Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
[Updated April 30, 2006] In this essay I look at the Web 2.0 from a different perspective – the practical; the practical characteristics that have resulted in Web 2.0. “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is…” –Chuck Reid Chuck's quote is one of my favorite ones – it … Read more
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 network provider – monitor the location of family members, employees, pets, horses, … Read more
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 experience that writing quality stuff is not easy – it takes time, … Read more
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 mobile handset that won't support Rabble… I find this very interesting indeed. … Read more
The weekly Carnival of the Mobilists tradition continues – this week hosted at Feep up!. Go check it out.
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 no choice, but to adapt, to evolve, or re-engineer themselves. A better … Read more
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 View the JSR 118 Maintenance Review 2 linked from the stage table … Read more
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 = refresh My Feeds S = step to next unread feed M … Read more
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 per-se, but it could be a case of nanotechnology affecting the health … Read more
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 could deprecate URLs and TLDs over time in favor of a single … Read more