• WLAN Hard Drive Box
  Wireless (802.11g) Drive Enclosure from Asus… I want one!
  (categories: Hardware IT WiFi)

• Hacking Google Suggest
  Adam Stiles has some sample code for hacking Google’s new Auto Complete feature
  (categories: Google Hacks Search)
• Couchbike
  “In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada.”
  (categories: Cycling Humor)

There are few specific details in this article on CNET about IBM’s push into the Enterprise Search market, but it does hint at IBM’s commitment to “higher-margin software and services” during its transition from the PC Hardware space.

“IBM is building software it hopes will make it the Google of corporate-search technology.”

“IBM is constructing a content management and search product line through acquisitions and by sifting through the results of its research and development labs.” (e.g. WebFountain)

“We very much view unstructured information evolving the same way that relational databases evolved, where companies want to have content repositories that will serve multiple applications…”

• TheOpenCD
  “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0″
  (categories: IT Open_Source Software)

• Halo 2 RSS Excel Workbook
  “This spreadsheet reads in the RSS feed that Bungie provides for your game information”
  (categories: Games RSS)
• FeedSpeaker Blog
  I like this! “Feedspeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files. I like to pretend Stephen Hawking is reading my favorite blogs to me on my way to work.”
  (categories: Audio Hack RSS)

I know, I know… first post in a long time. Trust me; I haven’t abandoned the blog — more on that another time.

Anyway, I just tested Google Suggest, the new Auto-Complete feature that’s currently in beta at Google. My first impression is that this is a wicked fast service! I hope they make it a default feature, but I imagine they’d still have to work out the scaling issues.

Beyond that, I’d like to see the Auto-Complete feature applied to all the other Google properties like GMail, Froogle, Google News and even the Google Tool Bar. I’m sure it’s in the works.

In fact, I noticed that Google does pass the “&complete=1″ query argument over to Google News when your web searches display results with relevant news stories. However, the Auto-Complete feature does not yet work in News.

Again, bravo to Google! They even brought me out of a blogging slumber :-)

• Default Password List
  Very handy list.
  (categories: Hacks IT Security)

• Ding Fries Are Done!!
  Would you like an apple pie with that?
  (categories: Humor)