Jeremey's Weblog

Apple Store Fifth Avenue

Apple has opened its new Fifth Avenue store which will never close (it's open 24/7/365). They have a very cool time-lapse of the line outside for the first few hours of its being open. Check it out.

The Mobility Blog

I started a blog about mobility, VoIP, etc. The URL is http://mobilog.wordpress.com/ and the RSS feed is http://mobilog.wordpress.com/feed/. I'm liking Wordpress alot, too.

Schneier on Privacy

If we're doing nothing wrong, why should we care about privacy? That's the subject of Bruce Schneier's latest Wired column.

Cabbie Becomes Tech Industry Pundit

This is classic. A cab driver that was waiting for a fare gets whisked into the studio and interviewed as a tech expert (Guy Kewney) about the Apple vs. Apple case. Watch the video, it's priceless.

Gizmo + Zfone

In light of all the "security" being implemented by the current administration, we ought to all grab Gizmo and Zfone and use them whenever possible. Gizmo is an IM-like VoIP (i.e. real VoIP using SIP, RTP, etc.) client and Zfone is Phil Zimmerman's (think PGP) contribution to VoIP security. It embeds strong crypto in the RTP stream directly, bypassing any filters or blocking at higher layers.

Gizmo: http://www.gizmoproject.com/

Zfone: http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html

More NSA Domestic Spying

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/nsa_creating_ma.html

Sigh. Yay Qwest.

Oh, Coffee... My Precious

Alas, it's been a while since I posted. However, I've been trying new coffees, particularly those from Intelligentsia. Very good coffees. They sell a wide array of rated coffees (rated on a points scale much like wines) and they don't roast them into the ground. I'm not against a dark roast (dark brown or black beans with oil on the surface), in fact I quite like good coffee roasted that way, but it's definitely about the roast, and not so much the particulars of the bean. I'd say Intelligentsia's roast is more of a full city, darkish brown, without the surface oil. I definitely experience more of the bean characteristics with these coffees than I do with, say, Peet's, though Peet's Major Dickason's blend is definitely one of my favorites.

So far I've tried the New Guinea and the Fazenda Vista Alegre Brazil Natural Dry. I really like them both, the New Guinea is bright and grapefruity and the Fazenda is smooth, rich, and chocolaty (I'm drinking it as I write this).