Essays and everything else

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

October 29, 2003

Google eyes book search
In light of Amazon’s recent book search service, this report on CNet about Google in talks with publishers to provide a similar service seems a little strange.
October 28, 2003

Movable Type Blog Migration
Over the last week, usually in the mid-to-late evenings — after Catherine falls asleep, I have been slowly migrating my B2-based blog to Movable Type.
October 23, 2003

Amazon’s Full Text Search
Amazon has now extended its search to include the full text of over 120,000 books. It will even do hit-highlighting on the actual pages that match. Slick!
October 21, 2003

Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API
This article about integrating Google into the research pane of Office is from a few months ago, but I think relevant given that today is the official launch of Office 2003
October 17, 2003

Hybrid Application Manager
AppRocket seems to be a hybrid application manager with “intelligent search” that appears to be based on LaunchBar for Mac OS X. (link via Les Orchard)
October 16, 2003

Is Comment Spam Cost Effective?
I’m getting my fair share of comment spam like many other bloggers, but I can’t imagine that the cost/time ratio is actually worth it.
October 15, 2003

What is WinFS?
“If Mr. LaMonica’s WinFS description is accurate, then WinFS really is Microsoft database technology running on top of the existing NTFS file system.”
October 15, 2003

Salesforce.com on Social Networking
IBDN: We know that consumers will pay to find a date, but will they pay to find business contacts?
October 14, 2003

NYC Subway RSS Feeds
“So out of frustration, sheer geekiness and a desire to toy around with RSS, I decided to put together some feeds of the MTAs service updates, based on a program scanning their own …
October 10, 2003

Jahia: Integrated Java CMS and Portal
I had a chance to take a look at the new 4.0 version of Jahia and I must say that I am very impressed. As 100% Java solution, it’s a competitive alternative to SharePoint.