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Check out this odd little site, “Where’s George“, especially for people with time on their hands. People enter in the serial number of a dollar bill, and the site tries to track it’s travel through the country. The power of the net.
Interestingly, in this (and several other) article, they say...
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 was, and one year I got it as a Christmas gift.
We still use the Keurig a lot, but truth is that we’ve been going through about 10 K-Cups per Day! I was starting to notice that this wasn’t a good deal. Not to speak of the Starbucks card which I’d been reloading from time to time. ...
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 haven’t fully debugged it yet: too fine a grind ends up blocking the hot water totally, meaning no coffee comes out. (By the way, I am not exactly sure yet whether the water is literally blocked or is getting diverted into some waste reservoir.)
The Capresso which I bought from WholeLatteLove (best price...
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 cost. Another post will go into what I’ve learned from that.
Recently though I’ve gotten enamored of short non-fat Lattes at Starbucks. That’s a story in and of itself, which again will wait for another post.
The real story is that I just unpacked my new ...
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:
“I joined Microsoft at the beginning of the antitrust litigation against the company. My NASA coworkers made all sorts of derogatory comments about my choice. I remember one began a conversation with “So you’ve decided to go work for The Great Satan, huh?” A lot of people who ought to know better are convinced Microsoft is evil. Apologies if you’re one of them — because these people are ...
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.
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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.
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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 great access to lots and lots of data. And then, he does a great job analyzing what it all might mean.
Dave recently published another report. Here are some fun tidbits. All of these quoted from “Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, April 2006, Part 1“
The blogosphere is over ...
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 about blogging your way to a job:
“Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.”
[…] But pick your topics carefully and have a purpose. ”The most interesting blogs are focused and have a certain attitude,” says van Allen. ”You need to have a guiding philosophy that you stick to. You cannot one minute pontificate on large issues of the w...
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)
(from News.com, from TeleGeography Research, from Primetrica)
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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”
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 you’re PHP dude, check it out!
When: Thursday, May 04, 2006 At 06:30 PM Where: Optaros, 60 Canal Street 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02114 What: BostonPHP meeting. Topic: Zend Framework More info: Here
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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 New York Times, a good op-ed piece analyzing what it may or may not mean, by Robert X. Cringely. If you haven’t followed the debate, this is a good primer:
“HELL froze over this week as Apple Computer unveiled Boot Camp, a free program that will allow its new Macintosh computers with In...
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!
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One of my favorite singer songwriters, Susan Werner, somehow has gotten herself into a “patriotic song contest” on the Huffington Post Blog. It’s a funny song, and Susan Werner is absolutely awesome! Check out the song!
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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 observation, it’s had its greatest traction as an import / export format for RSS Aggregators.
But now, there are lots of cool new ideas floating around, prototypes and products being built, that rely on and leverage OPML...
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?
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On Wednesday of next week,
At two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning,
the time and date will be:
**01:02:03 04/05/06. **
That won’t happen again until 3006 (you may not be around to see it)…
King Kong in 30 seconds.Funny.
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