April 24, 2003

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.

April 24, 2003

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)

April 24, 2003

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 :-)

April 24, 2003

Extreme Ironing

Please, someone beat me senseless if I ever get involved with this a>

April 23, 2003

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.

April 22, 2003

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

April 21, 2003

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 ;-])

April 21, 2003

Keyboarding: Going Virtical

In a follow-up to my post about the Evolution of interfaces I found this article in ExtremeTech (via BoingBoing) about a vertical keyboard that helps prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI):

“… the vertical placement of the keyboard allows the user to type while keeping the forearms in a neutral position (with the thumbs up). With a standard flat keyboard, in order to type the hands are rotated so that the palms are parallel with the floor (this is called a “pronated” position). In the pronated position, the bones in the forearm twist with the wrist and scissor. This scissoring of the bones causes extra pressure to be forced upon the Carpal Tunnel.”

April 20, 2003

New version of blogger: Dano?

Looks like Blogger is gearing up to release a new version called Dano.

There’s not much info right now other than a short FAQ, but more info should be available shortly (according to the site).

Heh, I also realized that I have a few months worth of old blog posts at blogger. Hmm, it might be worth importing into b2.

April 19, 2003

Ride?

Ahh, looks like a great day for a spring mountain bike ride! I went yesterday, but
today it seems like the trails are just screaming for me to come back!