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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Saturday, March 09, 2002"I wonder if Dave is expecting any competition in the RCS space." [Simon Fell via Scripting News]
Building a suitable blogging environment for PDAs that can work in conjunction with (Radio, Blogger, etc) is my first target. The thought of a building a product like Radio or RCS using Dot Net as the runtime and C# or VB.NET for scripting makes me smile. (VB.NET as a scripting runtime would probably destroy cross-platform portability with Rotor and Mono.)
There's this CMS that I built for my previous employer that I had always wanted to transform into a marketable product.
The O'Reilly Network reports on an unannounced BOF session at BSDCon 2002 regarding Rotor, a shared souce implementation of Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure that currently runs on Windows and FreeBSD. [Story] [Slashdot]
The various components of "Dot Net" hold significant interest for me. Particularly in relation to PDAs and non-Microsoft platforms. Radio has recently distracted me from that, I need to start digging again.
My roommate has started using Blogger, and has written a thorough review of his Jornada. If you're interested in travel, he should soon have the complete journal of his trip to Malaysia and Singapore online.
Voice-enabled BlackBerry Follow-up
This morning I sent an e-mail to Reiter, basically re-stating what I had previously posted. A few hours later he came back with a very thorough (and lengthy) response. We both make some excellent points.
I'm still getting a feel for what I should be writing about, trying to find a subject that I can "own" and be passionate about. The combination of Wireless and PDAs, as they relate to consumers, seems to have potential. The BlackBerry isn't directly on topic, it only sparked my curiosity because of the GSM/GPRS connection.
Sometime during the next few days I am planning to turn my thoughts on Bluetooth into a coherent essay. My thinking is that Bluetooth may prove disruptive to general-purpose combination devices such as the Handspring Treo, Danger HipTop, and Microsoft SmartPhone (narrowly focused devices like the BlackBerry will continue to face competition primarily at the individual purchaser level).
If Bluetooth can enable separate best-of-breed computing and communications devices to operate together without the constraints of cables or InfraRed, will consumers still lust for combination devices that must make compromises due to the format?
Right now the US market doesn't offer many Bluetooth options for consumers, but that will change very soon.
BTW: In most contexts when I write of "Individuals" I am primarily referring to specific persons considering a business purchase for their own use but not the business as a whole. I will try to use "Consumers" to refer to people making personal purchases that may or may not involve business use. I may not always keep the terms straight, but I will try.
As I mentioned previously, my roommate has the a Journada 568 decked out with the snap-on keyboard, PCMCIA adapter, and combo SD slot / battery.
That battery is a Lithion-Polymer unit which stores over 2400mAh and is roughly half the size of the cells from Power Plant. Amazing. The combination of Jornada + keyboard + SD / battery + Socket WiFi adapter seems like a potential Wireless PDA powerhouse (the Symbol card is Type I, so no need for the added bulk of HP's PCMCIA adapter).
How much hackery would be involved in making that battery work with other devices?
Munich Airport is now offering free 802.11b access in terminals A thru D (but not the between-areas). Just my luck that this would happen after I made the move back to America. Terminal E fliers are out of luck, but the only time I ever flew out of there was when I was going East. Glenn has some details, but take a look at the original German anyway — there are pictures, and in my opinion Munich has some of the prettiest terminals in the West. And there are convenient smoking areas everywhere! ;-)
At the bottom there is information about, and pictures of, the places where you can buy 802.11b cards within the airport. And a link to a page discussing the health risks.
Munich's airport seemingly has few terminals. It's because they have busses to take you do your plane. I'm not even sure if they have any "direct boarding" flights.
