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03/31 Use Google Sets for competitive analysis — I bet you’ve not heard of another crazy-cool service from Google, Google Sets. I first read about Google Sets some months ago but didn’t bother looking until today, Sunday, when i saw this interesting article about [Google Set’s patents.](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-sets-search-e...
03/30 More about Leopard, Apple’s answer to Vista — For you slow pokes who have not yet upgraded to Leopard, my continuing experience might be of interest (then again it may not.) If you are a real slow poke you may not know that Leopard is Apple’s new generation operating system for the Mac line. My reference above to Vista is mostly tongue-in-cheek...
03/27 Finally updating to Leopard — Usually more on the bleeding edge than this, I decided to wait until now to upgrade my macs to Leopard which is the name of the new Mac OS X release. If anything interesting happens I will let you know. Hopefully nothing interesting will happen 🙂 -  Why does the Leopard update begins with an exhaustive and lengthy “checking of the DVD for consistency”? process? I haven’t heard much about DVDs getting mysteriously turned inconsistent. Maybe they are doing something else and just making up a more tolerable exuse for the 30 minute do-nothing delay. - I have a 4 year old iMac G4 notebook. I wonder if Leopard will like it.
03/25 How stonehenge was built — It’s rare that I watch/listen to a whole Youtube. But here you go… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0&hl=en]
03/21 Verizon opening up it’s network somewhat — I am starting to follow the world of mesh networks and things related to that. One immediate question that has popped up is: now that there are cell towers everywhere, what advantage might there be to creating a new national or global or mobile network based on...
03/20 More e-Voting shenanigans — You know I follow the vagaries of computer voting machines, right? Here’s an interesting article about how one e-voting machine maker is trying to prohibit a researcher from studying the security (= trying to hack into) one of their machines: > “Princeton Professor Edward Felten astonished Congr...
03/19 Casinos in Mass? Please, No! — [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWsfDweeM4&hl=en]I found my way onto Robin Chase’s blog, Network Musings. She writes about lots of stuff I am interested in. Starting with the top post right now, [“Should Casinos Subsidize Car Travel?”](http://networkmu...
03/17 [Geeky] Doing popups in Rails and elsewhere — So my little toy pedagogical application needed a pretty popup box. Actually I wanted one so I could see close up some of the alternatives. In the process I came across three different code snippets, each one doing it in a little bit different way. For you and me, here are the links: - The DOM-popup kit, by Stuart Rackham - The FAMSPAM Facebox package by Chris Wantrath - The Bubble Tooltip kit by Alessandro Fulciniti with an assist by Annalisa Afeltra I tried the first two, but the third looks cool too. I liked Facebox the best. Your mileage may/will vary.
03/16 A True Horror Story About Why We Need Authentication Standards — I am constantly downloading applications and utilities off the web to try this or that out. I am as paranoid as the next guy so I do think about where this app came from and what havock it may or may not be planning. Still, I often will choose to ignore my most paranoid impulses and go ahead. I ...
03/15 25 George W. Bush Facts — List of Lists is an entertaining blog. He doesn’t post that often but when he does it’s usually interesting. Check out this post from A List of Lists: > “[….]in keeping with A List of Lists factual theme I’ll...
03/14 Mars Avalanche photos — > “The new image shows tan clouds moving away from the foot of a 700-metre slope, where dust and material made of water ice and frozen carbon dioxide have just tumbled down.” (from New Scientist) This is one of those times when a picture is worth 1,000 words 🙂
03/10 Once more confirming my cynicism — Sorry, but for some reason it seems that the cynics win out once more: > “I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” said Mr. Spitzer…” (from The New York Times)
03/09 What about social networks? — An interesting post by Cringely, forseeing the imminent demise of most 350 social networks. This quote, only tangentially relevant is good, but you should read the whole post from [I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS](http://www.pbs.o...