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Monday, March 25, 2002
A real heart on 
| | Retired General Wesley Clark spoke at the evening's outdoor dinner. He's a commanding yet friendly presence. Everything he says is emphatic and staightforward, yet good-humored. |
| | He supported President Bush's unfolding strategy in the War Against Terror, but also talked about the U.S.'s humanitarian responsibilities in the world. And although he called himself a "non-partisan," he came across as a democrat, perhaps because he seemed to be a warrior with a heart. |
Joltage notes
| | Joltage is providing the wifi I'm using now at PC Forum. Here's what the guy is saying on stage: |
| | In the next 5 years most public spaces will be wifi enabled. Joltage: the only way to develp a meaningful footprint by encouraging and rewarding the creation of tens of thousands of micro-ISPs with carrier-class service. Download what you need to make a wireless ISP. WISP in a box. Everything you need. |
| | Pay as you go at $199/hour, or $24.99/month, up to half shared with provider hot spots. |
| | Very low friction, low threshold of adoption, it looks like. Got a feeling it's Windows-only, though. Need to find out. |
| | Tomorrow is Sputnik, which says, "Just as Apache has become a platform for Web applications, Sputnik envisions the Sputnik Gateway as a platform for deploying wireless applications and services." |
| | Two different approaches to something like the same thing. |
Just hoping we're not talking deck chairs here...
Killer talk
| | There was nothing new (okay, they care about China) in what Craig Barrett said, near as I could tell. And I decided Esther's interview with the SAP guy and the "Politics of Enterprise Software" panel would be boring before it even began, so I could write up yesterday for Linux Journal from here in the back of the room, where the powerbars are (OS X is a big bad battery hog — my one major complaint). |
| | But now the "Killer Device" panel is on. Kevin is interviewing guys from Danger, Handspring, Palm and Rim. The Rim guy just talked about how his device was using Jabber. Then he talked about something they showed at JavaOne. I don't think most of the listeners in the audience would catch the difference, since he seemed to be mumbling both. Woke Andre up, though. He founded Jabber, Inc. |
| | Now it's a break and Rohit and Andre are talking intently about something I'm trying not to listen to while I go back to work. |
| | Cory just dropped by. He loves the Danger hiptop, about which he says " Jesus Christ, this is the coolest goddamned phone/PDA/cam/email/SMS/thing in the entire universe. I have a technology boner that could cut glass." |
| | I've had a fun time talking to Bob Frankston, who's sitting on the other side of Andre and Steve Larsen. Though not right now.. I think he's taking a talking break right now. Other people have to go outside and smoke. Bob needs to talk. |
| | And Bob has lately been giving people a lot to talk about, with his essay The Interent is Missing. There is a lot of very thinky grist in it. Check it out. |
| | Bob co-invented the spreadsheet with Dan Bricklin. The two are an interesting visual pair: Dan is tall and Bob is short. Which is my set-up for an embarrasing story about what shrinks call "gestalt substitution." Several years ago Dan showed up with Don Norman while I was doing a live broadcast from a trade show. I dumbly said, "And here are Don Norman and Bob Frankston!" Dan put his hand out about chest height, palm down, and pointed under it. The silent message: Frankston was the short guy. Not like I didn't know that, but ... duh. So I corrected myself and pressed on. |
Wisdom of youth
To say the least
| | A friend just said to me "I don't think stenography is the best use of your talents." |
| | Later he added, "I read you for your synapses firing. Not your fingers..." |
| | "Stumbling," I said. He smiled and nodded. |
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