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Yahoo vs. Google
Joi Ito’s Web: Yahoo getting ready to kick Google off portal?. It’s amazing to me to see how Google has managed to overtake Yahoo in the search business. Goes to show that technology can beat raw human power. What has surprised me is that Yahoo has been so slow to react. I’ve noticed for the…
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MSNBC Weblogs
Weblog central. Amazing MSNBC actually does a update set on interesting weblogs. Of course, it is not itself a blog, but what the heck. Interesting to see what they pick out.
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Seattle Florists
Ed over at Hynomics has a great idea. He has a florist who sends his wife flowers every month. I’m going to start the same tradition with Connie. Here are two florists in Seattle that I really like: Flowers on 15th: Florist and Landscaping Services on Capitol Hill, Seattle. These folks do the arrangements over…
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Kid Friendly Hotels in NYC
Kid Friendly Hotels in NYC. We’re off to New York and we wanted to find some kid friendly hotels there. A quick search with Expedia revealed many nice deals, but it wasn’t clear what the good kid places were. Frommers and About.com helped with: The Best Hotel Bets for Families Most Family Friendly: The Doubletree…
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Seattle Cinerama — Thank You Paul
Seattle Cinerama Technical Innovations. Thank you Paul Allen for the most incredible movie theater I’ve ever been to. Paul renovated the Cinerama in downtown Seattle and if you are ever in town. You just have to visit. If I had time I’d go to every movie there just to see and hear it. Here’s why…
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Hacking Away at Slides Music
the sea of waking dreams: A Sarah McLachlan Website. Spent the day hacking away at a UIEvolution strategy piece. Been a long time since I’ve just hacked slides and thought about things. Thank goodness for multimedia in Windows. Been listening to some old songs, cranked up as there is basically no one in the office.…
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Multiple Windows on One Machine
What a pain it is to have various incompatible versions of Windows around. Although there are an incredible number of compatibility hacks, the fact remains that even in my house, I have at least five programs and a scanner that won’t boot on Windows XP. So, I’m off to look for multiple Windows on a…
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CD Copy Protection
Fat Chuck’s – Corrupt CDs News. I hit my first copy protected CD today. It’s SHeDAISY’s Brand New Year and can’t playback on lots of my PC at work, but interestingly does seems to rip OK on a Lite-on CD-RW, so it is not clear where the compatibility is. It is amazing that the record…
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Shopping Sites
tantek/log/2002/12. Tantek notes the new Froogle search site which is Google applied specifically to home shopping. Personally, I’ve found Pricegrabber followed by Half and eBay search to be the most useful way now.
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Lord of the Rings: Yes!!!!!!!!
[brad choate dot com] The Two Towers and lowMag.net’s loves it too. I haven’t seen such an incredible movie in a long time. We went with the other Geek Fishermen and I can only report that is was an amazing experience. Not just Gollum mind you, but the scenary, the battlescenes. It was just amazing…
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Rich's Heroes
CNNSI.com – 2002 Sportsman of the Year – Lance Armstrong. I’m sure he is heroes to millions of people, so I’ll just have to add my name to the list. Just finished reading the Sports Illustrated article on him that went with the Sportsman of the Year award. Who could not admire his dedication. Get…
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Camera Brain Lock
Photo.Net. Wow, this is an incredible site with really great information. For instance, Camera Equipment Forum – Advice for beginners threads and Building an SLR system. I can’t stand the fact that picture quality on point and shoot cameras is so poor. Here are two good guides to getting into photography with 35mm SLR cameras.…
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Santa Cruz Blur
Santa Cruz BlurBeen lusting for a mountain bike. This is the current one I’ve been eyeing. Also studying the Specialized Epic and maybe the new Klein Quantum based on the Turner Monolink. Reviews 2003 Santa Cruz Blur Reviews. The folks on mtbr continue to rave. 2002 Full Suspension Santa Cruz Blur Product Reviews Santa Cruz…
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Old programmer wakes up
download : vim online. I’ve been reliving my past and one of my favorites editors was vi on Unix. Thank goodness they now have it on the PC. I’m literally remember keystrokes I haven’t typed in 15 years.
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The Final Days
Information Letter 14. This memo by John Walker was one of my touchstones more than a decade ago. Written in 1991, it talks about the quaint Eighties. It’s amazing to me how much changes with the Internet and how in many ways nothing changed. I rate this a must read for everyone. Actually, his whole…
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Categories and Website organization
Categorization. An interesting piece on categorization. I’m a little obsessed with this too as I figure out how to turn the rest of my web site into a giant blog. He’s a bit like John Ludwig in believing in dynamic categorization or a big content search
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Rise of the Stupid Network
Stupid Network. This is one of those classic articles written by Dave Isenberg five years ago about how the basic telco assumptions aren’t valid anymore. I’ll be a little contrarian in a day when essentially every startup carrier is in bankruptcy and say that the trend is still in the direction the he talks about.…
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Email Innovations
It’s amazing that there hasn’t been more innovation in email. Part of the problem is that there isn’t an easy to code, modular platform to innovate on. Here are some of the projects I’ve found with food for thought. POPFile – Automatic Email Classification. It’s interesting that this is the most active project current on…
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Gallery 2 column mode
Gallery is now working and up on Tong Family. It requires a logon though, so you need to send me email if you want to look at photos of the kids, etc. Gallery :: your photos on your website. As usual, there are tweaks galore. One that I need to install right away is how…
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Supernova conference notes
SUPERNOVA 2002 – by pulver.com. Hey the cool think is that the conference was actually both blogged and group blogged, so read it and weep. See Pulvar for more general information since the blog seems to be a temporary site with no DNS address, just a TCP/IP address
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Great conferences (at last!)
Joi Ito’s Web: World Blogging Forum and the Tao of Conferences. At last some interesting conferences to visit. I have to admit, I’ve done so many conferences, I’m terrified of them. I’m sorry I missed the event down in San Francisco. Nice to have a list of ones that you liked. Sign me up for…
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VOIP arriving
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. This is a neat geek site for interesting gadgets and a multiuser site. Here’s a note from Clay Shirky about VoIP. I have to give it a try! I have been testing Vonage’s VoIP service, and it comes close to the critical mix of simple, useful, and cheap.…
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The next Office
The Outlook Killer?. I think Ludwig blogged this before I switched to MovableType, but I saw this article again. I think he is right aobut the problems. It shouldn’t take all that much money to make it work and Chandler looks interesting. This next take on Outlook could of course benefit from the right kind…
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Buy the device, hate the network
Returning my Sidekick. It is amazing to me how many times people just want to love their device like the new Danger, but the network just gets in the way. Sounds like Matt needs to look up
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Linksys Router updates can silently hurt you…
PPTP disabled by default. Turns out that when I upgraded the firmware to my Linksys router last month, they added a new parameter buried somewhere deep that was disable PPTP so all my VPN access would hang. This was enabled by default. Amazing what some folks do. Probably in the name of security, but talk…
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Windows remembered!
Doug’s Dynamic Drivel. It is nice to see that Fred Langa at least remembers what Windows in the early days was like. I’m sure it will be lost in obscurity, but the work of those folks was amazing. I had the chance to watch folks like Brad Silverberg, David Cole, John Ludwig pretty much singlehandedly…
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Skiing in February
We are trying to figure out where all the snow has gone this year. It sure ain’t easy to find. A bunch of friends had just an awful time at Whistler over the Thanksgiving and Washington conditions are terrible. But, here are some of the options we are looking at: RSN. This is just a…
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Christmas Shopping 2002
Well the Christmas season has come and I’m still jamming to get all my presents out. Here’s where I’ve been. Sadly, compared to the last three all Internet christmases for me, there was narry a deal to be found and most of the .com’s and startups have dried up. Just look at Pricegrabber to see…
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Referrer Linking
IAwiki: ReferrerLinking. Iawiki.net seems to be a good place to find links and informaiton about doing various cool tricks like Referrer linking. Here’s a good page on how to do it and the various techniques that you can use.
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Welcome to the new look
Tongfamily weblog. I finally got the new look up for tongfamily.com on a new hoster. This now uses