Wednesday, September 17, 2003
So the PCMIA group announced it's new format for expansion cards; the “ExpressCard“, based on the USB 2.0 and PCI Express interfaces. This isn't just planned for notebooks; it's targetted at desktops as well, so basically your computer could be a shell that you plug a whack of these into to give it more or less functionality.
Anyway, is it just me, or are computers going Star Trek? I mean, come on — these things are really starting to look like isolinear chips.
Here are two pictures from earlier:
PS. Isn't this malarky over yet? I can't believe Congress is still refusing to use the word “French” on their menus…
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
People who read my page know I'm a sucker for custom plates… I own BMEZINE of course, as well as 1X4X9, I CRSH U, L33T, PROGRAMR, NEFARIUS, and GO4SPEED. Maybe others too but that's al I can remember right now. Anyway, the plate on the right belongs to jesse.star, and you've probably also seen The Fog's GUICHE plate.
I was wondering if anyone else had mod-related custom plates (I've seen quite a number at tattoo conventions), and if Jesse and I are the only ones with actual “BME” ones?
Oh, and I mentioned that I updated from the beach. Here's literally the location that I updated from today:
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Wow… It's as if the US is doing everything it can to guarantee war in the Middle East escalates as far as possible (more, more, more, and tons more). I just don't get it. Well, I do, I suppose, war is big business and makes big money, but I totally don't understand why the citizens permit it to continue.
I guess I understand that too… People just don't want to take a stand, so they make wishy-washy centrist votes, passing power back between Republicans and Democrats that all basically do the same things internationally. For whatever reason, people aren't willing to vote in the people who'd make it stop, be it Kucinich types on the left or Libertarian types on the right (thereby making America monstrously wealthy and powerful, instead of watching it spiral down into death)…
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Good news… An experience update has been posted. I say good news because it means my continuing transition to wireless and portable office is going well. Thank you to the review team and the writers of course — I couldn't have done it without you.
I should note that I haven't flipped the switch yet on my SMTP relay to allow this particular connection, so while you will get your password if you wrote an experience, the “first” email (ie. thank you) may be delayed — these include the coupons for those who wrote featured experiences.
Anyway, this update was posted from a broadband wireless connection that's battery powered and faster than most DSL connections. It's pretty cool. So the update was done and uploaded while sitting on the beach of an island, looking out at the ocean…
I asked for a mai tai, and they brought me a pina colada, and I said no salt, NO salt on the margarita, but it had salt on it, big grains of salt, floating in the glass…!
