Tretakoff Musings
Friday, May 14, 2004
  This makes me proud to be a Marin resident: 270 cows generating electricity for farm. A new day has dawned. ;-) 
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
  Not entirely an irresponsible press, but...

It seems to me that, as a reporter, it's your job to get the facts straight; everything else is secondary. But the folks at Computerworld, in this article:
Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth - Computerworld don't seem to have gotten the message. After reading that fixes were available from Bluetooth.org, i serached for half an hour in vain...only to find nothing. The response from Bluetooth.org's PR:

Dear Josh,

Thank you for your interest, but the reporter did not get that quote exactly right – patches WILL BE available in the summer timeframe.

Sincerely,

Sarah Talbi
Marketing Coordinator
Bluetooth SIG


So, I'll keep my Bluetooth secure until then... 
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
  Remember when the web was cool? It is again: there's a free service to take all the RSS formats out there and translate them to standard RSS! FeedBurner - The spark for syndication success actually does what it says, and does it O so cool! As a result, the RSS feed for Treakoff.com is now accessible to ALL readers, including those in Trillian! 
Thursday, May 06, 2004
  I have seen the future...and it is WORSE than Minority Report!:

Marketing "Wiz" Develops Urinal Advertising
If you're a marketer who is trying to capture a male audience is a way no one else has, urine luck. A company has developed an interactive urinal display designed to capture the attention of men when nature calls.
Wizmark's newly patented device has a promotional ad message contained inside an angled 3.5" lenticular waterproof display, as well as flashing lights that are activated either by either someone's physical presence or by urination onto the screen.

When activated, the screen also emits a pre-recorded audible message of up to 16 seconds duration, said Richard Deutsch, who invented the interactive plastic deodorizing unit for Wizmark, Islip, NY.

Deutsch said the unit is going to be marketed for use in bars, restaurants, hotels, stadiums, race tracks, movies theaters, airports and train stations for either commercial or public-service messages. He added the unit is ideal for anti-smoking, anti-drug or anti-drunk driving messages.  
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