Today marked the first anniversary of http://friday.editthispage.com - my Transmeta Crusoe website.

Andrea wonders:

Maybe it will get reactivated some day?!

Perhaps, Andrea, perhaps. I'd like to make sure that the content provided by my students is preserved at least so I guess I should investigate transferring it into my uni website. I'm keeping an eye on the integration of Radio Userland and Manila to see if that's the sensible way to 'copy' it over.

PS The next CAD assignment for my students involves the Pentium 4!

Must remember to make a note of the Logictran RTF Converter: Word/RTF to HTML/XML. Oh! I just did!! ;-)

By the time I get up tomorrow morning my Transmeta Crusoe Manila-hosted website will be one year old. Friday was a class assignment website and my students did a great job of fleshing it out. Seems a shame that it has basically lain fallow since they finished their assignments.

via The Register

Vulture-eyed reader Georg Klein has trawled the Internet and found not only a description of Project Ginger but also where you can buy it from.

Mind you some of the top hits from a Google Search: Project Ginger would reveal a similar sighting ;-)

From the Stanford Learning Lab - Speaking of Computers, Issue No. 55; January 8, 2001

Mobile Learning Explorations at the Stanford Learning Lab

Cell phones, Palm Pilots, wireless Web - they help us check email, trade stocks and stay in touch - but can they help us learn? Can we, should we, try to fill in gaps of daily time with learning opportunities?

FUD from Microsoft - MS Exec: Linux Is Going Down

Microsoft thinks Linux is doomed, and predicts that many Linux businesses will falter and fail before the end of the year.

I can't help but wonder whether or not the FUD is due to the fact that:

Lately, Microsoft has vacillated between dismissing Linux entirely and seeing it as a vast and looming threat on the competitive landscape.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a presentation given to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter earlier this month, said, "I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you're trying to take from them. So in some senses (that) puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list."

So my take on this is that Linux is seen as a threat within MS and a worthy enough competitor to rubbish.

Susan now has Gigs to Spare

Gigs to Spare ...just after midnight....Whew!! Surgery inside this powerbook is complete! The 20 GB drive replaced the 6GB (thanks to friend Liz, who had the right tools and had done similar surgery to her powerbook -- grrl geeks rock!).

Complete with photos of the process. Which reminds me I've been running with only 1 gig free from the 4GB drive on my PowerBook. I really should investigate upgrading to a larger hard drive. Either that or an Itanium PowerBook ;-) Hmmm!

A List Apart - Breaking out of the cubicle: The tale of one small Swiss company

Up until about 6 years ago, I was a typical cubicle worker in the advertising industry in New York. I had the nice title of creative director, a very decent salary and benefits, crazy working hours and little social life. I was far more intimate with my Mac than I was with my boyfriend.

Now it's 2001 and I am one of two people running a small company in the suburbs of Zürich, Switzerland. We are one of those independent dot-coms that is, knock on wood, doing fairly well despite the current gloomy news and our very small size.

Here is how we got to this point, which may be of interest to anyone who might be considering going independent too.

I have to say I was impressed with the engineering of their website - PRODOK Engineering, Switzerland: Smart Scripted Solutions. I hadn't realised until now how smart PDF can be. Their toolbox is impressive too ;-)

I'm currently downloading version 4.15 of Analog for Macintosh that was released today. It's been while since I last used Analog and I am curious to see what the logs for this site tell me. I might even find something worthy of Disturbing Search Requests ;-)