Entries from September 2002

let your agent make you rich! The Agentcities pro…

Friday, September 27th, 2002

let your agent make you rich! The Agentcities project is running an agent technology competition. Win up to ?3000 in one of two categories, Infrastructure and Applications. There is also a special prize for publicly accessible aegtns deployed on the agentcities network.

highly-rated bad spelling I’m currently number 2 …

Friday, September 27th, 2002

highly-rated bad spelling I’m currently number 2 on Google for anyone who can’t spell asteroid. Being number 2 is good but I wish it wasn’t for my bad spelling .

first 3G phone As always, infosync has the pictur…

Friday, September 27th, 2002

first 3G phone As always, infosync has the pictures on the new Nokia 3G phone. It kinda looks like my 6310 GPRS phone.

lego men build a PC I should have left these guys…

Thursday, September 26th, 2002

lego men build a PC I should have left these guys build my PC

what it means to do research I was in my local bo…

Wednesday, September 25th, 2002

what it means to do research I was in my local bookshop today looking for something which might help me with my current work. There were no books on using JXTA on J2ME (only standard JXTA), no books on using embedded Java processors like the JStamp/JStik, no books on implementing FIPA specifications, no books on [...]

What’s all the fuss? Some people seem to be getti…

Tuesday, September 17th, 2002

What’s all the fuss? Some people seem to be getting very upset with the evolution of RSS. It’s an interesting and useful technology but the sort of abuse Dave is getting is unbelievable. Do people have nothing else to worry about? What about the psycho in the White House? Our environment decaying around us? No, [...]

Hot or not? Jerry Pournelle tells you why you’d w…

Tuesday, September 17th, 2002

Hot or not? Jerry Pournelle tells you why you’d want a tablet PC, The Register tells you why you don’t.

wired "Everybody around him thought young Larry w…

Friday, September 13th, 2002

wired “Everybody around him thought young Larry would one day be President. (That was when a correlation existing between the White House and intelligence)” – Wired, Oct 2002 Certainly I believe Larry Lessig would be better than the current resident of the Oval office. Its quite scary that the appointment of a president in the [...]

a moments silence…

Wednesday, September 11th, 2002

a moments silence…

State-of-the-Art in Agent Systems The EU network …

Tuesday, September 10th, 2002

State-of-the-Art in Agent Systems The EU network AgentLink have released a draft review of the current state in Agent technology. This is a valuable resource for those new to the field, those trying to introduce others (i.e., their colleagues & managers!) or simply for the rest of us to see how broad the software base [...]