DC Connector Standards

Skimming this 1998 article on in-seat power standards for airplanes will give you some understanding for why marketing types should never be allowed to make engineering decisions. The article points out the absurdity of specifying […]

GeoReferencing, Pete’s Way

I have been intrigued for quite a while by all the GeoReferencing of Web sites and blog entries that has been going on for a while, but have not managed to get my site listed […]

Mobile Web Mess

I’ve configured the MIME types needed to serve pages to WAP-enabled cell-phone browsers, and started experimenting with creating mobile content for the first time. Oh, boy is this frustrating. Not only are the capabilities of […]