about it. He liked the idea,” the cult film director said.
The Pulp Fiction director said he was interested in remaking the original story Casino Royale.
“I would like to do the original book ‘Casino Royale’ and do it more or less the way the Ian Fleming book is,” Tarantino said.
Jeff Jarvis suggests Typepad divest from Six Apart as a full service business so that Moveable Type can offer more attractive licenses, which he feels are clearly limited based on blocking potential competitors to Typepad. Jeff’s logic seems right on, based on and considering the backlash currently rising within the MT community, somethings going to have to give if they expect to pull out of this without too much damage to their existing market share.
I suggest divesting. Then SixApart, the software business, will come up with licenses that serve its customers well and will sell as many as possible. Rather then having your entire customer base scream in protest — as they are now — they would beat a path to your door to pay for your mousetrap (whenever your customers are screaming in protest, you know you are doing something very wrong). Meanwhile, TypePad — a licensee of Movable Type software — would offer no-hassle and reasonably priced hosting and would compete with other licensees. Competition would lead to more business for the two companies and happier customers and probably market dominance for Movable Type and its standards (e.g., TypeKey and Trackbacks). Instead, what we’re seeing now is that SixApart is driving present and potential customers to competitors. [BuzzMachine]
I’ve only just started to play with this, but it seems pretty nice for non-blog stuff. You can create pages in an almost wiki style and they will follow a CSS structure you create for your site. It’s all managed through a clean web UI.
Whisper is a small site engine, ideal for people seeking to maintain static web content in a simple, straightforward, and convenient manner. It lets you manage your web site%u2014whether it%u2019s simple or sophisticated%u2014without the fuss of complex tools or blog-centric bloatware. It is very clean and simple. [Whisper]
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I’ll be very surprised if this happens before cable is offering a completely revamped, much more adavnced and higher speed service. There are 6MB trials happening today, not planned for the future like in the Verizon marketing plan… we’ll see I guess but doubtful this will compete in any real time.
Good thing Verizons marketing announcements don’t stump advancing technology like in the old Microsoft vaporware days.
More intense and more expensive. Verizon expects to spend about $1 billion on the first phase of its rollout, making fiber lines available to 1 million homes by this fall. The Texas markets will include Keller, a suburb of Dallas. Although the identities of the other eight states could not be learned, one is likely to be California, a person familiar with the strategy says. Verizon plans to offer the service to 1 million more homes next year and a total of 12 million by 2008. Over the next 15 years, Verizon expects to spend $20 billion to $30 billion to extend service to nearly all 35 million customers.
Television is only part of the strategy. The new fiber-optic lines also will allow Verizon to offer the most advanced consumer broadband service the U.S. has ever seen. Internet connections of up to 30 megabits per second, more than 10 times faster than a state-of-the-art cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL), will be possible, Verizon executives say. Five- and 15-megabit versions will be available for customers who don’t require all that juice. Although specific pricing hasn’t been decided, the 5-meg version will be competitive with cable modem service, which typically costs $40 to $45 a month. Eventually, if there’s demand for it, Verizon intends to offer consumers Net connections of 100 megs or more.
Cable rivals in Texas insist they’re not quaking in their cowboy boots. For one thing, Verizon has tried this before. Its corporate predecessor, Bell Atlantic Corp., unveiled grand plans to offer pay TV to its customers on the East Coast during the 1990s, but the project failed because of high costs and technological problems. Even if Verizon can make the economics work this time, it has no experience in entertainment, where it will have to face off against Time Warner Inc. (TWX ), Comcast Corp. (CMCSK ), and other powerful rivals. “We are already in a highly competitive marketplace. We face satellite in every market we are in,” says David Mack, a spokesman for Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR ), which provides cable service in Keller. “We believe we will do just fine because we offer superior choice, price, and quality of customer care.”
Anytime I get an Apple newsletter sent to me through my .Mac account, I get this instead of the nice HTML I am supposed to see…
You appear to be using an email application that won’t properly display the graphical (or HTML) version of our newsletter.
I use Apple’s Mail app and receive plenty of HTML as well as text-based mail each day.
Be sure you watch in Incredisize (full screen) if you have iTunes 4.5 installed.
The trailer for The Incredibles is online. [~stevenf]
Score another high profile convert to WordPress…
No one is allowed to fork Movable Type, because it’s not open source.
The WordPress development team is now working on releasing version 1.2. Version 1.2 will be GPL-licensed. Version 1.3, if it exists, will be GPL-licensed. Version 2.0, if it exists, will be GPL-licensed. I will never be surprised by the licensing of new versions of WordPress. [[dive into mark]]
Hard to argue here… My experience has been great.
Four basic rules. WordPress gets them right. Other products do too, even when they don’t have the same amount of support from a user community. Call it Product Management 101. [Lauren Wood – Anyway]
Engadget has a story running about a 4G ipod that will bring the Home on iPod function rumored previously as well as the ability to use the iPod as a conduit for Video and Images, but not playback.
Rick Schaut works in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft …
A few years back, Steve Ballmer sent out a company-wide memo stating the policy that no product can ship unless it first runs on Windows NT. He was pretty good-natured about it when we pointed out that this policy would have a seriously negative impact on our ability to ship Mac Office 2001 on time, but it was pretty clear that he simply hadn%u2019t thought about Mac BU at all.
A guaranteed way to garner a few surprised looks is to attend some non-Mac BU meeting, like one of the lectures at Microsoft Research%u2019s Tech Fest or one of the training courses offered by Microsoft%u2019s Technical Education group, and pull out your G4 PowerBook so that you can take notes. I always feel like I should boot up the debugger to run Word so people understand. [Life in Whoville]
Stuff/Things has a nice primer for getting yourself around WordPress if you are thinking of making the move from Moveable Type.
Since most people who use Movable Type know more-or-less how to deal with MT-style templates, it might help those people switching to WordPress to compare the two templating schemes. [stuff/things]
A bluetooth pedometer sends info back to the player so you can find out how far you’ve run…
In the coming weeks, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot about a new MP3 player that isn’t an iPod. In late July, Philips and Nike will begin selling the MP3Run, a 256MB flash-based player that retails for $299 and comes with a separate Bluetooth module that attaches to your shoe. Despite some early speculation, the Bluetooth element doesn’t interface with wireless headphones. Rather, it’s there to wirelessly transmit to the player how far you’ve run–an exciting concept if you do any sort of jogging with your MP3 player. [ZDNet AnchorDesk]
IBM has taken the wraps off the Cell processor, which will be the heart of Sony’s PS3. In addition, Sony and IBM will partner to create digital content creation workstations using the CPU. [Ars Technica
This is a great list… some of which I’ve never heard of… mo:Blog looks very promising
In the search for a mobile blogging tool for Palm, Anil de Mello has rounded himself up a very nice list of some of the current mobile and phone blogging softwares. [Gizmodo]
Here’s to not looking back on my switch over to WordPress. I even paid for MT and would still have to pay more (yet it was free) to upgrade to 3.0. My previous site will live on for now, but thankfully all the content was easily migrated to this one. No need to deal except amazingly to continue to delete the comment spam.
There’s a lot of talk on the blogs today about Movable Type 3, of course, and a lot of negative feedback about their new pricing and licensing models. It seems topical to discuss a few things that worry me about Six Apart as a company moving forward.
First, they’re up against the biggest unspoken rule of Internet commerce: You Are Not Allowed To Charge For What Was Once Free. I don’t know how the rule came to be, and I don’t like the rule, but it’s pretty much incontrovertible. Try to bend it and you’ll likely have a mutiny on your hands. [~stevenf]
If you were concerned about wireless security….
NYCwireless, Corp., a New York-based non-profit organization, today launched NYCwireless SafeMail, an affordable secure email solution for the wireless community. NYCwireless Safemail utilizes industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to ensure data privacy and security for users on public Wi-Fi networks. Both secure IMAP and webmail services will be provided. [Smart Mobs]
If nothing else you have to love the System 7 motif. Browsing around makes me want to get classic installed again though… some tempting morsels from the past.
The Macintosh Garden, a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games.
Abandonware is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and are not sold or supported anymore.Macintosh Garden
Not until 2006, but still cool stuff coming…
Qualcomm today introduced its series 7000 Mobile Station Modem chipsets that would enable six megapixel camera phones, according to a report from Reuters.
The chipset also offers 30 frames per second for video recording and playback. In addition, the chipset offers enhanced features for location based services using Qualcomm’s gpsOne technology. Stereo sound and four million triangles per second for 3D graphics acceleration are among the capabilities of the chipset. [Reiter’s Camera Phone Report]
Om Malik pores over the details of the latest announcements and departures at Intel…
Kumar slams a fist in the solar plexus when he writes: Intel is losing its ability to develop and deliver market-leading products? In just a few months, Intel has terminated development of its most advanced x86 architecture and marginalized the Itanium family, which was once the anointed successor to x86.
Don’t expect to see a dual-core desktop processor from Intel until mid-2005, and this first effort will probably fall short of Intel’s traditional performance roadmap for the same timeframe, Kumar writes. The Pentium 4, in fact, has improved only marginally since the 3.06GHz version arrived at the end of 2002. It is ironic that Intel which has always made fun of Apple’s approach to higher performance – that multiprocessing – and now is resorting to the same approach. [Om Malik on Broadband]
Feeling good about where I am today…
I’ve been happily married for 3.5 years — Could not be better!
I’m a new dad — Hannah is just about 6 months old!
I’m looking for my next career — Very excited about what happens next
This year should be great… We already had our first Mother’s Day, our first Father’s Day is coming up next month and in the fall Hannah will celebrate her first birthday! We are looking forward to what happens next on the job front as well. Whatever it is will most likely set a new course for where we end up… New York, Philadelphia, California?? Who knows… it’s unknown but exciting.