New and updated Larix Consulting website
A small amount of self indulgent promotion. I've just launched a new, cleaner look and some new content on my main website. New year, new host, new look.
A small amount of self indulgent promotion. I've just launched a new, cleaner look and some new content on my main website. New year, new host, new look.
Update on all the buzz on deep search tools. Looks like Microsoft must feel like the heat is on. I wonder if Google will preview its tool soon? One can only hope. Lookout, mention in the article, is really cool and extremely fast. If you didn't download it by now, unfortunately you're out of luck….
This is an interesting article, one of several of it's ilk lately, and I often reflect on my own technologies choices and path. Years ago I was an unabashed, even evangelistic, Mac person. Then I moved to Canada and became part of a large pharmaceutical company that was decidedly anti-Mac. So, though my Mac was…
Ah, Canadian humour. I'm not sure Robin gets our sense of humour. So read Robin's comments, then go read the Toque (which, for you non-Canadians who might be reading this, what Americans call a stocking cap…the winter knitted hat). I like Points 4 (Install a game), 6 (turn on a TV), 7 (read), 8 (go…
Nice review piece. There is certainly a building buzz around these technologies. As computer speeds and bandwidth improves I think we'll all be living in a William Gibson novel soon. InfoWorld: Web conferencing meets the desktop: April 30, 2004: By Cathleen Moore : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : PLATFORMS : STORAGE: “Web conferencing has…
Having even a half decent, mostly complete outline is better than nothing Remember back in high school when you had to write your first term paper? After all the organizing with index cards, after all the lessons on research, after working on your topic, what did your (dreaded) English teacher tell you to do? Write…
Oh, this doesn't bode well. Broadband over power lines (BPL) was supposed to allow rural areas to get broadband internet cheaply and easily. Looks like there are some short circuits to clean up. Deborah Asbrand's July 6, 2004 article in MIT's Technology Review is Broadband Power Surge. It's subtitle is “Electric utilities are beginning to…