A Science Friday segment. The idea that what happened with computers might happen with elecronics fabrication is so cool. Just stop for a second and think what you’d make if you could build anything. I’d probably make something trivial, some hybrid between electronic and old-school board games. But people with real jobs, proper artisans, could […]
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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Google Sitemaps - Site Overview
Friday, November 18, 2005
As with what I’ve been reading about Google Analytics (comparison of Measuremap, Mint and Google Analytics) Google’s tool has a bit of a learning curve to it, but how invaluable might it be to see your site through the eyes of the googlebot?
The 2006 Collection
Friday, November 18, 2005
New Demotivators calendar this year from Despair. Sucked that they copped out last year with a crappy “best of” calendar.
For the guys at work; speaking of Engineering…
GPS Technology Raises Concern on the Job - Yahoo! News
Friday, November 18, 2005
Hmmm, so the biggest objection that seems to be raised is that employees might be held accountable for their whereabouts and actions while at work, whereas currently they enjoy being able to break the law and shirk responsibility. Damn them for making me come down on the side of The Man.
Package Alert Service
Friday, November 18, 2005
Tracking a FedEx package with this service appears to stay one step ahead of tracking via Bloglines. Next time I’ll do a side-by-side comparison of those two and FedEx’s own tracking updates.
What is the weather like?
Thursday, November 17, 2005
It is now 6:26am in Birmingham, England. And more significantly, it is 23°F and clear. Which is rather colder than it is here.
Google Search: 2005 in roman numerals
Thursday, November 17, 2005
2005 = MMV. Google’s calculator is brilliant.
Wayfaring Map - Castles in the heart of England
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
…and so the trip planning begins in ernest. Being able to see where the places we want to go are in relation to eachother is great. Like having a map and arrow stickers (oh wait, we already have that, and can take it with us). But it is cool being able to zoom in and […]
Wayfaring
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
So, google map’s biggest missing feature is trip planning, right? Somebody used the open API to fill the gap with this app. I’m so making a “Castles in the heart of England” map. and here’s a “Things to do while visiting NYC” map: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/25
Valid downlevel-revealed conditional comments | 456 Berea Street
Monday, November 14, 2005
How about this?
<!–[if !IE]>–>
<html>
<!– page goes here –>
</html>
<!–<![endif]–>
But seriously, it’s nice to see the edge cases getting worked out as more people finally start moving over to conditional comments. Just proves once again that Mister Jon is ahead of his time. What was it, three years ago that I came here and he’d already switched […]