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Another funny geek video for your enjoyment

“Every OS Crashes because Every OS Sucks” Technorati Tags: funny

Does anyone actually think this is for real?

Did you see this clever site? Million Dollar Home Page? > “The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, ‘The Million Dollar Homepage”. The main motivation for doing this...

Adam Green’s Podcasts

I came across a cool series of podcasts, done by Adam Green, on the history of the personal computer software industry. Actually Adam told me about them 🙂 You can find them here as well as directly under the [iTunes podcast section](http:...

Treo 700!

I’d heard about it but had not seen a picture. This from Ray Ozzie’s blog: “As of last week I’m now using/testing the upcoming Treo 700w, and it’s great!  The pipeline of cool devices about to emerge is stunning, and the software platform incomparable.  Much to look forward to, and many new ideas for Jack as to what we might do with these devices’ capabilities…” (from Ray Ozzie’s Blog) Check out the Treo 700 here! Technorati Tags: treo

Netherlands Antilles set to be dissolved

I don’t know how I missed this article, but it sure is an interesting and significant development for one, like me, who was born and grew up in Curacao. > “Under the new structure, the Netherlands Antilles will be dissolved and Curacao and St. Maarten will become separate, autonomous members of the kingdom, according to the agreement signed by the leaders Saturday night in Curacao.” (from Miami Herald) Technorati Tags: curacao, netherlandsantilles

Why is everything free?

Have you noticed how man how many new apps that have appeared of late are available free of charge? Web 2.0 services like gada.be or flickr or del.icio.us. And more conventional client apps like [Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com...

Load one physical CD, get two icons on my desktop

I know all this Sony rootkit/DRM stuff has made me paranoid. I loaded my Sarah McLachlan CD into my Mac (a single CD), and **two different CDs appear ...

The future of software?

Tim Bray likes Adium, the Mac OS X inter-network IM client. He says: > “Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium.” (from ongoing, Tim Bray’s Blog) Hmm, couldn’t agree with you more 😉 Technorati Tags: future, software

Web Two Point No?

Om Malik writes that “The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages”, saying: > “Over past 48 hours, there have been reports of Web 2.0 outages. Six Apart, one of the biggest blog service provider is experiencing serious downtime, which has left many a few in...

Can I do this?

I’d like to create a web page that list all web pages that don’t link to themselves. Technorati Tags: odd

Funny

Good for a 1 minute chuckle:  > “In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.” (from The Credit Card Prank) Technorati Tags: funny

Robin Good has interesting predictions

Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.  > “If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting ne...

Using AJAX to do word processing on the web

You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as “AJAX” – Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (M...

They are all fake…

Check out these amusing images which I came across on the Advertising/Design Goodness Blog. Yes, they are all fake, but very cool!   Technorati Tags: advertising, attention, cool

Long tail UI Widget

This is kind of cool. I am playing around with the Last.FM music service. Among the many things it does, is that It ‘watches’ ever...

Web 2.0, I knew ye well. Here comes Web 2.5

Check out Liam Breck’s new blog. > “Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you’ve usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work.” (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools) Welcome, Liam! Technorati Tags: web2.0

[GEEK] Maybe Attention.xml and OPML shouldn’t always travel together

Cori Schiegel convinced me: > “Personally, I want the data the AttentionRecorder is collecting to be used, but I don’t want to freight porting my feeds from one platform to another with those additio...

[GEEK] Unified name space for aggregator extensions for OPML?

There’s been a lot of discussion (follow these links for more links) of late about how to extend OPML, including...

Goodnight Irene – Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly

Tivo will be able to transfer videos to Ipods… But…

Hot news for Tivo and iPod Fans. Coming soon to a computer near you! > “TiVo Inc. today is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.” (from [LA Times](http://ww...