April 30, 2007

MyBlogLog hiring two engineers

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/mybloglog_hirin.html you could work on the mybloglog team in Berkeley, California...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Pig from Yahoo! Research

http://research.yahoo.com/project/pig "We are creating infrastructure to support ad-hoc analysis of very large data sets. Parallel processing is the name of the game."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

April 29, 2007

Three Minutes with a Chief Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070429/tc_pcworld/131284 nothing terribly new, but interesting none the less
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Multitasking tradeoffs: individual versus group productivity

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/04/25/multitasking-tradeoffs-individual-versus-group-productivity/ "the groups she belongs to optimize themselves by moving tasks around to the members with the right knowledge, skill, and inclination for each task"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

AOL copies Yahoo!

http://www.effingbollocks.com/2007/04/27/aol-copies-yahoo/ "Dude, AOL, go get your own material! What the eff?"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 28, 2007

Slides from ‘Capacity Planning for LAMP’ talk at MySQL Conf 2007

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/04/27/slides-from-capacity-planning-for-lamp-talk-at-mysql-conf-2007/ some good slides from John... I wish I had seen this talk
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Citabria 7GCBC Formation and Aerobatics in New Zealand [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkB_BIguCg well done!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Bob Hoover Flying the F-86 [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRt6UnNzR6I Some excellent flying by legend Bob Hoover
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

April 26, 2007

Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/04/yahoo-pig-and-google-sawzall.html "I have to say, it is good to see Yahoo building these kinds of tools for large scale data manipulation."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2007/04/top_ten_reasons.html there's some real truth in here
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

April 25, 2007

Authors@Google

http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html "The Authors@Google program brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

What is Web 2.0?

http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/7107 "Web 2.0 is a joke, in terms of the way the term is bandied about. The concepts behind the true definition though, and the companies and apps that actually get those concepts implemented, are no laughing matter."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

I am hiring C++ engineers for del.icio.us

http://taha-family.com/blog/2007/04/25/i-am-hiring-c-engineers-for-delicious/ give Abe your resume if you grok C++, links, and want to hack on del.icio.us
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

An Open Letter to the Thunderbird Team

http://wdr1.com/blog/2007/04/24/an-open-letter-to-the-thunderbird-team/ "So, given that, it’d be nice, really fucking nice, if in the new app, Cmd-Shift-M did something other than DELETE MY FUCKING MESSAGE."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

The Gayest Vacation Ever

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/the-gayest-vacation-ever/ "Seriously, have browsed the gay accommodations in Key West? Christ, I’m going to feel like I’m trapped in an 80’s porno movie." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Other handy uses for web history

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/other-handy-uses-for-web-history/ in which you learn that Big Brother can help your wife with her Adobe Illustrator work
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Fresno Yosemite International Airport - Going Solar

http://www.calpilots.org/html/article.php?sid=1767 "Fresno Yosemite International Airport soon will be home to the largest solar power system of any airport in the country..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

National Survey Reveals More than 70% of Americans Don't Know Plastic is Made from Oil: Financial News

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070420/20070420005536.html?.v=1 damn, collectively we're pretty stupid!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 24, 2007

Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown

http://blog.cbcg.net/articles/2007/04/22/python-up-ruby-down-if-that-runtime-dont-work-then-its-bound-to-drizzown an interesting story of how the Ruby runtime ultimately drove one hacker into the arms of Python
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Introducing 3 Maps API/KML Tutorials in Google Code's Knowledge Base

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/04/introducing-3-maps-apikml-tutorials-in.html looks like some good stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

for the ladies

http://sfgirl.typepad.com/thoughts/2007/04/for_the_ladies.html it's all about Female Asset Optimization
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Alexa Walled Garden

http://photomatt.net/2007/04/23/alexa-walled-garden/ "an image tag is not an undocumented API" exactly!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 23, 2007

Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/60924?utm_source=onion_rss_daily "No matter how many times I punch the sales figures into this crappy Tandy desk calculator, it just doesn't add up."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

The Landlord

http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925 an amusing short video of Will Ferrell and a very young landlord. heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Why do you people always say that?

http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2007/04/23/why-do-you-people-always-say-that/ "you know Yahoo is a big company, so…"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Pilot Error, Road Placement Cited In PA-28/SUV Collision

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Pilot_Error_Road_Placement_Cited_In_Accident_195039-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS DOH! 18 feet isn't much clearance
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Cessna 182 Hits Blimp Wire, Three Killed

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Cessna182_BlimpWire_Accident_195026-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS DOH!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

why I will read your blog but not watch your video

http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/2007/04/23/why-i-will-read-your-blog-but-not-watch-your-video/ yeah, what she said
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Authors@Google: Jessica Livingston [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6hoPw5hItY Good video of Jessica's recent talk at Google. Her book is excellent, BTW.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Cats Can Has Grammar

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/04/23/cats_can_has_gr Anil dissects this stuff like nobody else.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco

http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/ in case you need their street address for your visa letter
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Desktop Tower Defense Should Be Banned

http://www.clickdrawshare.com/thegameworm/?p=7 I warned you... :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 21, 2007

Jabiru J250-SP Light Sport

http://www.usjabiru.com/J250%20Introduction.htm an LSA with surprisingly large baggage capacity
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Glastar Kit Plane

http://www.glasairaviation.com/kitcontentglastar.html looks like it has very good performance with the right engine option
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

April 20, 2007

Prime Number Sprial

http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html that's a pretty cool visualization
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288 "Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

The Art of Showing Pure Incompetence at an Unwanted Task

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/102876/the-art-of-showing-pure-incompetence-at-an-unwanted-task "Strategic incompetence isn't about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

chmod 777 web

http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/jasnell?entry=chmod_777_web that is web 2.0
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Stripper Rant

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/145791048.html "Yeah, my tits are real. As real as my affection for you. " Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Google announces new AJAX Feed API

http://ajaxian.com/archives/google-announces-new-ajax-feed-api "Ajax developers now have a clean way to access public feeds on any domain, and get access to the content in a uniform way."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

The Name Game

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/04/20/the-name-game/ "The kid will never remember the bedding, but they’re pretty much stuck with the name for their whole life." See the 13 rules they're using...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Lifetime free SmugMug Pro accounts to developers

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/04/20/lifetime-free-pro-accounts-to-developers/ "It’s pretty simple: Want to build something on SmugMug’s API? You’ll get a lifetime free Pro account ($150/year value) for doing so." Excellent idea! Yahoo Mail, are you listening?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Google Web History - Good and Scary

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/04/20/google_web_hist "...this is going to give people the heebie-jeebies in a way that we're probably only used to getting from Microsoft."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Feisty Fawn

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/04/20/Feisty-Fawn "Downloaded and did a clean install of Feisty Fawn on my T42p. Everything has gone smoothly out of the box -- wireless, USB, hibernate, the works."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Blackberry Outage Forces Human Contact in Silicon Valley

http://sanjoseinside.com/sji/blog/entries/blackberry_outage_forces_human_contact_in_silicon_valley/ hahaahahahaahahaa
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 19, 2007

Mailplane

http://mailplaneapp.com/ "Brings Gmail to your Mac desktop" What a good idea!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Yahoo Exec: It's Not Who's Hot, It's Companies That Last

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070419/tc_cmp/199100606 "You never, ever count Microsoft out."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Unavoiable Decisions with Yahoo! Messenger

http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-20/428 this bugs the shit out of me too, so I just avoid running messenger most of the time. fewer distractions that way anyway
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

"remove the web developer and the web gets developed"

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/remove_the_web.html "Ease of use can lead to new uses..." No doubt.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Nicholas Carr's Blog: Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php I had no idea that second life required that much power!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Yahoo! Pipes Keynote

http://www.theopenforce.com/2007/04/yahoo_pipes_key.html "I expect Yahoo! Pipes will have a huge impact in inspiring other forms of mashups inside and outside the Enterprise."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Pop-ups ads tricking people into monthly charges

http://blog.wesabe.com/index.php/2007/04/19/pop-ups-ads-tricking-people-into-monthly-charges/ Fandango is officially evil. Very, very evil!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Pololu Robotics and Electronics

http://www.pololu.com/ might be a good place to get parts for an idea I have
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Outlook 2007: downgrade no longer

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/19.html "The only possible explanation is that someone on the Outlook team is getting paid a bonus for convincing people to switch to Gmail." Classic!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Click Fraud Getting Worse, Especially on Content Networks

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/04/click_fraud_get.html "industry-wide click fraud increased modestly in Q1 to its highest level ever" ahh, the wild west lives on...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Michael Dell Uses Ubuntu

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/biographies/en/msd_computers?c=us&l=en&s=corp apparently so... huh. I had him pegged as a windows guy
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Guys, I owe you an apology

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/syr/125148813.html A woman struggles to understand other women and finally understands how men feel. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Why Are Americans Afraid of Being Naked?

http://www.alternet.org/story/50732/ probably because they're overweight...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ shiny new bits available now
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 18, 2007

Hack Day in London

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/04/hack_day_london.html That's right! We're teaming up with the BBC and doing an Open Hack Day in London.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Atompub Interop Lessons

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/04/17/Interop-Conclusions "Judging by my email, there are a bunch of startups hacking together one side or another of the protocol. Draw your own conclusions, but I think it’s obvious."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Hug a Yahoo Today

http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2007/04/hug-a-yahoo-today.html "Even for a former employee it is becoming hard to have confidence in the growth story being told..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Yay Us!

http://ycoolthing.com/archives/331/yay-us a whole bunch of yahoo stuff got nominated for webbies this year
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Yahoo: Q1 Should Be The Trough

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/04/yahoo_q1_should.html "Overall, it sounds as though the company is where it expected to be: poised for a year of accelerating if less-than-thrilling revenue growth."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Yahoo's Results Get Dumped On

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/17/yahoos_results.html "This is still a solid turnaround story, with Panama's near-term contribution underestimated, and the potential for improved search share and traffic monetization all there as well."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 17, 2007

» Is Microsoft’s Cloud OS actually a Cloud DB?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=394 "Cloud OS" is a funny name...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

California Temperatures on the Rise

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17616 A nice visualization from NASA
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

I Can Fix the Water "Shortage" in Five Minutes

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/i_can_fix_the_w.html "I know that it’s hard to believe, but there really are some people out there who buy less of something if the price is higher."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

The Real Reason Google Doesn't Like Paid Links

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/13941 "The problem is that Google wants to broker all ad deals, and many forms of paid links are more efficient than AdWords is. If that news gets out, AdWords and Google crumble." I'm not sure I buy that argument completely...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

How to report paid links

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/ judging by the number of comments, you just leave a comment on Matt's blog... heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Tehachapi Skywatch

http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/ViewPost/19659 "While Tehachapi Municipal serves general aviation aircraft, Mountain Valley serves primarily as a gliderport, towing gliders up to altitude and then releasing them for non-powered soaring along the ridges of the Tehachapi Mountains and beyond."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

What's Happening to Our Lovely Cult?

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/04/cultofmac_0417 "The Apple Store used to be a geek hangout: somewhere you could happily mingle with fellow Mac nerds. These days, it's full of teenage mall rats and iPod noobs." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Airstrip plans to move if homes glide in

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/onset?id=47102&template=article.html It looks like Williams Soaring may finally be getting serious about a move...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

April 16, 2007

Working for The Man

http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/122 "If it's not what you love, don't do it."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Better Gmail (Firefox extension)

http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-extension-251923.php "To save you the time, I've compiled the best Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into one handy Firefox extension, called Better Gmail."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Willow Glen Bicycles

http://willowglenbicycles.com/ I need to call them about a bike tune up...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Living in a bubble - a blogosphere reality check

http://www.winextra.com/2007/04/15/living-in-a-bubble-a-blogosphere-reality-check/ "The reality is though that outside of our little insular world of blogs and co-presence what we do has no importance." Amen to that...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Virginia Tech shootings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shootings Wikipedia works fast!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive into mark]

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation hahahaha... Mark is stirring the pot a bit. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

For Sale: One Useless Cat

http://bertc.com/uselessCat.htm hey, that even looks like one of my cats... when it was 6 years younger.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

[GDataService fetch:myFeed]

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2007/04/gdataservice-fetchmyfeed.html "Today, we're making our Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library available as an open-source project. Initially, the framework supports Google Base, Calendar, Spreadsheets, and generic Atom feeds like Blogger."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Twitter Spellcheck with Yahoo Spelling Suggestion API

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/04/twitter_spellch.html you know you need it...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Lifecasting?

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/04/pirillo_scoble_.html "I stuck with Winer for a while, until his boredom with the medium convinced me that I should be bored and forced me to turn away." That is funny on so many levels.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics

http://www.robotreplay.com/ now *that's* what I call spyware!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

April 15, 2007

Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16soft.html?ex=1334376000&en=e67b8532cbba5ba8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss this is just classic... why doesn't microsoft just, you know... COMPETE instead of crying about it?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Companies want scrutiny of Google-DoubleClick deal

http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6176180.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Dodgeball founders leave Google and that leaves Dodgeball probably dead....

http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/04/13228.html "Then why did Google buy Dodgeball exactly? ... Why did they even bother?" Indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Google Wants to Tell You How to Run Your Website

http://seoclass.com/blog/google-tells-you-how-to-run-your-website/ "While Google may be the start page for the internet, they aren’t a body of elected officials appointed to protect our interests on the web." Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You've Ever Had

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/280998378.html that's a big list!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

The Church Web Site That's More Like A Movie Trailer

http://www.newbirth.org/ WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Glider makes forced landing in city park

http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3730103&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= what, no pictures?
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Cat Killing?

http://thegoodreverend.blogspot.com/2005/07/cat-killing.html "Far from a one-to-one correlation, there are 5401.5 masturbation sessions for every single kitten death. This means that the average American man can masturbate regularly for 22.5 years before he is responsible for the death of a single kitten."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

How Can So Many PHD’s Be So Wrong

http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/how-can-so-many-phds-be-so-wrong/ "Google built an algorthym that placed value on links, so is it any wonder that an economy built upon selling those links sprouted up?"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

April 14, 2007

Rat's Chocolate Preference - The Results

http://www.mayasmom.com/journal/marcus/17679/rats_chocolate_preference_-_the_results they don't like york pepermint patties
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

You still think labels are all that?

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2007/04/13/you-still-think-labels-are-all-that/ "I thought labels were supposed to make things easier to find. Now you need labels just to find your labels."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Suggest a Gmail Feature

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest "Have Gmail do my laundry" is on the list but "remove those stupid ads" is not. Weird.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

She's Warm Between The Legs

http://flickr.com/photos/g2slp/219863054/ That's my caption for this photo. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

April 13, 2007

GoogleClick and Cutting Off Microsoft's Air Supply

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/13/googleclick_and.html "Oh, I can't wait to see what happens when Yahoo is in play sometime this year."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Stop calling it "war"

http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1215 "Pardon me, but the “war” in Iraq ended several years ago, when all of their troops surrendered. What we have there now is a military occupation."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

My new favorite word.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2007/04/13/my-new-favorite-word/ "You want to hear a kindergardener calling you an asshat? I didn’t think so."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Hangzhou (China)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou I'll be going here in May to talk about APIs and stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Faceball!

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/04/faceball.html I recently learned of this game but have not played yet.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Google to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070413/tc_nm/doubleclick_google_dc heh... but amazon still has 1-click!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Retarted Childrens Thirft Store [photo]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokenface/45482113/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

April 12, 2007

The Ethics of Valleywag

http://www.feedblog.org/2007/04/the_ethics_of_v.html "a certain Valleywag employee had picked up my cell phone and started going through it looking at my contacts"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 11, 2007

Smoking Yahoo's Pipes (Orlando Weekly)

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=11477 "I like the idea of turning all the data on the web into my raw material, to do with what I please. That’s the beautiful part of Pipes."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

Google Faces Brain Drain As Anniversaries Hit

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/898498/google_faces_brain_drain_as_anniversaries_hit/index.html well, duh...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

San Jose City Hall Falcons

http://www.sanjoseca.gov/Falcons/index.asp "These are the two peregrine falcons that moved to Downtown San José in 2004-05, but have made City Hall home. City employees have named them (Santa) Clara and Jose (Fernando.)" With a webcam even!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Computer Makers Rape Their Customers

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20070405.html "The first day of owning an expensive new gadget should be a pleasure, not a hassle." Indeed. This is completely out of control these days...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

3D Missle Game

http://70.85.109.171/albino_flash010/tunnl(www.albinoblacksheep.com).swf Someone needs to remove all games from the Internets, otherwise I may discover and play them
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Butte blast blamed on leaking gas

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/10/news/state/65-blast.txt you can't make up headlines this good
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Why I fired my Secretary

http://halder.in/funny/secretary.html awesome story
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Why I Gave Up Beans

http://halder.in/funny/beans.html another great story if you have a 13 year old boy's sense of humor. Luckily part of me does.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

The Invisible Grip

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0806INFLUENCE_81?id=16feyamAlpTZtFvMbDT2 "The eye contact changed all that. I'd compare it to using a Sawzall for the first time, that moment you realize you could cut through pretty much any wall in the world if you had the right blade."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

How come white people don't all look alike?

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_099.html I've always wondered that too....
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Tiled Windows Are the Way of the Future

http://blog.persistent.info/2007/04/tiled-windows-are-way-of-future.html "since I now have 30 inch displays at both home and work, I've been tiling my windows"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Getting hitched

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2007/04/11/getting-hitched/ Chad's Big Day is Friday... congrats!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

jwz - 6502asm.com

http://jwz.livejournal.com/750872.html "I now demand that someone implement JavaScript in xscreensaver so that it can run 6502 demos."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Announcing: Ohio Smoking Ban Violation Registry

http://www.joshwoodward.com/d/1678.html "I'm launching a new website that tracks businesses who are violating the state-wide smoking ban that was passed last fall."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

April 10, 2007

Too busy to blog? Count your keystrokes.

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/04/10/too-busy-to-blog-count-your-keystrokes/ "From this perspective, blogging is a communication pattern that optimizes for the amount of awareness and influence that each keystroke can possibly yield."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

What is ZFS?

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ basically, it's a kick ass filesystem... lots more details on this page
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

April 09, 2007

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447527&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true Cats secretly run the world. This is simply more proof of that fact.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Orgies are safer than driving

http://projectshave.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/orgies-are-safer-than-driving/ but what if you drive to the orgy?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Student's widget wins award

http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2007/04/09/News/Students.Widget.Wins.Award-2829363.shtml%20 "Recently, Schechter adapted the slide rule to the computer screen, and won first place with his invention of a slide rule widget at the first Yahoo! University Hack Day."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Wifi-Enabled SanDisk Sansa Connect Features Yahoo! Music Unlimited, LAUNCHcast, Messenger, and Flickr

http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/04/09/wifi-enabled-sandisk-sansa-connect-features-yahoo-music-unlimited-launchcast-messenger-and-flickr/ Ian lays it all out
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

April 07, 2007

Microsoft is Dead

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html I love it when Paul stirs the pot. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

'Getting Things Done' In 60 Seconds

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3669616 there, now you don't need to buy the book. heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Jaiku

http://jaiku.com/ apparently a twitter clone
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

April 06, 2007

MySQL Interface to Amazon S3

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/04/mysql_interface.html that totall kicks ass! I hope someone presents this at the MySQL Conference
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

The Mountain Winery 2007 Concert Series

http://www.mountainwinery.com/schedule/schedule.html The Mountain Winery 2007 Concert Series
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

GOOG stock gets downgraded - and Powerset is mentioned as one of the reasons

http://www.blognewcomb.com/blog/2007/04/goog_get_downgraded_and_powers.html GOOG stock gets downgraded - and Powerset is mentioned as one of the reasons
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

UBS Analysis of Comscore Search Numbers for Feb

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003507.php "Google's sponsored clicks were down 3% m/m, up 45% y/y, and 6% q/q. Yahoo's were up 4% m/m, up 25% y/y, and 4% q/q."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Woodstock 2.0 Expo

http://www.woodstock2expo.com/ "...a unique and compelling two-day event that brings together the best and brightest of the social media community. We are inspired by un-conference conferences like Gnomedex, Community Next and BlogHer..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Woodstock 2.0 Expo

http://dogballs.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/03/woodstock_20.html "The Woodstock Film Festival has agreed to partner with me to develop a conference that will begin one day before the main festival and be dedicated to the internet topics that most interest me..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Creating Dynamic Client-side Maps Mashups with Google Spreadsheets

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/creating-dynamic-client-side-maps.html "Here's the coolest part though - I didn't code this map. My Spreadsheets->Map wizard did."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Yahoo! Digs Panama

http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/05/yahoo-panama-update-markets-equity-cx_rs_0405markets18.html?partner=yahootix "Noto raised his 2007 revenue estimate by 2% to 3%, and his earnings per share forecast to 94 cents from 91 cents."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

April 05, 2007

Schweizer 1-26: Birth of the One-Design Sailplane

http://www.retrothing.com/2007/04/schweizer_126_b.html a nice little tribute to the 1-26 on Retro Thing
Posted by jzawodn at 04:53 PM

Google Using YUI Grids CSS

http://www.zachleat.com/web/2007/04/05/google-using-yui-grids-css/ all your homepage layout are belong to YUI
Posted by jzawodn at 04:53 PM

This Slide Rule Hack That Rules Them All

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/04/this_slide_rule.html "Greg Schechter (pictured with the judges above) from UIUC walked away with the trophy. His slide rule widget (yes, slide rules) and entertaining presentation style put him at the top of our list."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:53 PM

bagel to go [photo]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piwonka/384203161 Ingenious reuse of CD spindle package... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

A fresh, new look for AdSense ads

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/04/fresh-new-look-for-adsense-ads.html new ads are a bit more stealthy...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Why You Thought Yahoo! Search Sucked (and Why You Might Now Notice it Doesn’t)

http://wdr1.com/blog/2007/04/04/why-you-thought-yahoo-search-sucked-and-why-you-might-now-notice-it-doesnt/ "I worked at Yahoo for five years... And for five years I used Google."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:20 AM

10 Things I Hate About My MacBook Pro

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/04/04/10-things-i-hate-about-my-macbook-pro/ "Some of these things they don’t tell you about before you buy it and others just take a while to notice."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:18 AM

April 04, 2007

Ur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur "Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be one of the earliest known civilizations in world history."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Less of Me to Love

http://schizohedron.blogspot.com/2007/04/less-of-me-to-love.html "At the beginning of this year, I weighed 238. I downloaded Jeremy Zawodny's weight loss/diet spreadsheet to make my progress graphic."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Silent Wings Soaring Simulator

http://www.silentwings.no/ wow, this could consume even more of my spare time than desktop tower defense
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

American Legend Aircraft Services Company Announced

http://www.legend.aero/news.cfm?id=37 The new company will provide aircraft restoration services on vintage tube-and-fabric aircraft, including: the Piper J-3, PA-11 and Super Cubs; Aeronca Champ, Chief and later Citabria; Luscombe Monocoupe through 8 series; Taylorcraft, Waco and Steerman am
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The Coop - MozillaWiki

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/The_Coop "The Coop will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends." Interesting... very interesting.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Monster Muck Mashup - Mass Video Conversion Using AWS

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=691 "In this article, we're going to build a video conversion service using the AWS building blocks. This service accepts AVI format video files as an input and produces MPEG4 files as an output."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Now Straight Porn, That Would Have Been Different…

http://wdr1.com/blog/2007/04/03/now-straight-porn-that-would-have-been-different/ "So apparently the prior tenant of my apartment was gay." But his mail forwarding just ended. Uh oh!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Plug Your Yahoo Pipe into FeedBurner

http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2007/04/03/plug-your-yahoo-pipe-into-feedburner/ just what you'd expect to be able to do
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

alpha (beta)

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ a new yahoo search interface from our friends down under
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Plug Your Yahoo Pipe into FeedBurner

http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2007/04/03/plug-your-yahoo-pipe-into-feedburner/ just what you'd expect to be able to do
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

April 03, 2007

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Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

yahoo mail api

http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2007/04/yahoo-mail-api.html "Some or all of these are quite hard problems. But becoming a defacto platform is hard. The good news is yahoo! is more than halfway there."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

April 02, 2007

Landing A Glider [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L28DNthc0cA That's David Weekly in the front of Grob N3836L and me flying from the back seat.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Screencast of The Week: Yahoo and Renkoo

http://www.techsmith.com/community/blogcomments.asp?thread=332 "I like this screencast because of the style of the recording. The screencast discussion was informal, but did a great job at illustrating Renkoo..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 01, 2007

FOR SALE: Panasonic 27" TV

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/ele/304370313.html buy my old TV... you know you want to!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Postgres Engine for MySQL Released

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/01/1448207&from=rss "Now PostgreSQL can add its self to the list of databases who have contributed a storage engine to MySQL." Is it April already?! Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Fête

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte "Fête is a French word meaning festival or holiday, which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM