A Day in Paradise

Yesterday I read the an article on Network Neutrality on CNN.com. The article was written by Craig Newmark of Craigslist and was VERY wrong.
Here’s part of what bothered me:
Here’s a real world example that shows how this would work. Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying […]

A friend of mine is looking for someone to help him with a personal project of his
I’m finding it a frustration that whilst we refer to Australians and News Zealanders as ‘westerners’ our printed maps always show both countries in the far south-east.
I’ve tried using Photoshop to move both countries to the west of the […]

In the footsteps of a couple good friends I’ve decided to make the first blog entry of the new year yet another year in review round-up for the year 2006.
It’s hard to believe that we’re already done with 2006, this one went by fast. A lot happened, and due to the overflow of work, I […]

… and wearing a kilt

We’ve been busting our balls on the infrastructure of our new Hedge Fund Website creation project over the last couple weeks and since we did the official launch yesterday I figured it deserved a little link love
The heart of the hedge product a niche tool for hedge fund managers to manage their investor […]

A picture is worth a 1000 words:

“We’re sorry the telephone that you are calling from is not in service at this time”
What does that mean? I’m using it aren’t I?

Frightening article on BBC about creating human/cow hybrids:
The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.
But critics say it is unethical and potentially dangerous.
Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris - a member of the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee […]

This is an extension to my latest comment on this blog entry.
If you search for just about any term in google, you will find that if a wikipedia entry exists it will be ranked among the top few entries.
This exposes a flaw in the concept of Google search algorithms, as despite the quality of […]

I’ve been waiting to reveal my conspiracy theory about the Google acquisition of YouTube, but then I saw this post about Sun’s Project Blackbox, and decided it was time to let the cat out of the bag.
Project Blackbox, is a mobile datacenter from Sun. About this time last year Cringley reported that Google was working […]

I’ve finally gotten around to testing this new google docs and spreadsheet thing they have. It’s pretty nice. Like with all things google I’m impressed with the speed and simplicity of the interface.
It looks like I’ll be dumping backpackit soon
Now I need to see how I can publish this to my […]

Get them here

Yahoo! announced that it’s opening up its signup system to allow external sites authenticate their users using yahoo.
You build great web applications. We have millions of users who store their data on Yahoo!. Browser-Based Authentication (BBAuth) makes it possible for your applications to use that data (with their permission).
BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) […]

Don’t know how long they are going to last… but you can view them all online here and here. Also got Family Guy, South Park and American Dad.

This one is at least a little more coherent. I agree with what they say, the problem, is that what they say doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you think my website is ugly and because of all the ugly sites the internet sucks. What matters is that despite (and in some cases, because) of […]