tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51202422012-04-16T00:12:01.108-04:00Nathaniel's thoughts on a variety of topics.Nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821434495109877751noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120242.post-1113101076097982702005-04-09T22:44:00.000-04:002005-04-09T22:44:36.096-04:00

Dear "Now" reader, you have surely noticed that there have been no new entries in this blog since December 30. Life is so rich! For now, I will maintain this extended hiatus, but I encourage you to read the blog of Joel Orr, whose interests parallel mine closely.

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I have 5 Gmail invitations that I will give to the first five commenters on this post. If you want one, just comment here.

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Yet another good reason for a tablet, in this too, too paper-based world…and congratulations on the twins, Charlie!

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As a multi-blogger, I have long sought – an been often disappointed with – little apps that purport to allow you to blog to different blogs from anywhere. Until now, I haven’t found one that worked consistently, let me use different blogging services, had a decent WYSWYG editor, and did a good job with pictures. This one even lets you insert voice, changes fonts and colors, and includes a

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The quiet of a Christmas weekend has given me some time to fiddle a bit more with MindModel. It has some strikingly powerful qualities, and I still feel as if I have not by any means plumbed its depths.Basically, it’s a place for storing any kind of information – although it is oriented more toward field-based than free-form. The company/author (he communicates very personally in the “help” files

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Watch the movieof this application; it is an amzing creation of 3D shapes within a customized version of Windows Journal! And you can download it and play with it yourself! I think this portends some wonderful tablet apps.

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I just discovered MindModel. These folks seem to have captured the essence of what people think they mean when referring to "relational databases," and put it--mostly--in a form that is truly accessible to almost any knowledge worker. Relational databases are incredibly powerful tools. Most people who use the term don't really understand the underlying concepts; they relate to the general

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My new HP tc1100 just took its first business trip with me. The results are even better than I had hoped. HP TC1100 First of all, I was able to use it on a coach tray table. And not only in flat "slate" mode, but even with its keyboard. The unusual HP design positions the slate just at the back edge of the keys, making a stable platform--and incidentally creating a spatial envelope that sits

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Ramon Williamson is collecting questions for a new e-book on Tablet PCs, Tablet PC Secrets. Send him one or more; if he uses one of your questions, you'll get a free copy of the e-book.

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One of my favorite techie "stars" is David Gelernter (also here). Among his many accomplishments (besides having been a survivor of a Unabomber attack!), David has researched and written about the notion of Lifestreams, a time-ordered stream of documents that contains all your electronic "stuff." He founded a company to produce a software product to manifest this approach (Scopeware Vision); it

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I'd like to put forth a thesis, and I would love to have it challenged: Tablet PCs are the ideal computing platform for engineering and architectural professionals. Here's why I think so: Contrary to popular impressions, most of these professionals do not spend more than 20% of their time in compute-intensive apps such as CAD or CAE, but rather in a variety of other pursuits; At the top of

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