Allright, allright, I’m getting too fascinated by these tiny computer things, but I was reminded of these guys gumstix.com – all things small. Cute thing: it includes a 400 Mhz processor, a Bluetooth module and an MMC slot for flash. For $214. Neat!
This is mostly just a test designed to try out Flickr’s Post-To-Blog functionality. Still, it’s a nice picture of my lovely wife munching Dim Sum at the King of Kings in Oakland. I’m not the biggest Dim Sum fan, but this place is among the better I’ve visited.
And of course, my wife is spectacular! Everyone congratulate her on starting her new job today!
CNN is running a story about students’ lack of knowledge about the First Amendment that is getting quite a bit of blog space. Short excerpts:
Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
Of course the really tragic thing is that most adults don’t understand our basic freedoms either.
Garmen just released a new product: the GPS 10, a simple Bluetooth GPS that you can use with your PDA or laptop. A great idea, except that the price is $267. C’mon. You can get a GPS with a nice display for about $100: why so much for the stripped down model without a display? At least Apple had the sense to make the iPod shuffle cheap…
Those guys over at PVRblog are on top of everything TiVo, and today that includes news that they’ve released TiVo’s Home Media Engine. You can get the developer code at sourceforge, and they are apparently going to run a contest for the best applications that can run on the TiVo.
What’s it all about?
You can now code simple games, audio applications, video applications, and utilities in Java that will run on your computer and communicate with any TiVo with the backdoor enabled on your network (you can share your code with others if they want to run the apps too)
Cool! May give me incentive to actually learn Java finally. 
