This morning in Starbucks while discussing the Starbucks
card phenomenon, it was mentioned that they could just use RFID to identify your clothing, ask retail partners who purchased it, and if most of the clothes were bought by credit cards that belong to the same person, assume that’s you.
Of course, this is a frightening scenario to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Technophobia and privacy
July 30, 2003 – 12:00 am
Fun, smart and sensual young woman
July 29, 2003 – 12:00 am
Cheerleader, exotic dancer, and aerobics instructor seeks a special guy to spend her nights with. Just as soon as she’s done doing her time for 2nd degree murder.
Embarrassing Vegas
July 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
Just yesterday I was amused to note a television commercial (yah, Kristan was watching TV faster than the TiVo could keep up) from the Las
Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority that was certainly more in line with the traditional view of that city. That is, not the whitewashed “family friendly” Just-Like-Disney-With-Slots view that they tried […]
Vintage Hans
July 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
The Internet Archive has a record of my first webpage, circa May 13th,
1997.
As previously blogged, my earliest Internet footprint was a Usenet post on April 9th, 1993. Far more entertaining, though, is a thread pondering the impact of an Internet with a VR interface, where a response included “I’ve heard sme very good things […]
Oedipus
July 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
Tonight my brother and I joined my father to watch old family videos. My father was thoughtful enough back in the early 80’s to convert film to VHS so it survives (albeit not in pristine condition) to be digitized today. It was quite amusing to watch 60 years of history compressed into a […]
Semantics and context
July 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
Burningbird has chosen sides in the scientist vs. poet debates of WWW-TAG.
Although I pride myself for not falling prey to the geek mind-candy that everything can be reduced to bits, I feel the need to defend the scientist, here.
By asserting that a URI identifies a thing, Tim Berners-Lee is not throwing away context entirely!
TimBL would […]
How did we syndicate our blogs before computers
July 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
Heather is hand-updating an RSS feed for my benefit. Isn’t that sweet? I almost don’t have the heart to point out that RFC
2822 dates always use three letter day abbreviations, even for Thursday.
My 80-year-old grandmother can do that
July 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
John McCoy answers the question “What’s so special about Lance Armstrong and those other guys?” Found by Heather.
Downtown WiFi
July 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
O2Connect is turning on free WiFi for the entire central business district this week. w00t!
The publicity stunt works, too. I’m investigating using them for connectivity at both the office and loft.
