Cloudy Thinking

Amit Agarwal has posted a clever hack. You can use Google’s Gmail as a free way to convert a variety of file formats to HTML. Very cool.

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Recently some comment SPAM has been sneaking through. I had a good run with zero SPAM, but somebody has cracked the code. So, I’ve bumped up a few SPAM-blocking parameters. If you are a real person and find the new approach uncomfortable, let me know. I changed more than one thing and it is possible I’ve made commenting too difficult. On the other hand, so few of you ever write a comment, does it even matter?

The DualCor cPC is the latest gadget I am feeling lustful about (it happens). The cPC specs are impressive. Unfortunately, so it the price at $1,500 or so.

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Fred Wilson, no dummy, complains here about his Treo 650 crashing way too often.

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Brain Reiger of Yibu points to a crisp description of OpenLaszlo by Yanjiang Qian.

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Blogger Web Comments is a new Firefox extension from Google. When you view a web page, it displays a small pop-up in the lower right corner and offers up comments made about the site you are viewing by various bloggers.

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I’ve been toying with the idea of learning the Ruby language for a while. Now that I’m finally getting in gear, you’re stuck reading about my baby steps along the way to Ruby expertise. I promise this will not be pretty.

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Elizabeth Corcoran wrtes in Forbes: “China will graduate more engineers in 2005 than exist in total in the U.S.”

A co-worker writes about his early assessment of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet he received yesterday. He earlier thought it wouldn’t arrive until January, so Nokia did a good job of exceeding the low expectations they helped set. Smart move!

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Lee Gomes presents an interesting riff on the multitude of computer languages in The Wall Street Journal. It’s worth mentioning because the (ultra hot ‘n trendy) Ruby on Rails web development platform has risen to being discussed in The Wall Street Journal.

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I recently claimed I might refuse to look at my blog stats for a month, but it did not happen. This evening I noticed an ominous trend. I fear I’ve fallen in with the wrong (search engine) crowd.

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Robert X. Cringely’s recent article The Sweet Spot (subtitle: By Choosing Where NOT to Compete, Google Can Win the Broadband Game) talks about where Google may be headed in networking.

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