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December 2004 Archives
Over the holidays there seemed to be an abundance of weather-related air travel delays which weren’t too surprising. What did surprise me was the complete shutdown of Comair’s flights (over 1000 per day), in particular the blame of a computer system fault as the reason for the shutdown. I’ve been curious whether more details would be publicized and it seems... (more)
Joel Spolsky — in his usual combination of good sense and humor — this week put out Camels and Rubber Duckies which tries to answer the question “How much should I charge for my software?”. As Joel warns up front, you’ll learn a lot more about pricing but still won’t know how much to charge. In a straightforward path, Joel... (more)
Eric Sink’s latest columns is up on MSDN: Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV. Eric has been writing a monthly column for MSDN from the perspective of an independent software vendor. He started using the term “Micro-ISV” to mean a software company with just one person. In this month’s column, he points out among other things that someone beat... (more)
Yesterday Yahoo! launched a video search service as a beta. It works like you’d expect: you can search for videos! The Yahoo! Search Blog has more of the background about this new service. What’s more interesting to me is a new draft RSS spec called Media RSS: “Media RSS” is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilties of... (more)
PubSub.com has a new feature called LinkRanks: LinkRanks are a measure of how many pages link to each particular site, with more weight given to fresher links and to links from a wider variety of pages. I grabbed a screen shot of the ranking for Cantoni.org (shown below). Clearly there’s some volatility in the algorithm, but I’m not exactly sure... (more)
For the past couple of months, I’ve been getting good use out of my Creative Zen Touch 20GB MP3 player. I’ve copied over about 20 of my CDs but use it mostly for podcasts during my commute. Overall I’m quite happy with the device, but have noticed a problem with certain podcast files which would play back at the wrong... (more)
With the rising popularity of podcasting, I’ve been thinking about automated information sources that might be interesting. How about the weather? RSSWeather.com provides RSS weather feeds for different cities. FeedSpeaker is a new .Net application that uses Microsoft’s Speech API to “speak” RSS feeds, recording the results in MP3 format. This is a manual process, but one could easily create... (more)
The wait was longer than expected, but the new paint job on my Dodge truck is finally finished. Check out the photos which I’ve posted to Flickr. I bought the truck earlier this year from a good friend. It’s in great shape mechanically, but the roof and hood paint was beyond fading (and had started to come off in spots).... (more)
Another reason to get with the program and upgrade to high-def TV: Beginning next year, NBC and Turner Network Television (TNT) will televise their entire portion of the 2005 NASCAR schedule in high-definition. … TNT and NBC’s full-season of HD NASCAR coverage will begin with NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing during the weekend of July 1 and... (more)
