Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, TNL.net recently experienced a major crash. As a result, I had to rethink a lot of things and took the time of looking into what tools I was using. Well, it’s been about 5 years since I started writing my own blog software and I decided that this little piece of [...]
What is interesting here is that a lot of the trends we will see over the next few years are about blurring distinctions between online and offline world. I used to joke around that I lived online and went to the real world just for power sources but, as a new generation that considers online [...]
But so far, my whole focus in this series of articles has been on technology. However, technology itself is undergoing a radical shift, and I would venture to say that we are now entering a new era of cybernetics. Tim O’reilly, in his description of Web 2.0 said that The central principle behind the success of the [...]
Today, internet technology is largely seen as centering around the concept of websites and a few applications that are network aware. However, when combined with Moore’s law, which dictates that processor roughly double in speed every 24 months, and its economic corollary, which means that the price of processor will drop along similar lines, the [...]
Google returns 0 results for this at the time I’m writing this entry. The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, [...]
Readers of this site know that I’m a proponent of living an always connected lifestyle. My previous views on the subjects looked to applications that lived partly on the edge of the network and partly off it, a class of applications I called Hybrid Computing. As broadband access to the net becomes more prevalent, those [...]
With TNL.net down for most of the last month, I’ve been lax in creating new entries. However, being away gave me some perspective and I think that the forest is now becoming clearer. In this entry, I reflect on trends that will affect us over the next decade. Core Components One of my favorite quotes about the [...]
It’s the kind of thing you thought would never happen: a crash. About 3 weeks ago, TNL.net started acting erratically due to the large volume the box was getting. I figured that it would be time for an upgrade soon but didn’t realize that what the box was telling me was that it was very [...]
I had to check the date on the article when I saw the announcement that Microsoft was going to provide some level of support for Linux. However, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke; it’s the real thing and has serious implications. In order to understand the impact, one has to understand how Microsoft used [...]
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