Jay Talbot’s Ramblings

Here’s an article (with pic) about how the London Aquarium now has a robotic fish. How frickin’ cool is that? They say it moves and behaves in much the same way a biological fish does. The uses go well beyond what they list. I can see this technology also being helpful to handicapped (robotic hands that move and act like hands maybe). What’s better, we’ve all heard about the old tails of the armed forces using dolphins as weapons. How about bring it back, but using a robo-dolphins instead?

Maybe more later….

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Ok, Todd Cochrane not only has a podcast through Geek News Central, but he also put out a book on podcasting, which is what I bought. I’ve been following this podcast for the last few episodes and I am impressed. He’s part of the TechPodcasts.com. I’ll warn you now, all of the podcasts at TechPodcasts.com are heavily spotted with sponsor adds, but there’s some good information coming out of them, so I highly recommend them anyway.

There are podcasts on just about anything. I even found a little podcast about winemaking. My preferred directory is Podcast.net, but there are a few others.

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People are often highly misguided in claims, especially when they have no bases in reality. The Author’s Guild has taken it upon their selves to sue Google for “plain and brazen violation of copyright law.” Wow! Those are pretty strong words for a baseless accusation. First off, none of the works mentioned in their press release are on Google Print. Secondly, they usually have a “Provided by:” link on each page of the book.

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WOOT! It’s about frickin’ time! Speculation about this has been going on for the last couple of years. It’s gone from the “what if” stage to the “it’s here now” stage. That’s right! Google has become quite the “cool free stuff” company. They have put out their own IM/VoIP client and service. On top of that, you can also use any Jabber enabled IM client out there, but the Google client is simple and useful. Of course, you need to have a Gmail account to get it to work. If you don’t have one, send me a some feedback with your name and the email address you want me to send the invite to.

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According to this article, Linus Torvalds, a hero of mine, has commissioned something rather evil and unwitting. He commissioned the LINUX MARK INSTITUTE to over see defending the Linux trademark. I could be wrong, but if I were to start up and non-profit distro based on the famous kernel, do ya think I could really afford any money towards a licensing of a name? I’d start a free distribution. If there’s no money coming in, how can there be much more than operating expenses going out? It would make me think twice about using in my trademark. Maybe CentOS has it right when they left off the Linux mark from the name. Maybe it’s safer now. I just wonder what’s going to happen when Linux is no longer a “buzzword” because of this money grubbing attempt at “defending the Linux mark.”

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