Sounds like Greg Reinacker is brewing up a posting interface for NewsGator via Simon Fell’s IBlogThis interface.
Cool!
Monthly Archives: April 2003
Donating a Car to Charity
I was doing some research about donating a car to charity and I found a good checklist on the NY Better Business Bureau site
- “If considering a donation of a vehicle to a charity, follow this checklist:
- Check out the charity. Make sure you are comfortable with its mission, activities and ethics. NYPAS maintains reports on many New York area charities and the Council of Better Business BureausÂ’ PAS program has information on national organizations from around the country.
- Inquire what specifically the vehicle will be used for.
- If the vehicle is to be sold, ask the actual dollar amount the charity will receive for your donation. Shop around- some charities receive more for each car donated than others.
- Determine the true value of your donation, by finding out the “blue book” value and/or getting it appraised by an auto professional. Remember to take any damage into account.
- Keep copies of all documentation pertaining to your donation for tax purposes.”
Corporations seek better search results
“In the field of customer intelligence, search analytics is poised to become a star. However, some say it remains somewhat limited, much like enterprise search itself” (via CNet)
[Listening to: New Amsterdam – Elvis Costello – Girls Girls Girls – Disc 1 (02:13)]
Encouraging richer social connections
According to researchers at the University of Washington which was referenced in this NY Times article
“…companies would benefit from encouraging richer social connections,”
The Times article also mentions …
“Google may be great, but people are greater. Paraphrased roughly, that is what researchers at the University of Washington found in a study released last week. People are more likely to seek information from other people than to search the Internet or an intranet, and they are three times more likely to go to people they know than to outside experts…”
[Listening to: The National Anthem – Radiohead – Kid A (05:50)]
Unofficial OneNote FAQ
Ben Schorr has put together a useful OneNote FAQ
Windows Media plugin for bloggers
This is pretty neat, as part of the Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack, there’s a blogging plugin for Windows Media Player that will insert the info about the current track playing into you blog post (see below)
[Listening to: Campver Van Beethoven)- Take the Skinheads Bowling – – (02:27)]
Release 4.0
Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS
the World as a Blog — “Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world”
Very clever!
Determine the last result in Google
Ross Rader calls it, “Googlediving” and he provides a simple HOWTO. (link via Doc)
However, it could probably be automated by paging backward through a search result-set via the Googe API.
Recipe for Car Power: Heat Vegetable Oil, Flip Switch and Go.
What’s next? Cop cars that run on powdered sugar?
From an
article in the NY Times: “He will then start the vehicle on regular
diesel, and after a few minutes, when the vegetable oil becomes more viscous
in the heater, a manual switch will direct it to the diesel engine. From
there, the only detectable difference will be the faint odor of French
fries, and a noticeable lack of diesel stench.” (Thanks for the link John)
Selling Links on eBay
Tony Pierce is selling links
from his blog on eBay and he actually has bids!
(links via BoingBoing)
Doh! Why didn’t I think of that!
Well, I certainly don’t have the market share of Tony’s blog, but on March
6th my valuation was at $403.06 :-)
Extreme Ironing
Please, someone beat me senseless if I ever get involved with this
Geo IP Stalking
SideBit’s Project
Locate IP will try to figure out where an IP is physically located.
It worked fairly well in my tests.
Jazz Legend Nina Simone dies at 70
Ms. Simone, we will certainly miss you. And yes, you indeed, moved us all.
“Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France.”
More news below…
- Jazz-Soul Singer Nina Simone Dies in France – MSNBC
- Nina Simone dies at 70 – Reuters
- Nina Simone Tributes – BBC
- Nina Simone Dies – Rolling Stone
- Jazz Soul Veteran Nina Simone Dies – Launch
- Nina Simone Dies – Fredericksburg
- Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70 – MTV
- Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies – New York Times
Read and listen to more of Nina Simone’s inspiring
body of work
IT business analyst or IT business technologist
Interesting article in eWeek about IT business
analyst:
“…an IT business analyst acts as a liaison between non-IT
employees who have a business problem to solve and the IT department, which
is charged with finding the solution.”
Of course this is a self-serving comment from me, but I certainly agree that
this is a key position in the enterprise.
(Thanks Ted for sending me the link [where’s your blog ;-])