del c:\ /f /s

Well, my email address apparently changed last week without my knowledge. Thanks to the "helpful" technical staff, my address was supposed to allow a transition period, but it didn't. Oh well...I guess that it means I'll be losing some spam for a little while. :)

Pathe , a creator of many British newsreels, has opened up their library of images, and video to the internet.

Had an idea for an intellegent news agent that would use RSS to get headlines every hour or so, and read the contents of each news item. Each item would be parsed out into a interpreter similar to Mind.Forth that would build up a knowledge base that could be queried with english questions. Also, this program would actually be able to come up with ideas of it's own based on it's own musings.

Had an idea for a testing service based on a peer-to-peer topology. You could do things like distributed load tests, remote pings, remote traceroutes, and check http request response times. You would have to load up a servant to use the service, so that every user of the service becomes a potential testing platform. Security would only allow guests to submit tests that ran from at most 5 remote stations. This would prevent the network from being used for DoS attacks.

I demo-ed a little proof of concept project based on JBoss running locally on a low-end machine with session EJBs. I was fairly happy with the results, as was the person I was demo-ing to. This person originally wanted to go with .NET, but .NET isn't even really a product yet. I try not to hate Micrsoft just because they are Microsoft, but I really believe that J2EE is the way to go for our company. We already have an investment in Java, so it makes sense to stick with that investment for a while as long as that investment is doing well. Here's some perspective on the issue .

<YAWN!> I worked on getting the checkbook back in order until about 4:00 AM this morning. I had to re-enter all of the stuff Therese had entered on her Palm into mine. I guess it could have been worse. Ok, I've still got to walk the dog, and get to work. I'm already pretty late.

Well, after upgrading to Acrobat 5.1 because it kept barfing when trying to load some DocBox plug in, I looked through the documentation for PMT to no avail. Then I checked out the readme, and, sure enough, there was a little blurb under the version 7.4 errata for PMT that states: Share and Transfer to DB menu commands are now supported. These commands permit you to share accounts between two databases. The Transfer to DB command permits this between two databases on the same handheld, while the Share command uses IR beaming to permit sharing of accounts between databases on two different handhelds (note that the beaming feature sometimes fails on older versions of the Palm OS; it is fully supported for 3.5 and above). So I checked Palm for any OS upgrades, because I remember being able to upgrade my Workpad c3 (basically a Palm V) to v 3.5.3 for free. No dice. You can only upgrade the Palm IIIx to version 4.1 of Palm OS even though the main page for older Palm OS upgrades m...