Archive for January, 2005

I don't know what caused me to do it, but tonight I finally bit the bullet and made the jump from KDE to Gnome. I've been a KDE user for sometime, probably mostly out of laziness. I did switch my work desktop over a couple weeks ago but have been...

Google Video Search

January 24, 2005 | In: General Discussions

About Google Video Been looking around Google Video for the past couple minutes. It's the new service from Google Labs that is geared towards letting you search the closed c aption text listings from TV shows. It's still in testing so who knows...

SYDI - Simplifying Network Documentation SYDI is a very cool set of scripts that allow a network administrator to easily put together a series of documents about the various (windows) PC's on his network. I haven't yet used it in the office, because...

I'm sure you're all aware that PostgreSQL 8.0 was release a couple days ago and a notable (and long awaited feature) was native support for windows. I've yet to really put it through its paces on Windows, but I was impressed with the ease of install. ...

techno.blog("Dion"): Internal A mazon Developer Conference It would be nice to work for a large enough company with the resources to make something like this happen. It's nice to go to a conference and all, but i f you can have some of the speakers...

The company I work for is looking for a VP of Product Development (or Software Development). I have attached the job description below, qualified candida tes are invited to contact hr@genologics.com. Company Description GenoLogics, a world leader in...

Scroogle Just started reading SiliconBeat and came across scroogle. Look Mom, it's google without the advertisments. Personally, I think its ugly and I have no beep with Googles in-search advertisements. I guess this is right up the alley of the...

An evening with Googles Marissa May er (alan.blog-city.com) Alan Williamson has done a good job of keeping notes from the BayCHI talk he went to given by Google's Marissa Mayer. It tells an interesting tale of how the Google UI (plain as it may be)...

Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Top Ten Favorite Spots on the Microsoft Campus Never been there myself, although I have been meaning to visit a friend of mine who has been working there for the past couple years. The above link is MS employee...

Joel on Software - Camels and Rubber Duckies Joel Spolsky has a good article discussing various product pricing strategies and the inherent do's and do not's of software pricing. His arguments for the most part are common sense but are dependent (imho)...

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