TechnoMagicians Blog

Well, looks like there is a service now to do this. I experimented with doing this over a year ago but didn't keep up with it since it was more of a manual procedure. I could have automated it but it wasn't really worth my time.

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Another annoucement to the still unnofficial KosmoBlog: Introduction In response to market demand, multilingual capability is being added to KosmoBlog. In this first release three versions of English and Spanish are supported. The KosmoBlog Publisher Control Panel and the blog interface will be presented in the selected language. Location dependent fields, such as the date […]

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Looks like Om is picking up on what I was complaining about back in July in his post here.

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Guy on venture capitalists lies can be found here. Might as well repost here: “I liked your company, but my partners didn't.” In other words, “no.” What the sponsor is trying to get the entrepreneur to believe is that he's the good guy, the smart guy, the guy who gets it; the “others” didn't, so […]

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I'm glad Guy Kawasaki is blogging now. His view on mission statements and mantras: The ultimate test for a mantra (or mission statement) is if your telephone operators (Trixie and Biff) can tell you what it is. If they can, then you’re onto something meaningful and memorable. If they can't, then, well, it sucks. And […]

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I've been noticing way too many issues with Bloglines lately so its time to try some other aggregators out there. The most annoying issue is that it seems to be loosing track of what I've read and I'm constantly having to figure out if I've read something already or figure out half way through reading […]

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As per usual another excellent article by Joel Spolsky: Instead what I'd like to claim is that Java is not, generally, a hard enough programming language that it can be used to discriminate between great programmers and mediocre programmers. It may be a fine language to work in, but that's not today's topic. I would […]

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We're getting closer to bookmarking and annotation of webpages getting into the 21st century. I've been waiting many years for something useful that I would actually use. Not sure if these are it yet but I'll likely be checking them out in more detail soon. See this TechCrunch article.

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Back in November of 2004 while Adam Curry was looking for a way of receiving audio blog comments I messed around with exactly what Gabcast is doing. Basically using Asterisk and a call-in number to record audio for blog posts. Just found the email threads Adam and I had regarding this but I didn't take […]

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I don't normally post poker related stuff here but I was one of the lucky 250 people invited to hear what Daniel (Kid Poker) Negreanu is going to announce tomorrow night at the Hard Rock Cafe Club 279. There is all kind of speculation about what he is going to announce. My guess, is that […]

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