Thoughts on AI, architecture, and building systems that work in the real world.

Family Locator

Sprint has released a new service, to help you track your kids… … or track your wife, or husband, or significant other… :-/ … And for only $9.99 a month… Expect more services such as this one, 1st from startups, then from your…

Russell Beattie's "Last Page"

Russ wrote his last page on his notebook/weblog. Hey Russ, I am looking forward to the 1st page, your first chapter of your new “book”… Lot's of great contributions by you, and you will be missed while in your break. It is my…

Consequences of Social Information Overload

Derrick wrote in his blog a very interesting entry about about Rabble Addiction – about one of Rabble's users who confessed that he/she was addicted to Rabble to the point of neglecting job, friends, studies and other, even trading his/her RAZR for a…

Carnival of the Mobilists # 24 @ Feep up!

The weekly Carnival of the Mobilists tradition continues – this week hosted at Feep up!. Go check it out.

Texting and The Evolution of the Thumb

In the beginning, there was the thumb… And the thumb was good… Then came the cellphone… And the cellphone was good… Along came texting… And texting was good… But the thumb was not designed for texting, and it hurt… The human species had…

MIDP 2.1 maintenance review period has been extended

Is now scheduled to close on 1 May 2006: The Maintenance Lead of the following JSR: JSR-000118 Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 has updated the Change Log posted for the second Maintenance Review. View the list of JSRs in Maintenance Review here: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/stage?listBy=maint…

Bloglines Hidden Features

The Bloglines folks published a hidden feature or keyboard shortcut… pressing M hides/unhides the navigational frame, resulting in “maximizing/minimizing” the article's frame. Neat. I decided to go for a hunt for other hidden features, and this is what I've found so far: R…

Nanotechnology => Pulmonary Edema

Er… I said pulmonary edema, not enema… ;-) We should expect health concerns due to the use of nanotechnology in consumer and household products – I see the writing on the wall… Not sure if this reported case is really related to nanotechnology…

RSS Feed URL Management Headache – Please Update URL to My RSS Feed

Due to historical reasons, I have too many URLs to my blog's RSS feed, for example: http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/rss http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 Plus URLs to Atom, RDF, and XML feeds to the above TLDs. A management headache… It would be awesome if I…

Google Team says – It's Time

Who said Google was a search company? In the beginning it was. Today Google is a collaboration company: IM, email, calendar, writing, maps, and searching, and so on. Maybe they should package their collaboration related products under the Google Collaboration product/brand name. Google…