It seems like only yesterday when I found Google. So simple, honest and fast.
“…You may recall that in its early years, it was a point of honor with Google that it accepted no advertising at all. When it finally introduced advertising, it was in discrete ads set off to the side of search results to […]

I’ve just finished listening to a podcast of Adam Curry and Ron Bloom describing their plans for growing the medium and bringing it in from the fringe. A lot of neat ideas and concepts. I’m just a little worried that it will lose its single biggest advantage over mainstream radio (in my mind anyway) and […]

After skimming some of the Python programming tutorials in the last week or two, I’ve decided that I will start slowly but definitely start! I found the tutorial written by the inventor of Python Guido van Rossum. Best to go straight to the source. I’m going to set up a simple flat file database and […]

I was just doing a quick tour of Washington DC when I noticed something. They’ve blurred out the US Capitol (pictured above) but interestingly not the White House or the Pentagon.. Hmmm. Make of it what you will…

Google’s new satellite map feature is a blast! Nevermind road directions, use it to tour famous landmarks! I have checked out my hometown (of course), Niagara Falls, Las Vegas, The Hoover Dam (shown above) and various other famous landmarks. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful. Janet Tokerud seems to have the same idea in her tech ronin blog […]

For the first time in a week or so, I spent the commute listening to (or trying to listen to) regular broadcast radio. For the past couple of weeks I’ve spent most of my commute time listening to podcasts from various sources. Switching back recently, the big thing that struck me was impersonal nature of […]

I recently came across something called StumbleUpon which is kind of a neat tool which tries to figure out what websites you might like by putting a toolbar in your browser that lets you rate any site you visit by either clicking “I Like It” or “Not for Me”. Then there’s the “Stumble!” button which […]

I’ve been toying with the idea for a program for the last year or so. It’s a simple database of project attributes for work. At work it seems like twice a day that one of us asks the other, “hey, what was the last project where you did xyz?” where xyz might be formed concrete […]

I’ve been listening to quite a few podcasts lately during my commute and I’ve found the BloggerCon-III podcasts very engaging and interesting. You get to hear from a lot of ‘regular Joes’ about why they are blogging, what they are blogging about, the problems and triumphs they are experiencing and the state of blogging […]

This morning I came across a blog from someone else that lives in my town. Daphne Charlton’s Knitting For Therapy is a very personal but interesting read, the kind of blog I enjoy reading.