This dazzling beauty

This dazzling beauty is astoundingly feature-packed yet fully utilizes its compact design to the hilt in a chicly creative way never before seen on a mobile handset. The color is a fresh mesh of arctic pale blue with opalescent white trim. The buttons on the keypad are a bit more finger-friendly with fast-paced error-proof punching in mind. This same keypad flips open to reveal a 208 x 320 color screen (2.5″ x 1.5″) large enough to do everything a PDA and cell phone should do, but still small enough to disappear into a side pocket and forget about.

If there was a phone to get excited about, it is the pending release of the Sony Ericsson P800, which runs Symbian 7.0 with full Java support. It is a very slick phone, PDA combo device designed to run on GPRS networks, which means AT&T, T-Mobile and Cingular in the US.

Your mistake equals my news…

Your mistake equals my news… I received the following email this morning for some reason and thought I would share for those sports/telecom fans.

Names have been blocked to prevent any bad sh!t coming my way too quickly.

From: X.X@orange.co.uk

Date: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:53:32 AM America/New_York

To: X.X@allsport.ch

Cc: X.X@psiad.com, Xx@mediaplanning.co.uk

Subject: F1 Circuit Advertising

Message from X X to X X

Dear X

Thanks for your note of October 22nd. I completely understand your desire to

have an agreement such as the one attached to your note. Having said that, I am

reluctant to pass over the rights at this early stage because I wish PSI to be

centrally involved in any ensueing negotiations.

I would much prefer for you to “sound out” the market place and for us to have a

meeting with PSI about our strategic approach when you are in a position to

bring us up to date with any level of interest, however informal this might be.

I hope you understand, I am not being over cautious, just wishing to maintain a

level of control over what is after all a very significant amount of money.

Kind regards

X X

LET THEM EAT CAKE.

LET THEM EAT CAKE. “Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s chief designer, recently made headlines by suggesting that Chanel customers lose weight if they want to wear his tiny new “shrink-to-fit” creations,” writes Chris Hoyt in Out There. “Although everyone got a lot of laughs out of his advice (particularly his “this is not something fascist we are imposing” remark), his apparent disregard for the customer struck an uncomfortably familiar chord when it comes to the promotions we see coming out of too many packaged goods promotion agencies …”

Tech execs and extreme jocks

Tech execs and extreme jocks are making the world safe for plasma-screen shaving mirrors and Wi-Fi window shades. Join Jack Boulware for an exclusive tour of the ultimate wired homes. And please wipe your feet.

Peek into the high tech homes of:

  • Roger Shiffman, the former CEO of Tiger Electronics

  • Steve Perlman, founder of WebTV and creator of Moxi, now Digeo

  • Lyor Cohen, president and CEO of Island Def Jam Music Group

  • Mark Cuban, founder of broadcast.com and cofounder of hi-def TV network HDNet

  • Tony Hawk, Pro Skateboarder

  • Catherine Bell, star of TV show, JAG

Larry David is a sick bastard

After just watching the latest Curb your Enthusiasm, I think it is fair to say that Larry David is a sick bastard.

A quick tally of events:

  1. The Death of his mother is kept from Larry by his father per some Jewish guilt based request of his mother.

  2. Larry then uses the death of his mother to get out of many personal committments

  3. Upon discovering that his mother has a tattoo and won’t be able to be properly buried within the true Jewish part of the cemetary, Larry decides that he can bribe the gravedigger so he can secretly move his mother from the special part of the cemetary.

  4. Larry ends of getting arrested at the end for bribing the gravedigger with conterfeit movie-prop bills.

P.S. The special mantra for meditation that Larry offers to Richard Lewis, then takes back of course, ends up being translated to mean, “Fuck me.”

From the NYT…

From the NYT…

There is little question the Postal Service can use help. It supposedly is a self-supporting independent agency, but it is owned by the federal government. Although it pays no taxes, it is not subsidized. It deals with four unions „ for city carriers, rural carriers, clerks and mail handlers „ and its labor negotiations are subject to final arbitration.

The Postal Service must go through an arduous legislative review each time it wishes to raise a rate or close an office „ and not surprisingly, few members of Congress will vote to allow any post offices to close in their districts. Moreover, its pension liabilities “would swamp most companies,” Mr. Davis said.

So encumbered, the Postal Service lost more than $1 billion in each of the last two years. Although its recent rate increases will probably enable it to turn a profit of $600 million or so in fiscal 2003, which began on Oct. 1, Mr. Nolan puts the amount in context. “That’s enough for two weeks’ payroll,” he said.

Infoworld has some great new Apple reads

Infoworld has some great new articles looking at Apple fairly in depth. One particular highlight, “Apple on the Move,” is a group interview :

APPLE’S SENIOR VICE President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Avie Tevanian, and Director of Mac OS Product Marketing Ken Bereskin met with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve Gillmor, News Editor Mark Jones, Editor at Large Ephraim Schwartz, Test Center Lead Analyst Jon Udell, and Technical Director Tom Yager to discuss Web services, digital rights management, Bluetooth, and Apple’s plans for the enterprise.

Radio posting pleasure

I am now fully aware of how nice it can be to post to radio without the browser. In reading the discussion groups I know I am not alone in having issues with browser communication to Radio.

Archipelago makes it easy to post as well as edit previous posts — once you figure it out. My only critique of the app at this point is the minimal documentation. It is free, so I can’t complain and the folks (perhaps just Daniel) are very responsive to my questions on email.

It seems that Archipelago works to post items quicker than the browser as well as just making it more simple to do so. Well done Daniel!

Hopefully this is not too good to be true…

Hopefully this is not too good to be true… The cast of characters behind this future PIM is all-star and the features and goals of this to-be-named product sound killer. The goal of this PIM product will be to create an open source, all platform product. It’s something we can all truly use. Thanks to Aaron for the link

Mitch Kapor and Andy Hertzfeld (with Tim O’Reilly and Pamela Samuelson on the board) are making an free software RDF-backed Python Mac/Win/Lin PIM ala Agenda in public. Just look at the architecture and feature list. I must be dreaming! This is way too good to be true!

Saturday, October 19, 2002 at

Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 1:36:23 PM

Test post 2 with Archipelago…

I have not had much time this week to work with this app, but it seems cool enough, not too mention lighter than the browser for posting.

Last week we all read

Last week we all read eagerly about the woman who switched to windows and the significant life altering experience it was. False of course, photo taken from stock art, and written by a hired gun. Thanks to the Register, via Scripting News we get another one. This time from an amazingly sharp twelve year old boy working on a tough homework assignment…

Register: “Microsoft has yanked another of its fraudulent user testimonials, in this case a fictitious twelve-year-old boy raving about a fictional homework assignment and the indespensable insights he received from MS Encarta Reference Library in preparing it.” [Scripting News]

While I can’t afford it,

While I can’t afford it, the Meridian 880 Reference Music Server is high on my wish list for home media servers. In fact, it seems to be the media server. I have checked out a few in the past including devices from Lansonic and Imerge. The iMerge always seemed to be much cooler, but something I always wanted to see and certainly hear before making a purchase. The Meridian seems to push the envelope of technology, by using their own proprietary lossless format and software from iMerge. Can’t wait to visit my favorite high end audio store this winter when this baby comes out!

MLP Not MP3. For audiophiles who want to ditch their CDs, but don’t want to have to listen to their entire collection as low-fidelity MP3s, Meridian has come out with their 880 Reference Music Server, which can store up to 750 hours of music. Rather than use MP3 for compression, the RMS uses its own proprietary format for storage, known as Meridian Lossless Packing. The result is that there’s no loss of audio fidelity. All this losslessness doesn’t come cheap though: the RMS is expected to retail for around $20,000. Comes out in January of next year. Read… [Gizmodo]

Tonight at 12:09am, my friends

Tonight at 12:09am, my friends Mark and Julie brought their first child into the world. Mia Rose was born at 8lbs, 4oz and is a very healthy girl.

I’ve known Mark since the summer before fifth grade and he is my first friend to be having a baby, so this is very special news.

Congratulations to Mark and Julie on this wonderful day!

As I had previously

As I had previously mentioned Video on Demand has been active on our cable system here in NYC. Today the New York Times and Wired News (below) cover the pending and official launch. The main differentiator between this and other VOD systems launched so far is the TiVo like functionality allowing in-viewing play control.

I Want My Show Now. Time Warner Cable plans to launch a video-on-demand service for subscribers in New York. It’s different than pay-per-view they claim — you can start and stop your flick at will. Will Wade reports from New York. [Wired News]