Archive for June, 2005

Google has launched an experiment designed to speed the flow of Web site information to the search giant’s index.
Sitemaps, which is currently in beta, calls for Web administrators to place a Sitemaps-formatted file on their Web servers. This allows the Google crawlers to see which pages are present on a site and which have been [...]

I bought a 5GB Zen Micro on January 29th, 2005. I’ve been quite happy with it until the last couple of days when I started having problems with a loose headphone jack. I bought it over an ipod but I may be regretting my decision. I also just bought my girlfriend a [...]

I’ll start off this post by saying kudo’s to Microsoft for the announcement that for the first time the default file format (I’m assuming in Office 12) will be open and accessible by anyone. I haven’t yet had time to watch the video but I’ll do that tonight. There is a lot [...]

We have had a slot car track setup in our office for the better part of the past week. We’re attending the American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference next week and will have a hospitality suite setup to entertain clients and potential clients alike. The slot car track is going to be setup [...]

I thought about this a short while back but until now haven’t had time to write a post about it.
What I would like to see is an integration between google maps and the current/historic weather conditions for an area. By weather conditions I’m referring to something cool like a doppler radar overlay mixed with [...]




  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...






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