Monday, February 24, 2003

Wired News: When All That's Left Is a Name

Wired News: When All That's Left Is a Name
From the downtown San Francisco skyscraper named for AirTouch, a wireless provider acquired four years ago by Vodafone Group, to the ballpark bearing the name of Pacific Bell, the local phone company now owned by SBC Communications, some of the region's most visible structures boast corporate names that are no longer in active use.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Study: SUV's Not Safer Than Cars

Study: SUV's Not Safer Than Cars
BERKELEY (KRON) -- Bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to safety on the road, that's the gist of a continuing study on sport utility vehicles, conducted by scientists in Michigan and Berkeley

Fool.com: Joe Millionaire's New Million

Joe Millionaire's New Million - Surprisingly useful advice on what Joe and Zora should do with their money. Useful links to financial advice here, even if you don't care about the show.

Sunday, February 16, 2003

Ticketstubs

Ticketstubs
Ticket stubs are everywhere, one of the many receipts in our daily lives - but we all save some from time to time. The Ticketstub project is a place where you can upload scanned images of your saved stubs, and tell a story about that night, that concert, that movie, what happened on that date; basically, ask youself why you saved the stub as a reminder.

Spychecker - database of Spyware (adware) products lets you detect spyware before you download.

Spychecker:
Not sure if the free software you are about to download is in fact a so called Spyware, or adware or otherwise advertising enhanced product that installs additional third party components on your system?



We currently index almost a thousand software titles, providing the most complete online database of this kind.

SBC enforcing all-encompassing Web patent

The Register
SBC Communications Inc is enforcing a patent it owns that, it claims, covers the use of frame-like user interfaces in web sites, it emerged this week Kevin Murphy writes. . If your web site uses a frames or a persistent user interface, then you could be in infringement.

NASA - Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew

On Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost duirng the re-entry into Earth's atomosphere. As NASA mourns the loss of seven family members, this page will collect and distribute information about the crew, the mission and the ongoing inverstisgstion.

More Changes...

  • Added AlwaysOn to the Business/Econ Section
  • Updated the "Other Blogs" section - removed many blogs, added a few, and fixed entries for several
  • Deleted "My Playlist" feature do to lack of use
  • Updated my "About" page

Saturday, February 15, 2003

Textism - Word HTML Cleaner

Textism - Word HTML Cleaner
This utility strips proprietary Microsoft tags and artefacts from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting and typographic entities intact.

Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.

cool - now my blog will be powered by Google!