DEMOletter Weekly Edition, July 5, 2005

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
July 5, 2005
Volume 10, Number 25

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INSIDE DEMOLETTER THIS WEEK
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DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM TECHNOLOGY (SORT OF)
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Last night, as I watched my brothers set off marginally legal
fireworks, I was feeling a little guilty. I hadn't checked e-
mail since Sunday morning, and my mobile phone was powered off
most of the weekend. Here it was, Fourth of July weekend, the
mid-summer respite, and I felt anything but independent of my
technologies.

Ignoring e-mail for 36 hours - even over a holiday weekend -
comes with a penalty of sorting through an over-loaded inbox,
sometimes with multiple messages from the same person expressing
personal pique that I'm not responding. Leaving my mobile phone
behind while spending a day among family risks alienating
someone outside that circle.

At about the time my brothers and I were humming a very bad
rendition of the 1812 Overture and watching the last of our
sparklers fade, I felt pretty grumpy about technology. All this
stuff that is supposed to make our lives easier just seems to
complicate matters. I decided that this week's column would be a
Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of technology.

Besides being a cheap device to deride bad user interfaces,
leaky security, unreliable operating environments and every
species of low-life spammer or phisher, it would be, I thought,
an opportunity to put technology in perspective.

Read more at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009393.html

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KEITH SHAW'S END NOTES: COUNTING 500 MILLION SONGS
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* Apple wants to give away 10 iPods to the person who downloads
the 500 millionth song from iTunes.

* Gadget of the week: Electrovaya's new Scribbler 3000 is a
very lightweight Tablet PC.

* Trojan worm found that attacks Symbian smart phones within an
hour of being downloaded.

Read all of this week's End Notes at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009392.html

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WEATHER REPORT
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* DEMO alumni win heaps of awards.

* Nsite offers free service for SMBs looking to automate
business processes.

* Apps for phones offers SMS, Basic language support for its
rapid application development tool.

The complete Weather Report archive is located at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/weather_report.html

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DEMOletter Weekly Edition is written by Chris Shipley
<mailto:chris@cshipley.com and Keith Shaw
<mailto:keithshaw@nww.com>.

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