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ScribeFire is a plugin for Firefox that allows in-browser blogging of links. It looks pretty cool, and did a great job of automatically detecting my WordPress XMLRPC interface. Check it out! Powered by ScribeFire. Ok, Update: ScribeFire adds a cheezy “Powered by ScribeFire” text that you can see above (I’m editing from WordPress now so [...]
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I’ve updated my solar stats pages with 30-day and 90-day reports. Take a look!
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So, if you need something to make you smile (and you’re a cat lover) then check out I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. I’m not sure what it is, but these make me chuckle every time!
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I’ve been doing some work on a baby name explorer web app, and I needed a good C++ implementation of the double metaphone algorithm. There are several C and C++ implementations mentioned on the web site, but most of them are chock full of usage-specific junk, like Perl strings, Microsoft Visual Studio cruft, etc. So, [...]
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U.S. residents are the second least likely people to believe in evolution. Only Turkey has a lower rate of belief in evolution.
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Too bad I’m gonna be “under the knife” today, otherwise I’d go to Yuri’s Night ’07 thats happening at NASA Ames research center this year!
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Well, I’ve finally found an easy way to use last.fm with the way I listen to music — which is all from my personal server. It turns out that ampache has a builtin last.fm client support. So, anything that anyone plays using my ampache server automatically gets “scrobbled” to last.fm. I’ve currently set it up [...]
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Well, I’ve finally become a convert. After using GMail for a while at work, I’ve become addicted enough to want to use it on my personal accounts. I looked into Google Apps For Your Domain, created an account, but decided not to go that way. Here’s how I saw things: Good: It totally takes over [...]
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So, I saw this post on technocrat about “A Million Penguins” which is a self-proclaimed “Wikinovel.” So, my first thought was that its a curiosity. The text seems a bit stilted, simple, disjointed. I’m not sure. I haven’t read the whole thing. But, being familiar with the MediaWiki software, I decided to check out the [...]
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