Obamafever....
Found Metaweblog API Accesspoint
The Metaweblog API accesspoint for the Leopard weblog server is found!!!
endpoint: http://server.com/RPC2
username: <username> or users/<username>/weblog
password: <password> or <password> ;-)
It worked for flickr....
Raising a Digital Native...
1. The Definition, what makes a "digital native" different
2. Play Time, how technology is changing relationships
3. Work Time, how technology is changing learning
4. The Trade-Off, how technology is changing human beings
Source: http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/09/what_does_it_take_to_raise_a_d.html
A nice set of blog entries by Marta Strickland on raising Digital Natives... Wonder if that even makes a difference, they will just be more comfortable around technology (Shreya and Ritik just ventured into limited chat capabilities and the only nasty bit is that they have to read the IMs)...
To all you sms'ers...
“The act of texting automatically removes 10 I.Q. points,” said Paul Saffo, a technology trend forecaster in Silicon Valley. “The truth of the matter is there are hobbies that are incompatible. You don’t want to do mushroom-hunting and bird-watching at the same time, and it is the same with texting and other activities. We have all seen people walk into parking meters or walk into traffic and seem startled by oncoming cars.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/20messaging.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
That is the reason why the iPhone does not allow for sms forwarding etc... texting reduces your I.Q., We wouldn't want to lower your I.Q. that much that you would go and buy a Blackberry ;-)
Obama's a Mac User
Previously I would have been elated to have known this, but seems nowadays everybody is a Fruit-lover... Even Dubya has a Mac it seems...
China defines Internet Addiction
Internet addiction is on the rise in the world's largest Net market, and now Chinese doctors have officially defined it as an ailment.
Users who spend six hours or more per day online, and exhibit at least one symptom including difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress are classified as meeting the definition of addiction.
Being hooked on the Internet has been considered a problem in Chinese society as early as 2005, when the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing. It began accepting patients who exhibited dependency symptoms for those of substance abuse.
China also has "boot camps" designed to help addicts kick the habit by helping to change their routine.
About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/153569/.html?tk=rss_news
OK, So this means I will not be able to go to China without being stuffed in a government hospital and given electro-shocks... Awwwww...
Maybe they will even make a video-game about this... ;-) MMORPG with live video from the "boot camps"...
Missing a Blog Client
I am seriously missing a blog client for the new Leopard Server... AtomPub is something new, but still no clients that allow for offline editing or offline management (Not that I am offline that much... ;-) )
Also missing a good iPhone client for blogging on Leopard Server...
Either Apple is way ahead of the clients or they don't like others poking in their web-services externally...
Migration
Hi All,
All previous blog entries have been scrambled up... This is due to the fact that there is no decent migration from blojsom (10.4 server blogs) to 10.5 server blogs (let's call it Applelojsom)...
Anyway the information is still present, just not in the right timeframe.
Writer's Guild Strike
It writes on the fact that the Writer's Guild strike if prolonged could draw a lot of budding screenwriters out of the woodwork... Hehehehe imagine user-generated content hitting your TV. Or maybe Youtube buying airtime from Fox network and transmitting Top 100 clips of the day...
That can not happen! So maybe better that Bush invades Iran or Pakistan and creates more newsbites to fill in the voids...
The Irony
MOSCOW (AP) — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-l
ine coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday at age 76.
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, and Russian news agencies cited Sergei Mironov, head of the presidential administrat ion's medical center, as saying the former president died Monday of heart failure at the Central Clinical Hospital.
Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, and Russian news agencies cited Sergei Mironov, head of the presidential administrat ion's medical center, as saying the former president died Monday of heart failure at the Central Clinical Hospital.
Did we all miss the irony here?
1) Yeltin had a high alcohol content
2) Vodka would be his favourite preservative.
3) Smirnov is a Vodka
4) Guess who announces his death: Mr. Smirnov? The Mr. Smirnov himself...? "Yes, er, we are sad to announce a big drop in our vodka sales and yes... Mr. Yeltsin died too!"
Some thoughts on the iPhone Enterprise
As you may have noticed on everything but the share-price of Apple, Apple announced the new iPhone 2.0 OS and accompanied with a new Enterprise angle and a SDK tool
kit to develop your own apps.
A few things I found that needed my comment (Steve are you listening?)...
1) Why choose ActiveSync? I would have been very happy to see that Apple chose to use IMAP-IDLE and an extension on CalDAV to do some of the push-things it is touti ng with ActiveSync... ActiveSync will only reinforce the use of Exchange to small and medium sized companies, who would have easily moved to a newer platform if the options were given... I agree that ActiveSync does entice the large monoliths to which Apple could sell the remainder iPhones to complete its 10m target, but a les s heavy option should have been available based on MacOSXServer technologies. My vision there would have been to use IMAP-IDLE to poll for mails, which works adequa te for Mail.app on Macs. The push-calendaring was a very enticing deal, but might also have been possible by extending CalDAV server on MacOSXServer, maybe even by using IMAP as the repository for the calendar events and hence again leverage the IMAP-IDLE technology to push new events, more or less like how ToDo's and Notes ar e stored on the Mail server right now using Mail.app...
2) Managed iPhones? What I really missed in the Enterprise demo would have been Managed iPhones like the Managed Clients on MacOSXServer. when you boot your iPhone it asks for a login and password and based on that and LDAP/DHCP it would fill your iPhone with the right apps and settings. These could then be managed by a centra l server and hence a simple lost iPhone would be useless without login and password. Also this would make iPhones very manageable, allowing you to set the mail sett ings, set locks on the iPhone based on the user. Think of them as small Macs only.
3) If the CFO of Apple is ok with a non tied down iPhone, then I would have loved to hear of a 900$ unlocked iPhone from Apple... Together with an amnesty program t his would allow a lot of the high net-worth people all over the world, who are tied down to piracy at the moment to pay Apple for the loss they incur and also enabl e them to use the iPhone without the worries... By the summer the market of tie-ins would be saturated and those providers that want to join the iPhone gang will ha ve joined, the others will have to read and weep... Maybe sell it with a world-wide covered AppleCare for iPhones...
4) Games on iPhone... "a kind of Wiimote for iPhone" just made me shiver... Please make a more "entertainable" version of the iPhone for this... One that will bounc e back when it slips out of your hands on that sharp curve... Can you see the saddened faces when buying a 15$ game and the next day ordering another 499$ iPhone, c ause the old one got busted and then figuring that you will need to buy the game again (no transfer of games... I assume).
Just 4 small point to ponder on...
Simponise
In light of the new Simpson movie's sequel, Fox is looking for new actors to come and play a role in the next season of Simpsons...
To see if you have what it takes to look great in 2D (don't tell me your 3D life does not feel flat at times!), please go to the following website:
Upload a picture of your 3D RL self and see what you would look like in Simpson 2D...
Attached is my interpretation of a little fat Indian guy.... ;-)
Shreya's Ballet Performance
Shreya has finished one year of Ballet dancing classes and that is celebrated by having a performance for all the parents (consider it a kind of Ballet school audit by the key stake-holders).
Here the partial review of the stake-holders at Mehta Inc.
Shreya's Ballet Performance
Here the partial review of the stake-holders at Mehta Inc.
Shreya's Ballet Performance
One Amazing Keychain
Holds your keys, your RFID tag, a flashlight, your car remote and hovers back into your pocket if you lose it.... Well for $295 + $75 shipping it better be the best keychain you ever bought!
Well 4 out of the 5 wishes I had are fulfilled with this keychain... Guess I have to wait for the hovering version to come.
Maybe they can also make it in pink and add a nail file in one of those slots... Then stud it with Swarovski's and call it the Paris Hilton edition... ;-)
A product for the people who are still clinging on to keys for entry... a hint: get an RFID chip implanted in your arm and replace all locks with chipreaders! But hey this is a nice impulse buy, until you figure out that your BMW does not have a key anymore, your office uses biometrics and your home-door is always opened by your wife or kids... well at least you have all your keys together now, don't you!