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Word Bursts
Daypop Top Word Bursts. Thanks to Joshua for this reference. Word Bursts monitor the use of terms in blogs. It is amazing what pinging a site can do. Lots easier than having a spyder. Anyway, fun to watch new words burst onto the Internet via blogs.
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Bike Works
Bike Works! Helping Columbia City Ride Bicycles.. This is a great organization. You can donate your bikes to them. You can also teach inner city kids how to repair bikes and then if they work long enough, then they get to keep them for themselves. A neat idea. We have a bunch of kids bikes…
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Popfile Everywhere
I’ve been using Popfile for a few months now for my personal accounts. Version 0.17 has been very robust and for me has a 99.8% accuracy in detecting Spam. It is truly awesome. In digging around, there are quite a few pieces that are available that make it very practical to use: # “Popfile”:http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/. This…
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Web Hosting Advice
Brad Choate: Oh the servers, they are a changin’…. Some great advice on dedicated servers. I’m very happy with “Mark”:http://tqhosting.com but if I ever need a dedicated server here’s some great advice.
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Ski Boot Fitting
The last time out with the kids convinced me to go get a great pair of ski boots plus some great advice from Mason Flint. This turns out to be an incredibly complex topic and getting the right fit is hard. Thanks to the great folks like Kevin at “Sturtevants”:http://www.sturtevants.com/ I spent four hours trying…
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Finding Connie on the Web
Connie says she doesn’t have a neat web site. A quick “google”:http://google.com/search?q=constance+mao search shows that it’s true, in fact this entry is one of the top ones. In fact, she’s the #1 hit for Constance Mao on google. What pride: * “University of Washington”:http://depts.washington.edu/obgyn/FacultyFiles/Faculty.html#?http://depts.washington.edu/obgyn/FacultyFiles/ContentFiles/Mao.html. Where she works * “HPV Paper”:http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n14/abs/joc11676.html. A Jama paper she coauthored.…
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At Work
Connie is right now working at University of Washington, check out her not very filled out bio on University of Washington
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Upgrade to Movable Type 2.62
MT 2.62 is here. Tongfamily is up to the latest version of MovableType. Biggest feature is that text editing is now easier since they have a plugin architecture to do this New Text Editors for MT. Now there are a pile of text editors. I’ll have to install and test them now. More work for…
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Demo 2003 Report
Demo Report. A good report of what is hot at Demo 2003. Eileen Gittens told me that the interestings things were: Lifescape. A photo management. Liked their CEO. Mock 3. 3-D from 2-D photos. Big Fix. Security company Digital Sun. Doing a wireless sprinkler control add-on
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t68 User Guide
t68 User Group. It is amazing how bad the manual is for the Sony Ericsson t68. Fortunately, the Internet saves the day. Here’s a great how-to site to help setup the POP3 mail feature for instance.
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The Final Word On International Calling
I never really finished this full analysis, so here it is. This is for traveling to Canada and also calling into Senegal. Here is the strategy I ended up using: 10-10 Phone Rates. This appears to be a fantastic and honest site that analyzes the cost to call out using the 1010 dial around services.…
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Ski Boots
Ski boot reviews.htm. Mason Flint, an old buddy from Microsoft, told me that the best thing to do is to get great boots and then rent the best skis each season. makes sense to me. Here are some boot reviews. Boot Fitters. A web site devoted just to fitting ski boots. Amazing. Says Issaquah Sport…
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Santa Cruz Blur
I’ve been looking for a mountain bike for a while and had my heart set on an Ellsworth Truth. Seemed perfect, but then the Blur came along and now there are too many choices again. But, here are some reviews of it that make it sound so sweet: Phat Tire. One place for pricing it
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What phone should I buy?
Steve ask for phones. Great question steve about what phone to buy. It’s an incredibly complex question, even if you just live in Seattle. Here’s an update on it, for more, you can search this blog for the occasional irreverent entries. First of all, I’m going to assume you are more or less like me,…
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Second Life
Crazy on-line world. Must to be fun to have a second virtual life. I can’t wait for Philip to get the thing out of beta. Echoes of the gay 90s (not a bad description of the 1995-2000 era IMHO).
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Skis for Me and the Kids
Now that we are on our third season of skiing, its pretty clear that I and the boys love it, so maybe its time to get off the rentals. Something tells me that the spring clearances will be great this year because of the recession and poor skiing out here. So, here’s to some more…
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Where are the Cycling Blogs?
Pack Fill – A Cycling Blog. Amazingly, this is the only google search hit for someone writing about bicycling and cycling with a blog. How sad. Actually, I’m the first hit. OTOH, this guy is a category 2 road racer, so I have to show a lot of respect
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Ericsson T68 Unlock
Connie has an Ericsson t68 and is going overseas. She will need to use a local carriers SIM card, but her phone is locked. Here is what I found out about unlocking: WirelessAdvisor.com Forums – Do you provide, or need, unlocking services? Read this. Be aware that T-Mobile and Cingular will provide you with your…
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Calling from home: VOIP vs. 1010 vs. Calling Cards
As part of looking all this calling stuff overseas, I hit a bunch of VOIP sites. A pretty interesting review. I actually tried some of them from Ignition and they were amazingly good and cheap too. These are sorted in Google page rank order and the analysis shows they are great for the US, but…
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Senegal Roaming
Connie is headed out to Senegal. Here’s the mobile operator. I need to get her the right SIM card for her tri-mode phone. Wow, is this complicated. Fortunately John did some research on Spanish SIM cards and such, but Senegal is a little bit farther afield. Here is what I recommend Sentel GSM – Services.…
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Google and DMOZ Directories
Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project. Every want to get into Google’s directory system. Right now, my buddies aren’t in it. Turns out that Google uses the Open Directory structure, so all you have to do is click on Add URL in the right spot in DMOZ and hopefully you’ll get linked in.…
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Wireless Rockets
Geekfishing Blog: Rocket Update. Check out Adrian’s modification to our group Christmas present. It used to be a model rocket that could take a few still photos at a few hundred feet. A hundred hours later, it now has a webcam in it with 802.11 that can take real time photos all the way up.…
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Microsoft and the community
Pushme-pullyou. Great thoughts by Joe on what to do about the “community at large.” It is nice to know there are folks inside the ‘Soft who are wondering about what to do about the external world. my initial reaction is this: I know that to a great degree, Microsoft employees are incredibly enthusiastic about the…
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Microsoft is jealous (and scared of) of Slash Dot and Scripting News…
The Scobleizer Weblog. Great comments from someone in the blogging community about how Microsoft deals with the influential masses. I can see both sides of the story having been on the outside for three years now. The debate is fasicinating.
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Windows XP ClearType tuning
Serdar points out that there is a great Cleartype tuning wizard available from Microsoft that makes things look even better on an LCD. A great tool I think.
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Trek 5900
. Serdar, asked me to post photos of my main bike. It’s really not a 5900 technically, but a builtup OLCV 110 frame, but its easier to explain it to folks as a 5900 with totally different components. It is a nice bike, although I like the 2002 colors quite a lot. Main thing is…
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Darn it…network gone on Shuttle SS51G
Rats, my great new Shuttle SS51G has a problem. It’s network card seems to have given up the ghost. Nothing like spending two hours trying to figure it out. Checked the network cable with a good machine and that works fine. Behaves as though there is no connector there at all. Can’t see any packets,…
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Drafting to Decrease Wind Resistance
Thanks to Road Bike Rider. They have a great news letter. Here are some interesing factoids I learned. It explains how the pros can travel at 25 mph for days on end. Of course they produce twice the wattage (200 watts for a mortal vs. 400 watts for a pro), but being in a big…
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Video Conferencing
Paul Maritz and Eyal both want to do video conferencing over at Ignition. This seems like a classic opportunity for Rich “The Geek” Tong to learn another inane subject. I certainly don’t think we should spend $2,000 for some hardware when we don’t understand all the issues (like why can’t we just use a PC…
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Paul Krugman
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page. I had a chance to meet him last summer. Incredibly smart guy. Amazing to be in the same room with him, Voelcker and Blinder.