I know that this is not funny, but, well, it kinda is! :-) The island nation of Sri Lanka lost data connections on Sunday leaving 800,000 subscribers without Internet access. The problem? Indian ship "State of Nagaland" dropped anchor in the Sri Lankan port of Colombo, and the anchor severed an...
Do you have (or have you used) a quad-band GSM phone? The only ones I have seen are the Motorola v400, Motorola v500, Motorola v600, the NEC 525, the Palm Treo 600, and the Sharp GX32. (It does not look like Nokia or Sony Ericsson have any to offer, even the new SE p910 comes in three different...
I flew out of Detroit this morning. That is something I do quite frequently, so why do I mention it here? Because something odd happened; I was not asked for ID. Really. I even asked "do you need to see ID?", and the TSA screener shook her head no and waved me through. Not that I think that...
Operated by The University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the IEM 2004 US Presidential Winner Takes All Market is a real-money futures market where contract payoffs will be determined by the popular vote cast in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. The overview, assets, graphing...
Good news for elementary schools! Last week Macromedia announced a program which makes it easier than ever for K-6 schools to introduce Macromedia tools to teachers and staff, and in turn to make it easy for teachers to introduce these tools to students in the classroom. The Macromedia K-6 Site...
According to the German publication, Technology Review, Siemens is developing a cell phone with a built in gas sensor. The phone (if it were to ever see the light of day) could be used to detect ozone, bad breath, and as a breathalyzer (detecting alcohol on your breath). And who said that cell...
The sites are back up. As DNS changes can take a while to propagate, I have the old server redirecting to a temporary host name. Aside from that, the move seems to have gone painlessly (too painlessly?). I have always self hosted, I was involved with a start-up and had access to a dedicated data...
I have slowly been moving my servers over to a new hosting provider. DNS has been moved, some sites are already cut over, and having successfully completed dry-run moves of my primary sites, I plan on cutting those over later today. Downtime should be minimal, and the only gotcha I foresee is DNS...
Hong Kong's Brando is selling lenses for phone cams, two sets of lenses to be precise, each with three lenses for telescopic view, softening, distortion, and more. As per the description, "camera lenses adapt to PDA/Cellphone which is built-in camera. The optical effect of each len[s] is readily...
As ridiculous as it sounds, EspringUSA (the company who brought us the pop-up dressing room) has created The Talking Toonies, a line of teddy bears and stuffed animals which hold a cell phone "and once a call comes through, special circuitry enables the bear to move its mouth and head and appear to...