Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

November 19, 2003

Web of Human Knowledge
Ross Mayfield links to a fascinating article on Boxes and Arrows by Alex Wright about Paul Otlet: The forgotten forefather of information architecture.
November 18, 2003

Popularity Metrics
“[PageRank] Won’t Work for You If you’re writing or deploying a search engine for your Intranet or product catalogue or portal, Google’s PageRank trick probably won’t work, because …
November 17, 2003

Disposable Email Addresses
I order to protect myself from a potential deluge of spam from suspicious service offerings, I wanted to use a disposable email address.
November 14, 2003

Sleep Is Now An Option
Well, in light of the fact that within a few months, sleep will likely become a scarce commodity for me and Catherine. So, I think perhaps I should investigate the “Sleep Is Now An …
November 13, 2003

Irish Eyes Are Smiling
It’s official, Guinness is good for you!
November 13, 2003

Further info on Wallop
“We’ve been really interested in blogs, wikis, authoring and syndication around RSS, and social networking software in general,” Cheng tells Microsoft Watch. “We were imagining how …
November 12, 2003

Pacman via Excel
I’m truly amazed! I wish I knew Japanese to provide more details, but apparently Nobuya Chikada has created an excellent remake of the classics Pacman and Space Invaders in …
November 7, 2003

Google Deskbar
I usually don’t like to add too much extra paraphernalia to the default Windows desktop. However, after about an hour of sporadic usage, I think the Google Deskbar is on its way to …
November 6, 2003

Morphix Modular Live-CD Linux Distribution
Morphix is similar to Knoppix in that it’s a complete bootable Linux Distro on CD. The main difference however is that Morphix is modular — with ISO packages ranging from …
November 5, 2003

Ask Microsoft?
“Microsoft had also been linked with buys of any of the remaining search players, including Ask Jeeves and Looksmart, though the company has recently dumped Looksmart after …