April 2006
The Archives
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04.21.06Stupid artist families and stupid astronomersThomas Hawk has an excellent comment on the fact that Joan Miro's family just sued Google because they incorporated parts of his art in their logo on his birthday: "So let's get this right. Google chooses to create a special logo to honor the art and memory of Miro and his birth in 1893 and his family wants to get all pissy about it?" I hope Miro turns in his grave in disgrace of his own family. This is just ridiculous. It reminds me of the story from 1994 when Apple used the code name Sagan for their new PowerMac under construction. The ...
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04.21.06Friday media history lesson"In this whole new digital music revolution, there is no market leader." Steve Jobs introducing the iPod - 2001 Link to video on YouTube and embedded player: Edit: Link to other classic Apple events on YouTube. (Via Presentation Zen)
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04.18.06The perfect presentation remoteI like to use a remote control when doing presentations. I have used different remotes and experimented with this even back when my computer was running on Windows NT, the remote was communicating through an infrared reciever on the RS232 port and it was one week of work to get the remote up and running. So through the years I have put together a simple requirement specification for a presentation remote: 1. Stable wireless connection through radio and not IR 2. Good design and not too many buttons 3. Absolutely no drivers or software installation 4. Battery indicator to warn low power 5. A range of ...
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04.18.06It’s official. Yahoo has bought Meedio.As discussed here. It's not rumors anymore. Meedio is now a part of Yahoo. Welcome MeeHoo, Yahoodeeo or whatever. Meedio is IMHO one of the best media front ends out there. The platform is very solid and flexible. It has a very strong user community and huge amounts of possibilities. Now Yahoo has to play their cards carefully. This is on the home page of Meedio today: Important News About Meedio Today is a big day for the team here at Meedio; we have sold most of our technology to Yahoo! David Brott, Jeff (beergeek), Kenny (fasttech), Pedro (flea0) and I are joining Yahoo!’s ...
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04.17.06How to roast your own coffeeYears ago while travelling the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia I found a lady selling green coffee beans in a market. As you can see from the picture she was also selling wonderful spices, but it was the raw coffee beans I was interested in. I instantly decided that this is something I have to try. Roasting my own coffee. I bought one kilo. The lady did not speak any english and kept repeating "goreng, goreng!" At that point I didn't understand what she was trying to communicate, but later on I learned that "goreng" means roast or braise. Like in ...