Old bits, I know… But I just don’t read “Spaceflight Now Magazine” as much as I used to… http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0008/10mirsurvivor/ -Ian. ——- TV show ‘Survivor’ plans future series around Mir MIRCORP...
Like the Commodore Amiga and the BETA VCR, another case study in the ability for inferior technology to triumph through shrewd business strategy, the Dreamcast system, is now toast. Borrowing a page from the Microsoft employee handbook, SONY has effectively FUDed...
BIV just asked me to write an article about my experiences on the RollerCoaster. I think this might be more than they were looking for.. Escape From Silicon Valley As I stared up from under the sweat-soaked crown of my badly scarred goalie mask I saw the opposing line...
Much as individual web sites such as “amihotornot.com” suffer from their success do to their inability to meet demand, so the web in general is having difficulty meeting the scaling requirements of its own popularity. If you believe this (and I do) then...
Ironically coincident to the present growing power crises in California and Alberta, Vancouver BC had its own nasty power failure this week, thanks to a blown switch somewhere in Burnaby (uh… Dad?). Some of us don’t necessarily want the insolvency of the...
I just saw a house I used to live in @ West 2nd & Collingwood in Vancouver used as a set in the opening to a movie called “Run” while flipping channels. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102818 Wacky. -Ian....
It’s finally done. -Ian. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010111/ts/media_timewarner_dc_5.html Thursday January 11 10:17 PM ET AOL Acquires Time Warner After FCC Approval By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet giant America Online Inc. on...
I almost missed this one. L&H makes THE speech recognition tools used by everybody from TellMe to BeVocal to AT&T. They were poised to benefit from the emergence of the Voice Web better than most. Apparently they blew it. More articles below.. —–...
I really need to get a life if I find this sort of stuff interesting. Tamiya took the targeting and kill confirmation systems that NATO uses in their ground warfare exercises and made it smaller. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s bullet-free carnage....
Bill Gates unveiled the XBOX at CES this past week. There is an interesting technical comparison between it and the other nextgen gaming platforms on the XBOX web site. http://www.xbox.com/xbox/flash/specs.asp This release would have been a minor event if SONY had...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
