January 31, 2007

Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/02/windows-vista-upgrade-decision-flowchart.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

What’s Your Homepage?

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/01/31/whats-your-homepage/ I have a homepage on my own domain, thankyouverymuch. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Is Grad School a Financial Miistake?

http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/102328/is_grad_school_a_financial_mistake in many cases it is
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Wow!

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/01/wow.html "Just because a marketer says something is amazing, exciting or just plain wow doesn't mean it is."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 30, 2007

Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-slowdowns-and-problems/ Don provides some thoughts on their S3 experience so far. No real surprises, but a good read.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The Seminal Web 2.0 Service

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/01/the_seminal_web.html "I've learned more about how to create a great web service from using Flickr than any other service. By a long shot."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/01/windows-vista-launch-san-francisco.html "I attended a Windows Vista launch event in San Francisco and was surprised to find not a single person in line to buy the software less than an hour before launch."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Frozen snake found near Great Miami River

http://www.journal-news.com/p/content/gen/sharedoh/photos_galleries/news/local/012907mjboa.html now that's messed up
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000543.html an interesting argument against the idea that you become a great programmer mainly thru experience
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Microsoft's Long, Slow Slide Into Web Irrelevance

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/01/microsofts_long.html "I argued a year ago that the web war was over and Microsoft lost. This seems even clearer with every passing day."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 29, 2007

Yahoo Growing Slightly Faster Than Google?

http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/01/29/yahoo-growing-slightly-faster-than-google/ "Yahoo gained a higher percentage over the previous year than Google did."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Invisible Book Shelf

http://www.instructables.com/id/EOFOYM0RBUEXCFH30A a cool hack on instructables
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Borat and Martha Stewart on The Tonight Show [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVohkpMqC0 now that's television
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Unhappy Meals (New York Times Magazine)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ex=1327640400&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss While "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." is Michael Pollan's advice, he also provides an excellent walk thru food government and science history.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Mashup Camp 3 - A Googler's Experience

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2007/01/mashup-camp-3-googlers-experience.html Sounds like he had a good time
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

MyBlogLog and spam

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-and-spam.html "It is inevitable that a system like MyBlogLog, if popular, would get spammed." Yup.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Change Windows drive letters

http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/change-windows-drive-letters-167525.php I always forget how to do this
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Sour Skittles

http://www.skittles.com/products/sour.jsp they are most excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

The Effect of Typeface on the Perception of Email

http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/91/POF.html interesting... too bad they didn't include background images and ugly colors too! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted

http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/01/why-career-planning-is-time-wasted.php "The best strategy for career planning is this: make your best guess, try it out and don't be surprised if you don't like it. But for heaven's sake don't mention this in your interviews."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Hillary Clinton, Yahoo Answers & the Power of Social Media

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4318 "I cannot think of another form of media which would allow the same kind of user interaction AND approachability that Yahoo Answers brings to the table."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 28, 2007

Saying No?

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/28/saying-no/ "it struck me as actually a brilliant summary of why big companies often fail to create anything truly interesting, or put another way, why a product like Yahoo Personals is so impersonal"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Farecast’s Groundbreaking New Product

http://gregcohn.com/blog/business-models/2007/01/farecasts-groundbreaking-new-product/ "Why am I so excited about this? What this amounts to is in effect a 7-day call option on airfares. I’ve been privately predicting for some time that the travel industry would eventually turn out products like this..."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Scoble: Throwing himself under busses so I don’t have to.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/01/28/scoble-throwing-himself-under-busses-so-i-dont-have-to/ "The real, true power of the web is just that - it’s a web. Everything can be interconnected, and learning about or researching a subject can be vastly easier online than anywhere else."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

idproxy.net - use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID

http://idproxy.net/ "idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 27, 2007

The joy of the hack

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/the_joy_of_the_hack.html "The essence of the hack isn't just realizing you can use a system in a new, unexpected way. It's getting a disproportionate effect from your effort. It's catalyzing potential energy stored in the system."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

How to tell your friend his cat's dead

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sdo/71303052.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Social whitelisting with OpenID...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/01/social_whitelisting_w/ "So the idea is simplicity itself. We switch to a model in which individual sites publish lists of OpenIDs that they have explicitly trusted in the past. Then individually, site owners can choose to trust anyone trusted by other site owners or friends."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Argentina Travel Guide

http://www.joshwoodward.com/argentina/ Josh did an excellent job of writing up what he learned on his trip last year
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Changeset 4803 - WordPress Trac

http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4803 WordPress finally gets Atom 1.0 support
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Mapping New Testament Social Networks

http://www.esv.org/blog/2007/01/mapping.nt.social.networks heh... social networks of the bible.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

YUI Theater: Joe Hewitt, Welcome to Firebug 1.0

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/26/video-hewitt-firebug/ looks like an excellent talk
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=career.money&conitem=e9f1a164f4f5f010VgnVCM20000012281eac____ because he wasn't happy... duh!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 26, 2007

Time Spent Per Website Favors Yahoo Over Google

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/01/26/time_spent_per.html "Yahoo has the audience, it now has to do something with it."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

AirTran Grounds Screaming Toddler And Family, Literally

http://consumerist.com/consumer/children/airtran-grounds-screaming-toddler-and-family-literally-231497.php excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Downtown San Jose 1975-2005

http://www.bvnasj.org/SanJose19752006.htm Pictures of San Jose, old and new. Some things have really changed, and others not so much.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

What We Don't Know

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/bigquestions.html a list of things we don't yet know the answers to... some of them are dumb, but most are not
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Google’s Policy on No follow and Reviews is Hypocritical and Wrong

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/googles-policy-on-no-follow-and-reviews-is-hypocritical-and-wrong/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

January 25, 2007

Vista Wallpapers from Flickr Users

http://mroth.info/blog/2007/01/25/vista-wallpapers-from-flickr-users/ nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Boeing 777 Wing Ultimate Load Test [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uo0C01Fwb8&eurl= very cool
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Where does open source code come from?

http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/where_does_open.html congrats to Sun, who takes the #1 slot with a long lead
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

PwdHash

https://www.pwdhash.com/ "PwdHash generates theft-resistant passwords. The PwdHash browser extension invisibly generates these passwords when it is installed in your browser."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

January 24, 2007

Canyonlands National Park

http://www.nps.gov/cany/ Utah and Arizona seem to get all the cool national parks. Why is that?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Quality Ranking

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4306 this looks like a good thing to me
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Planet Emacsen

http://planet.emacsen.org/ just what you think it is... plus, check out the UI elements around the posts... very emacs
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

minor emacs wizardry

http://emacs.wordpress.com/ an excellent emacs blog
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Monument Valley, UT

http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueAS99/monument.html info for pilots flying in the area
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Twittertastic two

http://blog.unto.net/twitter/twittertastic-two/ "A short python script, shown below, is executed every five minutes as a cron job. The script fetches my Twitter feed as JSON, parses it, and writes it back out as an XHTML fragment to the filesystem. My WordPress theme later includes this file when proce
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Why the world's greatest stock picker stopped picking stocks.

http://www.slate.com/id/2158085/ "What such investors often don't know is that even Buffett has said that the best strategy for most investors is to buy low-cost index funds and that the great Benjamin Graham eventually changed his mind about the wisdom of traditional stock-picking."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

January 23, 2007

The 5 sins of Vista

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/5-sins-of-vista.html I'm sure there are more than 5!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

The Moonwalk Superstar

http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan/moonwalk.jpg Parental Guide #27
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Group Membership Protocol - OpenID Wiki

http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Group_Membership_Protocol if Yahoo was an OpenID provider, we could use something like this to let you figure out if someone was a member of a given Yahoo Group. Maybe. Interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin)

http://blog.victoriac.net/?p=87 "The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post." Interesting idea. I wonder how many users Twitter has...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

chicken kick [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvPrZIvGVhE watch the chicken in the background
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

adrian's python s3 upload script

http://www.holovaty.com/code/update_s3.py this worked well for me... I may tweak it so that it doesn't re-upload if you run it twice on the same content, though...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Amazon S3 Library for REST in Python

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=134&categoryID=47 you need this to use adrian's upload script
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

How To Lose A Customer, The Classmates Way

http://blog.megacity.org/archives/002248.php 'Frankly, these days, Google is a lot more useful for "high school reconnecting" than Classmates is, so it's not like they're bringing a lot to the table.'
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 22, 2007

Wikipedia Nofollows

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/22/wikipedia-nofollows/ "all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Onion Moon Landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIkHLO93lCA&eurl= what they really wanted to say when landing on the moon
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

TechCrunch Referral Traffic

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=342 no real surprises in here...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

What Yahoo Should Have Said to Wired

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/01/what_yahoos_res.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Battery Breakthrough?

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18086/ I'll believe it when it ships.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

January 21, 2007

Yahoo In The Crosshairs

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003281.php "The bar has been lowered. Now jump over it, folks.... I mean, you have the resources. The brand. The technology. The good will. Go. Do. It."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Why are there so many single Americans?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/america/web.0121singleWIR.php "The number of women living without a spouse is greater largely because women live longer, leaving them more likely to be widowed. Older men are also more likely to remarry."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html 3PO and a Wookie were really the brains behind things...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

The Big Picture

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/01/21.html "The more fat construction guys you add to the couch, the less likely you are to get opera out of it." Ha ha ha ha hahahaha...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

WrongRoom

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/21/wrongroom "There is a certain class of software that sounds easy but is actually insanely difficult."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Dark Room

http://they.misled.us/dark-room Mark is right... this is just plain funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Loads of new MyBlogLog features

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/loads_of_new_my.html "If you think you can make MyBlogLog better right now, go for it!"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Le Grand Content [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWWKBY7gx_0 an amusing presentation of wandering thoughts
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Infra Recorder

http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ "Infra Recorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Hands Painted to Look Like Animals

http://www.funpic.hu/funblog/kez_atveres/kez_atveres.html very well done
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 20, 2007

Shaded Relief Map of US Terrain in Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/shaded_relief_map_of.html SRTM digital elevation data in Google Earth
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

On the Special Nature of “Blogging”

http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-20/365 'I don't understand this whole notion that “blogging” somehow transcends other forms of publication, such that the form is more important than the content.'
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Put up or shut up time for Yahoo!

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/news/companies/yahoo_earnings/index.htm?section=money_latest when has it not been put up or shut up time, really?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 19, 2007

The programmer productivity front

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/the_programmer_productivity_fr.html "I want a fast scratchpad for my 50 front-ends to be able to share, kind of like sys V shared memory, but networked. I want get, put, append, tail, queue, dequeue, infinitely scalable across some RAID-ish cluster. Billions of keys, petabytes of data,
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp "In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/15/wordpress-the-complete-post-install-checklist/ may come in handy one day
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

January 18, 2007

The Dawn Of OpenID?

http://carlo.zottmann.org/2007/01/18/the-dawn-of-openid/ "I believe it’ll succeed… in a similiar way Jabber has succeeded. A good, solid, open system with an active developer community, but not shiny enough to appeal to the masses."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Sonos Digital Music System

http://www.sonos.com/ I'd love one of these someday...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

software solutions to hardware problems, and outbreaks of the future

http://jwz.livejournal.com/730821.html "I just felt a bit like I was living in the future for a minute there. I got a little chill. "
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Science Marches On

http://jwz.livejournal.com/731284.html "It's a tax on people who are stupid enough to come to a bar without money."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing! [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1Mtv9cD0I hahahahahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Aqui Cal-Mex

http://www.aquicalmex.com/ there's one near me that I should check out
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Firebug - Web Development Evolved

http://www.getfirebug.com/ todo: grok firebug
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

January 16, 2007

Process Explorer for Windows v10.21

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx kick ass... I've needed a tool like this for a long long time
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Spaceships

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/16/spaceships "Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the crime."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Why I Don't Wear a Suit and Can't Figure Out Why Anyone Does!

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/01/16/why-i-dont-wear-a-suit-and-cant-figure-out-why-anyone-does/ "Suits make no sense whatsoever." Amen to that!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

A serious case of caffeine overdose

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1991117,00.html "If you stand on the corner of Regent Street and Wigmore Street in central London, you are within five miles of 164 branches of Starbucks." Uh... WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Google No Longer Linking To Yahoo, MapQuest Maps

http://searchengineland.com/070116-103251.php "...other than for self-evident competitive reasons it's not clear why this was done. I can't imagine that Yahoo or AOL would have made a request to remove these links."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

MySQL no longer providing Windows binaries for free

http://wskills.blogspot.com/2007/01/mysql-no-longer-providing-windows.html huh?!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

X-Cart: on-line shopping cart

http://www.x-cart.com/ with a free trial and reportedly good reputation
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Why nice guys SUCK

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/205576820.html "Oh, that was nice"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Myths and Truths

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/about/best/van/152468438.html you can always find entertaining stuff on best of craigslist
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 15, 2007

Amazon S3 is everywhere

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/amazon_s3_is_ev.html indeed it is
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Portalization Proceeds

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/01/15/portalization_p "I can't decide if it's brilliant or terrifying, but I do wonder what adoption of Google's non-search services would look like if this design were adopted." yup.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Google, Yahoo gain share in U.S. Web search market

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070115/wr_nm/google_search_dc_1 "Yahoo's share of the market rose 0.3 percent to 28.5 percent in December over November, the survey found." Inch by inch...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

January 14, 2007

Rouxbe - The Recipe to Better Cooking

http://www.rouxbe.com/ instructional cooking videos
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Misspell Google [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNQeV7THe4E&NR or "why you should never use IE..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Star Wars! What really happened after the Deathstar blew up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfP90uJ12eQ oh. my. god. funny as hell.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

100 Person Flashmob Randomly Chasing After People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj0Ma2CsHME&eurl= now that's a funny video
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

SURBL -- Spam URI Realtime Blocklists

http://www.surbl.org/ good stuff for plugging into spamassassin too
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Matisse & Jack's Bake-at-Home Energy Bars

http://www.matisseandjacks.com/ there's an amusing idea...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Realtime URI Blacklist (uribl.com) and SpamAssassin

http://www.uribl.com/usage.shtml here's the setup for using uribl.com with spamassassin
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Jeff Barr's Brain

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=850 in 3D, no less!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 12, 2007

a practice broken, a new silo created

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/01/12/a_practice_brok.html "i'd always touted Google's willingness to link to both Yahoo Maps and Mapquest as a sign that not every search company has to focus on being a silo. Google broke that today, signaling that it does indeed prefer to be a silo than to offer choice that the
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

An Aircraft Owner's Guide to Aircraft Leasing

http://www.aopa.org/members/files/guides/aclease_overview.html good stuff from AOPA on aircraft leasing
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Tab characters considered harmful

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-January/183758.html indeed... tabs are evil!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Credit Card Scam - BE VERY CAREFUL

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/van/239203614.html hahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html awesome!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Sharecroppers

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/12/sharecroppers "Steve Jobs doesn’t build platforms, except by accident. He doesn’t care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you’re all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Things the iPhone Could Do That You Haven't Thought of Yet

http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/2007/01/30_things_that_iphone.html well, just about any phone ought to be able to most of this stuff, really... open up the APIs, damnit!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Contest: Let's Rename Panama!

http://gotads.blogspot.com/2007/01/contest-lets-rename-panama.html "I'm starting a contest to rename Panama - Yahoo's version of Google AdWords. The winner will get a $100 Amazon gift certificate."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

NASA Ames Research Center

http://www.cantoni.org/2007/01/11/nasaames "Today I chaperoned a school field trip to NASA Ames Research Center here in Silicon Valley..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Ordinary Technology

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/11/Ordinary-Technology "Yes, in case it’s not obvious, I think the network operators ought to open the devices and open the APIs and open the network... The Net would be more useful and they’d make more money."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

The livable web manifesto.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2007/01/11/the-livable-web-manifesto/ "The fact is, the web as viewed through Google or Yahoo or Digg is just too big, too unfriendly, and too filled with data smog. What most people need is less information, not more."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

January 11, 2007

Grass-Roots Yahoo Shareholder Wants to Boot Terry

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/01/grassroots_yaho.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Any DVD Converter

http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/products/for_video/ "for iPod rip DVD movies to iPod, convert DVD movie to iPod video format MPEG-4 (MP4), play movie on iPod."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Apple VPs confirm no 3rd party iPhone apps

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confirm-no-3rd-party-iphone-apps/ ah ha! Apple *is* teh suck... Sad, really. So much potential here.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

I’ve decided to leave Citizen Agency…

http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/11/ive-decided-to-leave-citizen-agency/ I, for one, am not surprised by this.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

What if Google Made a Yahoo-like Start Page?

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/today_in_stupid/mockup_what_if_google_made_a_yahoolike_start_page_1.html I bet a lot of people would like this...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

SanDisk SSD Solid State Drive | SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 1.8

http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=1478 I totally want one of these. Not need, but WANT! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

If you do not upload the images again I might have to contact my lawyer!

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/Ymdar/Motivator/webmunchkin.jpg hahahahaaha...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 10, 2007

Leaving Yahoo!

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/leaving-yahoo/ "My life can very easily be laid out in front of me, no exaggeration, for the rest of my life... And I don’t want that." Ernie will be missed by many people!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

i hate spam folders

http://trainedmonkey.com/2007/1/10/i_hate_spam_folders "if you think mail is a spam, just fucking bounce it."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Disconnect

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/09/disconnect/ "One thing I’ve found in the past year is there is sometimes a huge disconnect between people who make noise on blogs... and productivity in the real world." Heh. No doubt.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Disconnect

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/09/disconnect/ "One thing I’ve found in the past year is there is sometimes a huge disconnect between people who make noise on blogs... and productivity in the real world." Heh. No doubt.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Disconnect

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/09/disconnect/ "One thing I’ve found in the past year is there is sometimes a huge disconnect between people who make noise on blogs... and productivity in the real world." Heh. No doubt.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Leaving Yahoo!

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/leaving-yahoo/ "My life can very easily be laid out in front of me, no exaggeration, for the rest of my life... And I don’t want that." Ernie will be missed by many people!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:02 PM

i hate spam folders

http://trainedmonkey.com/2007/1/10/i_hate_spam_folders "if you think mail is a spam, just fucking bounce it."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Disconnect

http://photomatt.net/2007/01/09/disconnect/ "One thing I’ve found in the past year is there is sometimes a huge disconnect between people who make noise on blogs... and productivity in the real world." Heh. No doubt.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Why Yahoo Needs MyBlogLog, and Vice Versa

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4242 "Out of all the Yahoo properties which I think will benefit from the MyBlogLog acquisition, I feel that YPN has the most to gain."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

World's Two Richest Men Can Eat for Free at Hooters

http://www.hooters.com/news_and_events/news/2006/2006-10-31_Gates_Buffet.asp Heh.. Bill and Warren now get free food and boobs for life.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Thoughts on the iPhone and Phone Usability

http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329 "I've never had a cell phone that didn't totally suck."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Styling form controls with CSS, revisited

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200701/styling_form_controls_with_css_revisited/ this could be useful someday
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

MyBlogLogTagger: Adding Tags to MyBlogLog

http://kentbrewster.com/adding-tags-to-mybloglog Kent made a cook hack, combining del.icio.us and mybloglog
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

January 09, 2007

jzawodn on MyBlogLog

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/jzawodn/
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Why Software Sucks Podcast

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1694.html thanks to ITConversations
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Yahoo acquires MyBlogLog for $10M - Has anyone done the math?

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/01/yahoo_acquires_.html the comments, as if often the case, are more educational that the post. of course the price is speculation too. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

MakingThings

http://www.makingthings.com/ "MakingThings provides software and electronics tools for people who create projects that interact with the physical world."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

WordPress Kvetch!

http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/ "What really ticks you off about WordPress? Let us know..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

WordPress Ideas

http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/ "Below you can see ideas members of the WordPress community (like you!) have proposed, and rate them. The highest rated ideas will be included in a future version."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Lady not so Sovereign in SF

http://overstated.net/2007/01/09/lady-not-so-sovereign-in-sf I can't really describe this story... you just have to read it.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

A Secure and Well-Ventilated Location

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Secure_and_Well-Ventilated_Location.aspx let's install the server in the shitter!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

cRANKy

http://cranky.com/ "The first age-relevant search engine"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Visualize your hard drive usage

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/disk-space/geek-to-live--visualize-your-hard-drive-usage-219058.php several tools you can use on windows
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Yahoo's Panama Tools Getting Positive Views

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/01/09/yahoos_panama_t.html "I'm hearing more and more positive things about Yahoo's Panama advertising tools..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Jason's iPhone Coverage

http://www.kottke.org/07/01/macworld-2007 "Free IMAP email from Yahoo for iPhone customers." Nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

AdWords API Debacle

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003247.php "Venture investors would need to be aware of how open Google will be with APIs going forward. Any startup that is working on a mashup that would take information from Google via an API would have an increased level of risk."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

MyBlogLog -- bringing "anywhereness" to Yahoo!

http://www.kidsallright.com/blog/2007/01/mybloglog_bring.html 'MyBlogLog brings this "joyful happenstance" or "anywhereness" equivalent to our online lives.'
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

MyBlogLog joins Yahoo, is this good?

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/9/2634601.html why yes... yes is it
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

The Long Tail: Five books read over the holidays, only four of which were better than that nasty jellyfish sting

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/01/five_books_read.html "As far as I'm concerned, the only reason to go on vacation (aside from that whole bonding with your family thing) is to read books." Agreed. And, damn... my list is way long.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

Tools for a worldwide virtual small e-business

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2007/01/08/tools-for-a-worldwide-virtual-small-e-business/ "The owners are split across 3 continents, I and my wife here in the US take care of the website and marketing, my mother in Egypt takes care of order processing, delivery operations and customer service, and my sister in the UK is the editor for our Egyp
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

January 08, 2007

Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/01/08/bloggers-unite-yahoo-joins-forces-with-mybloglog/ It's official: Yahoo (Developer Network) + MyBlogLog
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

BigBigNews: Special Report - Top 5 Stock Picks for 2007

http://bigbignews.blogspot.com/2007/01/special-report-top-5-stock-picks-for_08.html "Heywood Jablome takes a trip to Wall St. to speak with "The Street" about the top 5 stock picks for 2007." Oh shit, that's funny...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

How To Get A Guy In Silicon Valley

http://randiandjen.com/RandiandJen.com/How%20To%20Get%20A%20Guy%20In%20Silicon%20Valley.html Put a Mac in your top! Okay, that's kinda weird and spooky, but amusing too. [via andrei]
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

O Googlers, where art thou?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/07/MNGA7NEDQ01.DTL "Some employees found instant riches in the Internet search company's initial public offering -- affording them the luxury of pursuing new dreams"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

What's happening with Jot?

http://evhead.com/2007/01/whats-happening-with-jot.asp "Since JotSpot's acquisition by Google at the end of October, their homepage hasn't changed ... their blog hasn't been posted to, and the support wiki seems inactive..." yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Vox and Nokia

http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/01/nokia-nseries-vox-video.html "Vox is now Nokia’s global partner for blogging and video sharing." Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

OSCMS Summit 2007 - Hosted by Yahoo!

http://www.oscms-summit.org/ "A gathering of Open Source content management systems and the geeks that love them. Also, camping out at Yahoo! Yes, camping."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The E-cclesiastic Manifesto

http://e-cclesiastes.blogspot.com/ "Honestly, I wish it were that easy. I would decide in the space of time it takes to click 'Submit' that I submit no more." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Yahoo! Messenger Blog

http://blog.messenger.yahoo.com/ dear internet: please post your dumb messenger questions here rather than on my personal blog. thanks!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Yankee Composites

http://www.yankeecomposites.com/ Rick does good composite work on glider and other aircract.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Mutt Muffs

http://www.safeandsoundpets.com/index.html "Safe and Sound Pets! Hearing Protection for Dogs" So you can put your dog in the plane!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

The Dog Ate What?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/243881936.html "When I went to the living room to retrieve the pans, much to my shock one whole pan of 12 rolls was empty." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

'Infomania' worse than marijuana

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4471607.stm "Those who are constantly breaking away from tasks to react to email or text messages suffer similar effects on the mind as losing a night's sleep..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

January 05, 2007

USGS: Viewing USGS Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online

http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html a list of services using USGS data online
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

USGS: Availability of USGS Geospatial Data

http://nationalmap.gov/gio/status.html here's what to find out what's available from the USGS
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

TerraService 2.0 API

http://terraserver-usa.com/about.aspx?n=AboutTerraServiceAPI this may have exactly what I need in it!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Tech trends and predictions 2007.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2007/01/05/tech-trends-2007/ "Wiki backlash will peak when the authors of Wikinomics are forced to take down their own wiki (or else restrict editing to a small cadre of trusted individuals)."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Jet-Man.com

http://www.jet-man.com/actuel.html just watch the video and marvel
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

How the Middle Class Is Getting Screwed

http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/26014/index.html "An average CEO now gets paid several hundred times the salary of his average worker, a gap that’s an order of magnitude larger than it was in the seventies. In Japan, the ratio is just 11-to-1, and in Britain 22-to-1."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/ "Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Amazon’s Price Drop Policy

http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/amazons-price-drop-policy.html "Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it?"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Would You Hire Matt Cutts?

http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/01/04/would-you-hire-matt-cutts/ this is rather amusing... espeically the part about what I supposedly make for MySQL consulting...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 04, 2007

I'm Turning On Comments

http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/ThinkingOutLoud/2007/01/04/Im-Turning-on-Comments.html excellent! Dave is finally allowing comments
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

No joke, this Texans cheerleader works with NASA

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/index.html "Summer Williams is a Houston Texans cheerleader. She's also a rocket scientist."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Anal Sex Is Increasingly Popular in the Hetero World

http://nymag.com/nightlife/mating/25988/index.html?imw=Y there are so many amusingly quotable lines in this story that it's best to just read the whole thing
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

eWeek doesn’t want me to visit eweek.com

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/01/04/131/eweek-doesnt-want-me-to-visit-eweekcom/ eweek is teh suck!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

From $10/Week to $800/Week with AdSense

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=207259 notice how he doesn't reveal his site URL?
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Classy Post Alert: Farting Strippers!

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/01/04/classy_post_ale "the amazing thing is not merely the stories themselves, but that Stipper Web exists" heh!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

PHP: Handling file uploads

http://us2.php.net/features.file-upload this is way easier than it was 6 years ago
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Dishola

http://www.dishola.com/ "Find what you crave, check out reviews from Dishola editors, industry professionals (chefs, waiters, dishwashers), and our enthusiastic members (passionate eaters just like you)."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

ImageMagick: Command-line Tools

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php documentation for The ImageMagick command-line tools
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index.html "He likes people to think that he is very rich, and he cultivates this air of aloofness. The whole thing is weird."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Google Calendar Set To Pass Yahoo Calendar

http://searchengineland.com/070104-091643.php well, that shouldn't surprise anyone... our calendar is dying on the vine
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Billionaires Are Free

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2006/23463/index.html billionaire is apparently the new millionaire
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

January 03, 2007

Geo::Dymaxion

http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Dymaxion-0.12/Dymaxion.pm Plot latitude/longitude on a Fuller Dymaxion(tm) map
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Imager::Plot

http://search.cpan.org/~addi/Imager-Plot-0.09/Plot.pm Perl extension for generating fancy graphic plots in color.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Math::Project3D::Plot

http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Math-Project3D-Plot-1.02/lib/Math/Project3D/Plot.pm Perl extension for plotting projections of 3D functions
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

GD::Graph

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/GDGraph/GD/Graph.html Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

2007 predictions

http://timconverse.com/blog/index.php?/archives/217_2007_predictions.html "At the end of 2007, the search engines ranked by share of U.S. searches will be the same as it is today" yup
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

I like big charts and I cannot lie

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-like-big-charts-and-i-cannot-lie.html that's some cool personal info porn... bonus points for the subtle ass reference
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

OpenID for non-SuperUsers

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers Sam shows us what it takes to claim your site using OpenID and start using your new identity. It's surprisingly easy.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

GPS navigator to include Yahoo search

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6146759.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news technically, it's Yahoo's local search... not to be confused with web search. but it's cool news either way.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/01/the_mozilla_foundation_achievi.html "In 2005 the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation combined had revenue from all sources of $52.9M. $29.8M of this was associated with the Foundation (both before and after the creation of the Corporation)."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 02, 2007

TV and HDTV - Choosing Screen Size & Placing Your TV

http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/S-3M7o9ZYCjni/learningcenter/home/TV_placement.html good advice on screen sizes and sitting distances
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Who is Kana?

http://toni.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/who-is-kana/ "At the end I hit send and got an error message telling me to enable ActiveX. Since I’m using Firefox, this makes no sense."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Wikinomics could change everything as concept of sharing spreads

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070102/tc_usatoday/wikinomicscouldchangeeverythingasconceptofsharingspreads 'Wikinomics' is a new word to me. But I guess it sorta, kinda makes sense.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Bootdisk.Com

http://www.bootdisk.com/ it's just what you think it is
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Public AMIs

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=101 "Contains Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are available to other AWS developers."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

CSS Cheat Sheet

http://lesliefranke.com/files/reference/csscheatsheet.html this will be useful someday when I make my site look less like ass
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

January 01, 2007

The Year the Blog Died

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=e68c4e1b-f50a-4153-ab7a-b4a260e3babf#commentstart "This year was the first year I considered ending this blog because I'd finally gotten tired of the hassle of people complaining about what I wrote here." I've been there...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

We Make Memories Together, Pretty Or Not

http://andiamnotlyingforreal.blogspot.com/2006/12/we-make-memories-together-pretty-or.html "Just imagine: consuming 1/6 of your body weight in fruitcake." An excellent giftmas tale...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Google’s run is more than half done

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=237 "Google's time is shorter than anyone is ready to acknowledge, as everyone is too busy trying to figure out how to profit from working with Google. That's the wrong place to be focused, if you want to build your business on stable ground."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html "Google is not your competition, Google is the environment. Online businesses which struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both in online advertising revenue as well as product success."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Movie released in Feb 2006 makes just $30 at the box office

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=8378 "Zyzzyx Road, released on February 25th of 2006, was released in one theater, where it played for six days and earned 30 dollars total."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

DEM Manipulation and 3D Terrain Visualization: Techniques used by the U.S. National Park Service

http://www.shadedrelief.com/dem/dem.html surprisingly, they use a lot of photoshop
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

near mid air collision

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30 actually it *is* a mid-air. and nobody mentions the real cause or why the pilot could perform a power-off landing.. hmm.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript

http://script.aculo.us/ "script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Multisport & Trail Running / M Endurus XCR Boa

http://www.thenorthface.com/opencms/opencms/tnf/gear.jsp?model=AE4F&site=NA I like the lack of shoelaces. Laces suck.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Shaded Relief

http://www.shadedrelief.com/ "The goal of this site is to assist practicing cartographers with the presentation of shaded relief and related raster art on maps. I developed the techniques to support my work as a cartographer for the US National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Welcome to Earth3D

http://www.earth3d.org/ "Earth3D is a program that visualizes the earth in realtime in a 3D view."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs

http://www.gpsbabel.org/ GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial or USB upload or download to a GPS receiver such as those from Garmin and Magellan
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ "a translator library for raster geospatial data formats"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

MapServer 4.6 Tutorial

http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ "This tutorial was designed to give new users a quick (relatively speaking) introduction to the concepts behind MapServer."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

MapServer

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ "MapServer excels at rendering spatial data (maps, images, and vector data) for the web."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

[Geotiff] converting .hgt format into image

http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/geotiff/2004-August/000052.html in case you need to convert some data files to something more useful...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

DEM (digital elevation model)

http://www.vterrain.org/Elevation/dem.html notes about USGS DEM files
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM