Archive for October, 2005

Saturday Night Live

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Last night’s Saturday Night Live premiere was the best episode I’ve seen in a long time. The writing for this episode was better than most of last season. The best skit was the one where they’re showing some people on the plane that had the broken landing gear, watching on TV how they were all […]

Amazon.com Web Services Contest

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Amazon’s looking for folks to participate in a contest to see who can make the best use of their web service. Check it out.

Explorer’s delay when deleting an in-use file

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Excellent article on The Code Project by Dan Farino where he discovers how to eliminate Explorer’s delay when deleting an in-use file.

Mapping Timely Events

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

I’d love to see a news channel for Google Earth to track things like the fires in California. The Google Blog has an article about how you can get an Ants overlay in Google Earth. Which news organization will be the first to have a News overlay? MSNBC had a good one with the Hurricane […]

Serenity

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Serenity is out this weekend. I never saw the series, but I’ve heard so much about it, and about the movie, that I really want to see it. How’s that for buzz.

Free WiFi in San Francisco

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Google Confirms Free San Francisco WiFi Plans. The talk of Google building their own Internet2 keeps building; giving everyone free Wireless is a great way to get everyone inside Google’s sandbox without having to deal with running wires to houses.. I wonder how many people would use free wireless as […]