by cg on January 31, 2008
for gulker.com to come back, we realized, looking at the creation date for the domain (January 20, 1995) that we have just passed the 18th anniversary of www.gulker.com – we were live on a modem link and IP address before we registered the domain – ahh, the good old days.
Anyway, things we’ve been thinking about in the interim:
- DisplayLink – connects monitors to your PC (and soon, Mac) via USB and software
- Yuuguu – desktop sharing/remote conferencing software
- Fone2phone – moves data from your cell phone to a Mac, iPod or iPhone
- ‘Hackintosh’ – a $600 version of the quad-core Mac Pro cobbled together from PC parts
So stay tuned for reviews of the above. We’re also thinking, again, about a redesign…
by cg on January 30, 2008
Yes, yes, we are aware that gulker.com – email, web site et al. – has been screwed up for the last couple days. I renewed the domain for 5 years (as I recall) and with the turmoil of last year forgot it was due. My spam filter dumped all of Network Solutions (HTML) warning emails, and voila, expired domain.
The good news is a very helpful support person somewhere in India helped me renew, and reset the DNS at Network Solutions right away. The reason most people (including me) can’t get the site or are having weird email experiences is that their ISP’s DNS server is still caching the now-out-of-date ‘web site expired’ IP address. Hopefully this will all be worked out in 48 hours or so…
by cg on January 27, 2008
A New Scientist article suggests that time is an artifact of the macro-scale world. Two scientists have cooked up a version of quantum physics that doesn’t need or use time. Hmmmm….
by cg on January 27, 2008
33 things that make us crazy: Wired Mag’s lead article this month digs into why things like air travel, tomatoes, software support et al. just suck. One surprise entry: science. Science sucks because it reveals the limitations of humans. We’re best adapted to a ‘campfire culture.’ No grok quantum dualities…
by cg on January 26, 2008
A very cheery note in an otherwise sad week: John and Julie added this very cheery portrait of granddaughter Grace to the family album. I still think she’s the prettiest baby…
by cg on January 26, 2008
So, if you were in the parking lot of Sequoia Veterinary Hospital yesterday around 10, you might have noticed a 50-something male sitting in a Ford Escape Hybrid, bawling like a baby. That would have been me.
Cassie was such a good friend and family member that I couldn’t bear to think of her being put down alone. The vet let us spend 15 minutes together before she came in. I teared up, but managed to hold back until I got to the car. It was gloomy and raining, to boot. Goodbye to a really good dog…
by cg on January 25, 2008
We’re off to the vets to see our dear dog Cassie for the last time. She’s been failing in recent months, and took a sudden turn for the worse a couple days ago.
The hardest part of having a wonderful pet is always making the hard decisions at the end, and the better the dog, the harder the decision. Cassie’ vet is a sweet dog-loving person (she has an Aussie), and when she suggested it was time, it just confirmed what I already knew.
Still, it’s hard, for me anyway. She was a great dog, right to the end.
I know it’s the right thing to do, but it breaks my heart, nevertheless…
by cg on January 25, 2008
Apple is a ‘buy’, according to Fortune. At $140 or so, 30% off December’s high around $200, it seems a bargain to some. Last time there was a slowdown, Apple came up with the iPod…
by cg on January 24, 2008
The rain arrived just in time to ‘baptize’ our newly-delivered patio furniture. It’s made of teak, so rain should be OK, adding to its patina. If temperatures were to drop 5 degrees, we might be seeing snow instead of rain…
by cg on January 23, 2008
It rarely snows here, but one of the Bay Area’s tallest peaks, Mt. Diablo, has a healthy dusting of snow today, and the snow level was said to have fallen as low as 1000 feet.
In the past, a snow level of 1000 feet has meant snow on Windy Hill, a nearby geographic feature. That’s Cassie and me pictured in 1998 in a mini-blizzard atop Windy Hill. Snow, again, is a rare event in Silicon Valley.
Were I more mobile and less encumbered by the need for MRIs and doctor appointments, and were Cassie, sadly, not in the pet hospital, I think we would have headed up to Windy just to see if, perhaps, there might be snow.
Cassie, born and bred in California, nevertheless loves the snow – she will chase snowflakes, run, slide and roll in the white stuff… it’s hard for us both to be old and infirm…