Protest

If you really want to protest this war, sell your car.

CeBIT March 12-19 2003

I read about this year's CeBIT on Boston.com. Exhibitors at this show display their latest cool techno-gadgets. 6,500 attended. Check out the pictures. Here are the highlights:

• Hewlett-Packard PSC1210 - $186 combined printer-scanner-copier
  
• Intel Centrino chip - wireless-ready chip for portable computers
  
• Sony Ericsson T610 - camera cell phone
  
• Nokia 3300 phone - Europe $320 includes MP3 & FM radio. Successor to 5510 music phone that was larger to fit a keyboard. Nokia also released 6650 3G phone.
  
• Sony Z1 Vaio notebook
  
• Parrot DriveBlue handsfree cell phone adapter for cars $187 - uses voice recognition and Bluetooth
  
• Pearl - transparent, lighted computer housing for $187
  
• Casio EXILIM - size of a credit card, 3.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom
  
• Philips and ViewSonic Smart Displays - wireless monitors
  
• Casio EQ-G2000 electronic dictionary - 2.6 million words, or 3 large dictionaries
  

The benefits of version tracking

Notice at the bottom of line 115 how the phrase "The Microsoft desktop monopoly" has been cleaned up by generalizing in the new version. Now it reads "Control of the desktop by a single platform..."