Random Neural Misfirings

2007 hasn’t been a good year for cycling, at least not for me. I recently made a birthday resolution that in 2008 I would ride more.
Along with riding less, I’ve paid less attention to bike technology, which is something that’s always interested me. Lately I’ve been paying a little more atention. I just read about [...]

Sometimes Word can’t figure out which window is active.

Machine translations suck. Google is letting you make it better.

A post on oreillynet got me thinking about .Mac, Apple’s online thingy for mac users. Apple recently updated it, and while the updates are nice enough, I think Apple is missing an opportunity.
I don’t know how many people use .Mac. I get the impression that not many do. It seems overpriced for what you get. [...]

From time to time, I’ve mused about modifications to the typical WIMP interface. I’ve previously written about an idea I called the sidepad. This is another take in the same spirit: a single-window interface.
Extreme interface nerdery within.

chat status as twitter post

my obligatory post

I just signed up for the beta version of Imity. I’m still not sure what to make of it, except that it is freaky.
The idea is a form of augmented reality, or embodied virtuality, or whatever you want to call it. It takes the idea behind social networks like Friendster et al and attempts to [...]

eliminate the wait for recharging

Not easy on a Mac.