Brian Jepson’s Weblog

Russell
Beattie has some interesting thoughts on “simplexity” and phone
usability, content vs. contact, and mobile gaming.

Werner
Vogels: “Every few years a group of senior database researchers get
together to do some self-assessment about the current state of database
research and recommend new and future research areas. In the spring of
this year there was such a meeting in Lowell, MA. It had been 5 years
seen the last meeting in Asilomar and from my point of view there had
been significant achievements in the past years so it would be
interesting to see what the top of the database researchers viewed the
achievements and what they considered to be the next hot problems to be
solved.”

More
Cocoa articles than you can shake a cinnamon stick at. (via ranchero.com)

The
Scobleizer: “Microsoft has released a new SMS sender for Windows XP
(GSM cell phone and a direct modem connection also required).”

In
which Tom Hoffman stresses out a G5 at the Warwick CompUSA.

If so, check out Russell
Beattie’s instructions for blowing out all the cruft. He says: “My
phone is definitely working much faster now and has almost a meg more
memory to play with.”

I’m flying out to San Francisco today, sitting at Gate 18 in TF Green
Airport (aka PVD), and when I booted up, I found a T-Mobile hotspot. I
didn’t see any signage in the airport, but I did get directed to a
captive portal when I tried to surf the web. I’m a cheapskate, and I’m
already paying for unlimited GPRS, so I’m just going to use that while I
wait

Russell
Beattie with a bunch of notes on:

• whether or not “Europe has almost caught up in many ways to Japan”
• UIQ and the P800
• Electronic Arts as the “kingmaker” of the N-Gage
• So many Java games, so little time
• LexisNexis overview of mobile sales reports
• CDMA 1xRTT as an alternative to landlines?
• and much much more…

Mac OS X Hints: Use an
Aircard 555 with OS X

William Grosso:
“What I know is that the world is mostly made up of semi-structured data
and I know that database schemas often evolve at a ferocious rate
because, when we impose more structure, we often get it wrong.”