Do you exchange business cards with people? Of course you do. Everyone goes to networking events or exchanges cards as a matter of course during the business day. The thing is people end up with a stack of cards when they get back home or to the office and a to do list item to [...]
Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of four alien planets outside our solar system. Three of them orbit the same distant star, Fomalhaut. The fourth circles a different star. AP Video:
Many people who run WordPress blogs, including this one, use the Akismet plugin to help fight comment spam. On this blog alone, Akismet has stopped 15,666 spam comments! Today, something went wrong. I’m still not completely sure what caused the break down but spam began getting through the net. The first thing to do in [...]
Sites that I found interesting for November 12th 2008 Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year – Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. Design Guidelines and Considerations for Building Windows Certified Network Media Devices – Ian Dixon's Blog – [...]
Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2008 Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread – Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has [...]
Sites that I found interesting for November 7th 2008 through November 10th 2008: Twitter Ajax Reload – GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. Reloads Twitter every two minutes using Ajax. A countdown is shown above the last status. If there is any text in the status box reloads are postponed. You can change the time if you [...]
It has been over a year since I posted version 2 of a portable launcher for Windows Live Writer. In that time, WLW has moved out of beta and is now a big part of Microsoft’s Live initiative. One of the biggest complaints about my portable launcher is that it required you to have Administrator [...]
Sites that I found interesting for November 5th 2008 through November 6th 2008: 7 Legal Documents for Startups – The Startup Lawyer has a nice lise of documents you need to put together when starting a company. Fake WordPress site distributing backdoored release – Wordpresz.org may indeed look like WordPress.org, but the 2.6.4 release it’s [...]
Follow along with all the news tonight with your own Electoral College Tally Sheet! I wrote it in Excel. http://www.techlifeweb.com/ecollege.xls Have fun! Impress your neighbors! Teach your kids!
I built this map using Yahoo! Pipes. Information comes form Memorandum (political meme tracker) and Vote08 (twitter news tracker). Uses the geonames.org RSS-to-geoRSS webservice to add location information to newsfeeds then the result is displayed using the Yahoo!Maps AJAX API (thanks to Pipes Location Extractor). Map below: CNN has a nice map for monitoring returns.