Essays and everything else

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

July 7, 2003

Hamilton Starts Stage 2 with Broken Collarbone
Amazing! — Tyler Hamilton has started stage two of the Tour De France with a broken collarbone, which he suffered during yesterday’s massive crash at the end of stage one!
July 5, 2003

2003 Tour De France
This year being the 100 Anniversary of the Tour and (potentially) Armstrong’s 5th consecutive win, next only to Miguel Indurain, I’m eagerly awaiting the start of today’s prologue …
July 3, 2003

SPAM false-positives can be rude
This is the unfortunate result of the “every growing uphill battle with SPAM”, but apparently an email to me from Anders Jacobsen was rejected due to some of the drastic, but …
July 3, 2003

je ne sais quoi RSS
“…explaining to the uninitiated why RSS newsreaders are so compelling can be a little frustrating. There’s a certain jene sais quoi about RSS that reminds me of how it felt to …
July 2, 2003

Synonyms! Fuzzy! Thesauri! Oh my!
“There are other ways than thesauri to improve the recall of search systems. Perhaps the best known is “Latent Semantic Indexing.” “
July 2, 2003

ISO Creation Tool for Windows XP
Alex Feinman has created the ISO Recorder Power Toy, which “is a UI component that allows you to use CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record and create ISO images.” (via …
July 1, 2003

More Blog Evangelism at work
Well my constant nagging of my friend and co-worker Ed Hackney seems to be paying off.
June 27, 2003

Home Star Runner
BTW, I’m now a huge fan of Home Star Runner (flash required). My favorites so far are “Teenage Girls Squad” and “System Down”.
June 27, 2003

Wiki: Tenacious Collaboration
Tim Bray quotes Sam Ruby’s observation of the tenaciousness of collaboration via a Wiki
June 26, 2003

Going Commercial
Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run.