Friday, January 3, 2003

Interesting thread on differences between real friends and simple friends (er, acquaintances). I don't have enough real friends. I gotta work on that more this year. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 10:43:34 PM    comment []

Wireless Standards Single Standards Losing Out to Dual-Band. 802.11b, the bedrock of wireless networking, and its presumed successor, 802.11a, may quickly be on the way out as we know them. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 10:33:09 PM    comment []

Colorado Mammoth We just got back from the first ever Colorado Mammoth NLL Lacrosse game. Home guys came through in two overtimes 13-12 10:30:15 PM    comment []

Friday Five January 3, 2003 1. Do you wear any jewelry? What kind? Wedding Ring. 2. How often do you wear it? All the time. 3. Do you have any piercings? If so, where? None. 4. Do you have any tattoos? If so, where? None. 5. What are your plans for the weekend? Go see an Attorney about a legal issue with the Car we purchased a month ago. 6:36:40 AM    comment []

It's amazing how your kids pick up on stuff that you did when they were young. The little things....... Sometimes it's the little things that you miss. The patter of little feet walking through the kitchen. The pounding coming from the bathroom, you know what it is...he wants a bath. The little hands on your face telling you "Wake up dad!! It's a new day." Feeling his tiny lips on your face as he gives you his little kisses. Seeing his mean face, not always because he's upset but because in his little way you know that it makes you laugh. Falling asleep with him on top of you, just the two of you on the couch. Even though he's to young to say it you know that he loves you more then anything It's the things down the road...... It's his first day of school, being there for him because he's scared. It's watching him play baseball. Playing catch with him in the backyard. It's answering all those "why" questions, "Dad, why is the sky blue?" It's seeing him in High School and watching him go on his first date. There is so much to miss but the world to look forward to. [Adam's Mile High Blog] 6:27:01 AM    comment []

Of course I have pictures of my grandson, dept. The Fish and Santa. Aren't kids at this age supposed to like Santa? [Adam's Mile High Blog] 6:24:21 AM    comment []

Linksys Linksys booster: Mossberg also mentions in passing the Linksys WSB11, which is an external antenna in the same shape and size as the WAP11 plain access point and BEFW11S4 EtherFast switch/gateway. It's about $80, and only boosts the signal of these two devices by a relatively small amount. Still, it's a prefabricated solution that works, and is actually legal as opposed to add-on antennas purchased from third parties. [80211b News] 6:18:59 AM    comment []

Wi-Fi Powerline extends Wi-Fi: Walt Mossberg writes in the Wall Street Journal about a nice confluence of two technologies: Powerline, which offers Wi-Fi speeds over house electrical wiring, and Wi-Fi itself. Siemens SpeedStream division has released a Powerline Wi-Fi gateway for $99. Instead of dealing with repeaters and wires, you could use Powerline to extend a network in a home or small business, and treat the SpeedStream gateway as a pass-through: run DHCP and other services off a full-featured gateway connected to the Internet elsewhere on the network. [80211b News] 6:14:44 AM    comment []

Wireless Smartphones Come of Age in 2002. While advances in general PDA design were either slow in coming or didn't pay immediate dividends in terms of performance, the smartphone or PDA/phone hybrid came into its own in 2002. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:12:54 AM    comment []

iCal Read and use at your own risk. Apple Releases iCal Update, iSync 1.0 : Apple on Thursday released an update to the companies calendaring application, iCal, and the final version of iSync. (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 6:11:28 AM    comment []

Don't we know this, Department Apple Suffers Another .Mac Service Outage : "Access to the .Mac Web site is severly limited at this time." (MacNN via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 6:10:12 AM    comment []

iSync part 2 Apple Launches iSync Platform : "The real payoff for Apple is down the road, with the integration of wired and wireless technology, and the gradual elimination of wired connections." (NewsFactor via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 6:09:14 AM    comment []

iSync Apple And Microsoft Out Of Sync : Apple Computer on Thursday released the final version of its iSync synchronization software, in what could be seen as an attempt to trump new software coming next week from Microsoft. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 6:07:50 AM    comment []

Web Design Book Excerpt: Good Color Practice, Pt. 3. Part 3 of our series of excerpts from Chapter 2 of Web Graphics for Non-Designers discusses good color practice; especially when using color on the Web. From glasshaus. 1216 [WebReference News] 5:24:56 AM    comment []

Ecommerce Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt. 2. Part 2 of this excerpt series discusses a possible credit card form display implementation in PHP/MySQL. From glasshaus. 1226 [WebReference News] 5:24:20 AM    comment []

Ecommerce Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt. 3. You can save time and potential headaches by validating your site visitor's credit card number before sending it off to the payment gateway. Our concluding excerpt from "Usable Shopping Carts" shows you how to do just that; both PHP and ASP examples are provided. From glasshaus. 0102 [WebReference News] 5:23:37 AM    comment []