Blog from the Loft

Graffiti, chorded keyboards, T9, finally something very promising. Download the free MessageEase software from ExIdeas and try it for yourself. It is very clever. It uses a 3×3 entry area giving 9 most frequently used keys direct access. However, to type the less frequently used characters, you would drag the figure from the center of [...]

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I just signed up for the Rhapsody music streaming service. This is adictive. The collection of music is adaquate. The more esoteric stuff is not on there. I hope they will add more artists soon. However it is great for browsing and trying out new CD’s. For $10 a month or $25 for three months, [...]

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A few misc finds on the web:

Scott eVest — a jacket with 40+ pockets and wire network for your headphones
Visionaire publishing — limited edition designer books
Architectural Patterns re Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building.
Mirra personal/home file server. I do this myself, but for the less technically inclined, is this the solution? Imagine hacking into [...]

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Try the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto. It is brand new, first guest arrived April 1st 2003.

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Today’s (2003.09.11) Wall Street Journal front page has an article describing how J.C. Penny in the U.S. has outsourced the inventory management, including sales forcasting, of some of their men’s shirts product to a company in Hong Kong called TAL group (company website). This Hong Kong based company pull sales data directly from each JC [...]

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I need to get to my home network from the outside. The home network is connected to the world via a cable modem service by RCN. Yes it is firewalled. To get to some of my services I use dyndns.org’s free dynamic DNS service. You sign up and give it your cable modem’s external IP [...]

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Does your TV talk to your DVD player, and your audio video receiver talk to your TV, and one remote control talks to all of them reliably? Of course not. Everyone has their own connection bus (Sony has s-link, for example). There have always been talk about some universal standard communication interface. The latest one [...]

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Well, I have been hosting my main website (this one) with primus (formally shore.net) for many years. But after they were bought out by Primus, their service keeps going down hill. Over the long weekend they just lost days of my emails, not to mention that they cannot keep up with the recent flood of [...]

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