Blog Posts
All my blog posts and articles
June 2006
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2006-06-08
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2006-06-07
What’s your house worth?
If you haven’t seen this, it’s kind of cool. Zillow is a web site that take an address – maybe your home address, maybe your boss’s, maybe your arch enemy’s – and shows you a lot of information about the property, especially an estimate of it’s current market value and how it’s changed. Cool.
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2006-06-07
links for 2006-06-07
Creating Passionate Users: What a graphic can tell you
What your life looks like as a bunch of dots. Interesting visualization.
(tags: Visualization Design information soflow)
Agile Work Artifacts – the Work Item List (Agile Advice)
Interesting summary of the work list or backlog in Agile methodologies.
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2006-06-06
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Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success
(tags: funny)
Here’s a really fun article in the Washington Post about Curacao…
(tags: curacao Travel interesting)
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2006-06-06
1-2-Google!
Read more →I don’t know why I thought this was so cool. Maybe it’s my long standing background with Spreadsheets, from when I worked at Lotus. You remember Improv, don’t you? Or maybe you don’t…
Anyway, “Google Plans to Release Spreadsheet Application” !
“Google Inc. plans Tuesday to release a Web-based spreadsheet application, in a further foray into Microsoft Corp.’s traditional turf…
… Google Spreadsheets follows Google’s March purchase of a company offering Web- based word processor Writely. The two free Web-based Google ...
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2006-06-05
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2006-06-04
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Read more →Boston.com / Business / Technology / It’s the ‘pure entrepreneur’ who often leads the way
(tags: ego bostonglobe pitosalas)
very fast graphing java package, good for huge visualizations
(tags: graphics layout Software Visualization...
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2006-06-03
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Read more →[from judell] Henry Jenkins and Danah Boyd demystify MySpace
(tags: interesting socialnetowrking)
Video: 2007 Toyota Prius – CNET Reviews
Wow, check this out. Self parking feature in the Prius!
(tags: cool)
Chapter One (washingtonpost.com)
First chapters for free from the Wash Post
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2006-06-03
Comment spam – solved for now?
Read more →The other day I complained about comment spam on my two blogs. Comment spam is when fake comments are added to a blog post that include links to some random site. They are supposedly put there by spammers to generate traffic to their sites, as well as try to improve their site’s ratings in Google. Whether it works for them I don’t know, all I know is that it’s a pain in the butt for me.
I am now using a Movable Type plugin called HMPassphrase. It’s very simple and effective. Whenever anyone wants to post a comment they have to read instructions on the web p...
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2006-06-02
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2006-06-02
Notice the new del.icio.us feature I am using?
The feature isn’t new, it’s actually pretty old. It’s also very poorly documented. But it’s new to me. I’ve configured del.icio.us to automatically create a post to my blog of all the tags I’ve submitted in the last 24 hours.
If you are a del.icio.us user, look under “settings”, “experimental”, “daily blog posting” for the setting. Then ask me or google for an explanation of what the fields mean.
Combined with the Tagging feature in BlogBridge, it allows me to post to my blog (virtually) with almost no effort. So when I am traveling (like I was the last 2 days) I can still show some semblance of activity on my blog. Very cool.
Will it make me a lazy blogger? What’s a lazy blogger anyway?
Technorati Tags: del.icio.us
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2006-06-01
May 2006
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2006-05-31
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2006-05-27
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2006-05-26
Oh, great. MSFT proposing a JPEG alternative
The great thing about standards is that there are just so many different ones to pick from!
” … Microsoft now has plans to take on JPEG with Windows Media Photo. Microsoft Watch reported from Seattle Thursday that the company is advertising the new format as a higher-quality alternative to the aging JPEG standard.” (from BetaNews)
Technorati Tags: microsoft
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2006-05-25
Help with movable type spam?
Both this blog and the BlogBridge have been getting spammed more and with both comment and trackback spam. It’s becoming a real pain. I’ve poked around my Movable Type settings looking for solutions but I am sure someone who knows MT well could tune my configuration with ease. Anyone out there want to lend a hand? Please email me!
Technorati Tags: movabletype
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2006-05-22
[GEEK] OPML Camp was a lot of fun!
Read more →OPML Camp was yesterday and today, so it’s over now. We had good attendance and some really good discussions and interesting demos. Here are some highlights:
We talked about tools, both brand new, not yet written, and existing
These tools do all kinds of interesting OPML related processing
Grazr – A really cool web page widget to view and traverse an OPML structure
OPMLSearch – Google for OPML files across the web
OPML Workstation – A library of OPML files, plus an editor to create and edit them
OPML Editor – Another tool for editing ...
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2006-05-21
Check out Inquisitor for the web
I’ve written about a very cool Safari (Mac OS X) add-on called Inquisitor. Very nice.
Well, they now have come out with Inquisitor for the web, right in your web browser. Try it out, then I don’t need to explain it. Suffice it to say, it’s verry cool!
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2006-05-16
Noah and Tabblo (Water in Arlington Mass)
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As you may have heard, we’ve had torrential (and I mean torrential) downpours here in Massachusetts. I happen to live on a little isthmus (look it up) between the upper and lower Mystic Lakes in Arlington Massachusetts.[
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2006-05-11
All you never wanted to know about colonoscopies
Our friend Dave Weinberger shares: “I had my first colonoscopy today. They didn’t find anything, except a piece of fruitcake I ate in 1978. But I figured if Katie Couric can show her colon on national TV to encourage people to get checked, then I should too.”
The only surprise is that this is his first colonoscopy. David, what took you so long? (I guess my second surprise is that he didn’t link to Wikipedia’s definition of Colonoscopy.)
Technorati Tags: medical