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February 26, 2003
February 21, 2003
Kubisoft: DEMO Gods
Hats off to my old co-workers now at Kubisoft, Nate, Issam and Feiyu, whose company was one of six selected as "DEMO Gods" at the high-tech DEMO showcase in Arizona this week. Not only that, but their CEO's joking around got them some WSJ coverage. Seems he poked a little fun at Sprint's "spokesmodel" Gabrielle Reilly, who was a little out of place at this largely "geek-only" gathering.
Sprint's "spokewoman" has her own web site. Where was that guy in the trenchcoat?
I hope Sprint isn't letting her write her own material. ":)", as she would say.
February 19, 2003
NYT: NYC Economy Hurting More Than Most
The New York Times reports that in the midst of a tough national economy, New York City is in even worse shape. Anyone with a lot of white-collar, professional friends here could tell you things were bad (given that half of mine have been laid off at least once already), but it wasn't so apparent that the city was falling behind the rest of the country... and to make it particularly happy, they cite revenue drops in investment banking (my summer job) as the source of much of the pain.
Maybe this will finally lead to a correction of New York's sky-high rents... although I'm not going to hold my breath, it would be nice given that I'll be looking for a new place soon.
A Better Laptop Home Base
I've seen a few laptop stands while touring corporate offices, but the new Oyster laptop dock appears to be a real innovation over previous "pedestal" designs. It holds your laptop in the fully open position and offers a built-in USB hub. Insert your laptop, plug in a single USB connector and the power connector, and you've got a desktop setup with full-size keyboard and mouse (not included.) This should be very popular with both home users and corporate buyers worried about the ergonomics of heavy laptop use.
OysterDock was announced a while ago, but it's now available for pre-order at Amazon, which has become the de-facto Internet indicator that a product is about to arrive.
February 17, 2003
Snow Day 2003
20 inches of snow meant the day off today in New York (if you didn't have it off anyway) but not before I did 3/4 of my morning commute! It was worse getting back than going uptown... when the subway doors opened at Columbus Circle, there was a snowdrift on the platform (underground) which is never a good sign.
Peter Leonard made it all the way to Columbia's campus and put up a much more extensive spread of snow photos. (Although they're a little in need of some levels work. Snow is hell on auto-exposure systems.)
Looking at Peter's new Moveable Type web site, as well as Lee Clontz's site, make me consider going back to a "prefab" template to get things updated here.
February 7, 2003
Dell waves floppy drives goodbye
It hasn't come soon enough: leading computer maker Dell has announced that it will start making floppy drives option on its higher-end systems, and will likely phase out floppy drives as standard equipment by the end of 2003.
Forward thinking Apple did this years ago, realizing that as soon as we all had email, 1.44 MB storage devices were largely moot. That's before you realize that most files over 1 MB are now much, much larger than that (think mp3s, video, etc.), making floppies useless as a transfer method anyway.