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TripAdvisor Travel Site Updated
Out of all the hotel sites, I've found TripAdvisor to be the most helpful when looking for hotels in places I haven't been. They seem to have more hotel reviews than other travel sites. I often use...
View ArticleMy 2008 Coolhunting Prediction: Goatees Are Out
I'm an uncool person. I'm used to that fact. However, I have an affinity for cool people and cool things. That means that I'm often a leading indicator. The hard part is knowing what for, since I'm...
View ArticleExcel as a Database
TDWI (particularly Wayne Eckerson) has always had a hangup about using Excel for BI, typically calling BI done in Excel "spreadmarts". While I don't fully agree that using Excel is as bad as people say...
View ArticleNominate Giuliani for This Kind of Performance?
Great article in Discover on the effects of the toxic dust from the WTC building collapse. Yet another thing to add to the list of governmental failures. After reading this, it's hard to believe that...
View ArticleSecret Underground Tokyo
One thing we lack in most of America is mystery, like this supposed discovery of mysteries under Tokyo. Although it might land us in the land of Focault's Pendulum, which incidentally makes for a fun...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Oppose Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
Because it would probably mean illegal government activities get grandfathered in as well.
View ArticleDiebold Voting Machine Hacks Demonstrated
Black Box Voting has an article up about how bad the Diebold electronic voting machines really are. Three different hacks were described. To make it worse, some states like deservedly maligned Florida,...
View ArticleRetro-future Research
I've been updating materials from one of my future-oriented presentations and came across this video on the future of cars from 1958. I think the only thing they got right was suburban sprawl.Lots more...
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Network Solutions Again Pushing Legal Limits
A couple days ago the news came out that Network Solutions (evil bastard domain registrar you should avoid like the plague) is swiping domains when you search. If you go to their site and search for a...
View ArticleJustice Scalia Supports Dictatorships Around the World
It's mind-boggling the logic being applied in politics these days. Why was Scalia one of the worst supreme court appointees in history? How about this, after ruling against someone who refused to make...
View ArticleTime for Open Source Think Tank 2008
The third annual Open Source Think Tank hosted by the Olliance Group and DLA Piper starts tomorrow in Napa Valley, CA. This is an invitation-only event for leading open source thinkers to collaborate...
View ArticleOpen Source DW Meeting in SF This Week
There's going to be an open source session with some presentations, demos and networking at the Silicon Valley TDWI chapter meeting on Thursday, February 28 from 2:00 - 5:30 in San Francisco. This...
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The Luther Burger
Browsing can lead to some odd discoveries. While looking for banking information, I came across the "Luther Burger" in my search results. What's a Luther Burger?"A Luther Burger is a hamburger,...
View ArticleLive Online Radio: Emerging Technologies for Information Delivery
DMRadio has a live show on Friday, March 28 at noon Pacific, 3:00 PM Eastern, about emerging trends in the information market, including open source, data and web 2.0. It's live, meaning you can ask...
View ArticleBeware of Sit-4-Less Misleading Adverts
I spend a lot of time at my desk, so I bought a decent Aeron chair from Sit-4-Less. Don't make the same mistake.When they say a chair is "fully loaded", it doesn't mean the same thing that it does to...
View ArticleEverything as a Service Podcast
We did a live web radio broadcast last week on SaaS last week that I forgot to blog about. Eric Kavanagh (you may remember him from the TDWI webcast program) has branched out into live online radio...
View ArticleTesting Collected Feeds as an Embed
Trying to see how hard it is to collect everything I write in one place. If you can see a window with a whole lot of stuff in it, then it works :-)
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Surreal Sit-4-Less and American Express Dispute
After the Nth go-round of "it's broken", "it's clearance" with American Express on the dispute with Sit-4-Less regarding their ability to ship parts of a product rather than the whole thing, I decided...
View ArticleHow to Speak Hip
I came across WFMU's Beware of the Blog post on How to Speak Hip which includes mp3s of all the tracks on the 1959 LP. I had this album at one point but lost it. Blew my wig to collar a digital copy....
View ArticleUsing YouTube as Your Web Site
Boone Oakley is an advertising firm that made their website into a YouTube video. Their domain redirects to this video. After you start playing it, you can navigate via buttons integrated into the...
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