DeWitt Clinton

If you have 10 minutes to spare, I can promise you a better browsing experience.
First, download Firefox. If you haven’t done so already, do it now — it will only take a few minutes. And even if you already have, now is a good time to get the latest version (1.0.2). Just click on the [...]

Over the years I’ve posted some of my photography here on unto.net. A few of the series, particularly the abstract ones were well received, and occasionally turn up around the net in interesting places.
This is all well and good, especially since I’ve licensed all of my work under the Creative Commons License, which allows for [...]

To be honest, I’m not even sure why I wrote this.
Last weekend I was playing around and noticed a link to the TinyURL.com site. You may have seen those URLs before — they provide a mapping of long URLs to short URLs and perform a redirection service. For example, the URL http://tinyurl.com/623ft redirects back to [...]

I’m not exactly obsessive when it comes to coffee. I mean, I didn’t rush out and buy the $2,000 Capresso Impressa S9 Espresso Machine. But I do like coffee and drink a fair bit of it, and know that you need a combination of good beans, good water, and good equipment to really enjoy it.
On [...]

Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/.
Some photographs from the neighborhood and a Sunday walk up Twin Peaks.
(Until I get my photogallery plug-in to output to the RSS feed, if you are reading this in a blogreader then you will need to view the original post to see the pictures.)

Within two days of launching OpenSearch, an open standard for syndicating search results, there have already been dozens of OpenSearch engines developed and published on A9.com. The OpenSearch coverage in the blogsphere has been amazing, and leading edge of technology adopters are embracing and innovating on top of the idea faster than I can keep [...]

We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content.
OpenSearch, at the very least, is a step in that direction. Today, at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, A9 introduced a new set of technologies to help syndicate search content.
OpenSearch is simple in concept — there are thousands of different [...]

We’re on our way down to San Diego for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. It should be a lot of fun, as we’ll be talking about…
Nah, I won’t say. Check back soon, though.
I probably won’t write too much about the event itself, as the theme is “Remix” and some of the best technology writers in [...]

I got my copy of The Disc from a friend at work.
I first heard about The Disc a year before, but I had resisted trying to score a copy. Not so much because I was afraid of being caught (as of yet, there hasn’t been any public acknowledgment by the industry about even the existence [...]

Yes, I am aware that some people call them CrackBerries. And now I know why.

For the past few months I had been planning to upgrade my three-year-old Samsung SPH-A500 mobile phone. As phones go, the Samsung was pretty reliable — it was no classic StarTac or TimePort — but it was a workhorse that survived [...]