I’ve been kicking around the idea of a new vehicle, especially a hybrid vehicle, and the Toyota Prius caught my eye. It’s a small hybrid car that’s loaded with geeky toys. Super fuel-efficient (60mpg city), and compared to my current gas-hog AWD minivan, which gets about 15mpg, I’d save a bundle with the amount of […]
So I’m clicking through new entries at the Long Tail site this morning, basically just killing a few minutes looking for interesting stuff, and I found this: That’s a Big-ass Dog Which links to a blog I now very much like. The system worked – I found new content without needing an intermediary to tell […]
So I’m curious what’s up with the seach for Jim Gray.. so I searched CNN. In with the results page: Seriously. I guess they just substitute in whatever you’re searching for and show you an ad.. Apparently so.
Okay so all of you who don’t care can just skip this post.. but inspired by Tim Bray, I wanted to say some stuff about babies and when they choose to develop. As a software developer, milestones are points that we strive to reach, and each of them has a deadline. So charts like this […]
An anonymous blogger (seriously, he’s anonymous) writes: It’s a very useful site for keeping track of who is linking to you. Their about page says they’re “the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now†and their Wikipedia entry lists them as an “Internet search companyâ€. But how many people actually […]
Even though I throttled back the polling ages ago, it’s still fun to visit the Long Tail site every now and then and just click Next a few times. You never know what you’ll find.
I’ve been playing with Amazon’s S3 service the last few days, and it really is interesting. Now that some applications are starting to be built on top of it, even though it’s a relatively low-level service it can actually be useful for end users. The specific scenario I’ve found it useful for is backup. I […]
The question is, is Microsoft going to make something that really lives up to the name, “Home Server”? Or is this really just a rebranding of Media Center. I shouldn’t need both a Home Server and a Media Center. Recording and playing back video streams takes up a fraction of the potential of a Media […]
…Finally.
One of the most significant consumers of bandwidth on the Ottawa Events site is GoogleBot. GoogleBot crawls the site very frequently, fetching mostly the same content over and over. I just saw an example of this working out very well. There’s a free New Years party with fireworks that has almost no online presence. I […]