Scribefire 3.2 was just released today. Scribefire is the reason that I started blogging again. It makes clipping quotes, links and images from web pages so freaking easy that I just couldn’t stop blogging now. ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post [...]
This blogs subtitle is “Ramblings of an Amateur Futurist” and I figure I better post something futuristic…lol I caught this today regarding the relatively affordable cost of gene sequencing. $5000! According to WikiAnswers, the average cost of an MRIW is between $400-$2000, averaging around $800. Reid’s promises and data certainly caught the attention of the [...]
I just thought this was cute…anthropomorphizing a computer… Do you remember the tale of the Windows Server 2008 “Lone Server”? Maybe it was read to you as a bedtime story as a change from “Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House?” There he was, this poor Windows Server 2003 server, all alone in [...]
I posted the other day about Michael “Monty” Widenius leaving Sun Microsystems. Open Source Release Feed has a follow up interview with him. Not much there and you can get most of the skinny on Monty’s site, Monty-says. Unless you have been living under a rock or are very new to the open source world [...]
gHacks is talking about a cool tool to remove metadata from JPEGS and PNG files. Many image formats support so called metadata which are shunks of information stored in the image file itself. This can include the digital camera model used to take the images, time and date the picture was taken or GPS information [...]
What Firefox plugins do you use for your website development work? I found this on the Adsense Blog and to my surprise, I’m using 3 of them already. I use the ColorZilla plug in and at this point, I couldn’t live without it. If you don’t have this tool for picking colors, grabbing colors off [...]
I wanted to post about this two weeks ago when I read it but since it’s a slow news day, I’m posting it today. I’ve always been fascinated by the expression “Eating Your Own Dogfood” and I agree with Jeff Atwood that it was a term that likely came from Microsoft. I remember hearing this [...]
Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. Pretty much says it all right there. I like that John McCain has been fighting for years to make this stuff public. Government needs more “sunshine” laws…trust me. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over [...]
This is slicker than grease. Turn your old stereo speakers into hidden shelves. Sweet. The site pretty much says it all. Here is before: Here is after: Turn broken speakers into a snappy media cabinet Turn broken speakers into a snappy media cabinet Broken speakers are pretty but useless, media cabinets are ugly but useful, [...]
You have to see this shit to believe it. If you’ve, like me, ever programmed a DOS batch file…back in the day…you’ll really appreciate the shear WTF of this guy. He made a DOS batch file that can calculate Pi to precision! I’m going to include the code here because of the shear audacity of [...]
I’m sorry but all I could take away from this video was that no matter what, these retards were geeks. No cool Austrailian accents or cool destruction of hard drives could save this video. Add some stupid music and while I watched it, I will never get that 3 minutes back. Updated: since I can’t [...]
I’m sure you don’t read Ken Levine’s blog, “…by Ken Levine“, but you should. He’s a Emmy Award winning Hollywood writer (among other things) that has worked on such shows as Cheers and Frasier. Anyway, while he didn’t write the following commercial for Dr. Pepper with Dr. Frasier Crane and Lilith Crane, he posted it [...]
Techcrunch is reporting that online advertising rebounded slightly in the 4th quarter of ’08. They used data from the “big 4″ online advertising players, Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL to put together the graphic below. I pulled out this quote to explain the jump: What the slight rebound in growth tells us is that search [...]
It’s official, Michael Widenius has resigned from Sun Microsystems to pursue other things with MySQL. He’s left to work full time at his new company, Monty Program Ab. Looks like he’s going to be working on the Maria engine, a transactional storage engine for MySQL, Mariadb, a branch of the MySQL database with the Maria [...]
Do you know who Olivia MunnW is? If you do…nice. If you don’t, turn in your nerd card cause she’s freaking hot. Here are a few refreshers for you. Video of her jumping into 600 gallons of “pie” below all the refreshers. Ahhhh…the term “boneriffic” just doesn’t seem to cover it.
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