Thursday, April 24, 2003

The first phase of development on the internet is complete. Everything is pretty much stagnant now. Web sites have standardized, and the tools used by people have standardized. So whats the next step? Is there one?

Lets call the next step, the second phase. While most companies would at the moment be working on securing the applications they have created and try to increase thier stability, Research Companies, Universities and Open source programmers will be working on building something that will form the second phase of the internet. And I'm not talking about Internet II. I'm talking about more intelligent clients, news aggregators and blogging tools. Part of the first phase was about creating a read only web. The second would be making it writable. For the masses.

The internet is an evolving animal. The first phase of evolution is complete. The base for the second is building, on top of the first. While some work on the second phase, others will be working to get everything working securely and reliably on the first.
There was a presenter in one of my classes yesterday who said something really cool. I dont know why... its really common sense. But until you hear it, you havent really thought about it.
Anyway, he said "The railway shortened distances. The internet removed the distance."

It sounded so cool, I wrote it down.

Sunday, April 20, 2003

New blogger coming up.... I wonder!

I was having problems viewing my page though. Its probably because of the move to the new system.

Sunday, April 13, 2003

The Hackers Diet

The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. ``Look,'' I said to myself, ``you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?''

Monday, April 07, 2003

Here is a list of .Net tools!
The ongoing goodness of Unicode


A tutorial on Unicode.

Microsoft's scary post-war crisis


To many other countries, Microsoft is a symbol of American might and dominance. In fact, there exists in many computing circles an underlying fear that Microsoft is in cahoots with the United States government; that security backdoors in the software would let, say, the National Security Agency secretly gain access to foreign computers running Microsoft software. In September 1999, I wrote a story for CNET News.com about a supposed NSA backdoor in Windows NT. Microsoft fairly convincingly explained away that alleged backdoor, but it did little to dissuade ongoing concerns among those folks already suspicious of the company's software.

Sunday, April 06, 2003

The Linksys router at home died. It was working fine, and then I rebooted the PC. And the PC could'nt connect to the router. I asked my roommate to see if his connection was working. It was. After fiddling around for a while, and still nothing, I got my roommate to reboot his computer. And the same thing happened. His computer came up, and no network.

The third roommate still has computer online. He has'nt rebooted and it works. I think the router might have been overwhelmed with all the stuff my roommates might have been downloading.I'm hoping its gonna come online a little later in the day. That router is OLD!

For now, I'm sitting at a friends place wiht my laptop, and am mighty happy I moved the blog over to blogspot.
I've been writing a network scheduler for my OS.
A COM component for getting our software engineering project to spit out Microsoft Word Documents.
Studying for an exam on Linear Algebra.
And studying databases, just in case there is a quiz next week.

I need more time!

Thursday, April 03, 2003

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...