We enjoyed visiting Coonawarra Valley in Australia, and tasted several fine wines. We sent home a case of Hollick. We particularly enjoyed the Wilgha Shiraz, but we also bought a couple bottles of the sparkling Merlot - more for the novelty, but it was a nice wine.
(05/02) The wines of Hollick, Australia
This is as good an intro to a VC's perspective on valuations as I've seen anywhere.
Some interesting tidbits on brainstorming research. Most interesting: "Group brainstorming, used day in and day out by countless business owners, really doesn't work that well, according to Paulus. You're almost always better off directing your employees to brainstorm individually."
Inc.com | A Perfect Brainstorm
Table 1: Current 802.11 Working Groups at the IEEE
| 802.11 Specification letter suffix | What it does |
| e | Adds quality of service features, multimedia support |
| f | Defining how access points interact |
| g | Ups data transfer rates on 2.4GHz band to 54 Mbit/s |
| h | Adding dynamic frequency selection to 802.11a to comply with European regulations |
| i | Security upgrade |
| j | A version of 802.11a for Japan that will run on the authorized 4.9GHz-5GHz frequencies |
| k | Defines radio and network information to allow the better management of wireless LANs, will also enable new applications like location-based services |
| l | Not being used, because it looks confusing |
| m | Maintenance, this working group will go back and correct any errors in previous ammendents to the specification |
| n | Not official yet but likely to be the designation of a high-throughput variant of the standard. |
| o | Not being used, because it looks confusing |
Unstrung - The world wide source for analysis of the global wireless economy
Another interesting application of Wi-Fi - for your car.
Bluetooth, Wi-fi expected on 25 million vehicles within 5 years
I'm looking into the convergence of voice wireless (cellular) and 802.11, trying to figure out of there are any opportunities out there. Here's a good introductory article.
RED HERRING | The Business of Technology
This is a pretty dense but interesting article filled with the possibilities of a world-wide sensor web. Last week I got a tour of the Intel research lab in Berkeley and saw some more cool stuff like this. Amazing to wonder what life wil be like in 20-50 years...
GEO World - Sept 2003 - The Smart Sensor Web: A Revolutionary Leap in Earth Observation
Someone in my office asked how this worked. Below is my answer.
This works because any number minus an anagram of it is guaranteed to be a multiple of 9 (4321-3214=1107=123*9). So, if you tell me all but one digit of the result (e.g. 107), I can deduce the missing one by adding up the digits mod 9 and subtracting from 9 (9-8=1). I’ve always loved number theory.