miscellaneous
New Headphones!
These logitech headphones got a good writeup in choice magazine recently, so I bought a pair. The noise cancellation is really excellent, and they come with a hard case and an airplane adapter.
www.shopbot.com.au came up pretty high in the search results for them, so I used it to find the best price (I actually [...]
Blogs and Browser Stats
Early last week Claire and I launched a new blog for parents called Kiddley. It focuses on activities, projects and fun ways to spend time with your kids. The response so far has been terrific, and if you have kids you might want to check it out.
The browser stats made me do a [...]
wp-upgrade
Yesterday I upgraded to Wordpress 2. The only issue I had related to some pre-existing entries in my .htaccess file. The new configuration that WP uses in .htaccess is all-encompasing, so if you have any custom rules, make sure that they come before the wordpress section in the file, or they’ll likely be [...]
Pre- 1923 Books Online
Robert Nagle points to a great list of prizewinning books which are pre-1923 (and therefore are now within the public domain in the USA) which are available online in various formats.
What the Bubble Got Right
What the Bubble Got Right: “First, the Internet lets anyone find you at almost zero cost. Second, it dramatically speeds up the rate at which reputation spreads by word of mouth. Together these mean that in many fields the rule will be: Build it, and they will come. Make something great and put it online. [...]
Great Hackers
An insightful new essay by Paul Graham.
“the best programmers can solve a given problem in a tenth the time. But what if the problem isn’t given? In programming, as in many fields, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.”
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I’m just testing out the
I’m just testing out the ‘publish to blogger’ features of hello. It’s pretty interesting that Google has purchased picasa (who makes hello) and have now made it available for free.
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15,000 new weblogs created per day
And more than 3 blogs are updated every second.
Some amazing stats over at Sifry’s Alerts based on the number of blogs being tracked by Technorati. via Joi Ito.
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