Last weekend I had a sailing regatta at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club. There wasn’t too much wind. I spent most of the weekend sitting on the dock, waiting for wind. This is the 2nd race we’ve had with no wind. There is another regatta coming up in a few weeks, hope for wind.
Last night, while nobody noticed, Mozilla’s email program, Thunderbird, went 1.0. I have been using Thunderbird since Firefox went 1.0. It was actually Jon Gales that first sparked my interest in this wonderful program. It has a very nice 3-paned interface and it is fairly fast (except for when quitting). If you haven’t tried [...]
Surprised this isn’t bigger news… It seems somebody has figured out a way to extract the fonts and graphics out of the iPod and iPod Photo. The person wrote a program for viewing and writing to graphics but has not given out the source code (as far as I can tell). Very exciting news indeed. [...]
O’Reilly has opened registration for their upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. This year some featured speakers include Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow. The conference takes place from March 14th to March 17th, 2005 at the Westin Horton Plaza in Downtown San Diego. I don’t think I will be able to go. First, it’s during school and I [...]
Every Monday, the San Diego Union Tribune’s Business section is dedicated to all things personal tech. From junk mail to instant messaging, the UT will probably have written about it or will be planning to write about it. This morning, the Union Tribune had Wikipedia featured. The article mostly covered history of the encyclopedia, from it’s [...]
No, I am not dead, I have just been extremely busy lately. Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, almost a month. I switched over to WordPress yesterday. I made the switch for a couple reasons. First, I have been meaning to do it for a while and have just been to lazy [...]