TechnoMagicians Blog

Its about time that someone did something to raise the bar with online mapping. No surprise that Google would be the one: http://maps.google.com/ Not only is it another seriously slick web application, it also has my address on it which most if not all of the others do not.

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It has been almost 2 years since my initial Google Adsense experiments. Seems people are getting excited about this stuff that Google might be experimenting with. My experiment went further than this but it probably employs similar features available in Adsense that haven't been revealed yet but are available (or at least used to be).

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I hope this isn't true as it will likely mean the end of what is decent about BlogLines which is essentially everything but the search. I've been using BlogLines for a very long time and I've always found the search to be a bit lacking. I doubt that with Ask Jeeve's track record they will […]

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I might have to agree with Joel's logic here on hiring the top 1%.

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Since Gmail's slick web UI, I've been seeing more and more talk about remote scripting. Brent and I came up with these ideas in mid 2000 and Brent fleshed out JSRS for use in an online tutor service we were developing back then. JSRS was used very successfully for that service and has been used […]

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I've used a free eFax number as my main fax number for many many years now. I only receive the occasional fax and having a separate line and a fax machine of some sorts just wasn't worth it. Looks like eFax might be phasing out the free service. Recieved this on my second eFax number […]

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Whats the big deal with everyone getting excited about the Amazon Yellow Pages. I've been waiting since the early to mid 90's for something like this. In fact, this is one of the first useful things I thought I'd see on the net back then. There have been a lot of attempts over the years […]

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According to this article, Google is looking for a job candidate that include the following duties: “Identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of development of a global backbone network; contracts and negotiation for managed metropolitan services and long haul wavelength services to fulfill […]

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For those of you looking for legitimate uses for BitTorrent and also looking to download Redhat Fedora Core 1, 2 or 3 you can find the torrents here. They are downloading extremely nicely for me right now. Be nice to see a lot more legal uses of BitTorrent like this. Perhaps I should start a […]

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Yesterday's Pittsburgh Steelers game against the New York Jets was a typical Steelers playoff game (very aggravating). I've been a Steelers fan since I was old enough to know what football was. Having gone through the Bradshaw (and company) glory days, it has been very difficult to watch the Steelers struggle in the last 4-5 […]

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