May 31, 2007

Internet Resources for Flying to Canada

http://www.airaffair.com/Features/intl-canada.html I'm hatching a plan...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Code is our enemy

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/code_is_our_enemy.html Skrenta speaks the truth on this... (and many things)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

squirrels with lightsabers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80183154@N00/37505360/ god bless the internets...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Google Gears API Developer's Guide

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ very interesting stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Ken's Favorite Silicon Valley Hikes

http://www.rahul.net/kenton/fun/sbay-hiking.html "I live and work in Silicon Valley. Here's a list of some of my favorite hikes within an hour or so of my home. This is roughly the San Francisco peninsula south to San Jose and Santa Cruz"
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

NOAA - National Weather Service - XML data feeds - Current Conditions

http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/seek.php?state=ca&Find=Find lots of weather sites in XML from the NWS
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Penn State | Online Certificate in Weather Forecasting

http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/WeatherForecastingCertificate_WeatherForecasting.shtml This looks like a very interesting set of courses...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 30, 2007

Eleven years, 12,000 Yahoos, and one great ride

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/30/eleven-years-12000-yahoos-and-one-great-ride/ It's official... Zod (Yahoo's CTO) is leaving after 11 years.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

That Vision Thing

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/visionthing "It's much harder being a misanthrope when you can see people's faces." Indeed it is...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Google's Lag Lingers

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techstockupdate/10359072.html "Five full months into 2007, Google shares are on track to be the worst performer among Internet giants this year."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

The Claw - Aircraft Achoring System - Light Aircraft Tiedowns

http://www.huntingsolutionsusa.com/products/claw.php This is a very good tie-down system for small airplanes and gliders.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

'tie' considered harmful [perl]

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/tie_considered_harmful.html at least where performance and ongoing maintenance are concerned, yeah
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

GeoPress | GeoRSS :: Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds

http://georss.org/geopress "GeoPress is a WordPress and MovableType plugin that allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts." Pretty cool...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

Glider Survival Kit

http://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/ there are some very good suggestions on this list
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

May 29, 2007

Bitterwasser Lodge & Flying Centre Namibia

http://www.traveltonamibia.com/bitterwasser.htm If you want to soar the Kalahari Desert, this is the place to go...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Telestial.com - Prepaid SIM Cards

http://www.telestial.com/sim_cards.php one source for International Roaming Pre-Paid SIM Cards
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Talk Abroad SIM Card for International Cell Phone Communication

http://www.cellularabroad.com/cellAbroadppsc.php another source for International Roaming Pre-Paid SIM Cards
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Global SIM / International SIM from 0044

http://www.0044.co.uk/global-sim-card.htm# another source for International Roaming Pre-Paid SIM Cards
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

28 New Exoplanets Announced

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1285 holy crap! there are a lot of planets running around outside our solar system these days. that's most excellent.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Google buys anti-malware browser virtualization startup

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=241 interesting idea...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

The Algorithm Is Offensive

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/the-algorithm-is-offensive/ "What in the world is Ask thinking? What sort of warped company uses the name of a terrorist in an effort to increase market share for a search engine?"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Prepaid SIM Card FAQs

http://www.planetomni.com/FAQ_sim.shtml there's some good info here, especially on local vs. intl SIM cards
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil?

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/193/what-would-happen-if-you-bought-25-bottles-of-nyquil "What the hell is with all the Nyquil?"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

May 28, 2007

GeoCommons

http://www.geocommons.com/ "Explore, Create & Share Intelligent Maps and Geographic Data" Pretty cool stuff.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

Digital Photography Safaris to Africa - 2007 Safaris

http://www.eyesonafrica.net/digital_safari.htm that would be a lot of fun
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

May 26, 2007

Soaring to the Border

http://www.freelancenews.com/news/contentview.asp?c=215255 "Rupp and his fellow pilots are aiming to fly farther south than normal: the U.S.-Mexico border. If they succeed, they'll set a new record for flying out of Hollister."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Why I don’t want funding

http://breasy.com/blog/2007/05/26/why-i-dont-want-funding/ "The blogosphere showers attention on every little startup that raises huge amounts of VC money. They make it seem like it’s some sort of accomplishment. It’s not."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Could Open Email Work for You?

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/could_open_emai.html "So much of working online involves deciding what's public and what's private." Indeed.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Some Community Tips for 2007

http://fortuito.us/2007/05/some_community_tips_for_2007 smart stuff from Matt (as usual)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Bremelanotide (PT-141)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremelanotide "It is the only known synthetic aphrodisiac. Unlike Viagra and other related medications, it does not act upon the vascular system, but directly increases sexual desire." Biology is impressive, no?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

May 25, 2007

Desktop Tower Defense News

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/News.asp holy crap! a version 1.5 is underway
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Shoreline Lake: Aquatic Center and Café

http://www.shorelinelake.com/ The Lakeside Cafe is a good place for lunch when the weather is nice.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

The Final Days of Google

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070524_002134.html "Google is sowing the seeds of its own eventual destruction. It can't help doing so."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Google AdSense for Domains

http://www.google.com/domainpark/ and by "domains" they mean "squatters" I guess.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Glider Lands in River in New York

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=45&id=54779 Heh. Love the pictures.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

May 24, 2007

867-5309/Jenny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309 wow! Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to 867-5309. Now that's cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Lightning Destroys Statue of Jesus

http://www.feedblog.org/2007/05/lightning_destr.html hahahahahaahahahhhahahahhhahah!!!!1!!!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

ACR ResQFix 406 GPS Personal Locator Beacon

http://www.life-raft.com/product.asp?Product_Id=243452&d_id=12052&l1=12052&l2= I should get one of these to replace my old, big, non-GPS enabled personal ELT
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Ok, Google Analytics, I take it back

http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2007/05/22/ok-google-analytics-i-take-it-back/ "Jeffrey Veen and the whole Analytics + MeasureMap team really came together and created a beautiful, functional, and useful analytics package."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Planning a trip to Europe

http://overstated.net/2007/05/23/planning-a-trip-to-europe some good travel planning tips from Cameron
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

hubris

http://sfgirl.typepad.com/thoughts/2007/05/hubris.html "is the wsj really that dense? facebook is not open. facebook is closed."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Living the startup life II

http://breasy.com/blog/2007/05/22/living-the-startup-life-ii/ 'The only thing worse than writing your own damn login page is writing your own damn “forgot my password” page.'
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Mobouy.com

http://www.mobouy.com/ make you own blabber :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Could Viagra Put the Brakes on Jet Lag?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070523/hl_hsn/couldviagraputthebrakesonjetlag heh... I could have used this a few days ago...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Google Investing in Company Started by Co-Founder’s Wife - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/technology/23google.html?ex=1337572800&en=8edf1f0caf9d00fc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss good to see they got funding and not at all surprising that some of it came from Google
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

May 23, 2007

Google & Dell's Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire

http://searchengineland.com/070523-083042.php as well it should...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Google Can’t Google?

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1047 "Maybe I can do all of this while balancing on a Segway and sipping an Odwalla, just to make it challenging." Been there, done that.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

May 20, 2007

Sun Honeymoon Update: Storage

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/16/sun-honeymoon-update-storage/ "So now we’ve got fantastic Sun servers attached to fantastic Dell storage. And our little franken-servers are as happy as can be."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Scaling Facebook, Hi5 with memcached

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/scaling_facebook_hi5_with_memc.html "The gradual realization that the DB is not the entire back-end of the app, but a severely throughput-limited component stuck on a single box..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

China International Developer Conference

http://freizl.blogspot.com/2007/05/china-international-developer.html "And the second guy is Jermy Zawodny,also a extreme famous from Yahoo Inc. and an expert in Yahoo search engine." Woohoo! I get to be extreme famous! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 AM

It’s 2007. Do you know where your spec is?

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/05/16/hilarity-ensues "This problem actually occurred to me in passing. Then I took a nice satisfying shit and forgot all about it." Mark writes things I wish I could. Hmm. I should fix that. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 AM

Amish Use Lots of Solar Power

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/amish_are_ultim.html well, who woulda thought?
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 AM

ITA Software: Trip Planner

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego interesting approach to finding the flight you want, pointed to by Esther Dyson
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 AM

Kayak.com

http://www.kayak.com/ "Cheap Airfare, Hotel Reservations, Car Rentals" in theory, at least... I may give it a try sometime
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 AM

May 19, 2007

flickrSLiDR - My Flickr Slideshow Embedding Tool

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/05/18/flickrslidr-my-flickr-slideshow-embedding-tool/ You can has slideshow!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

May 18, 2007

Lightning

http://toni.schneidersf.com/2007/05/17/lightning/ "Corel simply decided that they wanted to support WordPress and used our open APIs to do it. No business development back and forth, no contracts, no friction. They just implemented it and contacted us a couple of days ago to give us a heads up."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 AM

Crime data stories

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/05/17/175/crime-data-stories/ "I’m convinced the answer is in the data that is already being collected in various government crime databases. And I’m sure the answer is related to gun access."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 AM

Mister Wong, the Offensive Social Bookmarking Portal

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/mister-wong-the-offensive-social-bookmarking-portal/ "It’s like the Ask Jeeves butler and Uncle Ben had a illegitimate Asian coolie son."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 AM

Working at Google vs. Working at Meetup

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg2z5whw_41cb322p heh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 AM

May 17, 2007

Hack Day Badges

http://hackday.org/badges/ "Want to show off that you're coming to Hack Day? Cut and paste the following code onto your site and the badge will magically appear!"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

May 15, 2007

Jonathan Schwartz on Free Software

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_we_did "no amount of fear can stop the rise of free media, or free software (they are the same, after all). The community is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company." Well said!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Amazing Gliding Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumO0ZHwAro a nice youtube video showing several low passes, fast and low flying, clouds, etc.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

London’s Hacking — and YUI’s Nate Koechley Will Be There

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/05/14/londons-hacking/ YUI love for Open Hack Day London
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten?printable=true a good New Yorker story on commuting
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The Beerbelly

http://thebeerbelly.com/ I'm surprised it took this long for someone to invent such a container
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

U.S. Dollar to Chinese Yuan Exchange Rate - Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=USD&to=CNY&submit=Convert now I know what my money will be worth in China. Sort of. The trend on that chart is disturbing...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Out of Fuel Killer

http://www.feedblog.org/2007/05/out_of_fuel_kil.html a cross between linux kernel and pilot humor... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

May 14, 2007

Telepresence

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/05/testdriving_tel.html meeting room of the future? could be... in fact, this could be in your living room (or home office) once the costs come down
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Yahoo & the Future of MyBlogLog?

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yahoo-the-future-of-mybloglog/4909/ "That’s the frustration with Yahoo. For every smart move they make ... they seem to never follow through because of slow movement from within or the fear of creating something too advanced for the bulk of their registered members..."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Breakdown in MySQL Enterprise process

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/05/14/breakdown-in-mysql-enterprise-process/ MySQL's community vs. enterprise is like RedHat vs. Fedora but kind of with the roles reversed. That's could lead to a lot of confusion and mis-managed expectation, I think...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Four Words for Microsoft

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/05/13/Four-Words "Litigate or shut up."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Hangzhou travel guide - Wikitravel

http://wikitravel.org/en/Hangzhou lots of good info here bout Hangzhou
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

May 13, 2007

Lightroom and Open Source

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/05/13/Lightroom-OSS "I guess the conclusion is obvious: for the foreseeable future, both models of software building and marketing are going to march along; neither is doomed."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

A Conversation with David Weinberger [video]

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=514373 an excellent discussion with David and Bradley Horowitz about David's new book, recorded at Yahoo
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Give Hammer a break

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/give_hammer_a_break.html "Commenters should keep in mind that this is a real guy they're talking about."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

MC Hammer Blog

http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ MC Mammer has a blog? Who'd have thought...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Music of the Spheres Concerts

http://www.ucolick.org/public/music.html "Lick Observatory presents a summer concert series which benefits the Lick Observatory Visitors Program. Talks by our famous research astronomers begin right after the music. Viewing through the 36-inch telescope follows, weather permitting."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion?

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/why_doesnt_micr.html I think there are many reasons for this...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

George W. Bush: Destroying America’s Aviation Industry

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/05/11/george-w-bush-destroying-americas-aviation-industry/ Philip's take on the FAA's proposed "user fees" system to fund our nation's air traffic system
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

May 12, 2007

"The Answer is NOT always C"

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1730017 especially on a true/false test!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

May 11, 2007

Flickr: The Slave Leia Appreciation Society Pool

http://flickr.com/groups/65038850@N00/pool/ wow, there's a group for everything on flickr!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

San Francisco Fleet Week 2007

http://fleetweek.us/fleetweek the blue angles are back in town in October!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Web 2.0 Law #1

http://www.gravitonic.com/blog/archives/000404.html "As the number of mashups increases, the probability of a new mashup not using Flickr approaches 0."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Asa on Software Development

http://www.schemer.com/bourea/journal/archives/000293.html "Based upon the development tools Microsoft is providing developers these days, it fortunes won’t be so good in a couple decades."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 10, 2007

kottke.org banned from Technorati top 100?

http://www.kottke.org/07/05/kottke-banned-from-technorati "as the company is attempting to offer an authentic picture of the blogosphere, this doesn't seem like the type of rigor and accuracy that should send reputable media sources..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

God Help Me, I Made A LOLCAT

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002043.html hahahahaha... someone get this man a bridge
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6182707.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news looks like a couple of good hires
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Jewish Girl Prank Calls Her Parents [audio]

http://fuvoo.com/FuvooPermaLink.aspx?PostID=632 this was quite amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 - Lifehacker

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/replace-windows-explorer-with-xplorer2-258730.php Xplorer2 looks to be quite handy... I wish it had SCP/SFTP support.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

quality of Google searches?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/05/09/quality_of_goog.html "has the quality of Google search gone downhill in the last few months or is it just me?" It is not just you, unfortunately...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

bread

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/paris2007/bread.html "The nice woman will apologize that the bread is still warm and it is necessary to shrug and look just a little sad. Because secretly you both know that you're going to run home and immediately eat half of it..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/09/amazing-lifehack-pack-a-starter-pistol-to-deter-luggage-theft/ that's a damned good idea... but what if *everyone* did it?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Giving up on Microsoft?

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/giving_up_on_microsoft.html "...there don't seem to be many web startups running on a microsoft platform. When they do crop up you know their tech isn't likely to be very strong." Indeed.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

what kind of traffic can you get without pictures?

http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/2007/05/09/stats/ "the best way to get visitors is to have good content, because then you also keep visitors." indeed...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Microsoft oPhone [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazA77xcf0A damn that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 AM

May 09, 2007

On iostat, disk latency; iohist onward!

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/05/08/on-iostat-disk-latency-iohist-onward/ "What I really wanted is a histogram of the reads and writes (separately, please!) for the given device. I hacked up a quick script to do that, and noticed how incredibly useful it is."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

10 Attributes of Really Lazy People

http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/05/10-attributes-of-really-lazy-people.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

How to talk to the press

http://fortuito.us/2007/05/how_to_talk_to_the_press "Remember that being interviewed is entirely a volunteer effort on your part."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Rails Lessons

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/05/08/Rails-Soundbite "Rails isn’t going to sweep the other Web technologies away. But those other technologies are learning its lessons; so it’s worth checking out." Bingo!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

May 08, 2007

Startup Camp 2 - a photoset on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/sets/72157600192054978/ "Two possible approaches to trade-show presence: (1) send people. (2) send blinking LEDs." Hahahaha...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Google preparing to police web

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/driveby_malware.php 'Google will use new software to automatically identify compromised web pages in its database and label them as "potentially harmful" in its search results.' I've been wondering when that might happen...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

phps3tk - Amazon S3 PHP Toolkit

http://www.edoceo.com/creo/phps3tk/ "This is yet another set of PHP scripts for S3. It's primary difference from other packages is the us of the CURL functions to reduce memory usage when PUTing or GETing large files."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Not Goodbye; Hello!

http://gregcohn.com/blog/personal/2007/05/not-goodbye-hello/ "Starting this week, I’m in a new Yahoo! role, as part of the business team supporting platform and incubation teams like MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Developer Network, Pipes, Brickhouse, and Advanced Products." Welcome, Greg!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

How does Powerset Track Competitors?

http://www.blognewcomb.com/blog/2007/05/how_does_powerset_track_compet.html Using Twiki, of course! Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Yahoo Auctions Ending Their Run

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/05/08/yahoo-auctions-ending-their-run "In June, Yahoo will give up competing with eBay and other auction sites in the US and Canada by shuttering Yahoo Auctions." Oh, I have a story to tell about this someday. It happened when I interviewed at Yahoo in 1999...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Yahoo! Bets on Poker

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/05/yahoo_bets_on_p.html "Lost in the Yahoo-Microsoft hullabaloo last week was Yahoo!'s entrance into the lucrative online poker industry."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

My life without Google

http://www.centernetworks.com/my-life-without-google "I've actually started to enjoy Yahoo!, as their search results are relevant and they have a wide array of internet services to deal with."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Why Microsoft Can't Buy Yahoo and "Just Be GE"

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/05/why_microsoft_c.html "One reason Microsoft has struggled for twelve years with its Internet business is that it has always managed the business with an eye to protecting and/or augmenting its core desktop monopoly."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

May 07, 2007

Review: Sonos Digital Music System

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/05/07/review-sonos-digital-music-system/ Paull does a good review of the Sonos
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Job Announcement: The YUI Team Is Hiring an Engineer To Work on Firebug

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/05/07/firebug/ come to Yahoo and work on Firebug... you know you want to!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

A Chat with Aaron Swartz

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html a worthwhile interview to read if you're a fan of Aaron
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

79 Percent Of Americans Missing The Point Entirely

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29245 "the tendency of Americans to really just not get it transcends all boundaries of class, color, religion, sexual orientation, and political persuasion..." hahahaha...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

http://searchengineland.com/070507-095250.php uh.... no shit.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Windows Live Hotmail Debuts

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/07/windows-live-hotmail-debuts/ "My only question is why didn’t Microsoft build on the wonderful foundation that is Silverlight." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Switching Back

http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2007/05/06/switching-back/ "I didn’t expect it to be like this, I didn’t want Vista to be this good - I was expecting to boot back into OS X and living happily ever after, but damn, this is one fast, slick and nice operating system."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

May 06, 2007

"The Lone Gunmen" anticipates the events of 9/11. aired March 4, 2001

http://www.icomment.org/index.php/main/video/show?id=4174629&s=100 I loves me a good conspiracy!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Silverlight trumps Web Standards (and Flex)…

http://allthelayers.com/?p=18 'So you can preach your “standards” somewhere else. They’re a myth. As for me, I’ll take some more Microsoft kool-aid, please.' An interesting take on the Silverlight release...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

I Never Talk On The First Date

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_never_talk_on_the_first_date "Are there no women left who will love a guy for who he is, and not just because they've grown to respect him as a human being? Can't I find a nice girl who wants to just sit around at my apartment in complete silence?" Ha!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

What does $456 billion buy?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/050207_TheCostofWar?pg=4 "Free gas for everybody for 1.2 years" That's right. We could have free gas for over a year for the cost of the so-called "war" in Iraq
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

May 05, 2007

Daring Microsoft / Yahoo!

http://www.buzzwordcompliant.net/index.php/2007/05/05/daring-microsoft-yahoo/ "I can still remember downloading MySQL from Jeremy Zawodony’s server (it was listed in the US MySQL mirrors for a while)." Ah, those were the days...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Introducing the Book

http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946/ "A comedy about medieval tech support, learning how to use a book."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

I-Team: Sky-Ride

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=470757&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1 These scum bags are in the glider ride scamming business now too.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Math For Programmers

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html "They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math the right way, you'll learn faster, remember it longer, and it'll be much more valuable to you as a programmer."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

LOLTrek

http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/ for some reason, this is way more funny than I expected...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

LolCat Builder

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/ someone had to do it, I guess
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Official Google Maps API Blog: Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/04/introduction-and-yahoo-pipes.html "Yahoo! Pipes now allows output as KML."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

May 04, 2007

What if Microsoft Bought Yahoo?

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008461.html was it only a few months ago that I wrote this? heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

May 03, 2007

AbiWord Help: How To Use the AbiWord Normal Template

http://www.crazy-wormhole.com/AlinaMeridon/AbiWord/abidocs/howto/howtonormaltemplate.html this is useful if you don't like the default font, for example
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

ext3cow filesystem

http://www.ext3cow.com/ "Ext3cow is an open-source, versioning file system based on ext3. It provides a time-shifting interface that allows a real-time and continuous view of the past. This allows users to access their file system as it appeared at any point in time."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

A Year of Flickr

http://www.duanestorey.com/2007/05/02/a-year-of-flickr/ "While other sites have tried to mimic the functionality, I think Flickr really did a good job helping developers utilize their technology."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Yahoo! Messenger (web based)

http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/ Assuming that "web" means "flash", but still... quite cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 AM

May 02, 2007

Erectile dysfunction probed with engineering tool

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11770 I haven't read the article, but the headline is priceless...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Scientists glue stilts to ants' legs and discover that ants navigate by counting their steps

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld//060629_ant_pedometers.html interesting... and kinda funny at the same time
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

online_communities.png [image]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png I just saw this... too funny
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-releases-patches-that-enhance.html it's great to see these improvements rolling out of Google
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

La Bodeguita Del Medio

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gYZbQe-zYyMpd9z1ud0T0w cuban place in Palo Alto that I intend to try out
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Mojito

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojito "A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: spearmint, rum, sugar, lime, and carbonated water. Its combination of sweetness and refreshing citrus and spearmint flavors are intended to mask the potent kick of the rum..."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

May 01, 2007

Single Gal and Where Are All These Single Men?

http://sanjoseinside.com/sji/blog/entries/single_gal_and_where_are_all_these_single_men/ "San Jose was ranked number one—I repeat, number one—for women over 35 to find a good man because there are 15,000-plus more single men than single women."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Amazon lowers S3 pricing!

http://www.alexharford.com/2007/05/01/amazon-lowers-s3-pricing/ "Mr Zawodny’s going to have to redo his calculations now too." Indeed I will...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Why Zawodny is full of s*it

http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/7114 posting to my linkblog makes me full of shit... heh. what next?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc "The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..." Al Gore for President, anyone?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Yahoo - Comcast = The Deal of the Year

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/05/01/yahoo-comcast-the-deal-of-the-year/ "The competitive landscape for video advertising just changed, and no one even noticed."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Southwest Airlines Schedule Request

http://www.southwest.com/cgi-bin/requestSchedule here is where you can get a PDF schedule for flights to/from any airport that southwest serves... very handy when you want to see if you can snag an earlier flight...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM