It’s a good thing that I listen to podcasts in my drive-time. The latest This Week In Tech mentioned Microsoft’s new MAX beta software. I hadn’t heard hide nor hair of this. It appears like it’s a competitor to Google’s Picasa. I’ll give it a spin to see exactly how it compares. One thing MAX […]

There’s a small 4 step speedup for Firefox users on broadband on Tom Raftery’s site. I gave it a try and it does seem to speed things up. Of course I haven’t benchmarked it or anything but it does seem to make the initial load up of a page significantly shorter.

It was only a few weeks ago that Opera gave away free registration codes for their browser for a single day to celebrate their 10yr anniversary. Now it seems that was all for nought. They announced today that they are providing their browser product for free and removing the ad banners. I use both Opera […]

Dave Winer points to a very good article here on the science and modelling of the flooding and behaviour of the levees. Good reading for those interested in the scientific/engineering aspects of the problem.

Checking out the Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District site and found this interesting fact sheet for the levee project in the affected area. From what I gather, this is a description of the ongoing project to improve the levee system. Interesting to note that their SPH (Standard Project Hurricane) - what they designed everything […]

As a followup to my earlier post, it seems that the US is denying help from various other nations, at least in the short term. Lots of conjecture about why, make sure you check out the comments to the post as well. You’ve really got to wonder about the decision-making. Sure there are a lot […]

Reading Dave Winer’s emotional posts and reading and watching coverage from various sources, I have to admit that I come away feeling dejected about the chances of many people stuck in the worst hit areas. Looking at the news reports it appears that there is just too many areas and too many people to help. […]