My wife is a fine artist (oil painting). She tells me that a huge thing in the art market right now is galleries specializing in Russian art, usually selling canvases in the \$20-50K price range. Not because there's an important movement coming out of Russia, but because the galleries are …
more ...Scoble has quashed the rumor of a Microsoft-branded Tablet PC that I linked to and discounted yesterday.
more ...::: {.Section1} Iggy Kin is the philosopher-king of the inkerati. He obviously loves to just [think]{style="font-style:italic"} about stuff and how it relates. Although I’m sad to see his “Tablet PC Hep” blog go away, he’s got an interesting new blog that’s actually really firing up …
more ...Anyone else seeing this? There are a few hundred returns on Google about it, some of which specifically mention Tablet PC processes, so I'm wondering if the "inkerati" are particularly troubled.
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more ...According to ActiveWin, Armin Cremerius-Gunther, Windows division head for Microsoft Germany, announced Tuesday that Microsoft intends to launch its own Tablet PC. The article also states that Microsoft's intention is to sell the Tablet PC for less than 1200 euros. Microsoft realizes that the high costs of current Tablet …
In a great interview on Gizmodo, Bill Gates and Joel Johnson (?) squabble about DRM. Despite his disclaimer that he was intimidated, the interviewer challenges Gates boldly. Gates responds (in part), by saying that you have to start from the question "'should there be confidential information?'" (such as for medical records …
more ...Introducing COmega is a good overview of what is probably the most obviously startling thing about COmega -- it's attempt to bridge XML / Object / Relational worlds with built-in syntax. I'm not sure that this is going to be COmega's biggest contribution to the mainstream (I suspect that it's threading techniques using …
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My father just died after a struggle with cancer. I won't be posting for a bit.
more ...I bought Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" from http://www.ereader.com/ and enjoyed it well emough, but don't think I'll ever re-read it. I'm willing to pass on the file (in ereaders's proprietary format) to the first person who asks for it. Send me an email -- lobrien -atsign- …
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