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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 int...
Read more →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! Technorati Tags: cool, cooltool
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](http://e...
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
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
Check out this odd little site, “[Where’s George](http://www...
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...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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...
Read more →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: ...
Read more →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
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
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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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
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...
Read more →So, what happened to Alfred E. Newman? 
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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...
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