TechnoMagicians Blog

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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I have to agree with Dave here. Although Wikipedia is a great resource I think we all have to take it with a grain of salt. Anyone can add anything to this thing which is the beauty of it but also the beast. Little known I'm guessing among non-geeks is that everything edited in Wikipedia […]

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I'd have to agree with this and it shows I might just have been right here. You have to wonder how eBay can innovate or even exist for much longer making decisions like this and totally throwing unbelievable amounts of dough down the drain. From Techdirt: Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 (potentially $4.1 […]

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I like the idea of presenting bookmarked (tagged) search results higher up above the normal search results. I'm not entirely interested in entering a bunch of metadata in Wink but rather like the approach Jookster is taking with its degree of separation concept. See comparing Jookster to Wink here. I wonder how long it will be […]

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