tags: ubicomp
2003
August
- 2003 Aug 17
- pervasive advertising
Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising
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- airport (802.11b/g)
Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.
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2007
August
- 2007 Aug 31
- chief complaint: indecisiveness, avoidant behavior
Despite religiously taking my medications, I’m still not quite all that functional. I mean, I suppose the good things are that I’m not having any problems at work, and I’m not sleeping sixteen hours a day anymore.
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November
- 2007 Nov 2
- asymmetric warfare (mozilla vs microsoft)
The argument about ECMAScript 4 (the proposed next iteration of Javascript) could very well become quite interesting, although, realistically, this probably won’t be happening for a few years.
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December
- 2007 Dec 8
- multicellular computing
A phrase that seems to be cropping up more and more to describe Web 2.0 and the evolution towards Web 3.0 is ”software above the level of a single device.”
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 27
- macbook air
The MacBook Air is clearly not meant to be a primary machine. Understandably, there are many of us who do use a notebook computer as their only computer, and we are not going to be the target demographic. But there's something to be said for a computer that only weighs 3 lbs. Face it. Minimalism is beautiful. Why do you think European sports cars sell so well?
· Read more… - 2008 Jan 31
- technical merits of microkernels
After switching from Linux to Mac OS X and after playing around with Ruby a little bit, and getting a feel for the philosophies of Objective C and SmallTalk, I guess I'm coming around to Andrew Tanenbaum's thoughts about microkernels.
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May
- 2008 May 21
- trust revisited
Having a brief conversation with @anodyne2art on Twitter with regards to my post about trust, and while it's true, the buzzwords are authenticity and honesty, I think these are only tangentially related. Trust probably has more to do with transparency, but it's not quite that either.
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