05/11 What happens when your GMail fills up? (Part 1 of ?) — Technorati Tags: amazing, gmail

05/10 eHarmony should use their own matching algorithm — This just struck me ironic because I just finished reading an interesting article in The Atlantic about eHarmonyand their scientific techniques for finding your perfect match. In Venture Chronicles, a pointer to Silicon Beat: “eHarmony appoints third CEO this year.”; (And, no Brian, I didn’t independently verify the factualness of this 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny

05/07 Amusing: “Where’s George” — Check out this odd little site, “[Where’s George](http://www...

04/26 Coffee Series, Part 3: Trade offs — First I was an instant coffee guy. Then I got into brewing whole pots, which led to my wasting a lot of coffee. Then, my friend Charlie started working at Keurig, and so I got exposed to that machine and how wonderful it wa...

04/24 Coffee Series part 2: What kind of grind? — This is an interim report on “Life with a Capresso espresso maker“. The topic for today is what kind of grind of coffee to use. Note that my experience is now about 3 or 4 days so you are learning right along with me. Basic lesson, although I ...

04/23 New espresso maker: Capresso Ultima (Model 121) — I’m a big coffee drinker, ok? I’ve been putting my Keurig single serving machine through it’s paces for the last few months and I really like it. I’ve already spent more on little coffee pods from Keurig than the machine ever c...

04/22 If you are interested in Microsoft — A friend of mine who used to work at Microsoft sent me a link to a very interesting posting about what it’s like to work there. If you’re interested in the big MSFT, you might enjoy reading this. Here’s one telling bit: ...

04/20 Why Google is cool, Part 1241 — Do a google search for a FedEx tracking number, and Google figures out that this is what it is and sends you directly to Fedex. Cool. Technorati Tags: fedex

04/19 Fun movie and TV fonts — This just proves that you can get just about anything on the web. Here’s a site that provides custom font sets  immitating the type face used in a whole bunch of TV Shows and Movies. Amusing. Technorati Tags: funny

04/17 Great “State of the Blogosphere” Post from Dave Sifry — Dave Sifry, of Technorati, periodically reports interesting statistics about how the world of blogging is growing and changing. He’s in a unique position to do this, because Technorati is one of the leading crawlers and indexers of the blogosphere, so Dave has g...

04/16 Blogging is “essential” to a good career — Boy, blogs sure are hot, aren’t they? I’ve been noticing the New York Times regularly quoting bloggers as legitimate sources side by side with witnesses, experts, politicians. And now the [Boston Globe has a bit](http://bostonworks.boston.com/news/articles/2006/04/16/blogs_essential_to_a_good_ca...

04/13 Cool map of undersea cables — This is just a really cool map. > “The vast bulk of international telephone and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables. This map shows the cables that were in use as of the end of 2004 and gives an indication of where traffic is heaviest.” (from [News.Com](http://news.com.com/2300-1...

04/12 Agenda for OPML Camp coming together — Adam’s been busy moving the plans for OPML Camp forward. Looks like it’s going to be interesting! If you haven’t checked it out  yet, you might consider taking a look at the site. And actually, this is pretty cool: the proposed agenda is actually represented as an OPML link, displayed in the right margin using Grazr a nice, embedable OPML “widget” Technorati Tags: OPML, opmlcamp

04/12 BostonPHP Meeting: Thursday May 4, 2006 – Check it out! — I met Mark Mark Withington at the last Geek Dinner. He runs the Boston PHP Group. They meet every month. This month’s meeting is about the ZEND Framework. Looks interesting. If...

04/09 An easy target…. funny — So, what happened to Alfred E. Newman? Technorati Tags: funny

04/08 Booting MS Windows on Intel Macs: Interesting bit of analysis — To be honest, hardly followed the pages and pages of blog analysis of Apple’s recent release of “Boot Camp” a utility allowing users to boot WIndows XP on Macintosh Intel-based computers. Didn’t seem like that big a deal to me. Today in the Ne...

04/07 Amazing pictures of an old Russian Submarine Base — Check out some really amazing pictures of a decommissioned Russian Submarine base, in Ukraine. It has been turned into a free museum. Interesting pictures, and the photography itself is excellent.Thanks Aleksey! Technorati Tags: amazing

04/06 My Strange Nation? Check out Susan Werner — One of my favorite singer songwriters, Susan Werner, somehow has gotten herself into ...

04/04 Come to OPML Camp: May 20-21, 2006, Boston, USA! — There is a lot of stuff going on with OPML these days. OPML stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, invented and evangelized by Dave Winer some number of years ago. Since then though, at least from my observat...

04/04 Mac users: is this new? — Apple just shipped 10.4.6, the latest revision to the OS X. This may be old, but I never noticed that the blue Spotlight menu icon in the top right of the screen has a little pulsing dot in the middle of the magnifying glass, presumably to tell me that it was busy indexing stuff, presumably explaining why my computer is running a little hard right now. Is it a new little touch or has it **always been there? ** Technorati Tags: osx