Our good friend Craig Courtnay is taking a 16-month journey around the world. He created a MovableType weblog to keep track of his travels and to post pictures. I'm jealous...check out this travel itinerary: May-June: Scandinavia July-August: Alps, climb Mt. Blanc, the Matterhorn, and the Eiger by way of the Mittelege Ridge September: Spain October: Africa Safari - Tanzania, Rwanda/Uganda... (more)
May 2003 Archives
simpsonsmath.com: The Simpsons also contains over a hundred instances of mathematics ranging from arithmetic to geometry to calculus, many designed to expose and poke fun at innumeracy. [Via Ned Batchelder]... (more)
Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar (or DQSD for short) is a must-have utility for Windows. I recently noticed (in the Story of Feedster) that support for Feedster is now incorporated -- just type "rss" followed by your search term. One of the best features of the Quick Search Taskbar is its extensibility. Numerous users have submitted searches for different... (more)
I've been meaning to install ieSpell at home and finally did today. At work I use it for spell-checking bugs (submitted through our web-based bug tracker). It's also great for checking postings to MovableType which doesn't have a built-in spell checker (that I know of).... (more)
Getting caught up on e-mail, I notice that Plaxo Contacts 1.0 was launched on May 21st. This software looks like an interesting way to keep people up-to-date with changes in their contact information, but I suspect that it will be met with resistance for a couple of reasons: People will be reluctant to send their entire contact list to a... (more)
John Lam reports today that he found my CityDesk -> Movable Type conversion notes useful. Cool! I'm glad it was useful for someone else. Like John, I moved over from CityDesk to MovableType. I like using CityDesk (a beta for v2.0 was recently announced), but have been very happy with Movable Type. I haven't taken much advantage of Comments or... (more)
Top 75 Network Security Tools, results of a survey of 1800 people who use the Nmap security scanner.... (more)
Today's Mercury News reports that the wind tunnels at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View are closing. (more)
PhotoPal looks like a promising server-based solution for organizing and presenting pictures. I really need to get caught up with all my digitial pictures -- they're quietly sitting in several folders on my desktop right now. Update: It looks like PhotoPal is now known as PhotoStack. [Via Inluminent.com]... (more)
The local paper (San Jose Mercury News) has been doing a full-court press leading up to the release of Matrix: Reloaded. I'm trying to avoid reading too much about it before I see it, but this quote from the SJ Mercury review was classic: There is also an enormous freeway chase that feels like an old Burt Reynolds movie breaking... (more)
Syndic8: Getting Stuff Done -- Jeff Barr has a great method for breaking down projects into really short tasks: I keep a very detailed TODO list. When I am about to do something new, I break it down into items that can be done in 5 to 15 minute chunks. Given the power of PHP and MySQL, these chunks can... (more)
A couple of good weblogs I've recently subscribed to: Bruce Eckel's Mindview (RSS feed) Jeff Barr's Syndic8 Weblog (RSS feed)... (more)
Faced with a big deadline at work and a big party at home, I've had no time to keep up with what's going on around the internet. Fortunately my inbox is full of RSS headlines thanks to my HeadlineMailer. I just subscribed to Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog which looks like a great information source. He linked to the announcement that... (more)
