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March 2005 - Posts

• Dave Shea on Mobile Lock-in

  Too many wireless providers in the U.S. rely on their customers' ignorance regarding technology, the competition, and what choices are available to them in order to stay in business. Last year's Number Portability rule, which finally allowed customers Read More... Posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:15 PM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Mobile

• RSS Bandit v1.3.0.26 Delivers

  RSS Bandit v1.3.0.26 is out and, for the first time, it has earned a permanent place on my PC. I've had problems with ever release of RSS Bandit so far. The first few wouldn't run at all and the last few just lacked the features I've become reliant on. Read More... Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 11:35 PM by sjh | 5 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference

• Someone is Trying to Trademark the Word "Podcast"

  According to this post on the Trademark Blog , someone filed a trademark application in February for the word "Podcast". Although I know that the word has so much prior usage that no half-decent person would apply for such a thing or would ever get any Read More... Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:38 PM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• John Edwards to Begin Podcasting

  John Edwards will post the first (of hopefully many) podcasts next week . This could be good. [via the RSS Weblog ] Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 9:33 PM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Why We Need Web Standards

  Robert Scoble and Dave Winer recently brought up the subject of Rich Text Editing in browsers as an example of features they'd rather have than W3C standards support. Robert also threw the usual kitchen sink arguments (meaning he brought up anything he Read More... Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:49 PM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• We're Number 90!

  Charlotte ranks No. 90 among the nation's cities for high technology, according to a new study by Popular Science magazine. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:06 PM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Bank Of America Shows Why I Am Not Their Customer

  BofA had over a million(!!!) credit card numbers lost to thieves. Not internet thieves but those retro real-world theives. This happened in December, apparently, and BofA is doing as little as possible to make things better, according to some people who Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:01 PM by sjh | 6 Comments Filed under: General