The other day, Kent brought Lorraine 4 shoes and said Go, go. He knows what it means now, and he knows he doesn’t want to just sit around at home all day (despite the fact that he has a million toys in each room to keep him occupied at home Read more…
It does not look like there is a strong concensus, but some consider today (9/13/2007) as programmer’s day. From what I understand, today is the 256th day. 256 is a number many computer geeks see a lot because computers work with binary numbers. Wikipedia apparently had an article at one Read more…
If you have ever used Linux, you are definitely spoiled by the automated install programs. Fedora has yum and up2date, and Debian-based distributions have apt-get. You just give the command to install a particular program and the installer not only completely installs that program but also determines and installs all Read more…
There are 3 different resources for photos: iStockPhoto stock.xchng (This one has been most useful so far) yotophoto (A search, but so far, I have had to wade through many images you have to pay for) This site has been helpful for clipart: Open Clip Art Library The problem I Read more…
Business Standard published an interesting article called “Gphone: Phantom marketing at its best“. I like the phantom marking label. Anyway, the most interesting thing in the article is the mention of a time line of developments. I found the time line in the article, “Gphone? The Google Phone Timeline“.
Here is an interesting link if you have kids: International Digital Children’s Library I came across this resource when I saw Allison Druin give a Tech Talk at Google: If Google Becomes Giigle. In the talk, she was mentioning the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, which partnered with kids to determine things Read more…
I just came across this article: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete Are we really ready to call relational database’s “legacy technology”? My first reaction is that column-oriented will only ever be niche software. The article points out that data can be read faster because the columns are together, Read more…
Last Friday, Electronista claimed that the Google phone would be announced in two weeks. Does that mean that now it will be announced in one week? Google phone just two weeks away At the time, my Google news feed had listed three or four articles with a similar title. But, Read more…
Google Tech Talk about handling email called Inbox Zero: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925
The search has been a dearly missed feature in Google Reader. A number of times, something has come up in conversation that I said, “oh, I read something about that just the other day, but I could never find it again.” Now, I can search back through the feeds to Read more…