02/23 Good tip: Bald-headed Britney and the Lost Art of Linking — If you blog, you might appreciate: loose wire blog: Bald-headed Britney and the Lost Art of Linking

02/23 FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market — If you are a blogger then you probably keep an eye out on the ‘circulation’ of your blog. It’s a black art full of subjetivity and highly detailed technical tidbits that have to be understood and then interpretted before you really know what the data means. Still if you are interested, check out [th...

02/22 [SEMI-GEEK] Are activation emails needed – and if so – how do we convince you they aren’t spam? — Here’s an odd but important problem, at least for us here at BlogBridge. When you sign up for a BlogBridge account, we, like many other sites, send you a confirmation email to verify that your email is for real. Truthfully from a security point of view, I am not even exactly sure what it proves. T...

02/21 Amazing flash film — I got this with an email claiming on a stack of bibles that it was real not faked, but I don’t believe it for a minute!

02/19 Interesting item about outsourcing to India… — Check out this post from GigaOM: > If you are an investor in one of the many U.S.-listed technology outsourcing giants such as Infosys, then I have some bad news for you: they are no longer the cherished destination for the brightest and the smartest in India. (from: Troubling Signs for Indian Tech Outsourcers)

02/19 [GEEK] Deploy your Rails app in subdirectory with Apache and Mongrel — If you are a Ruby On Rails developer you might want to check out this post from dzone.com: latest front page: ** "Itâ_Ts not particularly hard to deploy your app in a subdirectory, but Iâ_Tve found that figuring out how to can be. So, I decided to put together this short little write-up." (from**: Deploy your Rails app in subdirectory with Apache and Mongrel) Â

02/18 The New York Times looks at the Chavez Royal family — If you keep up with what’s going on in Venezuela, you might want to check out this post from The Devil’s Excrement: The New York Times looks at the Chavez Royal family

02/17 Is desktop search over? 20 years late! — People are really crowing about Vista’s new "instant serach" and how wonderful it is and better than the old Windows XP Search functionality. Yeah I can’t disagree, but it’s amazing how it’s 20 years on before that glaring-glaring-glaring hole in Windows was fixed. (And sure, Mac OS X has had Spotli...

02/16 A nice panoramic photo of Curacao — This is the Seaquarium beach area. It’s very beautiful as you can see. Click on the photo if you dare. It’s huge but impressive.

02/14 I fear for the gullible user — I received this email from “Bank of America”. It obviously a phishing attack but it sounds so legitimate and straightforward that I can easily see lots of people (including some I know) to fall for it. Scary, look: even the URL looks real: > Dear Customer: Recently there have been a large number c...

02/13 wis.dm now in beta – A social network of ideas — A little while back I mentioned...

02/12 LG Says Apple Copied the Prada Phone. Also, Apple’s Mother is Obese — Actually the funniest part of this was the headline… “Also, Apple’s Mother is Obese” Check out this post from Gizmodo: > “It seems that LG’s not taking...

02/12 rethinking gladwell’s model of influence — Check out this post from Influx Insights Weblog: rethinking gladwell’s model of influence. My first reaction was that indeed the paper referenced in fact refuted one of The Tipping Point’s key assertions, the importance of connectors. But I am not so sure it does now that I’ve had a little more time. Anyway, it’s worth taking a look.

02/09 Fun article for airplane buffs — “Isn’t that cockpit a little drab? Perhaps a spider plant, or a simple lithograph, would liven it up!”   Check out the article, it’s interesting, especially click on the links to the photographs, they are cool too.

02/08 Question to ponder… — “How is it that many times we forget how to spell a word, so we write it down and then pick the spelling that seems to “look right”? Anyone out there know the answer or have a link to an answer?

02/07 Venezuela’s lost human capital — Really interesting article about what is going on in Venezuela and the impact of Hugo Chavez’ policies… > “Our gain is Venezuela’s loss. These newcomers represent the human capital of Venezuela, something that Chavez, grounded in Marxist materialism, can’t understand. He views these talented people as political pawns — traitors.” (from Investors Business Daily) Read the whole thing.

02/05 I was away when Boston and Fox both embarassed themselves — Check out this post from Bostonist: > Attorney General Mart...

02/05 Neat Bank of America site security feature doesn’t do anything ! — If you use the Bank of America online banking site  you’ve seen what they call the ‘Site Identity’ feature that is supposed to save you from being phished: > “…  online banking customers are asked to select an image, like a dog or chess piece, that they will see every time they log in to their acco...

01/23 Is Eclipse too “Windows-esque”? — Check out this post from dzone.com: latest front page: > The basic...

01/22 Another fascinating post from Scott Adams — I don’t know, maybe it’s because he’s a mini celebrity but I found the continuing story of Scott Adam’s voice problems just gripping. Check out this post from [The Dilbert Blog](http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_di...