Nerd TV
Don’t know if you’ve managed to catch episodes of NerdTV (where Robert X. Cringely interviews “historically” significant luminaries from the rich history of IT) but you should. OK, rich history… Read more »
Category: General
Moving Video to the iPod
The weekend’s begun so I guess I can write about something that’s not exactly related to work—how to get video onto one of the new 5th generation iPods. Mine arrived… Read more »
Internet Scout Portal and RSS
About three weeks ago I began doing a test install of the Internet Scout Portal Toolkit (in the coming months we need to begin building a research portal and this… Read more »
In-house blogging…
The other day we talked in our Senior Management Team meeting about trying to “proceduralize” the idea that staff who attend events like conferences, workshops or training sessions ought to… Read more »
Buzz Game
Yahoo! Research and O’Reilly have combined to launch another internet research game. You get $10,000 to invest and then buy “stocks” in terms you think people will be searching the… Read more »
All your base
Yesterday I learned about a new “service” that Google’s about to offer…Google Base. From what I’ve seen, it’s a free database in the sky (in the same way that Google… Read more »
New air-conditioning in LSO Towers
Hard to believe we’ve been sweltering in this space for just over 10 years (office opened in 1995)…but today, when it’s about 45 degrees outside, a group appears to install… Read more »
Video content via RSS
Friday the Yahoo! Search Blog had an entry which gives yet another cool use for RSS. Since I too am awaiting delivery of my new video iPod, I found it… Read more »
Zen computing…
Found this on The Daily WTF…a great site if you’re interested in having programmers tear apart found code with withering but generally helpful criticism. I find a strange calm coming… Read more »
EULAlyzer
OK, by now you’ve probably clicked through several hundred EULA (End User License Agreement) “I Agree” buttons and still don’t know what you’ve committed to. I even get annoyed when… Read more »