Flickr.com has a new feature called “interestingness” that helps you find pictures that knock you for a loop. Since it is a huge social site, they can see who’s looking at what and how they got there. They can analyze who’s commenting on a picture, what strange combinations of tags are on it, etc. And then they generate from this data a page full of pictures that you have just GOTTA see.
Along the way, it wouldn’t hurt you to join. Maybe you are interesting?
I just contributed $30 to the Chip Salzburg Legal Defense Fund by visiting http://www.geeksunite.net/ .
Even if you don’t do much with computers, just know that this geek made your life easier without you knowing it. He’s a little guy who tried to do the right thing and is getting stepped on by his employer. They took his stuff and they are keeping it. He needs help from us.
I hope you take a look at the site that tells his story.
If you’d like to work in NYC my man Dan has some opportunities available to you.
If you are know Unix, Perl, Sql, C/C++ and java, give me a ping. It would be high paying and they would pay for relocation.
If you know your way around a desktop, there’s also a desktop support position available.
I’ve made a conversion for “Stranger Things Happenâ€, a book of short stories by Kelly Link. It’s very dreamlike, sort of like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I mailed it to the folks over there and hopefully they’ll put it up for you to download.
My partner Sam and I were trying to watch Ray on my ps2 last night, but somehow a parental control was set on it that prevented us from watching the dvd. Now, it lets you temporarily raise the level by entering a passcode, but I don’t know what the passcode is.
No net access at our place right now, so I called up my man Chris A and he googled the problem for me. As I suspected, there is a backdoor for forgetful parents and secondhand purchasers. Hitting select and 7444 lets you delete the passcode.
Any kid with access to the net can find this. So you can either keep your kid away from the web, keep your kid away from the web without parental supervision, or keep your kid from the set without parental supervision.
You can’t rely on technology to do the parenting for you. This is not going to change. Any company would be foolish to not build in a backdoor for their customers. And once it is in there, the word will get out. It’s the same problem that all digital rights management has: where do you keep the secret so that the system is usable and valuable? I cannot emphasize how much you should follow that link.
And what do you do when entities don’t comply with your secret scheme? Porn dvds don’t trigger the lock because porn publishers have little incentive to trigger parental controls. They are too small and they are too cheap to invest in enabling parental controls. It doesn’t make them any money or save them any.
Nothing substitutes for being involved with your kids. And nothing substitutes for delivering value to your customers.
Looks like Blogger, current host of this humble blog, has released a plugin for Microsoft Word that lets you post and edit straight from the application! Nice! No more trying to compose in the tiny blogger text window.
This is some very nice integration and it’s really the kind of synergy that open api’s allow. Word is a very nice application for writing in, and why shouldn’t you be using something made for writing? I like the idea that I might write a post in Word and publish it from there, then post to my blog, someone subscribes from the feed and they may read it in their email client or some feed reader. All of this with no webbrowser involved. This is what’s nice about the future today.
I assume you’ve already installed greasemonkey, right? It’s only the most awesome extension ever for firefox – you do have that, right?
Good.
Check out my little script that does price comparison for you any time you are looking at a book online. Well, most times.
