Archive for March, 2007

Ignore the fact that this post is about me searching for myself on Google.  Everybody does it.
I’ve noticed a slight change in some of the search (Google & Yahoo) results.
The top results are now starting to include public profiles for various online services.  I’m talking about Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Feedburner, etc. 
Also included are personal [...]

Perhaps you’ll make it to the top of Google with this.

Honestly, I really don’t care about new cell phones.  I’m the guy walking down the street with the 4 year old dual color Samsung (yes, that’s blue backlit and black text, no graphics here).  It’s a tad scratched but it works.
All that being said, Telus Mobility did call me the other day and try to get me to buy [...]

Interesting article from the Wharton School of Business about company perks.
The article was interesting more of the same w/ regards to the perks provided by companies like Google.
I’ll draw attention to discussion of Integrators and Segmentors.

Perks like Google’s appeal to integrators, people for whom work life and home life have little distinction. These are the [...]

Previously my developer-centric (aggregated) feed of choice came from javablogs.com.  However it’s signal to noise ratio has been on a downward spiral as of late.  It’s increasingly difficult to find any useful nuggets amongst all the foreign (and graphic/non ascii character posts) and the off-topic ‘this is what my life is like’ posts.  I want concise, [...]

I’m sure most of you have heard by now of Google’s acquisition of Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software.
Gapminder is a Stockholm-based foundation so it looks like the Trendalyzer development team will be moving to Mountain View with the foundation itself remaining in Sweden.
I’d never actually heard of Trendalyzer until now. 
Over the past couple months, statistics and data [...]

I know it’s been done multiple times previously but I decided to play around with Google Maps a bit more.
My initial goal was to interface with our companies data in Salesforce and plot it accordingly using the Google Maps API.  We have all sorts of conditions and variables attached to our data so it would (and [...]

This coming Friday GenoLogics will be hosting its first Hack Day of 2007 (and second overall).  As with the previous event, it’s internally focused with me serving as the organizer aka. the person who ends up doing the prize shopping. 
Our company has been fairly receptive and has even committed to 4 hack days a year (roughly scheduled [...]

I’m going to experiment with various forms of off-line posting.  Although the WordPress posting interface is nice it does occasionally mess up formatting.
I’m going to try BlogJet (and possibly Ecto) for a couple of weeks to see how they stack up.
The ability to compose ad hocly and publish later is nice and lends itself to a [...]




  • 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 ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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