To anticipate and prevent
On slashdot this morning there was an article about a new website called TinEye. They’ve got a fairly simple but cool concept. Do for images what google does for web pages. You give TinEye an image and their magical search engine goes and finds similar images to what you give it — based solely on…
Penguins are awesome!!! So I went to Monterey on Tuesday with Lauren and Ange. The trip was mostly for them, I just happened to be there (and driving). I have to say that traffic going down there on a weekday morning was much less than I expected (which was pleasantly surprising). We started, of course,…
The other day I left the Bay and headed up to Tahoe. Only here very briefly, but I had begged and pleaded with John to let me try out his motorcycle, and eventually he agreed. Yes, I’ve ridden a motorcycle before, in the safety class… but you never get out of third gear, and you…
I’ve been wanting a new iPod for a long time. Well, it didn’t _have_ to be an iPod because most of my music these days comes from Amazon (thank god for 256kbit MP3s). Though it is fair to say that iPods are still the best portable music player on the market. Plus if you go…
If you’re in the tech industry, you have probably heard about the story of a “Rogue” network administrator in San Francisco locking everyone out, or some variation thereof. Well, today a new piece came out: “Why San Francisco’s network admin went rogue“. After reading through this, the situation makes a lot more sense. In fact,…
Mozilla Weave has been updated a few times since the last time I posted. With the first update, I noticed that my complaint of Weave “hanging open” was fixed. It was slow, but at least it would eventually close on its own. As of tonight’s update, they’ve also included a status bar & messages. So…