January 31, 2008

Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/rumor-yahoo-to-announce-large-video-acquisition-today/ interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Microsoft to Yahoos: Come Work Here! (MSFT/YHOO)

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/01/microsoft-smells-blood-in-yahoo-water-msftyhoo.html sadly, this shit does happen
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Wanton women cry that men jerk their shot and miss the real target

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20080131p2g00m0dm014000c.html "there has been a massive increase, particularly among those in their 20s and 30s, who are suffering from vaginal ejaculation disorder, or an inability to ejaculate inside the vagina" WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

In memory of chicagocrime.org

http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/01/31/0102 looks like it'll get shut off in a few weeks...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

January 30, 2008

Urban Dictionary: fail

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail "either an interjection used when one disapproves of something, or a verb meaning approximately the same thing as the slang form of suck."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

Here's a stimulus plan; END THE FUCKIN WAR YOU DUMBASS

http://reddit.com/r/politics/info/67320/comments/ hahaahah... duh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

The $1000 HP desktop tower running Windows Vista

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/01/30/the-1000-hp-desktop-tower-running-windows-vista/ "I repeated this process a few more times, each time getting farther along before the machined blue-screened."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Kitteh Tamed by Boid

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/01/kitteh-tamed-by.html oh. my. god.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

January 29, 2008

CueCat is back!

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/29.html "Still, it doesn't say much for the quality of those 150 people Google hires every week that they're now chasing some of the worst of the bad ideas of the fin de siecle."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

WS-Enterprise, 2008

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/01/28/WS-Again "Damn, it’s been a long strange trip."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2008/01/29/i-think-were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat/ "...it would be nice if the sharks didn’t jump in the boat trying to eat me before Yahoo! casts me over." Indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Will Google Kill Yahoo?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/22898016/site/14081545?__source=yahoo%7Cheadline%7Cquote%7Ctext%7C&par=yahoo "Sanderson has a $41 price target for Yahoo by year's end."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Personal Ads of the Digerati

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/01/29/personal.shtml heh
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

YUI Grids Builder: Easy Wizard Lets You Build Clean Compliant Cross-Browser Pages Quickly

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2008/01/29/yui/ "Yahoo open-sources some truly amazing code."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

11 Power Tips for Gmail

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/9-power-tips-for-gmail/ good stuff from matt
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?

http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/ neat hack
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

January 28, 2008

YUI: CSS Grid Builder

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ this is much fun to play with
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Yahoo carnage coming at conference call.

http://joeduck.com/2008/01/28/yahoo-carnage-coming-at-conference-call/ "Google learned early on that the key to profitability was scaling up systems without comparable scaling up of staff."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Manage multiple Firefox profiles

http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-profiles-231646.php lots of good stuff in there on firefox profiles: multiple, backups, etc.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Is the Tipping Point Toast?

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html maybe influentials aren't after all?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Data Sets

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=741403180270990805 a video about using MapReduce in geo data processing... interesting stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

January 27, 2008

Re-importing...

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2008/01/reimporting "I'm moving from Wordpress 2.0.x to 2.3.x to MT 4.01." it's not often I read that anymore...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

January 25, 2008

Emergency Elisp

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html surprisingly useful
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Fuel Economy

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ fun to compare with other people
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

IGC Flight Replay

http://www.ywtw.de/igcsimen.html "The application loads igc files directly (without the need for kml) and replays the flights within Google Earth"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ

http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/ a great FAQ on the EOS series
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

new heathrow approach lights (gif)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~eikelman/temp/LHRhereNOThere.gif heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

January 24, 2008

Hack Day 2008, or rather shall we all get Mashed?

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2008/01/hack_day_2008_o.html "So last year the BBC and Yahoo! ran the stunningly cool Hack Day London. It was a brilliant success, and frankly I’ve been biting at the bit to organise another one."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

January 23, 2008

SmugMug & DataPortability.org

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/01/23/smugmug-dataportabilityorg/ "I think it’s important to note that many of the participants in the DataPortability project have been making their data portable for many years."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

put a proxy in front

http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/01/proxy.html proxy wisdom from joshua
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

January 22, 2008

Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight

http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-please-put-up-a-fight/ "Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users. However, it does a rather poor job of monetization."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

January 20, 2008

Tip: Yahoo May Cut 1,500-2,500 Jobs Within 2 Weeks

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/01/tip-yahoo-layoff-list-created-15002500-cuts-possible.html hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Big Yahoo Layoffs Coming Soon?

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-big-yahoo-layoffs-coming-soon/ more of the same
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Yahoo (YHOO): More Details on Potential Mass Firings

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/01/yahoo-yhoo-more-on-layoffs-jerry-and-turnaround.html continuing the story
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

January 18, 2008

Three tips to protect your WordPress installation

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-tips-to-protect-your-wordpress-installation/ simple, good advice from Matt
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Database gods bitch about mapreduce

http://www.skrenta.com/2008/01/database_gods_bitch_about_mapr.html he's right, as usual
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

County of Santa Clara Airports Department: Document Downloads

http://www.countyairports.org/documents.htm all the forms for RHV, PAO, and E16
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Rhino - JavaScript for Java

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ "Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

January 17, 2008

HowTo: Setup and Benchmark Encrypted Partitions in Ubuntu

http://www.fsckin.com/2008/01/15/howto-setup-and-benchmark-encrypted-partitions-in-ubuntu/ I didn't know it was that easy... cool
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

January 16, 2008

Viewpoints from the Facebook Data Team at Yahoo Brickhouse (Wednesday, January 16, 2008) - Upcoming

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/399455/ I'm there right now...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

January 15, 2008

Scanning: Does my scanner work with Ubuntu?

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/printing/C/scanning.html hey, this stuff has come a long way!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

hypertable

http://code.google.com/p/hypertable/ "...a high performance, scalable, distributed storage and processing system for structured and unstructured data." A BigTable clone of sorts. via skrenta
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

MyBlogLog Web Services Beta Signup

http://developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog "Use the API to query the MyBlogLog social network and pull meta-data associated with our user and site profiles."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Yahoo! launches developer network in Taiwan

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20080115PD202.html Woohoo!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

skynet

http://skynet.rubyforge.org/ "Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Amazon SimpleDB thoughts

http://snarfed.org/space/amazon+simpledb+thoughts a good overview of Amazon's SimpleDB service
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

January 14, 2008

Accessible Google Charts

http://ajaxian.com/archives/accessible-google-charts neat trick!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Talking about Keas

http://adambosworth.net/2007/12/22/talking-about-keas/ hm, interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Trying to Fine-Tune Yahoo

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/technology/14yahoo.html?_r=3&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin a light piece on Jerry's CES presentation
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Delta Airlines: You win our love

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/01/08/delta-airlines-you-win-our-love/ "They did two tiny things, each of which couldn’t have taken more than a few minutes, that made us smile and made our return trip less painful..."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Change it to the Butterflies

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/change-it-to-the-butterflies/ "If there’s a God in Heaven, He’ll keep her from typing my name in a search engine."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

7 Ways to Be a Better Spouse/Partner

http://johnplaceonline.com/relationships/7-ways-to-be-a-better-spousepartner/ good advice, if not obvious in places
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Damien Katz: New Gig

http://damienkatz.net/2008/01/new_gig.html "I've accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll....) CouchDB!"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Not-so-rich buy Texas Lottery's $50 ticket

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5451633.html that's really kind of sad
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Storage Analysis - Cost/GB for different sizes and media

http://forre.st/storage updated hourly with newegg.com data
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/01/04/my-parents-desktop kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

January 12, 2008

Increases in the National Debt Chart

http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

AVG Free Advisor - Free antivirus and anti-spyware downloads

http://free.grisoft.com/ good for people who want free protection
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM