Monthly Archives: April 2004

Blogging from MS Outlook?

I’m trying out a new method of posting to the blog. It’s a little set of plug-ins for MS Outlook which function both as an RSS news aggregator as well as a blog posting front end. Throw in a cool plug-in to show what music I’m listening to while I post, remove the hassle of [...]

Can I save you 1.2175 hours per year?

(Inspired by Levi’s blog entry.) Using a new shoe-lacing and a new shoe tying technique, I’ve been able to save three seconds every time I put on my shoes or take them off!! Okay, it sounds lame, but let’s do the math… On average I put on and take off my shoes twice per day, [...]

The future of audio and video, and how we should proceed

I’ve written about Voice over IP (VoIP) before… it’s great… but it has some technological hurdles if it is to become mainstream… or even notably improve… Firstly, the phone is much easier to use than a computer based VoIP solution. Pick it up, dial a number, and you’re connected (maybe just to voicemail, but connected [...]