eBay UK is auctioning off "2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to". As per the description: "I've been invited to the wedding of a mate of mine who I used to know really well until he started going out with the girl he's going to marry. She's a dog. No really. I haven't seen them since I...
I am not a motorcycle enthusiast, but that does not prevent me from enthusiastically sharing this nugget. BMW has announced the System V helmet, a motorcycle helmet with built in Bluetooth functionality. The helmet has two microphones (in the forehead area, oddly enough), a digital signal processor...
MAXBloggers aggregated lots of MAX related feeds last year, and it is back in business for MAX 2004 at http://www.maxbloggers.com/. If you will be blogging from MAX in New Orleans, be sure to add your feed. And if you will not be there with in person, be sure to monitor MAXBloggers so you can be...
Macromedia Flex 1.5 has been announced. See the Flex page at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/ for links to the press release and to sign up to be notified when Flex 1.5 is available. To learn about what is new in Flex 1.5, watch the Breezo at...
The city of Munich generated excitement when it announced plans to convert 14,000 municipal desktops from Windows to Linux. Those plans have since been delayed due to legal issues, but many saw this as a start of a trend. And so when Paris, France, announced that it too was looking at converting...
Not familiar with the OQO? You should be, here is a blurb from the website at http://www.oqo.com/: "The OQO model 01 ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-functional Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated...
If you are headed to MAX in New Orleans (you are, right?) then you'll want to print out session handouts and notes ahead of time, and bring them with you. To do so, go to http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/register/, and click on the "Log in now" link.
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in French by Campus Press / Pearson Education. Information on this book, and a link to the new French edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at...
Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School's online publication of business insight and commentary, recently spoke to Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess and CFO Betsey Nelson in Macromedia's San Francisco headquarters to explore where the company sees its opportunities and threats. The interview is now online...
China Mobile and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have launched a mobile phone banking SMS service across China. China Mobile customers can send a SMS message to 777795588 to obtain bank account information detailing fund transfers, donations, and expenditures. Blurb at...