March 31, 2007

Audio of a JFK Ground Controller Having a Bad Day

http://home.online.no/~chainly/JFKGround.mp3 but at least he's able to joke with the pilots about the mess he's in
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

March 30, 2007

Cash Bonus Incentives For Yahoo & Google Executives

http://searchengineland.com/070330-092624.php "Yahoo executive Susan Decker received a $850,000 bonus, Yahoo's Farzad Nazem received a $700,000 bonus..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Google Gone AWOL

http://blog.domramsey.com/tech/google-gone-awol/ "The results from all these tests indicate that AdSense simply isn’t logging the majority of ad clicks on my site."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 AM

March 29, 2007

PawSense helps you catproof your computer.

http://bitboost.com/pawsense/index.html "PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

The Best Day of My Life

http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/002895.html "having a Yahoo! Mail API is really freaking exciting and something I've been hoping to see for years. Freaking. Awesome."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Yahoo Mail API Misses the Point

http://skipmeamadeus.blogspot.com/2007/03/yahoo-mail-api-misses-point.html "Before we get too drunk on champagne, let's take a look at the details..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Hack Day 2007 - get your diaries out

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/03/hack_day_2007_g.html "The BBC and Yahoo! are planning to get together to hold 48 hours of hacking madness this summer."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Everything Good is Bad For You

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/everythinggood "Looking at photos of sunsets or reading one-liners takes no cognitive effort. It's the mental equivalent of snack food. You start eating one and before you know it you've gone through two cans of Pringles..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Some Thoughts on the Yahoo! Mail Web Service

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=14a729f2-f534-4e62-91f5-9f0ebc848f4c "I suspect that Yahoo! won't get as much traction as they expect with the API until they remove some of the restrictions on non-premium accounts."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

MySQL Proxy

http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/mysql/mysql-proxy "Over the last weeks I wrote a mysql-proxy which can operate in several modes..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Yahoo mail API

http://roseburgmacguy.blogspot.com/2007/03/yahoo-mail-api.html "it's still a good thing that more of the user-level services on the net are being opened through APIs. And Yahoo is one of the leaders in that effort"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

I'm Calling "Bullshit"

http://www.arachna.com/roller/page/spidaman/20070328#i_m_calling_bullshit "SEO is increasingly turning publishing into a perverse sport."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Conservative coding

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/conservative_coding.html "Coding is social, it's not just a private dialogue between you and the machine." I wish more people understood that.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Lycoming Engines - A Textron Company

http://www.lycoming.com/ they've redesigned their site.. the "engine finder" is quite handy!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

We are flattered, but...

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/03/28/we-are-flattered-but.aspx#1988509 for some reason, this comment amuses the hell out of me
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

March 28, 2007

APIs, APIs APIs!!!!! (And Learn As You Play)

http://www.alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2007/03/28/APIs_2C00_-APIs-APIs_21002100210021002100_-_2800_And-Learn-As-You-Play_2900_.aspx "Why is this 'big'? It is a clear signal of where we're all going with the web. APIs, APIs APIs!!!!!"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Yahoo! Mail Web Services

http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/ Yahoo Mail now has APIs... hack away.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

MySQL User Defined Functions for FNV (Fowler/Noll/Vo) Hash

http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2007/03/mysql_user_defined_functio.html with source code
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Defending the Desktop

http://www.thephantomcity.com/archives/2007/03/28/538/ "There are creeps everywhere, man! They don’t even attack... they just keep taking punishment, and they just keep moving, like they don’t even feel it!"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

you'll find my cybernetic asshole requires extra attention today

http://jwz.livejournal.com/746728.html "The Acticon Neosphincter is the only implantable sphincter available for the treatment of severe fecal incontinence." hahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 26, 2007

Rackable Says It's Got a Better 'Blackbox'

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3667971 "So who is the Rackable customer?" Speculation is that it's Yahoo...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

How to beat Google, part

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/how_to_beat_google_part_1.html "You cannot build something new and different with a big team. Big teams are only capable of duplicating existing technology." Well said.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

MSN Search Hand Jobs

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/26/microsoft_searc.html "When all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence threshold, we fall back to delivering handcrafted results." Nice to know!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

InfoWorld folds print mag to focus on online and events

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/010942.html "Yes, the rumors are true. As of April 2, 2007, InfoWorld is discontinuing its print component." And so it goes...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5493698 I'd love to know who the Yahoo spokesperson quoted in this story is... *sigh*
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Stewart Alsop on InfoWorld's Demise

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/25/stewart_alsop_o.html "the action has moved entirely to network based services delivered over the internet."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

March 25, 2007

No sex please, we're daddy's little girls

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/lf_afp/afplifestyleussexchastity_070322082138 "In what is becoming a trend among conservative Christians in the United States, girls as young as nine are pledging to their fathers to remain virgins until they wed..." hahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Print Media Demise, Cont.

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=376 "What you get if you blog for a while is a sense of how valuable your readers are, and not because they view and click on ads."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

DesktopTD 6244

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyGLYI14ZO4 some impressive desktop tower defense work!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3716/ebookebook-16-things-it-takes-most-of-us-50-years-to-learn There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Where Is Microsoft Search?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_14/b4028045.htm "...when it comes to developing a viable Internet strategy, Microsoft may be running out of time."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Inevitable gunk creep

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/inevitable_gunk_creep.html search.yahoo.com clutter :-(
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

March 24, 2007

SF Chronicle in Trouble?

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sf_chronicle_in.html name a newspaper that isn't...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Leonard Won Desktop Tower Defense

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/432024691/#comment72157600022615494 see his pattern here
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 23, 2007

Google AdSense click reporting oddity

http://www.webbythoughts.com/66/google-adsense-click-reporting-oddity/ "It makes me wonder whether Google has algorithms in place to notice when certain posts get traffic spikes and consider a higher percentage of those clicks as invalid clicks."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Deal With It

http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/deal_with_it "Counting the user interface elements you have to deal with produces a comparison that reflects the actual appeal of the two designs."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

This American Life On Showtime

http://www.sho.com/site/thisamericanlife/video.do?source=blogs the first episode lived up to my expectations
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

The Enterprise Linux problem

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/23/the-enterprise-linux-problem/ this matches what I've heard from people too... I'm a bit surprised SmugMug never tried Debian out, but can understand what that is.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS)

http://www.centos.org/ "CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Which Way Is Up?

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/03/23/Which-Way-Is-Up GeoRSS is a partially undefined spec... anyone surprised by that?
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Utah Back Country Pilots

http://www.utahbackcountrypilots.org/ 'The Utah Back Country Pilots is a group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving and enjoying the incredible Utah "back country".'
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Yahoo Still Using Red Hat

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/879035/yahoo_still_using_red_hat/index.html?source=r_technology "Yahoo! Inc is still using Red Hat Inc's Linux software and support, despite claims to the contrary by Oracle Corp chief executive Larry Ellison earlier this week." Ah ha!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Make Microsoft Word less annoying

http://lifehacker.com/software/word/alpha-geek-make-microsoft-word-less-annoying-244859.php I always forget to do this stuff on a new machine... *sigh*
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

March 22, 2007

Oracle Claims Yahoo as Linux Customer

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=50932 "Ellison stated that Oracle had displaced Red Hat at the Internet company, as well as at other sites that he did not name." WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Desktop Tower Defense

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ so. fucking. addtictive. make it stop!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

March 21, 2007

Yahoo CEO praises new ad system, says "very happy"

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070321:MTFH29771_2007-03-21_16-55-49_N21423286&type=comktNews&rpc=44 well, that's encouraging...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

March 20, 2007

Crazy Ideas for Reducing Noise at Truckee Airport

http://www.calpilots.org/html/article.php?sid=1722 What will they think of next?
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

The Wisdom of Children: Humor

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/03/26/070326sh_shouts_rich "A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Mom's Genetics Could Produce Gay Sons

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060224_gay_genes.html "The arrangement of a mother's genes could affect the sexual orientation of her son, according to a new study."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Creating Overlays for Google Maps

http://googleearthuser.blogspot.com/2007/03/creating-overlays-in-google-earth-and.html "You may know about adding image overlays in Google Earth. But did you know that you can publish these overlays in Google Maps and share them with others?"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 19, 2007

Men look at men looking at crotches

http://www.kottke.org/07/03/men-look-at-men-looking-at-crotches this just makes me laugh... I can't help it.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Search Engine Bribery: iTWire Needs to Get Its Facts Straight

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=b29a9dbe-e616-4948-85bd-8d6ba47978c0 "Let me count the ways Google bribes companies and individuals to use their search engine"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 18, 2007

Living the startup life

http://breasy.com/blog/2007/03/19/living-the-startup-life/ "I can build good stuff much faster when I’m making all the decisions."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

March 16, 2007

Beer: The Best Beverage in the World

http://www.parc.com/cms/get_article.php?id=636 This looks like a fun talk. [spotted by chad]
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Giving Filmy, Flimsy Plastic Bags the Sack

http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/14/giving_filmy_flimsy_plastic_bags_the_sack.html?partner=reddit "The city of San Francisco is on the verge of banning use of the plastic grocery bags that have been a marvel and a plague for 30 years." Excellent.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Directions to N5156X at Amelia Reid Aviation

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/flying/directions-to-n5156x.html if I ever offer you a plane ride, you're gonna need to know this stuff.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

WordPress Plugins

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ finally a better way to find these
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

My Good Easy (2007)

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/15/good-easy-2007 Mark shows his dot files
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

High Performance Web Sites (Rough Cuts Version)

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514211/ Steve's book is now available in O'Reilly's "rough cuts" program
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Skrenta on Naming

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/skrenta_on_naming.html thinks to think about when naming your .com
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

March 15, 2007

Yahoo Cleared in Chinese Dissident Case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070315/tc_pcworld/129837 "Yahoo's Hong Kong subsidiary did not violate the territory's Personal Data Ordinance when it turned over e-mail records that allegedly led to the arrest and detention of journalist Shi Tao in China"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Yahoo Betrayed My Husband

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72972-0.html?tw=rss.technology "Yahoo Groups service to the Chinese market, have faced the harshest criticism."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Microsoft Deal For Large Customers: Use Live Search, Get Free MSFT Products

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003447.php "It's not hard to imagine a CFO getting slightly moist over savings like these." Indeed.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Tracking Twitter's Message Growth

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2007/03/15/tracking.shtml "To help with your search, and any other visualization, I've posted the full Excel spreadsheet with inline charts and tables."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Proven Scaling offers Free Ride to MySQL Conf & Expo 2007

http://www.provenscaling.com/freeride/ "This year, Proven Scaling is sponsoring three people to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 in "sunny" Santa Clara, California, April 23-26."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

RIP Twitter (2007-2007)

http://web1979.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/rip-twitter-2007-2007/ what an entertaining read
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Sphinx

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ Free open-source SQL full-text search engine with decent MySQL integration.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 14, 2007

Fatblogging: I Follow the Zawodny Hacker Diet

http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/14/fatblogging-i-follow-the-zawodny-hacker-diet/ "The Hacker Diet variation by Jeremy was a real simple thing for me, and the results have made me quite happy." Congrats!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

USB Humping Dog Taught to Store Files

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/03/13/usb-humping-dog-taught-to-store-files/ god bless the internets
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

USB Humping Dog Taught to Store Files

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/03/13/usb-humping-dog-taught-to-store-files/ god bless the internets
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

USB Humping Dog Taught to Store Files

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/03/13/usb-humping-dog-taught-to-store-files/ god bless the internets
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Don Dodge on YouTube...and "Linden's Curse"

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/_most_of_you_know.html "We couldn't even get the rights to Warner's catalog, which post-AOLTW merger was part of our own company." That is awesome. I love warped company politics. Sort of.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Photo copiers have hard disks that store scanned images of copied docs...

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/P/PHOTOCOPIER_RISKS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT "the seemingly innocuous machines that are commonly used to spit out copies of tax returns for millions of Americans can retain the data being scanned." aw, crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Allowing HTML and Preventing XSS

http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/mar/allowing-html-and-preventing-xss "One of the most common problems faced by web developers is allowing some HTML without creating XSS vulnerabilities in the process."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

symfony cheat-sheet - Directory Structure and CLI

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deia/402335716/ as a graphic
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Symfony Cheat Sheet

http://andreiabohner.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/symfony-cheat-sheet-estrutura-de-diretorio-e-cli-linha-de-comando/ in multiple languages and formats
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Google hiring at a Mall in Bangalore [pic]

http://flickr.com/photos/mandhar/420900413/ heh... next stop, gas stations and convenience stores!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 13, 2007

Are big product launches necessary?

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/03/13/154/are-big-product-launches-necessary/ "It’s not about noise. It’s about relationships."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Gift Ideas for the Flickr Fanatic

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/12/13/gift-ideas-for-the-flickr-fanatic/ Paul's rounded up a good batch of ideas here
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Social Media Websites in Illustrated Form

http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/731?dupe these are so, so, so true...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Kafka-esque!

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/kafkaesque.html "Google is infrastructure on the net now. They're the source of all the foot traffic. The three words in retail are "location, location, location." The three words online are "search engine optimiziation." It means the same thing."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Yahoo is NOT paying me to say this!

http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/03/yahoo-is-not-paying-me-to-say-this.html "I’m so impressed with the new Yahoo Bookmarks, it’s scary! It’s got a really rich and intuitive user experience - and built for speed & performace!!"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

GlossyBlue WordPress Demo

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/demo/wordpress/ I might have a use for this soon
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

The Two Sides of Twitter: Borderline Obsessive Compulsive and The Person Who Simply Answers The Question

http://www.techipedia.com/2007/03/13/the-two-sides-of-twitter-borderline-obsessive-compulsive-and-the-person-who-simply-answers-the-question/ heh... apparently I have my own "Twitter style"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

OpenID: Too many providers, not enough consumers

http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2007/03/12/openid-too-many-providers-not-enough-consumers/ no shit... being a provider is trivial. being a consumer means giving up lock-in!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

ISPs Are Selling Your Clickstreams! For $5 a Month!

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/03/isps_are_sellin.html fuckers. don't sell MY data without giving me a cut!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 11, 2007

Man Who Plays Devil's Advocate Really Just Wants To Be Asshole

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_plays_devils "Though area graphic designer Derek Sills says he plays devil's advocate to help his friends better understand opinions different from their own, sources close to Sills claim he takes on the dissenting role merely to be an asshole."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Caffeinated Donut Invented

http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/caffeinated_donut_invented "Wouldn't it be easier to just make coffee-soluble doughnuts?"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Aermacchi SF.260

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_SF-260 "The Aermacchi SF.260 is a light aircraft marketed as an aerobatics plane and a military trainer."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Ten Things I Hate About You, Web 2.0

http://annezelenka.com/2007/03/ten-things-i-hate-about-you-web-20 "Getting lots of stuff done is not the way to achieve something important. You could be so busy planning next actions that you miss out on what your real contribution should be."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

2007 Hollister XC Airstrip Survey

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/flying/2007-hollister-xc-airstrip-tour/ Earlier today (March 10th, 2007), Darren Braun and I decided to go chase down a bunch of landing strips for XC flights out of Hollister. This page contains photos of the airstrips we visited, notes for each one, and other observations.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

NWS Salt Lake City Soaring Forecast

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/aviation/SLCSRG.php cool, they do one in Utah too
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

March 10, 2007

Weight Loss service: obese people who will join you at dinner

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/03/10/weight-loss-service-obese-people-who-will-join-you-at-dinner/ "This led to a new idea for a weight loss service: rent out obese people to those who wish to lose weight. Every time you sit down for a meal, your new 300 lb. friends will join you at the table." Hahahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/03/my-yahoo-hits-the-sweet-spot.html "I’ve been waiting for ages for them to do a decent upgrade - and I have been extremely impressed by the most recent one. IMHO it’s the best feed reader out there, complete with all the AJaxy coolness you come not to expect from Yahoo!"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

March 08, 2007

New My Yahoo Signals It Has Abandoned the Geeks

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/03/new_my_yahoo_si.html#comment-62711284 I think Steve is smoking crack on this... do you?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Installing Debian Sarge from a USB memory stick (USB key)

http://d-i.pascal.at/ this is faster than burning a CD
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

"kill -9" rap [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4&mode=related&search= uh... okay
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

March 07, 2007

Verizon PC-5740 EV-DO and D-Link DIR-450

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/03/07/Verizon-PC-5740-EV-DO-and-D-Link-DIR-450 this may come in handy
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

March 06, 2007

Yahoo! Lottery Results

http://lottery.yahoo.com/ that's some old skool yahoo design right there, I tell you
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

OpenID on WordPress.com

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/ Nice job, Simon!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Email is passe

http://www.leahey.com/blog/?p=135 "I’m convinced that not one congressperson ever checks their own email."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Serving Compressed Content from Amazon's S3

http://devblog.famundo.com/articles/2007/03/02/serving-compressed-content-from-amazons-s3 nice
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy

http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2007/03/items-on-amazoncom-that-you-cannot-or.html heh... there's some funny shit in there
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/another_war_wer.html no shit
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

A demo of Pipes with Pasha and Ed

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/03/pipes_demo_pasha_ed.html our Pipes screencast/interview is on-line now. check it out, if that's your sorta thing
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't...

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant "What is it about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I go, there's another asshole with a Mac preaching about how much better Macs are than PCs."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

March 05, 2007

The 50 Most Important People on the Web

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070305/tc_pcworld/129301 HA! this list is all over the map... WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Red Campaign, and Smugness in General

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=365 "People shouldn’t give to charity to get laid or feel superior to those around them. They should do it because it’s the right thing to do."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

mod_evasive

http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/ "mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Confessions of an Empty-Nester

http://www.zillowblog.com/zillow_blog/2007/03/confessions_of_.html the tale of how a couple moved downtowm from the burbs
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Octopart

http://www.octopart.com/ "Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts." if done well, that is awesome!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Who’s Right About The Social Media Revolution — The People Or The Revolutionaries?

http://publishing2.com/2007/03/05/whos-right-about-the-social-media-revolution-the-people-or-the-revolutionaries/ "...if you told the average USA Today user that the redesign made the site more “social,” they’d probably have no idea what you’re talking about..." well, duh.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Three solid Gmail productivity tips

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-solid-gmail-productivity-tips/ good stuff from Matt
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Develop Web applications for local use

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-localwebsrv.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01CGI-Best I love the subhead "Architecture for the single user"... it's so retro in today's world.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

March 04, 2007

Installed Base, Product Redesign, and USA Today

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/04/usa_today_naysa.html "They are a great example of how a company that radically changes a product without sufficiently preparing its installed base risks both..."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Is Search Broken?

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/03/is_search_broke.php yes, it is partially broken. I'm glad someone noticed.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

March 02, 2007

Yahoo ‘Panama’ Siezes Back Share From Google

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/03/02/yahoo-panama-google-share-february-2007/ "Yahoo seized back paid search market share during February 2007 across our client base."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Yarnell Service Center

http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=21315590 another apparently good toyota service shop (this one in mountain view)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Google Reader Optimized Keyboard

http://www.massless.org/?archive=2007/03/google-reader-optimized-keyboard heh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Yahoo's Semel gets a nice bonus

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/02/technology/yahoo/index.htm?section=money_latest "Terry Semel, the chairman and chief executive officer of Internet media firm Yahoo!, will receive an annual bonus of options for 800,000 shares, the company said in a regulatory filing late Friday."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

This Place Sucks - Superfriends [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iugiTx6MbLo It's Office Space for superheros!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

ForeignAffair

http://fahonda.com/ highly rated local shop for honday/acura/toyta/lexus work
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

TIM ATTEMPTS 5 LB BURGER WITH 54 TOPPINGS......IN UNDER 30 MINUTES

http://jimmylin.imeem.com/blogentry/8TViehBk via andrei
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

The Counter

http://www.thecounterburger.com/index.shtml Build Your Own Burger... there's one in Palo Alto
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Redneck Trailer Supplies

http://www.redneck-trailer.com/ "the leading wholesale distributor of trailer supplies" this is for real
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 2, 1995: Enter Yahoo

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72724-0.html?tw=rss.technology "Yahoo, which began life in 1994 as Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web, was the brainchild of a couple of Stanford grad students, Jerry Yang and David Filo."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

March 01, 2007

mplementation Showdown: Y! BBAuth vs OpenID

http://patcavit.com/2007/03/01/implementation-showdown-y-bbauth-vs-openid/ "BBAuth has that annoying extra page every visit but tons of people have Y! accounts. Implementation was also pretty quick and easy."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

I Bought Votes on Digg

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72832-0.html "I can tell you exactly how a pointless blog full of poorly written, incoherent commentary made it to the front page on Digg. I paid people to do it." Ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Man Wins Lottery, Makes Smart Investments

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/20/magazines/fortune/lottery_winnings.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007022807 It's good to see a story on someone who didn't fuck up after winning a lot of money.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM