Monthly Archives: March 2003

Moteran

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 9, 2003
Moteran Systems is a German Company that invented a way to route WLAN traffic within a dynamic auto-configuring net of WLAN clients. With this technology each client functions as a relay for clients that are out of reach of the base station. To circumvent privacy issues the traffic is two-way encrypted.
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vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, meta-model

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 6, 2003
Woody Pidcock from Boeing gives an overview: »What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? Many organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify.«
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Jon Udell takes an interesting look at Spring

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 6, 2003
»Jon Udell takes an interesting look at User Creations’ application Spring.« [Mac Net Journal]
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AppleScript online language reference?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 5, 2003
Does anybody know a good online language reference for AppleScript? Im mean something like DocServer from UserLand? I wanted to write a very simple AppleScript – and I completly failed. I found a lot of examples – none of which really helped much. For instance: How can I encode a string into base64 in AppleScript? [...]
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The New R&D: Relevant & Desirable

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 5, 2003
»Somewhere in the process of evangelizing user-centered design, user experience professionals seem to have forgotten the value of vision-driven design.«
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Gallery of Data Visualization

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 5, 2003
»The best and worst of statistical graphics.«
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Seminar weblogs and students weblogs

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
James Farmer sketches his concept for weblogs in education: each member of a project runs his own weblog and he/she will contribute to a group weblog.
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How the Students View Weblogs

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
Anne Davis: »Yesterday I asked the students to write their thoughts about their news weblogs. They wrote sooooooo well. What they wrote speaks for itself.«
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U.S. not interested in peace?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
Clearly even if you are promoting a US strike against Iraq, there should be one thing to consider: If the U.S. strikes without formal permission of the UN and without recognizing Iraqs effort to apply to the resolution 1441 – how will U.S. ever be able to solve any future conflict peacefully? If there is [...]
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Tablet PCs?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
I wonder if these tablet PCs that Microsoft wants to promote are really going to work out. I doubt you can use them with a pen very well for writing. And if you need a keyboard most of the time anyway – why not buying a Laptop right away? (The biggest problem of course is [...]
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2003 And Beyond – Technology trends that will affect business

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
»This article is a guide to trends that are already in full motion and well known by technology specialists, but are far from obvious to most business managers. I can’t tell you what to do about them, without studying your particular business, but it will cast some light on what you should be looking at.Much [...]
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Flash managable Tree Browser

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 4, 2003
This seems to be a very promising example of an editable outline in Flash. Does this thing read OPML? You can even move the headings around with the mouse.
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hierarchyTemplates Plug-In 0.5 beta 2

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 3, 2003
Fixed a bug with »newsSite table not found« in context of static rendering. Thanks to Erin Clerico from weblogger.com for pointing that out.
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Apache Ant 1.5.1

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 2, 2003
»Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool, similar to make, but without Make’s wrinkles. It is required to build many Jakarta projects, and also to build Java support for PostgreSQL and other software distributions.«
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U.S. Diplomat’s Letter of Resignation

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 2, 2003
John Brady Kiesling’s letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell: »We should ask ourselves why we have failed to persuade more of the world that a war with Iraq is necessary.«
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Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

By Oliver Wrede | Published: March 2, 2003
»Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members. [...] Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.« [blogdex] Read that secret document.
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