Garth Gillespie

Wu-hoo! Verizon, who has been a major opponent of forthcoming cell-phone number portability, has announced it will no longer be opposing the November implementation.

The USB Forum renames USB 1.1 to USB 2.0.

My loathing of Netscape 4.x increases daily. It is the only browser that requires extensive backward-compatible HTML code changes in order to render pages correctly. Microsoft has pretty successfully upgraded most users away from the IE 4.x branch, yet there are a couple percentage points of any site that still hang on to [...]

Consumers scored a rare victory last Friday (6 June 2003) as the “US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the legality of a pending regulation from the Federal Communications Commission, known in the cell phone industry as ‘local number portability.’” Local number portability, to be implemented 24 November 2003, will [...]

I recently upgraded my main Win2k box to WinXP. When XP first arrived I figured I would stay with Win2k until Longhorn shipped. After all, Win2k and WinXP share essentially the same NT 5 engine, and Win2k is fairly stable and reliable and does not lack in support from vendors. Yet, I [...]

It would seem that Comcast will start to offer HDTV to about half their Bay Area customers within the next week. I guess my calls weren’t in vain. They plan to offer local ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO and Showtime. They are in negotiations with the local CBS affiliate, and I would expect [...]

B2 is now WordPress and development on this blog software continues. The upgrade/transition was painless and the Smarty Template Engine is on the way. Huzzah!