Kathryn Cramer is raising her kids right .

Some friends came down from Bellingham and stopped by last night. The purpose of their trip was to go to a coffee 'cupping' at the home of another friend of theirs (and acquaintance of mine). And then today they are attending the Seattle Coffee Fest. All very Pacific Northwest, don't you know...

The Open Mobile Alliance has been plugging away for several years now, generating documents describing the architecture and standards for wireless applications for small devices (WAP). Thousands of man hours that are mostly going to waste because, well, WAP is dead just as soon as the next generation of cell-phone/PDA hybrids becomes the standard and there is no longer a reason not to use good old

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!! Shit, schist, caca, merde!!!

Sorry about the language there, but I am really pissed off right now. Partly at myself, I should have backed everything up before I started. I know that. But mostly I am pissed at Microsoft...

Anita is home and today is feeling well enough to answer email and post to her weblog. Still no word on the biopsy results, but I will take my rays of sunshine where I can get them. And today we have sunshine, after several straight days of rain. Including yesterday, which broke records. For Seattle. For rain in Seattle...

1001 Fonts has easily more than an thousand and one fonts available, well categorized, rated and searchable. The site UI is well-designed (except the front page) and makes it easy to select the fonts you want. Most of the fonts available for download are freeware and the license terms are described for each font.

Useful as hell when you want that special font. But cool to just browse on a rainy day as well...

I just got home after 28 hours at the hospital with Anita. A friend is staying with her for a few hours whilst I catch a quick shower and head back.

The surgery went fine. The oncologist/surgeon performed a full hysterectomy and the tumors were evaluated by a pathologist who determined that they were malignant; however there was no sign of spread. The cancer seemed very localized and the oncologist is currently staging it as a 1b or 1c.

This is a hard entry for me. There are some bad things happening for my wife and myself right now; have been for more than a week in fact. I have held off on posting about them because, well, it has been more Anita's problem than my own and she should decide when and how much to say.

Thanks to Dan Sanderson at Brainlog for this link to Stanford University's "How Everyday Things Are Made".

Zack Lynch thinks businesses will soon realize they can achieve advantage in the marketplace by maximizing the performance of their most essential assets: The minds of their employees.

Duke University scientists have succeeded in an experiment where monkeys controlled a robot 'third arm' with their own brains. "The core of the new work is the neuronal model created by the researchers. This translates the brain signals from the monkey into movements of the robot arm. It was developed by monitoring normal brain and muscle activity as the monkey moved its own arms."

Leaving today for V-Con a medium sized SF convention in Vancouver Canada. Will post next when I can...

Ready to upload your mind into a computer? Perhaps just thinking it might be a cool idea? The Mind Uploading Home Page is dedicated to the possiblity of doing just that.

Via Kathryn Cramer.

Glenn Reynolds has an interview with writer Neal Stephenson.

Apparently HP is offering $25,000 to corporate users that switch from Sun to HP Linux systems. Also here. It seems HP is taking advantage of the rumors Sun is on the rocks and are positioning themselves as the Microsoft alternative. Quoting an HP spokesman: "What we're doing is extending a lifeline to customers who are saying, 'Do I h