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Today I was confirming a reservation with Holiday Inn Express and found a unique anti-pattern on their login dialog: instead of including a check box for "remember me", they have one for the opposite meaning: "do not remember me". So much for following well-known conventions on the internet! (more)

Having a result on Spoke when searching for your name is a drag. In addition to their reputation for being spammy and intrusive, the data listed is often inaccurate or out of date. To remove your profile from such public searches, their FAQ provides the clue. (more)

The Sprint website has been offline (i.e., unusable) for over 48 hours now as Sprint is launching a new software release. Can't we do better than that these days? (more)

Christian Heilmann (Yahoo! Evangelist) has created GeoMaker - a great way to learn about Yahoo's Geo technologies like Placemaker. Here I put GeoMaker to the test with the lyrics from "I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash. (more)

Still finding more reasons to play with and learn YQL, and following up from my experiment with random numbers, today I implemented YQL support for lipsum.com, a "Lorem Ipsum" text generator. (more)

I recently discovered a very cool random number generator site appropriately called Random.org. After poking around a bit at the various generators available on the site, I created a custom data table to access these random number services via Yahoo's YQL engine. (more)

Recently @tonyadam was asking about for a way to import Twitter search results into Excel via RSS or CSV. I couldn’t find a suitable method on my slightly out of date Excel 2003, but sent Tony a link explaining how Excel 2007 could get him closer to what he wants. Turns out he was on the Mac anyways, so we... (more)

Having spent the better part of today debugging a problem with cookies on a couple different servers, I stumbled on the fact that the “Private Browsing” feature of Firefox was exceptionally handy for my situation. Private browsing is usually touted as a feature for “porn browsing”, or other activities in which you’re trying to not leave a trail. The same... (more)