Month: January 2005

1-month snowfall a 113-year high. The dazzling oceanside setting that makes Cape Cod a tourist destination contributed yesterday to another furious onslaught of snow that fell from Falmouth to Provincetown, as Massachusetts endured a winter storm that helped set a record for the highest monthly snowfall in 113 years — and left everyone from public-works… Continue reading 1-month snowfall a 113-year high

A9: “Never been done before?”. My bullshit meter went off when I was watching the A9 video about how they added photos to their yellow pages search, and how something like this had “never been done before.” Uh, yeah. That's wrong. My old apartment in Madrid. That's from a yellow pages service called QDQ in… Continue reading A9: “Never been done before?”

It's the list!. By now, most marketers have realized that in the post-brand, post-tv world, permission (the privilege of marketing to the people who want to hear from you) matters more than just about anything. … [Seth's Blog]

rapidBox Skype Router. For as cool as $20 Skype USB handsets are, there's something a bit cluttered about having seperate handsets for both VoIP and regular phone calls. The rapidBox is a simple USB router with three RJ11 (phone plug) jacks that lets you use the handsets you already own to make calls over the… Continue reading rapidBox Skype Router

Driven. As I mentioned a few posts ago I picked up hosting with TextDrive. I'm rather pre-occupied with exams and work at the moment and haven't had much chance to do anything with my new account other than prove that it works and revel in how neat mod_vd is. One of the first things I… Continue reading Driven

‘Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good’. Daryl discovers Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good. It’s too good to be true almost… Quite honestly, in an afternoon I built a completely working web application without the fancy css frills and such mind you, but completely usable that would have taken me the weekend… Continue reading Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good

Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers – A Summary. Michael B. Smith explains all you need to know about running Exchange on a domain controller.  [MS Exchange Blog]

Sexy-brarian. Thanks to Karen Schneider at Free Range Librarian for this marvelous story from a Princeton professor: “Libraries, the Princeton campus's unknown repository of sexiness.”  The article is quite pro-library, and also pro-librarian (in a “they're really cool” way, without devloving into stereotypes).  [LibrarianInBlack]

8 Steps for Keeping Current. ALA has posted Steven Cohen's article “8 Steps for Keeping Current” (PDF).  Steven is generally brilliant, and this article is no exception.  If you're a manager or administrator, front line librarian, back-room library staff, or my mom, you'll find this article useful.  My favorite (perhaps because it appeals to the… Continue reading 8 Steps for Keeping Current