The iPhone 3.0 software is downloading now, to be installed on my old phone in advance of getting the new one tomorrow or Friday. Ohboyohboyohboy! Well, actually, I’m not all that excited, but it will be nice to have a faster phone with more bells and whistles. The fact that I dropped my old one [...]

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Back in the olden days, before the Web and blogs, the way people expressed themselves and held interactive discussions was by using Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSs. Since I acquired my first modem-equipped computer in 1983, a TRS-80 Model 100, that’s how I started my online life. My dad gave me one for my birthday [...]

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As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ll be starting graduate school next week. It’s been awhile (a long while!) since I’ve indulged in formal education, so I’m a little nervous about being able to keep up. So, as I habitually do, I’m looking to technology for help.
College study is essentially an exercise in knowledge management, [...]

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About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]

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I’ve been delving into the underpinnings of several web technologies lately, including one that’s been added to this site. If you scroll down below the Google ads in the right sidebar on this page, you will now find “Kat’s Tweets” — the last 5 posts I’ve made to my Twitter account. That took a bit [...]

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Longtime Scilands buddy, Hackshaven Harford, Twittered this week about a new app he’d found called Sparkle IM from Genkii.
Sparkle is a virtual worlds (VW) client for the iPhone that allows the user to login and communicate via instant messages with friends, and via proximity chat with avatars that are in the same location. Sorry, [...]

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Today I spoke with Clark Sneed, the national sales manager from Dirxion, LLC, a major eBook publisher. I’d contacted them after receiving a link to an online tourism guide they publish, the 2009 Virginia Guide and being very impressed with its quality and beauty. This example really shows some of the multimedia possibilities of eBooks. [...]

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We have moved to a different RV park, which has a different WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider), one that offers unlimited bandwidth. That’s the way life ought to be! But there’s a catch.
One of the things that frustrated me most about the 360MB/48 hours limitations imposed by NomadISP at Beaudry RV was that I couldn’t [...]

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One of the reasons I’ve been so upset over not having good internet access is that there are just so many things I want to do that require it. This won’t be news to any of my readers, of course, but it becomes even more apparent when that access is missing or impaired.
For instance, in [...]

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When I left off in my last posting, I was going to chase down the last vestiges of malware still apparently lurking on Phil’s MacBook Pro from the DNS Changer trojan horse. Even though I’d eliminated the installer, what it installed was still creating some kind of traffic back to a couple of IP addresses [...]

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