Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Jon has some great ideas about Amazon, local libraries, and REST. On a personal note, waking up to snow and reading his blog entry about Keene fills my head with holiday memories. When I was a kid, my family drove up to my Grandma and Grandpa Casillo's house in Keene around Christmas, and my brother Nathan and I would roll down the snowy hill in her backyard. We should do that again this year. I wonder if Jon would join us for a roll or two? 8:41:59 AM

Phil Windley praises the iBook. I have mixed feelings after using one for most of this year. Mac OS X is fantastic, and he's right on the money with that. The iBook case is nothing short of amazing; it is incredibly tough. But its compliance with the SAS (Slow-As-Shit) standard is what bugs the hell out of me. I'm bitter because I bought the 600mhz model with the tiny L2 cache and 8MB Rage Mobility graphics adapter (and a month or two later, they introduced much better models with a big cache and Radeon Mobility graphics). I'm torn between an incremental upgrade to the next iBook model or going whole hog and getting a 1ghz PowerBook with a SuperDrive. This is compounded by the fact that I don't have enough money to buy either. Thoughts of buying it with a 0% INTRO APR credit card fill my head, but I know that is the path of folly. The great thing is, if I just wait, something better, faster, and cheaper will be available! 8:35:41 AM

From rabid rat to giant rat. Could EverQuest on the Pocket PC be more fun than Gateway to Apshai on the Colecovision? Something tells me there's only one way to find out. 7:49:54 AM

Tim discusses a great definition of productivity application: "any application where the user's own data matters more to him than the data we provide" 7:46:50 AM