Thursday, February 22, 2007
A robin eating a worm out a man’s mouth.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I write an entry about Yahoo! Pipes, and I get a contextual ad for drain and sewer clearance.
Thank you Google!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Yahoo! just launched their Pipes product, and I’m pretty excited. It’s a beta (everything’s a beta nowadays) and still has some bugs, but I think it’s pretty interesting and useful. Essentially it allows you to work with information from lots of different sources (including search results, RSS feeds, Flickr, Yahoo! Local) to combine, link, reformat [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I sat down with my IT Manager to review her workload earlier today, and one of her tasks concerned the “Exchange DST” patch she has to install. I asked what this was about, and it’s crazy! Apparently, in 2005 the US legislated to change the date on which its clocks go forward this year so [...]
Monday, February 19, 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2281397.ece
The Independent reports that Robert Adler, the co-inventor of the wireless remote control, has died aged 93.
He sounds like he was a real creative dynamo: apart from the remote, he held more than 180 patents.
I wonder how many remotes there are in the world today. We have 5. Even our imac has a remote control [...]
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Congratulations to Zoomf, where my friend Mike is Biz Dev supremo, for getting funding from the Howzat investment fund.
They’ve been working on this for a long time now, and it’s starting to look really interesting. The product is coming together and I can see it’s going to be a healthy business before long.
Well done!
If this doesn’t get you walking instead of driving, and switching lights off, and turning the heating down, nothing will.
We have to do something drastic and soon, about global warming. Well done Richard Branson, for offering $25m to the scientist who figures out how to turn CO2 back into carbon and oxygen. Details here.