David P. Reed is discussing some fundemental questions about the process of dividing up the radio spectrum to provide "non-interference" between electromagnetic devices.

As is often the case, this great quote applies simultanously to technology and human behavior:

And the basic question of the limits on "spectrum capacity", as a scientific question, is slowly developing answers - surprising ones. It turns out that network cooperation increases capacity.

Tom Negrino at Backup Brain, to whom I think I have never linked, has some great tidbits about the iPod from Macworld: "We're nowhere near maxing out the power of the iPod's hardware."

On another topic, Dori says "The answer seems to be in Apple support document #14449, [...] No direct link from here, unfortunately, because [...] WebObjects sucks."

Dave writes: "AaronLand is updating. Bravo! I added him to the rotation for my WeblogsComHelper app so his updates will show up on the weblogs.com home page."

Nick Denton links to a Spanish new site with some awesome information graphics on the goings-on in Afghanistan. Flash. Excellent information design.

David spots a great bumper sticker:

"Avoid meddling in affairs of dragons
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Some of my readers may not know this is a clever send-up of a famous quote from J. R. R. Tolkien's classic "Fellowship Of The Ring": "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Dave says: "Work without coffee? My brain says no."

Matt Goyer says he could not work for U-Haul without going psycho...

Ev has an R.E.M. moment. Exhuming McCarthy

Another set to add to my reading list: Count of Monte Cristo (original by Dumas), and the 5 SF tomes David mentions here.

"Jim" Roepcke, my current WebObjects mentor and all-around great guy, is bragging about the blog he built in an hour with WebObjects. We won't mention who put him up to it...

At Macworld SF, Steve Jobs layed out Apple's vision for itself and the future of the Macintosh. In a 15 minute section of his keynote, he described the digital lifestyle, where our Macs become "Digital Hubs" that route information and media between the new generation of digital devices that are becoming more and more commonplace.

#item1413"='href"http://jim.roepcke.com/2000/12/03None#item1413"' 12="" 2000="" href"http:="" jim.roepcke.com="">Jim points out that Radio Userland, once promised to be a free distribution, will actually have a moderate price once officially released.

"Jim" announces OutlineXplorer, an in-development outliner for Mac OS X.

As seen on Brian Carnell's home page, I've added Labels to my weblog entries. You can click the label to see all messages with that label, making it easy to see all my weblog postings about XML, Mac OS X, or Software Engineering, for example.

Jim Roepcke's got his copy of Mac OS X, too, and posted his first message from the Uber-OS.