Cloudy Thinking

It’s past my bedtime, but I just stumbled across the Laszlo on Rails phenomena. There’s a Google group, and more details on the project blog.

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Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent for Reuters writes about a possible breakthrough in our understanding of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

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Dave Winer’s NewsRiver feed reader is interesting.

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Reuters reports the seventh death from bird flu in China.

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An early adopter of the Nokia 770 gave a killer demo at the local Linux user group meeting tonight. He showed it working with a Stowaway portable Bluetooth keyboard. I have three words to describe the universal reaction of a (small) roomful of adults: pant. pant, PANT.

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Lindsay Donaghe describes in detail the process of making an old system (such as that laptop you are replacing) available as a virtual system.

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The Ruckus Wireless Room is an above average PR effort by my old buddies Selina Lo (we worked together at N.E.T before she became very rich and famous) and David Callisch (ex-Stratacom, ex-Cisco) .

This Ruckus PR blog article caught my eye. It’s an interesting argument. But my hunch is the virtues of high volume will make Airgo a big winner. That doesn’t mean Ruckus can not also succeed.

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Saul Hansell has a great article about convergence in The New York Times.

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The global spread of avian flu has been unrelenting. While we may never see the mutations (or resortment) that will allow the H5N1 virus to spread easily from human to human, the odds are getting worse as the disease spreads widely, most recently to Turkey.

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Microsoft Research Group Shot is very cool. It lets you build a composite photo by merging scenes from multiple photos.

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Doga Armangil’s Podcatcher is exactly what I’ve been looking for. You leave it running when you go to bed while it crawls through a list of RSS feeds or OPLM lists looking for podcast attachments. Sweet idea.

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Tello could well be an inflection point for the SIP protocol. Om Malik has an excellent summary.

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