Blog from the Loft

Want to fly a helicopter indoor? Try KEYENCE Online International

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E Books
Why isn’t this taking off? Advantages — one hand to hold book and turn page. No annoying keeping the book open while reading. Backlite to read in bed/plane. Great for travel — light weight.
How is ebook different form audio books (which is avialable widely)? Someone can duplicate an audio book on cassette easily, onto [...]

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The world’s slowest computer The Long Now Foundation

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The Webby Awards points to some cool sites.

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Being Mobile
According to the video display, I am 35000 meters
above ground, 10 hours from Chicago. I am clearing
up my emails while listening to MP3’s playing on my
subnotebook, powered by a Jet aircraft through
a pair of noise cancelling headphones.
[Alas - This is blogged later since T1 in the
air is still not an option]

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Visual Feedback for browsing
I like to control my browsing work flow. When I am reading a site with a link, sometimes I want to make sure that the new link is viewed in a separate window, so that I can go back and forth.(Partly this is due to the network speed being not infinite, that’s [...]

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Office Movers in Japan
I am in the Tokyo office Saturday. Someone on the floor is moving in (or out). The building staff (6 or more of them) taped, by hand, sheets of PVC on the floor and the walls of all the passage ways so that the floors and walls will not get damaged. Now [...]

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MP3 players

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The Free Standards Group

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Management by Instant Messanger
For me, using AOL IM is a great way tocommunidate. I can have simultaneous
and one-on-one
conversation with different people at the same time. A truly time saving device (if you can
multi-task). Can’t do this in person in meetings. Also, putting things in writing, with the slight
delay, helps clarify the conversation as well. One [...]

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