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All the logos

Pretty neat little web site, via Ned Batchelder: AllTheLogos.com – Gif and Vector EPS Logos: Technorati Tags: interesting

Machine translation: Funny!

The highly anticipated Mac OS X “Tiger” arrived in my hot little hands, and I’ve spent most of the day installing it (2 hours) and getting everything to work again (6 hours and counting.) One of the highly touted new features is “Dashboard” which is a “not quite as good as” knock-off of [Konfa...

LinkedIn: Highly connected?

Interesting: I can reach 1.1 Million people through my 125 connections on LinkedIn, and there are a total of 2.1 million people registered. So I can reach one out of two. My statistics are not good enough to analyze the significance of that, but it is a bit surprising. Technorati Tags: interesting, linkedin

Great new OS X Software Releases

Two of my all time favorite Mac OS X applications just came out with new releases: Adium Xis a beautiful multi-IM-service client. It’s based on GAIM but with a true OS X user interface. For PC users, it’s kind of like Trillian but nicer! They just came out with a...

Too much good stuff: makes me feel inadequate :-)

I saw this in the Wall Street Journal: > “Marcos Weskamp, a 27-year-old Web designer in Tokyo, created a graphical interface1 for Google News a...

[GEEK] The BIG LIE of certificate checking

Maybe you’ve read or heard my rants about what has become known as...

Happy Birthday Dave!

Long time readers of this blog (yes, I can say that now, it’s been 2 years or so 🙂 know that I am a Dave [Wine...

BusinessWeek goes gaga about blogging

In the continuing series of “this blog things is really getting big”, the most recent issue of BusinessWeek has a whole section all about blogging. Not only that, but they’ve started their own meta-blog.

Gmail spam filtering degraded?

In the last few weeks or so, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of spam emails that are making it into my Gmail inbox. It would be very interesting to know how the spammers vs. Google arms race is going. I’ve got to believe that Google is working hard on the problem, but given that this [w...

Hacking the papal election

I have to admit to being fascinated with the Vatican, and the ancient, elaborate traditions and rules that surround the papacy. Bruce Schneier, in his (excellent) monthly newsletter had a really interesting discussion about the...

Who thought of it first? Who cares?

Microsoft and Apple are arguing about who came up first with the idea of having a pervasive search capability built into the OS Apple is shipping it imminently in Tiger, and Microsoft, eventually, in Longhorn. Well let’s see...

Losing a finger over biometrics

“They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road – but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete. (from the BBC)“ There, I got your attention, didn’t I? That’s from the always fascinating mo...

American Idol Existentialism

For you closet viewers of American Idol (the TV Show), I thought you’d be amused by this new TV blog, and it’s discussion of some of the latest developments on that show. If ...

Beg the question? Beg your pardon?

This is amusing. Ever since I learned from glenn, many years ago, that everyone uses “beg the question” incorrectly, I can’t help noticing it whenever it’s done. Now I see we’re not the only one!

IBM Patent Benevolence?

Doc comments with grudging admirationthat IBM has decided to give away some parts of their much vaunted patent...

No women tigers?

No I am not talking about Tiger Woods(who also is not a woman) but about the “Engineers Who Created Tiger”, according to a recent bit of Apple Marketing. (Tiger is the name of the new release of the Mac OS X operating system.) A odd image to portray, IMHO.

Is Google setting the hook?

Recently, GMail raised the free storage available to all subscribers to 2 Gig! Amazing isn’t it? I don’t know how they do it – they must have a monstrous number of subscribers all over the world. And they are getting hooked, really hooked. Take me for example – I was getting worried when I ha...

Switcher’s log, Part 8: In conclusion…

I love the fact that I switched to Mac. A lot of the fun is that it’s new and different. Also I like the idea that there’s UNIX beneath the skin because I wanted to get more familiar with it. Also all the applications are ‘prettier‘ to look at and that’s fun. Of course the m...

Switcher’s Log, Part 7: How can Apple be so brain dead about usability?

Everyone says that the reason they like the Mac and OS X is that it’s so easy to use! I am not so sure that it’s any easier to use than Windows XP. Yes OS X has some snazzy user interface frills and it’s quite easy to use. But notwithstanding that some of these brain-dead UI decisions ** bely ...

Wow! Google rocks!

Google is now officially unstoppable! Check out how they’ve now integrated satellite images into Google Maps. Now we know what they wanted with the Keyhole acquisition. What a wonderful integration. Click on the image to see it full size! The address, by the way, is of the Harvard University Berkman Center.