Essays and everything else

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

March 11, 2003

Searching the BlogSphere
This is pretty darn cool. Micah Alpern has released a Google BlogSphere search tool (w/source in PHP) that will search across all the sites whose RSS feeds are found in your OPML …
March 11, 2003

I’ll have Big Mac, Fries and McWiFi — hold the WEP
According to this MSNBC article: “McDonald’s restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed [WiFi] access to anyone who buys a combination meal.” (via …
March 11, 2003

Dichotomy of Email
Interesting Slashdot thread that argues the effectiveness of email, which is in response to this article.
March 11, 2003

Bike New York: May 4, 2003
Registration for Bike NY 2003 is now open. Last year was a blast — The best out of the 5 times I’ve ridden in “The Great Five Boro Bike tour”.
March 10, 2003

InfoPath Instant Love
“On the surface, InfoPath is “just” a forms editor that allows you to build editable Forms for XML Schema, Web Services and Databases very quickly. From a technology perspective …
March 10, 2003

SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0” Beta 2
Microsoft just released beta 2 of SPPS 2.0.
March 9, 2003

Google Hacks
A collection of Google Hacks on ResearchBuzz. (via Slashdot)
March 8, 2003

Roogle RSS Search Engine
Scott Johnson’s Roogle RSS Search Engine is starting to fillout nicely. (via Jeremy Zawodny)
March 7, 2003

Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software
SecurityFocus: “Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.” …
March 6, 2003

Command line web services with REST
Les Orchard “Now I just have to write a shell that treats URLs as executable commands.”