Monday, October 16, 2000

NFL Week #7 Final -- 11:50 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Eeyore and I had our best week ever as we both ended up 11-3 in this week's NFL picks. Year to date, I'm now 64-36 and Eeyore is 47-38. I've been a rather sterling 21-7 over the past two weeks--I hope it keeps up!

High-Speed Internet -- 5:42 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I've been testing this new high-speed Internet access (128K both ways). I must say it is rather nice. I just played a bit of Unreal Tournament and discovered that my modem seems to have been a bigger barrier to my online playing than my video card is. That does present a problem: I can no longer use modem retrains, etc., as an excuse! Now it's just sheer lack of skillz.

New Visors -- 11:17 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Handspring has officially announced two new additions to their Visor line of PalmOS-based PDAs. They include the Prism with 16-bit color, and the Platinum which is basically a turbo-charged Visor Deluxe (it's 50% faster). The Handspring website is being hammered right now, but you can see the Prism on VisorCentral. According to Handspring, both models are shipping now.

I must confess that the Prism looks pretty cool. Handspring claims to get six hours of runtime with their Lithium Ion battery. Pretty impressive for a color model. Still, I don't think I'll be trading in my Deluxe any time soon. The Prism's $449 sticker price is a little rich for my blood.

Sunday, October 15, 2000

Pondering the Imponderable -- 9:35 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Looks like Eeyore and I will tie in this week's NFL picks. We have the same picks for the last two games and have identical 9-3 records going into them. We split the two games we differed on. I've a good feeling we'll be 11-3 by Monday night!

OpenAL Explained -- 7:17 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The O'Reilly network has a series of articles on OpenAL, the open-source 3D audio library started by Creative Labs and Loki Software. I hope OpenAL has the impact on 3D audio that OpenGL had on graphics. Of course, with Aureal out of the picture, Creative is in a great position to make it a reality. Thanks Linux Today.

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