Spidering Hacks available for pre-order on Amazon.com
Spidering Hacks is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. 304 pages. Scheduled release is on November 1....
September 2003 archives
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Blogging as a personal research tool
This week I was introduced to a new use for my blog : people trying to find out more about me. I was having some Beamish after soccer practice on Wednesday and some of my players knew things about me that I had never mentioned to anyone on the team. Today I checked my logs and I had about 11 unique visitors from my Yahoo! profile. (I use Yahoo mail as a social account) A few people I work with read my blog. One person was introduced to RSS for the first time today and I helped point him to...
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Segways voluntarily recalled
Segway is recalling its human transporters for a software upgrage. If the batteries are near the end of charge you may fall. The software fix will probably decrease the allowed battery life. I assume all transporters are recalled, and Segway estimates 6,000 units. Are there only 6,000 Segways in the world?...
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Landmark Theatres, nation’s largest art-house chain, purchased
Landmark Theatres, nation's largest art-house chain, purchased by Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment company. Landmark is my best choice for indie movies in San Francisco. I hope I still have variety of movies and not shut out movie houses such as Fox Searchlight....
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SkyBox by Maytag
Maytag has a new home vending machine. 33 12-oz bottles, including longnecks, or 66 12-oz cans. Available exclusively at Amazon.com for $499. I want one for my cube......
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Fedora : Savern test 2 available
Red Hat's recent changes on the desktop platform are pretty interesting. If you are interested in Linux, or OS concepts in general, take a look at the Fedora Project. Fedora is focused on the total solution : core OS + packages. High on my wishlist is an update notification and installation for all packages on my machine, combining concepts from Red Hat Network and Ximian's Red Carpet. Centralized updates in exchange for something either from the vendor or from my pocket....
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Monopoly money
Hasbro released high quality PDFs of their Monopoly money. Print your own money!...
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FeedDemon Beta
Nick Bradbury posted a new FeedDemon beta last night. Aggregate your RSS feeds!...
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Intel Debuts Hyper-Threading Technology For Portable Notebook PCs
On Tuesday Intel debuted mobile Pentium 4s with hyper-threading....
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Macromedia – Central
Macromedia now has a public beta of its Central product. Create smart clients heavily loaded with Web services, and place them on any system supporting Flash....
