Some time ago, my brother sent me a Veo Observer network webcam. The concept is very cool, but the implementation is tremendously poor. It’s a self-contained webcam: you plug in the power and an ethernet cable, and then you can browse to a built-in webserver and stream its image. Sweet! But then they took a […]

If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you’ll know that I often link to Wikipedia. I was cruising around Slashdot a little bit ago and saw a quick entry wondering if Wikipedia was really authoritative. Apparently somebody dismissed Wikipedia because it’s not a “real” encyclopedia. For those of you who don’t know, […]

I’m sitting on a couch in the student union, surfing the web wirelessly and showing off my PowerBook in a prominent location. I don’t normally come here that often because I live on campus and it’s just as easy to go back to my dorm room than to come here and sit down, but class […]