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Monthly Archives: February 2006
20% time…at Google, and SnapStream
20% time…it’s one of those mythically interesting things that Google does. Basically, you get 20% of your time to work on any other project. Keep in mind it has to be something potentially useful…it can’t be “Doing my laundry”. Besides, … Continue reading
Mark Cuban, The Donald, a rubber glove, and one million dollars
In a fit of what must be either divine inspiration or complete lunacy, Mark Cuban has offered to donate a million dollars to charity if Donald Trump will put a rubber glove over his head and blow it up with … Continue reading
Touchpads vs trackballs vs trackpoints vs mice
My very first laptop was an IBM Thinkpad 500. I won’t go into the specs except to say it was OLD. One spec I will mention is that it had a Trackpoint. You know, one of those eraserhead things that … Continue reading
On VPN’s and routing troubles
VPN’s, or Virtual Private Networks, are a bit of a tricky beast. VPN’s allow remote clients or sites to join with your internal network as if they are right there in the building. Hence the “Virtual” part of the term. … Continue reading
Roomba – 1, Dirt – 0
In my previous post on unwiring the house, I mentioned that one of the primary motivations came about because I wanted to give the Roomba clear berth to do its job. I promised to write more about the Roomba, so … Continue reading
Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare
The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream. Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it. There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading
Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare
The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream. Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it. There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading
Devil May Cry 3 for PC
Ahh, the state of gaming on the PC is rather grim at the moment. Consoles are where the money is at, and publishers have been flocking there in droves. Games on PC’s are increasingly skewing towards MMORPG’s and rehashed FPS’s…which … Continue reading
Calling out Google search result fakers
So apparently, Google hits websites with a so-called death penalty if they perform shenanigans like returning different results for search engines as compared to regular users. This policy, for obvious reasons, keeps the integrity of the search process honest and … Continue reading
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