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Saturday was busy; Sunday was pleasantly quiet. Either way it wasn't a talkative web weekend for me. I woke up at 4:45 AM on Saturday for some network maintenance at work, which went very well indeed; I went to bed around midnight, after the Ring of Honor show. Lotta video games in between. Sunday I just slept and caught up on movies and watched wrestling. You know how it is. (I feel a little like I should belch around here.)

Raiders beat the Patriots last night. The Pats managed to score 20 points with no offensive touchdowns. Tom Brady had best be using this year as a learning experience; he gets a free pass for a year for winning a Super Bowl but god help him if he doesn't improve next year. The Bledsoe trade may wind up driving Belichick out of New England yet.

Greg Beato takes the time to analyze Glenn Reynolds' readership claims. My. I'm going to have to visit his weblog more often; he does a better job of skewering Professor Reynolds than I do.

Speaking of which, a friend on LJ asked me why I read this stuff, referring to the rants of Mischa and others. My answer may be found there, but boils down to "I think it's important that someone goes out and points out the inconsistencies, the hatred, and the poor logic. Criticisms must exist, and they must be discoverable."

The subway gas scare in London may have been unjustified. London police are saying that there's no evidence the three men arrested were planning on gassing the Tube, and they did not actually possess any gas. The terrorist materials for which they were arrested were false ID papers.

Winter has come to Boston. I am glad of the winter jacket I bought last week.

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I'm not really a huge Bob Woodward fan, but Bush at War looks kind of interesting based on this piece. I can't say I find Bush's attitude to be inherently distasteful, but I am interested in his management style.

"I do not need to explain why I say things. -- That's the interesting thing about being the President. -- Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

Woodward's got an agenda, even if it's only "I want to be the guy who reveals shocking things," but still. Interesting stuff. It's not often you get a good view into what a President is thinking, and for whatever reason, Bush seems to have opened up to Woodward.

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This is much closer to what I want than Microsoft's Tablet PC. Not quite there, cause I still want the keyboard, but pretty close. There's nothing really aweinspiring about the technology; it's just X Windows for Microsoft. Still pretty sexy.

There's actually no reason Apple couldn't do something like this for the Mac, although they'd need to provide remote display capabilities in Aqua. Still, why not? PDF might be a little heavyweight for transmission over WiFi, I suppose.

The real "digital hub" revolution comes when WiFi gets built into the television, DVD player, and so on. However, free-roaming lightweight devices that leave the computing power in various hubs are an important part of that. The DVR talks to the central processor, which runs the portable display, and so on. Gotta be small, gotta be light.

Thinking more on roaming devices, what might be useful is some sort of standard database discovery protocol. You want to be able to tell roaming devices in your vicinity what sort of information you've got, and allow them to do queries based on that. Perhaps you do need some intelligence in the device after all.

Would that intelligence be appropriate for home use? Sure; a lot of what you want to do/know with the DVD and the DVR and so on are lookups anyhow. You probably need a discovery process for procedures you can run, as well. The real trick is the higher level UI stuff, that knits it all together into a coherent whole.

"Borders Hub is offering the database Books in Store with the description 'Books available in the store.' Subscribe?" Tabs, maybe, to flip between databases. Some standard query interface stuff.