Why Google is cool, Part 1241
Do a google search for a FedEx tracking number, and Google figures out that this is what it is and sends you directly to Fedex. Cool. Technorati Tags: fedex
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April 2006
Fun movie and TV fonts
This just proves that you can get just about anything on the web. Here’s a site that provides custom font sets immitating the type face used in a whole bunch of TV Shows and Movies. Amusing. Technorati Tags: funny
Great “State of the Blogosphere” Post from Dave Sifry
Dave Sifry, of Technorati, periodically reports interesting statistics about how the world of blogging is growing and changing. He’s in a unique position to do this, because Technorati is one of the leading crawlers and indexers of the blogosphere, so Dave has g...
Read more →Blogging is “essential” to a good career
Boy, blogs sure are hot, aren’t they? I’ve been noticing the New York Times regularly quoting bloggers as legitimate sources side by side with witnesses, experts, politicians. And now the [Boston Globe has a bit](http://bostonworks.boston.com/news/articles/2006/04/16/blogs_essential_to_a_good_ca...
Read more →Cool map of undersea cables
This is just a really cool map. > “The vast bulk of international telephone and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables. This map shows the cables that were in use as of the end of 2004 and gives an indication of where traffic is heaviest.” (from [News.Com](http://news.com.com/2300-1...
Read more →Agenda for OPML Camp coming together
Adam’s been busy moving the plans for OPML Camp forward. Looks like it’s going to be interesting! If you haven’t checked it out yet, you might consider taking a look at the site. And actually, this is pretty cool: the proposed agenda is actually represented as an OPML link, displayed in the right margin using Grazr a nice, embedable OPML “widget” Technorati Tags: OPML, opmlcamp
BostonPHP Meeting: Thursday May 4, 2006 – Check it out!
I met Mark Mark Withington at the last Geek Dinner. He runs the Boston PHP Group. They meet every month. This month’s meeting is about the ZEND Framework. Looks interesting. If...
Read more →An easy target…. funny
So, what happened to Alfred E. Newman? 
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Booting MS Windows on Intel Macs: Interesting bit of analysis
To be honest, hardly followed the pages and pages of blog analysis of Apple’s recent release of “Boot Camp” a utility allowing users to boot WIndows XP on Macintosh Intel-based computers. Didn’t seem like that big a deal to me. Today in the Ne...
Read more →Amazing pictures of an old Russian Submarine Base
Check out some really amazing pictures of a decommissioned Russian Submarine base, in Ukraine. It has been turned into a free museum. Interesting pictures, and the photography itself is excellent.Thanks Aleksey! Technorati Tags: amazing
My Strange Nation? Check out Susan Werner
One of my favorite singer songwriters, Susan Werner, somehow has gotten herself into ...
Come to OPML Camp: May 20-21, 2006, Boston, USA!
There is a lot of stuff going on with OPML these days. OPML stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, invented and evangelized by Dave Winer some number of years ago. Since then though, at least from my observat...
Read more →Mac users: is this new?
Apple just shipped 10.4.6, the latest revision to the OS X. This may be old, but I never noticed that the blue Spotlight menu icon in the top right of the screen has a little pulsing dot in the middle of the magnifying glass, presumably to tell me that it was busy indexing stuff, presumably explaining why my computer is running a little hard right now. Is it a new little touch or has it **always been there? ** Technorati Tags: osx
Do you like meaningless coincidences?
On Wednesday of next week, At two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06. ** That won’t happen again until 3006 (you may not be around to see it)…
“It was beauty killed the beast”
King Kong in 30 seconds.Funny. Technorati Tags: funny
“We make it up in volume”
There’s a new meme floating around, “Freemium“, a cute/clever word for a kind of business model. Giving it away free. Say what? You may know that I am associated with a software product which is ...
Read more →March 2006
RSS Alley Geek Dinner II – A great time was had by all!
Last night’s event was a lot of fun. A ton of energy in the room, people huddling around comparing notes, even doing some demos. The place was nice and loud (good) and packed (also good!) Thanks again to the co-organizers, Bela Labovitch, [Adam Green](...
Read more →Amazing(ly unpleasant) story about a car
My friend Francois posts a horrifying real-life story about him and his Mercedes Benz. It makes a compelling read, kind of like watching a train wreck is compelling. > “My fin...
Read more →[GEEK] Interesting OS X article
Ever wonder how Mac’s OS X program launch and execution works? No? Hmm. Anyway, here’s a fascinating article telling you more than you ever thought you wanted to know! > “As you can see, executing a process in OS X is a complex affair, and I have tried to cover as much as is necessary for a useful debugging session.” (from “How OS X Executes Applications”) 🙂 Technorati Tags: osx
Open Source: the space between Corporation and Commune?
In The Economist, there’s an interesting overview of Open Source, what it is, strengths, weaknesses, and what’s in store for it. It introduces the catchy metaphor (or is it simile) “… occupying the space between a Corporation and...
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