Clevercactus Pro looks to solve literally every problem I had in regards to multiple machines (iBook, desktop PC, Linux server) in regards to information sharing. I just pray that it works well. I’ll update more once I get a chance to install it.
Our aim with clevercactus pro is to make it simple to work with multiple types of information, devices, and environments. Data is organized according to “spaces” of information, rather than folders, so all the related information is on the same space. You can create tabs (that are automatically persistent) to view different data types, navigate the tabs as you’d do in a tabbed web browser, and create multiple tabs to view the data using different sets of filters. It is free for individual users, educational institutions, and non-profit corporations.
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http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001489.htmlAn academia paper about the power of blogs and politics. Haven’t gotten a chance to read through it yet but it looks interesting.
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The past few weeks I have been filled with the most overwelming feeling of apathy. I don’t want to study, I don’t want to do homework, I don’t even want to go to my job where they pay me to sit there! I couldn’t figure out what was the cause. I’m still not precisely sure but I have the growing feeling, a sinking realization actually, that it has to do with higher education itself.
I’ve learned the system.
Or, more specifically, I’ve learned what it takes to cruise through, getting the grades I want with the minimum amount of effort expended. I’ve seen the pattern with teachers, classes, etc. so I know what to study for; what I can pass terrible papers in for; what teachers I can basically ignore.
There is something incredibly wrong with a system that encourages this kind of student. Is America’s educational system really that bad? Aren’t America’s Universities and Colleges the envy of the world? Or did I just pick the lemon to attend, good`ole DU
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http://www.engadget.com/entry/9771234022488757/Well apparently if you can’t remember which way Mecca faces you’re in luck. A company is making specialized PDA and GPS systems just for those of the Islamic faith. Though I have a feeling if you can’t find Mecca you have much bigger problems in that religion.
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In Opening the Blogsphere I linked to Jonathan Schwartz, a rather high ranking official in Sun who is now blogging. I commented on how much more open this makes the company seem, how much more likely it is that a conversation will develop that could have meaningful results in terms of Sun’s direction in products and its direction to customers.
Now, I’m having second thoughts. I came back to read the site again and a few things bothered me. What primarly? Lines like
“Third, to get unfiltered feedback from the community.”
leave a sour taste in my mouth. Why? Well, because there
is no way to provide “unfiltered” feedback short of emailing him and we
all know how reliable email is these days. Heck, he even states that he probably won’t reply to it. Jon, I’m sorry, thats one way communication. Thats a lock-in. Exactly what Microsoft, and to some extent Sun themselves are doing to customers all the time.
Then there’s the fact that there isn’t even trackback support so I’d have to go out of my way to email him (which he might, or might not get let alone read) just to let him know that I wrote about this.
Jon, where is the change in format? All I see is less PR and more normal talk. There still isn’t any real feedback channel. Not like a true “weblog.” I guess this is the start of weblogs-lite
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It looks like the Boys in Brown could become the new service station for your Toshiba laptops and equipment. ArsTechnica basically states that UPS has entered a deal for Toshiba to handle repairs of their equipment. In alot of ways, this makes sense. There are very few organizations, with the exception of FedEx or USPS that have the organizational ability of UPS. Lord knows how many times I’ve waited for repairs on machines due more to the shipping than anything else.
What I find really suprising is that UPS has already been doing this for a while. Apparently they do a similar service for Lexmark (including Dell?) printers and combo machines. Granted, I don’t know too many people who actually get those machines repaired, they’re pretty much throw aways, but its the concept that matters.
Some people might actually be concerned with an organization thats devoted to shipping cracking open a $2,000 peice of equipment but they can’t do any worse than alot of other repair groups.
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