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2000

Adventures In Housing

4 min read

Whoo, boy. I just got housed! I hope to share with you some of the joy of finding a house in Silicon Valley here. =...

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Censored.

3 min read

I found out from an anonymous email account that my website is being censored / blocked by the University of Central Florida, i.e., students at UCF can no longer read my site. I just sent the following letter to the UCF student government in response...

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Client as Server: A New Model

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A new model is emerging from the Internet. It represents the culmination of years of incremental evolution in the structure of the network and the clients that feed upon it. It is based upon the same principles upon which the Internet was founded. It...

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Why XML Will Fail

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There has been a fair amount of hype surrounding XML, or the eXtensible Markup Language, over the past year and the hype is slowly but surely growing. I decided it would be a prudent thing to think about, and chewed it over. I came to the following c...

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Why SDMI Will Fail

5 min read

Hounded by open formats like MP3 that encourage free copying of music, record companies have been praying for an escape: a high-quality, secure digital audio format that could be sold to consumers everywhere online and without a risk of piracy. Unsat...

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The Need For Next-Generation Email

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Email is, arguably the killer app of the Internet. It was what launched it and still is one of its primary uses. When surveying current email systems in place, it occurs to me that an upgrade is in order....

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Three Days of mIRC

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While spending a weekend at Hopkins Marine Station1, where my girlfriend2 is studying this quarter it's a bit of a drive3!, I was introduced to Rurouni Kenshin4, an incredible anime series. The weird part was that we didn't watch the episod...

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Sexiest Geek Alive

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Okay, I'm dying over here. Just for fun a month ago, I saw a posting on a contest for the "Sexiest Geek Alive." Giggling, I went to their page1 and filled out an application2. I laughed and didn't think about it again....

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1999

The Multicast User

5 min read

A very sleek, hip, and powerful word. Multicast technology, about a decade old, enables a computer to "broadcast" a single stream over a network and have the network copy the stream as required. So for instance, if I was broadcasting a conc...

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The Psychology of Online Music

8 min read

A lot of people out there are quite juiced up about online music. MP3.com just IPOed at a market valuation of well over a billion dollars, Liquid Audio shot out of the gate for just short of $100m, Spinner and Nullsoft were acquired by America Online...

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Alex Blok: The Original Music Man

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Two years ago, before the days of the Rio or even Saehan's MP-Man, a tall, somewhat balding British man came by my dorm room to talk with me about digital audio. He explained to me his plans for a flash-memory based portable music player and sho...

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MP3 Summit Two: 1999

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So much has changed and so much is the same since last year's MP3 Summit1. The first and most noticeable difference is the sheer quantity of people attending this year's MP3 Summit. There were probably something on the order of 500 folks at...

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On Effective Leadership

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Successful leaders will have to undergo the change from perceiving themselves as managers to perceiving themselves as facilitators. It was best put to me by an executive who said that he hopes that this summer he can serve his interns coffee. This ch...

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1998