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Thu - November 3, 2005Finally innovation in mapsThe beta of Yahoo! Maps is
great. It has the #1 feature I've been looking for in driving directions,
intermediate stops.
Posted at 01:20 AM Read More | Wed - November 2, 2005Oracle 10G XELast week someone asked us if we could run
against Oracle instead of PostgreSQL. I said sure, we are based on EJB3
(Hibernate 3.1). Then we went to install Oracle 10G, what a mess. Fortunately,
Oracle
released XE on Monday and in 2 days our application was ported,
running and fully tested using it instead.
Posted at 07:24 PM Read More | Tue - April 12, 2005New Lisp book on the shelvesA friend of mine, Peter Seibel, has finally
finished his Lisp book, Practical
Common Lisp, at long last.
Posted at 02:57 PM Read More | Thu - February 10, 2005Job market share numbers on LinkedInYears ago I invented an informal measurement that
we used internally at WebLogic to see how we were doing against our
competitors.
Posted at 09:32 PM Read More | Mon - January 31, 2005The Roomba has left the KitchenI got my Mom a Roomba for Christmas 2003 and
she's been using it ever since... this was the first time she couldn't find
it.
Posted at 01:42 PM Read More | Fri - January 28, 2005Creating a DVD on the MacRecently a number of people have complained on
their blogs and to me in person that they were frustrated by the DVD creation
process on their PC.
Posted at 10:09 PM Read More | Sat - January 22, 2005iBlog to Blojsom ... not so fast BlojsomRight now I use a client side tool called iBlog
to write all my blog entries. This makes it so I have to use a third party
system, Haloscan, to have comments and trackbacks. I would like all this to be
on the server, so I tried to convert .... but rolled back.
Posted at 09:51 PM Read More | Wed - January 19, 2005PostgreSQL now has a native Windows portPostgreSQL 8.0.0 was released to do and with it a
native installer for Windows. This closes one of the big barriers to adoption
of the database and because of its superiority in all other areas may actually
turn the tide against MySQL.
Posted at 06:37 PM Read More | Thu - January 6, 2005The Nokia 6630I finally upgraded from my old Nokia 3650 to its
natural successor, the Nokia 6630.
Posted at 03:03 PM Read More | Tue - November 30, 2004Video-on-demand and ReplayTVMy current ReplayTV has the ability to receive
programs from other devices over the LAN or over the internet. Why hasn't
someone started a video-on-demand service for it?
Posted at 01:13 PM Read More | Thu - November 18, 2004Switching from Google to YahooIf you haven't tried Yahoo search yet, I would
give it a go. It has some new features, gets better hits, and has a fresher
index.
Posted at 11:50 AM Read More | Mon - November 1, 2004Podcasting's lack of metadataIt seems like it would be interesting to put
audio feeds on my blog about some topic or another, however the fact that it
isn't really searchable without typing everything twice sucks.
Posted at 01:23 PM Read More | Mon - October 18, 2004Using A9.com gives you a discount on AmazonI just noticed today that I am getting a
pi/2%
discount from my purchases from Amazon because I
used a9.com.
Posted at 04:50 PM Read More | Thu - October 14, 2004The Xacti DMX-C4 is an amazing camcorderAs you might have read, my wife and I are having
our first baby. So, of course, we needed a video camera.
Posted at 06:00 PM Read More | Fri - January 23, 2004Linux can never be ready for the desktopI commented on Cedric's blog
entry , so I thought I would make my views more explicit. Linux, the
kernel of an OS that includes a bunch of GNU software, can never be ready for
the desktop. A particular distribution could be a desktop OS but they are going
to have to really commit to something.
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