December 31, 2006

Project: Automated offsite backups for an NSLU2 - part 1

http://www.gilesthomas.com/?p=5 I finally got a slug and ought to do this soon
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

I Am An Atheist

http://www.iamanatheist.com/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38718 "High-energy physics is a complex and demanding field, and even top scientists drop a decimal point or two every now and then," Bush said. Hahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Linux Incompatibility List

http://www.leenooks.com/ interesting.. I remember when the compatibility list was easier to maintain. this is great.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

NASA World Wind

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ "World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

MIRAVI - Meris Image Rapid Visualization

http://miravi.eo.esa.int/en/ "MIRAVI is a data-driven system for real time image rendering and quality analysis of satellite data. It has been designed and developed by Chelys."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Air Traffic Airspace Management Office FTP info

http://www.faa.gov/ats/ata/ata100/120/ftp.html how to get FTP access to some FAA data sources
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Zaon MRX PCAS

http://www.zaonflight.com/mrx.html An excellent Portable Collision Avoidance System that's good on batteries, features, and price.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

California Aviation Alliance List Archives

http://archives.californiaaviation.org/ "The List Archive currently contains posts to the CAA lists since May 15, 1999."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Google Ends Year On Sour Note

http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2006/12/31/google-ends-year-on-sour-note/ "Google is as high as an internet company can get, and it is hard to go anywhere but down from here." It's very hard to stay on top. I don't wish a downfall on anyone at Google. It can be painful. But it's also inevitable.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

How to use OpenID (a screencast)

http://simonwillison.net/2006/openid-screencast/ "OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action." Simon does a good job of showing off OpenID.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

How to turn your blog in to an OpenID

http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid/ it works on any site, really. And it's a whopping two lines of HTML.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Photoshop your way into their hearts

http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/archives/2006/12/27/photoshop-your-way-into-their-hearts/ one of many ways to tweak colors in your photos
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

The Catbox - Cat litter box cabinet

http://www.catlitterfurniture.com/site/356568/page/61710 a piece of furniture that doubles as litterbox... brilliant!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

December 30, 2006

gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/ the excellent GM scripts now live on google code
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Hungry For a Month

http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/ "For the month of November, I’m only spending $30 on food." An interesting read.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

No, I Will Not Write Code For You!

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=791 heh. I get crap like that a lot too. It's really kind of sad.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

LED's for beginners

http://www.instructables.com/id/E9NFEFO2ZGEV2Z9QKZ/?ALLSTEPS ever wanted to play with LEDs? Here's your chance.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 29, 2006

vLite - Windows Vista configuration tool

http://www.vlite.net/ "the tool for easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Google’s gone evil.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2006/12/29/googles-gone-evil/ "Trust is easily lost, Google. Tread lightly."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

soaringchillies.com :: the hot soaring community

http://www.soaringchillies.com/ check out their calendar :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

FlightStats Mobile

http://mobile.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/ looks like a well done service
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Emergency Landing Without Gear Video

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/345693/emergency_landing_without_gear/ an exceptionally well executed gear-up landing in a twin
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Is desktop search over?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/12/is-desktop-search-over.html apparently it is now that Vista is out
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Yahoo! Answers Captures 96% of Q and A Market Share

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/12/yahoo_answers_captures_96_of_q.html "for the week ending 12/23/06, the market share of visits to Yahoo! Answers was 47X greater than the share of visits to its nearest competitor, Answerbag..." holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

the problem with competitor-oriented objectives--they don't work

http://freshelectrons.typepad.com/freshelectrons/2006/12/the_problem_wit.html yup
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 28, 2006

100 things we didn't know last year

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last.shtml there's some funny sutff on this list
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

The Wal-Mart Prank

http://www.zug.com/pranks/walmart/ oh, what a fantastic little tale of revenge. I love these.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

activeCollab

http://www.activecollab.com/ "activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

AirPower

http://wiki.jeffsandquist.com/default.aspx/AirPower/AirPower%20Home.html "This wiki is dedicated to helping you find power while travelling at airports around the globe. We also have a Flickr group to share photos..."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Nanny Hunt Can Be a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Blacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/us/26nannies.html?ex=1324789200&en=39807a571757caeb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Black nanies don't want to work for black families. I guess that's racist, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

using tcmalloc in mysql

http://dammit.lt/2006/12/06/google-perftools-tcmalloc-squid/ "MySQL exactly fits the definition, so just by using simple drop-in replacement you may achieve increased performance over standard libc implementations."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Folder Size for Windows Explorer

http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ adds folder sizes to windows explorer, which Microsoft should have built in from day #1
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Canon Rebel XTi Review

http://philip.greenspun.com/photography/canon/rebel-xti a good write-up from philg
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

In Praise of Third Place

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061204ta_talk_surowiecki "The point is that business is not a sporting event. Victory for one company doesn’t mean defeat for everyone else."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 AM

The Perfect Human

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html "Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. He'll race in 120-degree heat. 12 secrets to his success."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 AM

December 27, 2006

instructables : Kat Litter Cake -- Gifts Impossible to Re-Gift

http://www.instructables.com/id/E5CT2EY3C6EVYDUD4C/?ALLSTEPS I am SO going to make this! Seriously. That is awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Oh Dear Lord! BEEEES!

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1845064&page=1 hahaha... kill bees with fire. lots of fire!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Why Yahoo’s Panama Project Is Important

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/26/why-yahoos-panama-project-is-important/ some stuff that's mostly been said already
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but i've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.

http://xkcd.com/c202.html hahahaa
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Restaurant Lets You Decide How Much To Pay

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1572805,00.html interesting idea...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

2007: The End Of The Page View

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/12/2007_the_end_of.html "But it doesn't even stop there. Web pages themselves are changing, moving from pages controlled by publishers to pages controlled by users."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt this is why we all love microsoft, right?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

December 23, 2006

Why JSON isn’t just for JavaScript

http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/20/json/ "The sweet spot for JSON is serializing simple data structures for transfer between programming languages."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Interview with Search Engineer Tim Converse

http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/interview-with-tim-converse-on-leaving-yahoo/ an exit interview of sorts...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Weather Bonk

http://www.weatherbonk.com/ "Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map" Cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Explaining Steve Gillmor

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/23.html "Nobody I know can understand a thing Steve Gillmor is talking about, mainly because he makes so many obscure references without explaining them." So funny, so true!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Page view metrics? Bah, humbug!

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/page-view-metrics-bah-humbug/ "At SES San Jose recently, I asked a metrics company about how they count AJAX and the metrics person got a deer-in-the-headlights look on their face." I continue to be impressed with how unprepared metrics companies are.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Power Your Search Apps with Yahoo! Search APIs

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000393.html Google yanked their API, so use ours. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

December 22, 2006

Leaving Yahoo!

http://timconverse.com/blog/index.php?/archives/207_Leaving_Yahoo!.html "I'll be leaving Yahoo! Search at the end of the month, and going to a small startup." Good Luck, Tim!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:32 AM

Goodbye, Google SOAP search API

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/googleSearchAPI.html "Man, you leave a company and no one remembers to tell you things."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:32 AM

Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/fashion/weddings/17FIELDBOX.html?ex=1324011600&en=177d7653fb0b85d7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss #7 is "Will there be a television in the bedroom?" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:31 AM

WP: 10 friends live secondhand for a year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16259064/from/RS.4/ "These people haven't bought anything new in 352 days -- and counting. These 10 friends vowed last year not to purchase a single new thing in 2006..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:31 AM

F-35A Makes First Flight

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/F35FL12156.xml&source=rss "The first production Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II flew Dec. 15, initiating a six-year, 12,000-hour flight test program involving 15-20 airplanes."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:31 AM

Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007

http://www.internetfinancialnews.com/financialblogtalk/news/ifn-6-20061219WhyMicrosoftWillAquireYahooIn2007.html There's some amusing reasoning going on in this one...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:31 AM

Google's true search market share is 70%

http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/googles_true_search_market_sha.html "Everybody involved in the search industry and everyone who actually runs a website knows these numbers are completely wrong."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:31 AM

How to Turn Off Yahoo! Instant Messenger Updates

http://kentbrewster.com/how-to-turn-off-yahoo-instant-messenger-updates I wish we didn't have to tell people how to make our software suck less. I really do.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:30 AM

Overweight man sues Air France over seat row

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/od_nm/france_obese_flight_dc "An overweight passenger has sued Air France after being told he was too fat and had to pay for a second seat to accommodate his bulk." Hahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:30 AM

do not taunt happy fun JSON

http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/12/20/do-not-taunt-happy-fun-json "Happy Fun JSON is not a bold declaration of side-taking in the grand war of web service specifications."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:30 AM

Google search market share versus search referral share

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/12/googles_true_ma.html "Search referrals are different than number of searches performed." I'm glad someone bothered to point that out.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:30 AM

JSON Shirt

http://kalsey.com/2006/12/json_shirt/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:30 AM

GOOGLE: Enough already

http://www.valleywag.com/tech/google/enough-already-223288.php "the people of Google never run out of ways to rub it in our faces that their jobs are better than ours." heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:29 AM

Soma (Brave New World)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World) he should have called it "television"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:29 AM

December 18, 2006

Hey Bloggers, PayPerPost is Illegal

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/hey-bloggers-payperpost-is-illegal/ 'We are at the crossroad of determining what is and isn’t acceptable behaviour on the “social” Internet.'
Posted by jzawodn at 10:10 AM

Yahoo Blog Panama Post Features A Sea Of Ads

http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2006/12/14/yahoo-blog-panama-post-features-a-sea-of-ads/ "It looks like Yahoo has taken the crown as the most ad-bloated search engine, and despite that, they can’t monetize their traffic well."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:09 AM

Measuring Influence - Now It Gets Tricky

http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2006/12/measuring_influ.html the whole premise of this article is stupid
Posted by jzawodn at 10:09 AM

Homemade instant oatmeal

http://www.instructables.com/id/EIBAIKHI2VEV2ZFXGP/?ALLSTEPS a very simple instructable that I might put to use
Posted by jzawodn at 10:09 AM

"WPF/E" Downloads

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187452.aspx microsoft's flash killer...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:09 AM

A Guide to Grading Exams

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html "The key to this method is a good toss. Without a good toss, it is difficult to get a good spread for the grading curve. It is also important to get the toss correct on the first try." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:08 AM

Watch this before installing Yahoo Messenger update

http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6144280.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "there have been reports of the update doing such things as changing the home page and adding the Yahoo Toolbar automatically" ugh!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:08 AM

Evangelism is exhausting

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2006/12/18/evangelism-is-exhausting/ indeed... indeed.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:08 AM

TipThePlanet

http://www.tiptheplanet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page "a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet - From tips for individuals about staying happy and healthy to tips for multi-national companies to limit their carbon footprints, with accompanyin
Posted by jzawodn at 10:08 AM

December 14, 2006

AJAX Affects Page Views

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/ajax_affects_pa.html 'How do you calculate the "top site" if the value of page views is constantly changing?'
Posted by jzawodn at 03:02 PM

reddit stored passwords in clear, then they got stolen!

http://reddit.com/info/usqe/comments WTF?! They never hashed passwords?!?! Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Drawing Tools now available in Google Earth

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/03/drawing-tools-now-available-in-google-earth/ "This newly added feature adds path and polygon drawing tools to easily draw and pinpoint areas, for easier communication. Time animation has also been added to the newest Google Earth Version 4 Beta." Very cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Drawing Paths and Polygons - Google Earth User Guide

http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_drawing.html "You can draw free-form paths and polygons in the 3D viewer and save them in your My Places folder just as you would a placemark."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

RAM CAMERA MOUNTS

http://www.ram-mount.com/camera_mount/camera_mounts.htm "RAM Camera Mounts hold video and still cameras securely."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

How can I get financial market information updated automatically to my spreadsheets?

http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=54198 finance functions available in gogole spreadsheets
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Google Data APIs (Beta) Developer's Guide - Using the Google Spreadsheets Data API

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/spreadsheets.html 'The Google Spreadsheets data API allows client applications to view and update Spreadsheets content in the form of a Google data API ("GData") feeds. Your client application can request a list of a user's spreadsheets, edit or delete content in an existi
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The MyBlogLog Blog: MySpace and WordPress happenings

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/myspace_and_wor.html this very well may fuel mybloglog growth quite a bit
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Drawing Paths and Polygons - Google Earth User Guide

http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_drawing.html "You can draw free-form paths and polygons in the 3D viewer and save them in your My Places folder just as you would a placemark."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

RAM CAMERA MOUNTS

http://www.ram-mount.com/camera_mount/camera_mounts.htm "RAM Camera Mounts hold video and still cameras securely."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

How can I get financial market information updated automatically to my spreadsheets?

http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=54198 finance functions available in gogole spreadsheets
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

An anti-challenge-response Xmas linkfest

http://taint.org/2006/12/14/130136a.html "As all right-thinking people know by now, Challenge-response spam filtering is broken and abusive, since it simply shifts the work of filtering spam out of your email, onto innocent third-parties"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Firefox and more: find that song

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/12/find_that_song.html "I went over to Parallels and fired up IE, installed the ActiveX control, recorded myself humming a few bars of the theme from Sesame Street, pressed the Search button and IE crashed." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

MySpace Passes Yahoo In Page Views But Not Audience

http://searchengineland.com/061213-093649.php we all saw this coming, right?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Persistent site-specific preferences

http://labs.mozilla.com/2006/12/persistent-site-specific-preferences/ very cool stuff cooking in the mozilla labs
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Video: Lars Knoll and George Staikos on KHTML and WebKit

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/12/11/knoll-staikos-video/ "On Friday, Lars Knoll and George Staikos from the KHTML project visited Yahoo! to give a talk on the history of KHTML and Konqueror and the connection between those projects and Apple’s open-source WebKit"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

World's tallest man saves dolphin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6178659.stm "The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards." Weird!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Ho ho ho! Flickr Gifts and Upload Limit Changes

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/12/ho_ho_ho_flickr.html yay! happy giftmas from flickr
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

The Accidental Entrepreneur

http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/182_The_Accidental_Entrepreneur.html "the whole entrepreneur thing is sort of a wild series of unlikely coincidences leading up to a totally unpredictable result which could still go horribly askew."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Why YHOO Will Outperform GOOG in 2007

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/12/13/why_yhoo_will_o.html "Yahoo's monetization is about to improve (to some degree) because of Panama"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 AM

December 13, 2006

Bloggers meet Mr. Bill (Gates)

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BD18F3BC9-F59E-4DB4-B978-D4651079E274%7D&dist=rss yes, I met Bill Gates today
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Meeting Bill Gates Today

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/12/meeting_bill_ga.html we had a great day at MSFT today... I should write something about it when I catch up
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Bill Gates meets the bloggers

http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6143537.html "The goal of the gathering, the softies say, is to get ideas and feedback as the company plans for its second Mix conference, which takes place April 30-May 2 in Las Vegas."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

December 12, 2006

Le Web and Dave Winer

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=320 "The solution to every problem is not Dave Winer."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

What if they had a major release of a software platform and no one noticed?

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/java6.html Nelson wonders why Java 6 is getting no attention. I could make a guess at that... :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sevenhabits hahahaah... sooo true!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 11, 2006

How Matt Haughey Beat Google

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/12/11/how_matt_haughe Anil compares the workings of Ask MetaFilter to Google Answers
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

To All Yahoo-Hosted WordPress Bloggers...

http://billy-girlardo.com/Yahoo/2006/12/11/to-all-the-yahoo-hosted-wordpress-bloggers/ "If you’re wondering why Yahoo won’t update their WordPress software, I just received the skinny in a reply email."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

YHOO Form 8K: Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and Exhibits

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/061208/yhoo8-k.html I believe the phrase "golden parachute" is what I'm looking for...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

December 10, 2006

Google Advertises Firefox on Homepage

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_advertises_firefox.php interesting... very interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

CM Aviation Services

http://www.cmaviationservices.com/ they do aircraft seatbelt refurbs
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Yogurt Kitteh Before and After

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/12/rebecca_f_recei.html heh. gotta love cute overload
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Yahoo! Photos Really Sucks

http://regex.info/blog/2006-12-10/306 *sigh* I complained about #3 long ago but nobody seemed to care. :-(
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

HowTo: Pick Up Bitches On The Facebook

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/12/9/221741/314 heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Installation - Automatix Wiki

http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation useful for adding stuff to ubuntu
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

December 09, 2006

Hack day matures

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/12/08/122/hack-day-matures/ "Hack day is really part of the process at Yahoo! now. It’s so effective that it’s getting hard to imagine how the company unlocked smart, innovative and actionable ideas without it."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

December 08, 2006

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6161691.stm?lsm "The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/12/08.html#a1574 Congrats to Jon Udell on his new job!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 07, 2006

Data can be funny

http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000946.html indeed
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

December 06, 2006

Valley's 'Mr. Web 2.0' seeks next big thing

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/06/MNGQFMQAMD1.DTL Arrington goes on vacation, journalist writes about it. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Precious - Ruby, Gems and AWS

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/11/precious_items_.html good ruby, rails, and aws stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Fixing Movable Type's non-permanent permalinks

http://www.cynicalnation.com/2006/02/fixing_movable_types_nonperman.html very useful... and hard to believe that MT *still* doesn't handle this natively. WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

A Few Thoughts on Technology Evangelism

http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2006/12/a_few_thoughts_on_te.html "How much of their credibility comes from the companies they work for versus the quality of their writing, speaking, technical expertise, and massive personal networks?"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Google's talent may be headed out the door

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/05/commentary/pluggedin.obrien.google.fortune/index.htm "There are dozens of trophy hires and incredibly smart, entrepreneurial minds buried inside Google who are fast-becoming frustrated with their inability to accomplish anything."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Why We Worry About The Things We Shouldn't...And Ignore The Things We Should

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1562978,00.html a good story about how dumb people are when it comes to risk and probabilities
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

CSS Source Ordered 1-3 Columned Page Maker

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/pie-maker/pagemaker_form.php neat toy
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Avi2Dvd

http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html "Avi2Dvd is an All In One tool in order to convert with just few clicks an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd." That looks handy...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

December 05, 2006

SftpDrive: The SFTP Network File System for Windows

http://www.sftpdrive.com/ "Map your SSH server as a Windows network drive with SftpDrive." I know people who could use this...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Rumor: Yahoo executive powwow after market closes

http://news.com.com/2061-11516_3-6141029.html?tag=nefd.top news trucks are at the main campus... something strange is afoot at the Circle Y
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

Natali post pictures of herself...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/04/google-somewhat-frugal-at-holiday-press-party/ and geeks drool in comments. Suddenly TechCrunch becomes Valleywag. WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

December 04, 2006

Study say marijuana no gateway drug

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/study-say-marijuana-no-gateway-drug-12116.html "Marijuana is not a “gateway” drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

This was a very difficult Thanksgiving

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2191192 because he met his half sister and recognized her as a porn star! hahahahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

Consultant

http://koutuk.blogspot.com/2006/12/consultant.html "A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Laying Odds on Semel's Successor for the Corner Cube at Yahoo!

http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/11/laying-odds-on-semels-successor-for.html there are some pretty stupid suggestions on this list... can you find them?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Yup, Yahoo! TV Sucks

http://lonesysadmin.net/2006/12/04/yup-yahoo-tv-sucks/ "In this case it’s pretty obvious that the goals of the redesign did not mesh well with the goals of the users as they visited the site."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

December 03, 2006

The Best Divorce Letter. Ever.

http://208.116.9.205/10/graphics/pics/pictures_best_divorce.jpg heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Engineering Management Hacks

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/engineering_man.html "I've heard lots of ridiculous ideas about why Google has been able to recruit so many great people, and anyone who thinks it has to do with use of logical puzzles in interviews is out of their freakin' mind."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About

http://www.milmillington.com/ that's a lot of stuff to argue about!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Richard Simmons' Exploding Steamer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SCJLlSf21Y&eurl= now THAT'S entertainment! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Telstar Logistics Company Store

http://www.cafepress.com/telstarlogistic "Real Store for Fake Company Gear!" Heh. I just love this meme.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

December 02, 2006

Enhanced Graphics Settings for Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/enhanced_graphics_se.html how to make your google earth images easier on the eyes
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ Including the Movie Physics Rating System
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

YouTube - Save Google Answers (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4E5btrmqyA this is rather amusing on several levels...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

December 01, 2006

Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war

http://summation.typepad.com/summation/2006/11/why_big_high_te.html I calll bullshit on this... more later.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM