July 31, 2007

Google Analytics in data blackout since Saturday

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070731/tc_infoworld/90606_2 doh!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Microformats in Google Maps

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/06/microformats-in-google-maps.html "...we are adding support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results" fantastic! I wonder if the other maps providers will follow suit?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Good GDP News: Facebook's Down

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/07/31/good_gdp_news_f.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Maybe They Found More Aliens

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A821ade52-b17e-440b-bc37-7249a53c8891&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest "The enterprising citizens over at Dreamland Resort just clubbed together and bought a new satellite image of the USAF Flight Test Center's secret annex in Nevada, better known as Area 51..."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

July 30, 2007

A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For?

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/30/AListTechnologyBloggersWhatAreTheyGoodFor.aspx "Reading the kind of popular technology blogs you see on TechMeme and expecting to get insight about what’s going on on the Web is like reading the blog of a factory foreman at a television set factory and expecting to get insight on popular prime time
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper:

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=how_a_fake_word_from_the_simpson_s_ended&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&ref=rss that is awesome on many levels
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Ballmer & Microsoft: “Does everything move to the cloud? I think that is wrong-minded.”

http://techfold.com/2007/07/26/ballmer-microsoft-%E2%80%9Cdoes-everything-move-to-the-cloud-i-think-that-is-wrong-minded%E2%80%9D/ "In the age of near-ubiquitous broadband, the cloud is making more sense all the time. 10 years from now, I firmly believe cloud applications will be taken for granted as desktop apps are today."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Litepost

http://www.litepost.com/ keep an eye on this
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

New Honda Accord Diesel Gets Nearly 63 Miles Per Gallon

http://consumerist.com/consumer/fuel-efficiency/new-honda-accord-diesel-gets-nearly-63-miles-per-gallon-283911.php diesel? it's about time...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

the internet is for porn

http://reddit.blogspot.com/2007/07/internet-is-for-porn.html just confirming what we all already knew...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Brian May, Rock Legend, Soon-To-Be Astrophysicist

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/28/0557236&from=rss That's awesome...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Yahoo Monday: Today's Google Free Alternative

http://searchengineland.com/070730-000132.php "As part of our Google Free Mondays series this month, today is the day to try Yahoo."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

What does 120 calories look like?

http://www.nhs.uk/pages/gallery.html I love these little reminders...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less?

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/28/1621241&from=rss the short answer is to use FAT still... ugh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Ext2 IFS For Windows

http://www.fs-driver.org/ "It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

The no-corn-syrup diet

http://overstated.net/2007/07/30/the-no-corn-syrup-diet Best venn diagram ever!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/presentations.html kick ass... they got 'em online very fast
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

How To Install a TTF Font In Ubuntu

http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-install-ttf-font-in-ubuntu_11.html useful in case I ever need to do this by hand
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

July 29, 2007

Distributed Revision Control Systems: Git vs. Mercurial vs. SVN

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/distributed-revision-control-systems-git-vs-mercurial-vs-svn I learned more about recent version control systems in reading that post than I have in the last year. That says sad things about me, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

July 27, 2007

Tahoe Tow plane’s demise greatly exaggerated

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/SS/20070726/NEWS/70726016/-1/REGION Duh... maybe they'll ask the tow operators if a plane is missing BEFORE conducting a search next time... *sigh*
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Review: Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/07/26/review-yahoo-yslow-for-firebug/ Paul has a look at yslow.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

July 26, 2007

Aircraft Specifications - 1975 A36 BONANZA

http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/content/specs/75a36bonanza.html too bad they're kinda pricey for what I'd like...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

July 25, 2007

smart frog [photo]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1307/882442878_41271558df_o.jpg heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

Yahoo! Search via Adobe AIR

http://kentbrewster.com/air-search/ all source code included
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Threading Building Blocks

http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ "Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

July 24, 2007

California glider lands at Mesquite

http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/DVTONLINE01/70723025/1052/rss09 the guys in the Crystal Squadron make some impressive flights!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:05 PM

Amazing Citabria 7GCAA Airplane Video

http://www.airplaneblog.com/amazing-citabria-7gcaa-airplane-video.html I don't think I'll be trying that in our Citabria without a large barf bag!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:04 PM

We’re NOT Friends, Sorry

http://carlo.zottmann.org/2007/07/24/were-not-friends-sorry/ "Shying away from labeling you “friend” isn’t impolite, it’s honest. Because we are not friends."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:02 PM

By 2010, will Windows ‘Seven’ (or any desktop OS) really matter?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=658 it will matter, but probably not as much as many of us think...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

July 23, 2007

Going paperless: is it (finally) time?

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2007/07/22/going-paperless-is-it-finally-time/ "By all accounts, the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner is the iPhone of document scanners..." If Chad makes this work, I may not be far behind...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Cessna Skycatcher

http://www.cessnaskycatcher.com/ Cessna has officially introduced it's LSA, the Cessna 162 SkyCatcher
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Firefox Help: How To Manage Profiles

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new I had to figure out how to do this earlier today on Windows... not hard at all.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

M-AUDIO - Drivers

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers&f=599 Drives for the USB audio gear we use for screencasting...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

July 21, 2007

Imaging America

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/07/imaging-america.html "...we have acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

July 20, 2007

Presumption of uncluefulness

http://www.gravitonic.com/blog/archives/000422.html "Every message like this leads me to change my default presumptions about the cluefulness of the new posters to the list, and unfortunately, not in a better direction."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Conserving Your Limited Attention

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/conserving-your.html "I could easily get rid of 90% of my feeds if I could find better editors on topics other than technology." Amen!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

verizon wireless Kyocera KPC650 broadband card

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wireless-internet/76655-verizon-wireless-kyocera-kpc650-broadband-card.html this seems to work well on my ubuntu box!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

July 19, 2007

Mortgage Calculator

http://bankrate.com/brm/mortgage-calculator.asp I know I could just use a spreadsheet, but I'm lazy...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Buyer's Guide To The Piper & Cessna Singles

http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/content/pastissues/2002/jan/buyersguide2.html some useful high-level facts on the Cessna piston singles
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Why I Dropped Scoble and Seceded from the Hunt for Newer Shinier Things

http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/07/17/why-i-dropped-scoble-and-seceded-from-the-hunt-for-newer-shinier-things/ "The energy spent in chasing some sort of glorious future from service to service is friction in my life, not any sort of addition."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

“Web 2.0″, “AJAX”, “BARF” - A Call To Action

http://carlo.zottmann.org/2007/07/19/web-20-ajax-barf-a-call-to-action/ "After reading another great press release I think I now know what “Web 2.0” means..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2007/07/18/im-starting-with-the-man-in-the-mirror/ "It’s become abundantly clear to me over the past year that I’m quite mortal."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

The IBM ThinkPad: 15 years old today

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/19/forgotten_tech_ibm_thinkpad/ WOW! 15 years of thinkpads already?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

July 18, 2007

Anxieties of a Father-to-be

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/07/17/anxieties-of-a-father-to-be/ "Do kids activate some kind of mental disorder that makes being a slave to another human pleasurable? I hope so, because otherwise I’m going to be miserable."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

P-51 Owner Killed In First Non-Supervised Flight

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/P51_Owner_Killed_In_First_Nonsupervised_Flight_195640-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS DOH!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

A three-pronged attack on performance

http://www.linux.com/feature/116693 a couple of linux performance tweaks that may be useful... the disk stuff is pretty old but worth repeating. not sure how useful prelinking really is though
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Yahoo Q2: Not All Bad

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/07/yahoo-q2-points.html "Everyone has focused on the negatives, so I'll hit some positives. Yahoo is clearly in trouble, however, so don't mistake these comments for rosy-eyed optimism."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Focused from the inside out

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/07/17/focused-from-the-inside-out/ "I’m a big believer in doing versus talking..." I hope so!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

NCDC: Get/View OnLine Climate Data

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html "NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data." Excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

July 17, 2007

AMD - ZODIAC 601XL Special Light Sport Aircraft

http://www.newplane.com/amd/amd/601_SLSA/601.html Built in the USA, Continental engine, tough metal airframe and even an IFR certified model... interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Bob Archibald's Dragonfly Aviation

http://www.dragonflyaviation.com/ They use the Zodiac XL as a trainer (among other planes)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

mysportplane.com

http://mysportplane.com/ info about where you can see/buy/fly the Zodiac XL
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

QualitySportPlanes.com

http://www.qualitysportplanes.com/ Demo flights, workshops and Builder-Assistance for Zenith Aircraft kit builders in the West... including the Zodiac XL
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Pine Mountain Lake Aviation Association

http://www.pmlaa.org/ info about flying at Pine Mountain Lake
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

google-cookie-policy

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/google-cookie-policy.html "Hopefully the privacy discussion will shift to something more meaningful, like why Google doesn't have a complete opt-out for cookies. Or logging."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

July 16, 2007

Backup Protection for your Contacts with Backup Assistant

https://www.getbackupnow.com/ this works for my Motorola V710 phone. Kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Google's Authentic Voice Problem

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/googles_authent.html "So, to recap, the recipe for a disaster is easy: hire marketers with no authentic voice, ask them to pimp offal, and when they're busted for it make them force out an apology in which they blame it on their authentic voice."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

del.icio.us: usability lab

http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2007/07/usability-lab.html there's work going on for the new del.icio.us
Posted by jzawodn at 03:02 PM

There's no winning the Yahoo! lottery

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/07/08/theres-no-winning-the-yahoo-lottery/ I don't know if it is supposed to be funny, but that post cracked me up... :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Earnings Preview: Yahoo

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070716/yahoo_earns_preview.html?.v=1 "Analysts polled by Thomson Financial forecast fiscal second-quarter profit of 11 cents per share on $1.24 billion in sales."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Fleeing Yahoo Photos? Get 50% off at SmugMug.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/07/10/fleeing-yahoo-photos-get-50-off-at-smugmug/ get cheaper SmugMug if you move your Y! Photos there when it shuts down
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Now I Really am a Yahoo!

http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2007/07/12/now-i-really-am-a-yahoo/#comment-134797 "For those curious on what I’ll be doing, it’s continuing to lead the Direct Media Exchange product we started at Right Media while also planning cool things we can do collectively as part of the team at Yahoo! in the advertising space."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Help me upgrade my CPU

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/07/08/i-want-it-i-want-it-i-want-it Heh...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

The Internet vs. Stone Tablets

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_end_of_ceo_blogging 'I'd love it if we one day eliminated the term "blogging" from the web lexicon' me too!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

July 13, 2007

Price = Marginal Cost

http://yumio.net/blog/2007/07/12/price-marginal-cost/ "I don’t know how many of these Facebook sells each month, but it is easily a side business with the highest margins..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3

http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/ it was only a matter of time
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! — don’t tell them)

http://blog.wesabe.com/index.php/2007/07/12/your-bank-has-a-rest-api-now-shhh-dont-tell-them/#comment-41723 "we’re not just providing an API for our own site, but also for all the bank and credit card sites that Wesabe supports" Kick Ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

July 09, 2007

Google, Yahoo Both Working On Next Generation Social Networks

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/ everyone is scrambling to catch up with facebook...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 AM

July 06, 2007

Ali-Yahoo-Baba

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/07/06/aliyahoobaba.html "Nice catalyst to drive Yahoo's stock this year."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Bottled Water Is Still A Scam

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/07/bottled-water-is-still-a-scam.html yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070 "One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Yikes. That's sad.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 AM

Small Is Essential

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1622565,00.html a Time story about 37Signals
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 AM

The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/the-pmarca-gu-1.html some good advice in there
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 AM

July 05, 2007

Avoid Heathrow At All Costs

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/07/03/Avoid-Heathrow "Anyone who cares about cost, comfort, convenience, or getting there on time with their possessions, should start taking extreme measures to avoid routing through Heathrow."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

EAA Sport Pilot and Light-Sport Aircraft Information

http://www.sportpilot.org/ good place to get info about sport pilot flying and LSA aircraft
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

July 03, 2007

The Honor Associated with Hosting a Kwik-E-Mart Convenience Store

http://laaker.com/micah/?p=112 heh
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Kwik-E-Mart - a photoset on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlaaker/sets/72157600595691223/detail/ Micah documents his visit to the Mountain View Kwik-E-Mart
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Thinking about media as a platform

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/07/03/183/thinking-about-media-as-a-platform/ "It’s not about stopping bad behavior or even embracing good behavior. It’s about investing in an architecture that promotes growth for an entire ecosystem."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

The Dark Side of Soy

http://www.utne.com/issues/2007_142/features/12607-1.html the most interesting part of this article (to me) is the Soy "Nuggets" sidebar
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Can She Turn Yahoo Into, Well, Google?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/business/yourmoney/01yahoo.html?ex=1340942400&en=5fd65963c00267dd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss A New York times profile of Sue Decker
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

How to design for the Facebook Platform

http://renkoo.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/how-to-design-for-the-facebook-platform/ some good observations in here
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

unset(Perl)

http://carlo.zottmann.org/2007/07/03/unsetperl/ "I just wasted 15 minutes of my life trying to figure out how to get the index of a particular element in an array." That has always bothered me about Perl too...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

YouTube - Glider vs Soul Flyers [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1PE0AWljn0 that is some impressive flying
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

July 02, 2007

ONLamp.com: The Power of Google Gears (Part 1)

http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7055 an okay article that leaves me wanting more...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

"Best Facebook App Ever": Booze Mail

http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2007/06/best-facebook-a.html "Last night, Renkoo released our very own Facebook app to do exactly that to encourage people to get together and deepen their relationships..."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Why I don’t want an iPhone

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/06/29/why-i-dont-want-an-iphone/ "OK nevermind, this is not convincing me that I don’t want one. Gimme!!" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Zanzibar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar "Zanzibar is the name for an archipelago in the Indian Ocean 25–50 km off the coast of East Africa, of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM