Tech
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A nice feature
The Knoxville daily newspaper has an interesting feature, called Random This, where they send a correspondent out with a video camera to document some feature of life in Knoxville. It’s not hard news, but it is much more detailed than a column would be. 800 words about a visit to a tattoo parlor or shooting range would not be terribly interesting, but the video version is. It’s a good example of something that could only be done online.
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Quick round up
- Virtual Earth and Local.Live.com are very cool, with very good arial photography.
- I am undecided about Geek Entertainment TV
- Charles seems like a cool program.
- Acronis seems to be a cool backup program.
- A free book about information markets.
- N-Unit ASP seems like a good tool.
- The Russian birth rate is up.
- Libertarian views on the Iraq war, from Reason Magazine.
- A budget photography lighting system.
- A wired article on arial photgraphy.
- An interesting post from David Friedman about immigration and the welfare state.
- European Demography.
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The techno lust is strong for this one
Specifically, the Garmin Street Pilot I3. I think I’ll have use for it on a project later this year. Amazon has it for $299 as well.
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Quick Saturday afternoon round up
- Baltic Crusades – on WikiPedia. Interesting.
- Tips for startup companies
- The torn up credit card application – this is scary – get a shredder now.
- An interesting article about the self-described “The Hell with them Hawks.“
- Interesting post from Marginal Revolution about inherent tensions in libertarianism.
- Borders is refusing to stock a magazine that is showing the Mohammed cartoons. More here and here.
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Things I’ve learned today
- Batteries Plus will recycle old Uninteruptable Power Supplies
- To prevent the ever annoying image toolbar from appearing in Internet Explorer, just add <meta equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no”> to the head of the document.
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Rage
Take
1 stressful week
Add
5 ongoing projects
Mix in
3 last minute projects
Pour Over
2 deadlines
Blend in
1 newly configured (by someone else) server
Sprinkle in
2 foreseeable changes
Garnish with
1 instance of Microsoft Content Mangement ServerAnd you get a newly reached level of anger and frustration. About two hours ago I heard a strange noise and realized that it was me. Growling.
I turned into the Incredible Hulk for about 10 minutes, I really did.
I’m better now.
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Interesting
One way to separate the tech savvy from the non tech savvy I suppose.
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Nifty Firefox fix
The “Unresponsive Script Fix“. Quite handy.
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Now this is interesting
I will laugh and laugh and laugh if true.
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Thursday rapid fire
- Telegraph fun
- Bluegrass everywhere but here
- It washes, dries and irons! All in one device.
- The Yahoo Ajax blog.
- More Ajax I need to get around to understanding.
- An interesting article about Saddam and WMD. It’s odd how no one seems to be interested in what happened to the WMD. While it’s been proven they’re not there, the details of the removal are absent.