Monthly Archives: November 2005
LazyWeb Request: Best Early Snow in Colorado
Some work buddies and I have gotten a flight out to Denver for Dec 1-4. We haven’t booked a place to stay yet though. We’ve been looking at Copper Mountain or maybe Breckenridge. I want to keep it as cheap as possible but also get the best snow we can get. Anyone know of good [...]
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AutoDelicious Tagging in delicious post links
Notice that little “Post this to Delicious” link down at the end of this post? If I am already supplying you with a headline and a url for that link, and I’ve got tags on it, why don’t I presupply that with tags for you? I’ll take a look into it and see if I [...]
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The Battle Over BookSearch
I attended an event hosted by the New York Public Library about the lawsuit by the Author’s Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google and their nascent Book Search program. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine, moderated as publishing and authros guild leaders clashed ideas with Larry Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, [...]
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Master Key to all login sites – a private bugmenot
I was reading the description of the Email Paste extension for firefox and it gave me an idea for another extension. Sometimes you want don’t want to give out your email for a site, but it involves enough personalization that you don’t want to use bugmenot. I’d like to be able to see that [...]
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Increasing energy efficiency of mobile devices
Make Magazine Blog just covered a new tool that homebrew mobile device coders can use to increase the energy efficiency of their phone or pda programs. Code that minimizes cpu use and memory access keeps devices from wearing out and ending up in junkpiles. It’s just beginning, but it promises good things for users and [...]
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Sony Audio CDs Damage Your Computer
In case you hadn’t heard, Sony has admitted that their audio cds install a spyware rootkit on your computer. Ed Felten has a guide to dealing with the Sony Spyware. How to tell whether the rootkit is on your computer: On the Start menu, choose Run. In the box that pops up, type this command: [...]
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ambushed!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ambushed!, originally uploaded by smumfa. I’ve been waiting to get my hands on this photo for so long. Filed in: photos flickr sam mattscott murder
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Jamaica photos are finally up
.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_7711, originally uploaded by smumfa. My partner Sam has finally put up photos of our trip. That guy behind me on the plane? His hat read “COFFEE: IT MAKES YOU POOP” – [...]
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