I bet your computer area doesnt look this bad!

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Area Man's New Computer Monitor Prompts
Apology

Area Man's New Computer Monitor Prompts
Apology 05/29/2004 06:18 AM
I went out and splurged on a 20" Apple Cinema Display. What an amazing monitor. By Jason Kottke (via MyAppleMenu)

RFID doesnt require big IT staffs,
Target and Wal-Mart say

RFID doesnt require big IT staffs,
Target and Wal-Mart say 05/20/2004 04:14 PM
InternetRetailer.com May 20 2004 8:08PM GMT

Mark Cuban talks about how he thinks the
RIAA doesnt have a Clue

Mark Cuban talks about how he thinks the
RIAA doesnt have a Clue 04/01/2005 03:24 PM

This is a great article and I think Mark Cuban's comments are dead on accurate. The RIAA has not a clue of the actual impact File Sharing has had on the market place.

For those not aware Mark Cuban bank rolled the legal challenge of MGM vs Grokster and those of you that worry about the impact of this Supreme Court ruling need to go over their and thank Mark for what he did. [Blog Maverick]

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back 09/11/2004 10:09 PM
TechTree Sep 12 2004 2:43AM GMT

Our handpicked council doesnt think that
the rights of iraqi women are of great
concern. Sort of a shame, because the
women of Iraq seem to be going in
precisely the direction we want the
iraqi people to go in

Our handpicked council doesnt think that
the rights of iraqi women are of great
concern. Sort of a shame, because the
women of Iraq seem to be going in
precisely the direction we want the
iraqi people to go in 02/16/2004 11:54 PM
astonishing story

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44553-2004Feb15.html
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"Area 51"

"Area 51" 04/18/2005 04:45 AM

Orkut Bay Area Map

Orkut Bay Area Map 02/18/2004 10:49 PM

I know that Orkut is a tired topic already, but here is a map from DataWhoreHouse showing distribution of Orkut members who exposed their general location on Orkut (via Scoble and Liz at Many2Many).  Hmm, no, I didn't have to pay to get layed.

Mostly what I expected except Silicon Valley looks like Death Valley for some reason.  A bug?

B-17 and B-24 back in the Bay Area!

B-17 and B-24 back in the Bay Area! 05/11/2004 05:00 AM
This is most excellent! The Collings Foundation's B-17 and B-24 are going to be at Moffett Field this week (13th-18th). That's right next door to work. Like last year, which I missed, there will be ground tours for $8 and if you pony up $400, you get a 30 minute flight. (I think they were $300 last year?) I'm very, very tempted. Besides, I believe the $400 is tax deduction. Anyone else planning to go--either to walk through or...

New: Panopticum Area FX 1.0

New: Panopticum Area FX 1.0 05/20/2004 10:03 AM
Panopticum Area FX is an Adobe After Effects plug-in that provides three filters for affecting parts of an image.

Area Code Map

Area Code Map 01/07/2004 03:17 PM
Ever wonder where some area code is? Google is pretty helpful with that, but I also stumbled across this remarkable labor of love; pretty well anything you could possibly want to know about area codes, with exhaustive mapping, all on one page. And there’s a related page on how new area codes get worked into the system—for a real thrill, scroll down and read the section on Overlay.

Bay Area UFO Expo

Bay Area UFO Expo 08/19/2004 02:38 PM
Tighten up your tinfoil beanie thong and lock up the kryptonite -- The 6th Annual Bay Area UFO Expo happens August 28-29 in Santa Clara, California.

Hot new reports on UFOs, ETs, Abductions, Encounters, Crop Circles, Earth Mysteries, Conspiracies and more! We wish to welcome all new-comers and for those who have been with us before, we want to thank you for your continued support. Joining us again this year with hot new data about Mars and the mysterious Coral Castle is Richard C. Hoagland who, in addition to his lecture, will give two amazing workshops. Jordan Maxwell, our guest of honor for the weekend, will share his knowledge on the ET presence dating back to the ancient world and it's implications for today's world.

Link (Thanks, Captain Todd Lappin!)

Study: S.F. Area Has Most Wi-Fi Hot
Spots (AP)

Study: S.F. Area Has Most Wi-Fi Hot
Spots (AP) 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
AP - The San Francisco Bay area is the nation's top market for wireless Internet hot spots, according to a new study sponsored by Intel Corp.

Net calls get their own area code

Net calls get their own area code 09/06/2004 05:40 AM
The telecoms watchdog Ofcom is considering how to regulate firms that let you make calls via the net.

Bay Area Mobile Forum

Bay Area Mobile Forum 06/09/2004 12:34 PM

Russell Beattie is on a tear!  I say "Ice Tea" (some of us don't drink!)  And no carbs, just meat and cheese.

Bay Area Mobility Forum. Things are, as always, insanely busy at the moment.

So continuing the thought from Saturday, I think I've gotten some great reception to the idea of having an "un-conference"/get together about mobility. Since I'm up in Emeryville and not technically in Silicon Valley, I decided to call it the Bay Area Mobility Forum. I just registered mobilityforum.org as well.

Now, what's the best way to organize online? There's three ways I can think of - I can:

1) Start a Yahoo Group. But I think that's aging platform. Yes, once upon a time it was cool, but now mailing lists are so passé.

2) Start a wiki. I could grab JSP Wiki and have it up and running in a matter of minutes. And I think Wikis are wonderful and cool and all that, but I may be too type-A to deal with the hassle of a zillion people editing pages without control.

3) Start a blog. I think this is probably the best option. And I'm not even thinking about using *my* weblog, but the new Blogger. It supports multiple authors, comments, etc. It doesn't supprt RSS which sorta sucks, but the rest is pretty great.

I'm partial to the blog because it's easier to diseminate timely information, comments are great ways of getting feedback without getting things lost in discussion groups, and by inviting multiple authors, I can - like Mobitopia - take the load off me when I flake out and move on to other shiny things that catch my interest.

In terms of the what the goal is of the get together, I think it's a great idea to copy wholesale from the OWC.

Thus:

The Bay Area Mobility Forum mission is to cultivate and accelerate Silicon Valley's mobile and telecom sectors through leadership, technology, government relations, research, education, mentoring, investment, recruitment, networking and promotion.

And free beer. Let's not forget the free beer. And pizza too.

So in the coming days, I'll throw up a blog, invite people who are interested in helping me organize this thing to become editors, we'll figure out a good date for the inaugural meeting (we can use my current offices at WaveMarket - where there's a conference room for about 50 people and a couple board rooms for sessions), guage interest among potential attendees, figure out some topics to chat about and maybe get a few mobile-sector leaders to give a presentation, send some emails to everyone I can think of getting them to show up with their gadgets and other mobile toys...

Actually, most people will show up for the beer. I just want to see the gadgets. No one gets in the door without a cool toy. (Just kidding).

Comments welcome.

-Russ

By weblog@russellbeattie.com. [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Area Schools Take Laptops

Area Schools Take Laptops 08/11/2004 10:13 AM
Nine local high schools will get laptop computers this fall in a deal brokered between the state and Apple late last week. By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal (via MyAppleMenu)

New MSDN Support Area

New MSDN Support Area 09/08/2004 11:51 PM
Discover MSDN's new comprehensive guide to online support and troubleshooting resources for developers.

Southwest Key Area for Candidates (AP)

Southwest Key Area for Candidates (AP) 05/22/2004 08:07 PM
AP - Hispanics and transplanted white voters are swelling the populations of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, offering hope to both John Kerry and President Bush in the hot, new campaign battleground.

Bay Area Dining and Death

Bay Area Dining and Death 04/14/2005 02:33 AM

Dinner on successive nights in the City and the Valley: Monday with Dervala at Fringale, Tuesday with Lauren at La Strada in Palo Alto. The differences are instructive, and the distance can be deadly...

Area 51 hackers dig up trouble

Area 51 hackers dig up trouble 05/25/2004 07:22 PM
Twilight Zone alarm

Area 51 Investigator goes underground!

Area 51 Investigator goes underground! 05/26/2004 05:57 AM

I am a very proud and loyal American. I support the principles of this country and would never do something that would put me under Uncle Sam's scrutiny. As a citizen I pay taxes to Uncle Sam so that my children and I sleep well at night knowing that the government is watching our backs and doing the things that keep us on top of the technology power curve. So I am not all sympathetic
when I hear about some knuckle head messing around with government sensors out in the desert.

Everyone has seen the movies and heard the rumors about Area 51 and I am sure their are a lot of people that would give their eye teeth to visit the site. Uncle Sam has the area restricted for a reason and that is good enough for me. When someone is out there digging up sensors in my opinion that is bordering on treason. So I have no qualms when someone messes with federal property
I would expect the FBI to find out if the individual is a curious george or a foreign spy.

We all are entitled to our opinions and are responsible for our actions. You are free to do a lot of things but people need to realize their are consequences to actions such as this. [The Register]

Art Car Fest in SF Bay Area this weekend

Art Car Fest in SF Bay Area this weekend 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing pal and former guestbar resident Todd Lappin says, "FYI, comrades... the 2004 Art Car Fest will be in the Bay Area this weekend. On display outside the San Jose Museum of Art on Saturday, then parading on the streets of Berkeley on Sunday." Link

Walking Tours in the Bay Area

Walking Tours in the Bay Area 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
Want some exercise? In the Bay area? Check out Weekly Walker at http://www.weeklywalker.com/, a site the provides a number of interesting walks in the Bay area. You can browse the walks on the left side of the page, by location...

Jobs most underpaid Bay area CEO

Jobs most underpaid Bay area CEO 06/17/2005 02:57 PM
The San Francisco Business Times published a report today on the most overpaid and underpaid Bay area CEOs in 2004...

Many Still in Need as Aid Is Trickling
to Stricken Area

Many Still in Need as Aid Is Trickling
to Stricken Area 12/30/2004 11:19 PM
The injured and the stranded awaited food drops and other aid as the death toll surged past 120,000.

DevArticles: And the Memebers Area Goes
On...

DevArticles: And the Memebers Area Goes
On... 01/10/2003 08:50 AM

Boy, 12, shot in 'hunting' area

Boy, 12, shot in 'hunting' area 09/24/2004 05:57 AM
A 12-year-old boy is shot in the head in an area popular with night time hunters and is critically ill in hospital.

Want a job? Move to Washington, DC
area.

Want a job? Move to Washington, DC
area. 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

According to this Washington Post article, the unemployment rate in the DC area is the lowest in the nation.  In the well-educated Maryland and Virginia suburbs unemployment is between 1.6 and 2.2 percent, ridiculously low compared to the national average of 6.6 percent.  Best of all the standards for working hours and difficulty are set by the federal government.  A doctor I talked to said that she went to work for the Food and Drug Administration:  "It felt like a 2-year vacation compared to working in a private practice.  The funniest part was that the people who worked there complained about how hard their jobs were."

Want a job?  Go East Young Man!

Bay Area counties sue Microsoft

Bay Area counties sue Microsoft 08/28/2004 02:31 AM
San Jose Mercury News Aug 28 2004 6:14AM GMT

Bay Area hip hop jargon glossary

Bay Area hip hop jargon glossary 04/19/2004 12:15 AM
Former BoingBoing guestblogger and Business 2.0 editor Todd Lappin points us to an online glossary of hip-hop and gangster language that is regionally specific to the San Francisco Bay Area.

The list includes terms which are now part of the broader lexicon of American popular speech (like "cabbage," "cheddar," and "scratch," all of which mean money). But I found plenty of terms in here that were new for me. For instance: "Dipped in Butta sauce" (Hella fitted, g\'d up, creased up from tha feet up), "Burners" (a cellular telephone that is being used illegally), and "Fedex" (an individual that delivers quick money). Link

Study: S.F. Area Has Most WiFi Hot Spots

Study: S.F. Area Has Most WiFi Hot Spots 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
The San Francisco Bay Area is the nation's top market for wireless Internet hot spots, according to a new study sponsored by Intel Corp.

fastbusy: database of bay area apts

fastbusy: database of bay area apts 07/15/2004 10:29 PM
mmmm. tasty data.

Growing area at home on Internet

Growing area at home on Internet 04/03/2005 10:38 AM
Charlotte.com - Sun Apr 3, 11:55 am GMT

Congestion charge planned within M25
area

Congestion charge planned within M25
area 04/05/2005 03:50 AM
If it moves, tax it

Copyright Enters a Gray Area

Copyright Enters a Gray Area 02/14/2004 05:43 AM
The Grey Album, which mixes music from the Beatles' White Album with lyrics from rapper Jay-Z's Black Album, is being hailed as a classic. EMI thinks it's a classic, too -- a classic case of copyright violation. By Noah Shachtman.

Perl/mod_perl programmer - Bay Area

Perl/mod_perl programmer - Bay Area 04/06/2005 03:46 PM
Friendfinder, inc - United States, CA, Palo Alto (2005-04-06)

Apple CEO Leads Bay Area in Salary (AP)

Apple CEO Leads Bay Area in Salary (AP) 12/28/2004 07:09 PM
AP - Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer Inc., was the highest-paid executive in the San Francisco Bay area in 2003, according to a new study.

Wi-Fi, wide area switching arrives

Wi-Fi, wide area switching arrives 04/21/2004 10:04 AM
After two years of promises from the wireless industry, Broadbeam appears to be the first player to deliver seamless switching between wide area and wireless local area (Wi-Fi) networks.

Location-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-2.02

Location-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-2.02 07/16/2004 10:20 AM

Alienware Area-51m 7700 Reviewed

Alienware Area-51m 7700 Reviewed 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

Alienware machines are overpriced and over-hyped, but you've got to admit, when they go top-end they usually do it right. Jason Cross over at ExtremeTech reviews their latest desktop replacement laptop, the Area-51m 7700, and it's pretty impressive—as it should be, since it forgoes most laptop parts and actually uses desktop chips crammed inside its not-so-portable 12-pound chassis. What you get in the end is a laptop that should rarely leave your desk, but provides most of the functionality of a full-size PC. Look, it even comes with all the fans of a regular-sized PC.

Big, Bad, Behemoth Alienware Laptop [ExtremeTech]

Related
Alienware Area-51 5300 [Gizmodo]

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what's new with InfoPath service pack

what's new with InfoPath service pack 06/28/2004 01:25 PM
WSDL support sounds interesting

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone enables Clallam County to
record public Commissioner Meetings and
work sessions

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array
Microphone enables Clallam County to
record public Commissioner Meetings and
work sessions 09/17/2004 02:13 AM
Public meetings are often recorded to assure accurate and complete minutes. This presents a challenge to microphone technology, since many of the meetings are held in large, reverberant rooms, where it is difficult to pick up discussion around a table and questions from the audience.Clallam County has met this challenge through the use of the Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone combined with SoniClearÒ digital recording software from Trio Systems. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service
Were Destroyed

Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service
Were Destroyed 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
NYT is attacking the other side .. How fucking convenient .. happens

nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/campaign/09records.html?ei=5 062&en=4820315663b5a96a&ex=1089950400&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print& position=
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Bush's service records: The score card

Bush's service records: The score card 02/13/2004 06:58 AM
Did the president walk out on the Texas Air National Guard 30 years ago? A guide through the morass of new evidence.

Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed

Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
directly from Kos .. aWol? .. dKos .. Kos

dailykos.com/story/2004/7/8/23589/81575
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"Military records support Kerry's
account of Vietnam service"

"Military records support Kerry's
account of Vietnam service" 08/23/2004 02:43 AM

Pentagon Finds Payroll Records for
Bush's Military Service
(washingtonpost.com)

Pentagon Finds Payroll Records for
Bush's Military Service
(washingtonpost.com) 07/23/2004 09:18 PM
washingtonpost.com - The Pentagon announced yesterday that it had found payroll records related to President Bush's time in the National Guard -- records that earlier this month were reported accidentally destroyed -- but the discovery did nothing to resolve the dispute over Bush's military service in 1972 and 1973.

KRT Wire | 08/20/2004 | Military records
support Kerry's account of Vietnam
service

KRT Wire | 08/20/2004 | Military records
support Kerry's account of Vietnam
service 08/21/2004 02:55 PM
Military records support Kerry's account of Vietnam service .. Knight Ridder humiliates them

realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9455159.
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Cos. Work on Internet Phone Service Deal

Cos. Work on Internet Phone Service Deal 12/09/2003 01:26 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 9 2003 1:04PM ET

Google CEO Confirms Work on Online
Payment Service

Google CEO Confirms Work on Online
Payment Service 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
The company plans to expand its role in e-commerce, but it is not looking to create a PayPal-like service, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says.

How to Make Your Web Site Work with
Windows XP Service Pack 2

How to Make Your Web Site Work with
Windows XP Service Pack 2 06/01/2004 11:15 PM
Microsoft Internet Explorer will block ActiveX controls in the follow cases: A Web site navigating to a page that attempts to instantiate an ActiveX control. Navigation that would result in an ActiveX installation prompt. A qualified previous version of the ActiveX control is not already installed on the system.

'RegenTV' Internet Protocol TV service
starts work this week

'RegenTV' Internet Protocol TV service
starts work this week 06/09/2004 02:55 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 9 2004 7:06AM GMT

PROptions Announces New Project
Piece-Work Development Service

PROptions Announces New Project
Piece-Work Development Service 07/28/2004 02:21 AM
TALLAHASSEE, FL: PROptions, a 13-year professional Information Technology consulting firm, today announced the July 27th release a new service - Project Piece-Work Development. [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

staugustine.com: Local News: Public
records audit: Some records requests met
with suspicion and threats 02/07/04

staugustine.com: Local News: Public
records audit: Some records requests met
with suspicion and threats 02/07/04 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
staugustine.com: Local News: Public records audit: Some records requests met with suspicion and threats .. tested how officials responded to a routine request to inspect records .. The St. Augustine Record .. Not so well, sadly .. Best excuse

staugustine.com/stories/020704/new_2111766.shtml
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Checking out Infopath

Checking out Infopath 03/12/2003 01:48 PM

Mark Baker: This is such a perfectly RESTful system

I'm pleased to see such a ringing endorsement by Mark Baker of XML Web Services.  Unfortunately, we still have a semantic gap where Mark uses the terms "browser" and "web services" in such a limited way, but we can overlook that for now.

InfoPath on a pedestal

InfoPath on a pedestal 03/19/2003 10:41 PM
James Snell: If InfoPath does for XML and Web services what Excel did for Spreadsheets, bravo to Microsoft, good job.

"Public records audit: Some records
requests met with suspicion and threats"

"Public records audit: Some records
requests met with suspicion and threats" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

Verizon Puts New National Backbone to
Work With Launch of IP-Based VPN Service

Verizon Puts New National Backbone to
Work With Launch of IP-Based VPN Service 05/11/2004 01:22 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 11 2004 4:48PM GMT

HotFix Watch: The Microsoft Operations
Manager service does not work on a DCAM
or on an agent

HotFix Watch: The Microsoft Operations
Manager service does not work on a DCAM
or on an agent 08/10/2004 04:16 PM

InfoPath 2003 SP1 Preview

InfoPath 2003 SP1 Preview 06/23/2004 11:53 PM
The recently released InfoPath 2003 SP1 Preview provides a sneak peek at the InfoPath enhancements that will ship with Microsoft® Office 2003 SP1 around the middle of 2004. The preview is packed with new features, others which improve the user experience and some which improve the developer experience by increasing flexibility and control. I'll walk through several of these new features with a focus on those that apply to developers.

XForms and Microsoft InfoPath

XForms and Microsoft InfoPath 10/29/2003 08:15 PM
Micah Dubinko, author of XForms Essentials, compares W3C XForms and Microsoft InfoPath, the data gathering technology shipping with Microsoft Office 2003.

Utilizing Microsoft InfoPath Part I

Utilizing Microsoft InfoPath Part I 04/11/2004 10:43 AM

InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit
(SDK)

InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit
(SDK) 09/01/2004 01:41 PM
The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK) is designed for solution providers (SPs), value-added resellers (VARs), and other developers who are interested in developing solutions with InfoPath 2003 and InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1.

Customer demand for a ubiquitous
InfoPath runtime

Customer demand for a ubiquitous
InfoPath runtime 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
The last time I asked Microsoft why there's no plan to make the InfoPath runtime ubiquitous, the answer I got was: "We don't hear customers asking for it." Well, I do. Here's a typical rant from one customer who, because his company has a relationship with Microsoft that he doesn't want to jeopardize, asked me to anonymize his comments:

I believe a primary requirement of a forms application is to make it possible for the form to be completed by a wide audience of people from whom I wish to gather data. A key driver, at least in the world of my customers, is to be able to distribute the form widely to people who aren't necessarily connected to the network and get them to fill it in and return it. I don't want to authenticate these people in my network. They won't install software on their computers just to fill out my form. They don't want to learn a new application.

It seems InfoPath has completely ignored the question of how the form will actually be filled in by the responder. There is no free viewer as there is with Adobe Acrobat. There is no ability to save the form template as an ASP.NET web form. It appears that Microsoft expects everyone to purchase a full copy of InfoPath--the complete form design application--just so they can fill out a form. They can't possibly believe the product will gain any traction with this licensing and deployment model, can they? [1] What are they thinking? [2]

So my main question is, is there any way to deploy InfoPath forms without putting full InfoPath on every desktop? [3] Do you know whether Microsoft understands this issue and are planning anything to address it? [4] The two applications that are widely available on everyone's desktop are a web browser and Adobe Acrobat, and it seems like it would be a good idea for InfoPath to support forms deployment via one of those means. Am I missing something here? [5]

...

authentic, a free infopath-style XML
editor

authentic, a free infopath-style XML
editor 05/26/2004 01:08 AM
not beautiful, but less ugly than raw XML

Gain Hands-On InfoPath Training with 16
New Labs

Gain Hands-On InfoPath Training with 16
New Labs 04/20/2004 12:25 AM
Learn how to design and deploy XML-based forms in InfoPath 2003 (SP-1) with this brand new set of labs from the InfoPath product team.

I bet your computer area doesnt look this bad!

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