I’ve never really been a fan of cameras. Mostly it’s because I hate interrupting the flow of the experience. Instead of enjoying where you are and what you’re doing, you suddenly become there for the purpose of taking a picture. You make people pose and end up viewing your surroundings through a tiny lens. I …
Instant message services have really changed the way I work. It allows me to have quick ‘casual’ conversations with people all over the place. This is really helpful in a large company when you’re working with people in different buildings and locations. It helps businesses work quickly and keeps me in touch with friends as …
I was giving Signal a good workout with a feather on a string and then a laser pointer tonight. He was going crazy, jumping 4 feet into the air and climbing the walls. Then he started doing something I’ve never seen a cat do before – he started panting. Just like a dog, he stuck …
What’s wrong with this picture? The green line represents the fastest way to get from the peninsula to the north bay. Usually, the shortest distance between two lines is a straight line; not when San Francisco is involved. We went up to Bodega Bay today and this was the route we took. The alternative was …
Just last night I talked about video search and how if Google did it, it would be all over the news. Today, exactly that happened. Google announced a video seach product that doesn’t even search videos, but just closed captioning (poorly I must add) and it gets all kinds of press. A search for Yahoo …
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ABC decided to change their schedule this year so that Alias is opposite The West Wing. That’s unfortunate because we watch them both. What’s one to do? One week we TiVo’d one while watching the other live. We found that we’ve become quite unaccustomed to live TV though. We found the commercials very annoying and …
So Yahoo’s got a Desktop Search product, joining Google, Microsoft and others. It’s pretty good. It takes a while to start up, but searches are quite fast. These tools are of limited use for me since most of my data is not on my desktop (or laptop), but stored on some server somewhere. What would …
I’m a self-admitted emailaholic. But something strange has happened recently. I turned off my email. Thunderbird doesn’t seem to like it when I switch from the wired network to the wireless network, so I end up having to quit and restart it. The thing is that sometimes I forget to start it back up again. …
I saw this on Google today: Advertising Programs – Business Solutions – About Google ©2004 Google – Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages Google thinks it’s still 2004. Maybe it’s time to use a search engine from this half-decade. If firefox didn’t keep switchhing my search bar to Google, I might not have ever noticed. I wonder …
After the annual holiday confusion about who’s getting whom what, I decided there had to be something better than Amazon wishlists. I had previously looked at a bunch of other wishlist sites and didn’t like any of them. I was starting to work on building my own when I ran across Wishcentral, which did most …