The name's Bond. Osama Bond.
[Original Link] John Naughton's column about the changing role of MI5.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
[Original Link] John Naughton's column about the changing role of MI5.
From the New York Times: Etherlinx, a company based (of course) in a Silicon Valley garage, is developing a modified 802.11 for connecting the 'last mile' to homes. Or, in their case, up to the last 20 miles. Their box goes on the wall of the house and has two radio cards: one talking to their base stations and one doing WiFi into the home.
And from MacCentral: IBM is rolling out large amounts of 802.11 on corporate campuses and is investigating the idea of national networks. It'll be interesting if they ever get further than talking about it.
[Original Link] Aaron Swartz came up with a way of allowing Blogger sites to produce an RSS feed. Julian Bond has made a version of the service available on his site.
The collaboration of all these helpful people means that is much easier for me to read my friend Laura's weblog. What a wonderful world!
[Original Link] "Months go by and I don't receive any telemarketing calls, but I just got off the phone with the nice people at Precision Telemarketing, who got my name and unlisted phone number from Time Warner Cable (against my explicit directions upon signup, and their explicit promises) in order to try to sell me a subscription for TV Guide. I used the JunkBusters anti-telemarketing script to tell them to put me on their "do not call" list. In accordance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Precision Telemarketing will not be calling me again on behalf of TV Guide or any other company for the next 10 years."
[Original Link] Excellent! This is a basic version of NetStumbler for Mac OS X. (This is a bit of software which allows you to see some techie bits of information about 802.11 networks active in your vicinity.)
[Original Link] I was born in Kenya. I'm proud of it.
[Original Link] Wired News on the battle of the DVRs.
[Original Link] I'm a bit late in linking to Ben Hammersley's article about weblogs. It's a couple of weeks old, but still good despite being so outdated!
[Original Link] In another interesting move, Apple have made the eMac available to everybody. This is an updated version of the old iMac, and is the cheapest Mac with a G4 processor.