Went to get the morning paper just now …. and it’s a crisp, cool October morning. The stars are awesome — and so are the satellites. That’s why you need to check out Heavens-Above.com — a web site that lets you know when various satellites, the International Space Station or the Hubble Telescope are floating overhead. You can see them with the naked eye. It’s easy enough to use — just specify where you are, and it will let you know what’s going overhead and when — and where to look.
“The curse of the information age …..
…. is information.” Great line from a novel I was reading last night.
I’ll keynote the American Federation of Teachers conference
Just in … I’ll keynote their annual I/T conference this December, examining a number of leading edge trends … in Washington, DC
“THIS IS A TREND AND COMPANY TO WATCH”
My Vonage IP phone arrived today. I simply plugged it into my home network — waited two minutes — and can now make calls using a regular telephone handset anywhere that travels through the Internet. The quality is excellent — and I am blown away by how easy it was to set up. THIS IS A TREND AND COMPANY TO WATCH, and it should leave telephone companies running scared.
You can call me at 718-576-1980 — Normal business hours only! Then think that your call has been routed from your phone, to Vonage …. who then send it to me through the Internet. It comes into my house via my cable modem and into a little box plugged into an ethernet connection beside my desk — and from there, into a regular, traditional phone.
I’m blown away.
HP ScanJet 5500c issue appears resolved
And based on this, I’d highly recommend the product to anyone.
Early indications are that the patch HP sent me yesterday for my ScanJet 5500cproblems resolves the issue.
I haven’t been terribly diplomatic in the way I approached this issue as you can see by my Weblog postings. On the other hand, I believe that if a product is released, it should work as described. The problem I encountered made the machine somewhat unusable.
Yet this fix — and it appears to have solved the problem so far though I’ll hold my breath — will make me an enthusiastic, raving supporter of the HP 5500C. If you are considering buying one, and have stumbled across my Weblog entries as a result of your search, my advice is this — buy this machine. It’s good, it works, and there is none other like it. Just make sure you get the right software patch once HP releases it generally.
I currently have 9,000 digital photos on a home server; using the scanner, I’ll digitize over 10,000 more. The photos are played throughout the home as a screensaver, and/or slideshow using ThumbsPlus. It makes for a fascinating way to revisit your memory….
Hats off to HP for responding diligently to seeing this through and responding.
But the key thing is, they shouldn’t have released this product with this easily identifiable problem in the first place. The industry really needs to pull up its socks.
Easing the digital divide…
I’ll be addressing the annual meeting of Computers for Schools Ontario tomorrow. This is an organization that helps to find new life for retired corporate computers within the school system — a very admirable and laudable project.
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