I don’t think I receive any different kind of spam than everybody else. The usual mix of offers for loans, Viagra, cheap software, casino bonuses, free TV and a year’s supply of my favorite soda… at least that’s what the subject lines say. I don’t know what the email message itself contains, though, because I [...]

I came across this funny banner ad from job-search company Dice. I guess, I only recognized it because it talked to the left side of my brain. (Good thinking, guys!) Being an ex-developer, I apparently still think in logical structures. If hungry then eat.
P.S. Note to headhunters: I am not looking for a job. [...]

This is the invention that I have been waiting for. Well, it’s still more like a research project, but soon enough, we’ll be able to scrap that bulky big-screen TV, or any TV for that matter. Got a wall? Any wall will do. Don’t mind the wallpaper, that Picasso painting, or mounted family pictures.
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When Google acquired Picasa, I thought, wow, buying a company and then give away their product for free? Interesting concept. Picasa is really a nice piece of engineering. Not quite Photoshop, but cool features, nice and intuitive user interface, and of course, the price is unbeatable.
Now, Yahoo has acquired Pixoria, maker of widget-wonder Konfabulator. [...]

I’m often asked “Where are you based?” My standard answer is “In an airplane”, which is pretty close to the truth. While being on the road has a lot of flip sides (hmm, how many sides does a coin have?), anyway, it allows me to take my camera to lots of places around the [...]

In the movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise and his police organization can predict crimes, get to the crime scene before the bad guy does, and arrest the culprit before the deed is done. (That user interface of that “screen” which is used to assemble content like video, pictures, documents and audio, is very cool.)
Looks [...]

Now here’s something finally useful from the hacker community: Adam Laurie demonstrated at Defcon, how to empty a hotel room minibar or watch PayTV without getting charged. Or schedule wakeup-calls at 3am for someone else. Or check out the person in room 209. All with a simple laptop and a TV card. Pretty amazing that [...]

It seems that every IT vendor is suddenly in the integration market these days. Application integration, data integration, enterprise integration, process integration, portal integratoin, business integration. I’m sure there are more. In my area of focus, the combined offerings of ETL (Extract Transform Load), EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), EII (Enterprise Information [...]