This looks interesting:
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
Google Apps Engine
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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Google Chat Widget
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Google has come out with what Brent actually envisioned for the BlogChat webchat application in 2001/2002. He wanted visitors to his website to be able to chat with him but not necessarily give out his IM address etc. The Google Chat Widget is basically that and ties into GTalk (Google IM) without revealing one's actual IM address etc. However, it is only one-to-one so no group chat available at this time (perhaps they'll add that as a feature).
Very nice though.
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End of Support for Netscape web browsers
December 28th, 2007 · No Comments
I'd say this announcement is at least 5 years late!!!
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Google Talk Language Translation
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Google released a chat translation thing today. However in my opinion the implementation is really sloppy with the use of a bot. I suppose a possible reason they are doing this is just to show that one can hook bots into GTalk etc so perhaps it isn't really the fact that they wanted to add translation in a user friendly way.
Brent was messing around with translation for BlogChat back in 2002 and had it working in a much nicer way. See his post on it here.
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New Version Of Yahoo User Interface (YUI)
December 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Yahoo released a new version of YUI yesterday. I've been using YUI lately on a few projects and it is proving very useful. See their blog entry on the list of new features.
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Another Loser Admits Using Steroids
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
I'm really tired about hearing about all this steroid use with athletes.
Another athlete (not even sure I should call them athletes) admits using steroids but again like a ton of others is going to come out saying “I didn't know it was steroids”. Apparently the pill they are given is called “the clear” and they are told it is Flax seed oil pills. The strange thing is how come not one of these athletes are suing their coaches or whoever they get “the clear” from. If I was slipped a drug for years and years that I didn't want to have in my system I'm sure I'd sue or do something about it.
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Software Is Hard
October 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Great article on why software is hard and probably why I'll pickup Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software.
Some of my favorite quotes from the article:
“Software scheduling is an NP-complete bin packing problem where the sizes of the bins are hidden!”
“Software construction is the most complex endeavor ever undertaken by
mankind. It makes building things like cathedrals and space shuttles
look like child's play, and it strains our little monkey brains to the
utmost.”
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Its A Wonderful World
August 31st, 2007 · No Comments
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Global Warming
August 14th, 2007 · No Comments
I've always been suspicious of anyone like Al Gore so vocal about Global Warming considering I've followed some of the research and discussion on the other side of the fence. You have to figure anything Gore is doing in the public eye is politically motivated. He is a politician and nothing more. A quote from his “An Inconvenient Truth” from IMDB: “Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions”. He may have stripped his presentations of politics but you know they are his one and only underlying agenda.
I'll give you a few links that I've come across recently very recently:
From this National Post article:
In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last
decade. That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and
one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really
hot lately — abnormally hot — so we all need to be afraid, very
afraid. The trouble is, it's no longer true.
Last week, NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies — whose temperature records are a
key component of the global-warming claim (and whose director, James
Hansen, is a sort of godfather of global-warming alarmism) — quietly
corrected an error in its data set that had made recent temperatures
seem warmer than they really were.
A little less than a decade ago, the U.S. government changed the way it
recorded temperatures. No one thought to correlate the new temperatures
with the old ones, though — no one until Canadian researcher Steve
McIntyre, that is.
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In many cases, the changes are statistically minor, but their
potential impact on the rhetoric surrounding global warming is huge.
The hottest year since 1880 becomes 1934 instead of 1998, which is now just second; 1921 is third.
Four
of the 10 hottest years were in the 1930s, only three in the past
decade. Claiming that man-made carbon dioxide has caused the natural
disasters of recent years makes as much sense as claiming fossil-fuel
burning caused the Great Depression.
The 15 hottest years since
1880 are spread over seven decades. Eight occurred before atmospheric
carbon dioxide began its recent rise; seven occurred afterwards.
In other words, there is no discernible trend, no obvious warming of late.
You'll definitely want to checkout this blog and this site where a group is reviewing official temperature sensing stations and showing the ridiculous locations they are put in or are now in due to urban development etc. The graphic on the homepage there says it all comparing a station setup correctly in a location vs one that is not.
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Fire Up A Colortini
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air – Tom Snyder. One of the greatest interviewers has passed away. There has not been another interviewer with a regular show other than Howard Stern that gets real interviews and guests talking honestly and openly than Snyder. He was absolutely the best. I had to find the Tom Snyder / Howard Stern interview. See below.
From this Time's article:
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