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The Something Store: Buy Something at SomethingStore.com
The Something Store: Buy Something at SomethingStore.com — Taking the grab bag idea further. Pay...
June 18, 2012 - 22 words,

How Companies Respond to the Risks of Personal Brands
How Companies Respond to the Risks of Personal Brands — Jeremiah talks about how companies...
June 18, 2012 - 22 words,

Best tweet ever
Best tweet ever...
June 18, 2012 - 3 words,

People of the Web - High Wire Act
People of the Web - High Wire Act — MIT professor and Web star Walter...
June 18, 2012 - 32 words,

May Dinner at Dos Coyotes | SacStarts
May Dinner at Dos Coyotes | SacStarts — SacStarts dinners are informal get-togethers where the...
June 18, 2012 - 22 words,

Fluid icons
Fluid icons — Gorgeous icons for Fluid apps including a bunch of different color variations...
June 18, 2012 - 17 words,

Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick
Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick — "Although the tools have changed over the...
June 18, 2012 - 19 words,

MLB Transactions Primer
MLB Transactions Primer — Great explanation of the rules on how pro baseball players are...
June 18, 2012 - 24 words,

San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports — Yahoo’s MLB schedules have...
June 18, 2012 - 18 words,

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82 — One of the most powerful conservative minds...
June 18, 2012 - 17 words,

something went wrong
something went wrong...
December 14, 2011 - 3 words,

Phil Hughes on the message boards
A blogger talks about meeting Yankee phenom pitcher Phil Hughes on a baseball card collector...
December 22, 2008 - 35 words,

Apple Canceled Christmas
Apple Canceled Christmas—"Apple has been honored to work with the North Pole the...
December 16, 2008 - 35 words,

Class move
Yahoo laid Flickr’s George Oates off while she was at conference promoting the Flickr Commons....
December 16, 2008 - 31 words,

The Something Store: Buy Something at SomethingStore.com
The Something Store: Buy Something at SomethingStore.com — Taking the grab bag idea further. Pay...
December 9, 2008 - 22 words,

How Companies Respond to the Risks of Personal Brands
How Companies Respond to the Risks of Personal Brands — Jeremiah talks about how companies...
December 9, 2008 - 22 words,

Meeting limits
"Twitter HQ limits meetings to 140 seconds; if you need a longer meeting you meet at the TinyURL office."
August 19, 2008 - 22 words,

Best tweet ever
Best tweet ever...
May 21, 2008 - 3 words,

People of the Web - High Wire Act
People of the Web - High Wire Act — MIT professor and Web star Walter...
May 1, 2008 - 32 words,

May Dinner at Dos Coyotes | SacStarts
May Dinner at Dos Coyotes | SacStarts — SacStarts dinners are informal get-togethers where the...
April 29, 2008 - 22 words,

Fluid icons
Fluid icons — Gorgeous icons for Fluid apps including a bunch of different color variations...
April 29, 2008 - 17 words,

Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick
Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick — "Although the tools have changed over the...
April 27, 2008 - 19 words,

MLB Transactions Primer
MLB Transactions Primer — Great explanation of the rules on how pro baseball players are...
March 7, 2008 - 24 words,

San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports — Yahoo’s MLB schedules have...
February 28, 2008 - 18 words, 2 comments

San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
San Francisco Giants - Schedule - MLB - Yahoo! Sports — Yahoo's MLB schedules have...
February 28, 2008 - 18 words,

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82 — One of the most powerful conservative minds...
February 27, 2008 - 17 words,

The Million Dollar Arm
The Million Dollar Arm — A television reality show to find the best baseball pitcher...
February 2, 2008 - 29 words,

What to do if you're laid off in 2008 recession
What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession — "Right now it seems...
January 23, 2008 - 29 words,

What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession
What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession — "Right now it seems...
January 23, 2008 - 29 words,

Pitching Grips - a photoset on Flickr
Pitching Grips - a photoset on Flickr — Great group of pictures and explanations for...
January 18, 2008 - 26 words,

Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders
Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders — How to...
January 17, 2008 - 64 words,

evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea — Evan Williams attempts...
December 31, 2007 - 42 words,

How-To: Make a popcorn popper coffee roaster
How-To: Make a popcorn popper coffee roaster — Engadget shows how to modify a popcorn...
December 19, 2007 - 33 words,

PHP AdSense account monitor
PHP AdSense account monitor — PHP class for scraping reports from your AdSense account....
December 19, 2007 - 14 words,

Financing Innovation
Financing Innovation — A step-by-step guide to creating a business plan and seeking funding for...
December 19, 2007 - 18 words,

Anatomy of a player: Tim Lincecum
Anatomy of a player: Tim Lincecum — A look at Timmy the Mighty through the...
December 3, 2007 - 18 words,

Acquia
Acquia — Druapl founder Dries Buytaert starts a company to provide Drupal consulting and infrastructure...
December 1, 2007 - 16 words,

Evel Knievel, RIP
Evel Knievel, RIP — The daredevil dies at age 69. "'It’s been coming for years,...
November 30, 2007 - 28 words, 1 comment

Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads
Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads — Dynamic ads served inside the PDF reader targeted...
November 28, 2007 - 28 words,

The Man Behind the TheFunded.com's VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired
The Man Behind the TheFunded.com’s VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired — "He wants to...
November 15, 2007 - 28 words,

AppSnapp
AppSnapp — Jailbreak your iphone, install the app installer, and plug the TIFF hole all...
October 30, 2007 - 25 words, 13 comments

Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps
Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps — Installing the latest Mac OSX...
October 30, 2007 - 24 words,

The Introvert's Guide To Selling
The Introvert’s Guide To Selling — BusinessPundit describes what sales really is, why entrepreneurs need...
October 27, 2007 - 27 words,

How the Colorado Rockies' fielding wizardry will change baseball forever.
How the Colorado Rockies' fielding wizardry will change baseball forever. — "This year’s Colorado Rockies...
October 25, 2007 - 45 words,

Brain drain
Brain drain — "But the young net natives, for the most part, rank too low...
October 23, 2007 - 40 words,

SVN Plug-in for TextMate
SVN Plug-in for TextMate — A plug-in for TextMate which indicates the Subversion status of...
October 19, 2007 - 20 words,

Jiglu: Tags that think
Jiglu: Tags that think — "Jiglu plugs into your site to automatically create intelligent tags...
October 12, 2007 - 33 words,

Businesspundit: The Irony of Raising Money For a Startup
Businesspundit: The Irony of Raising Money For a Startup — "Raising money is really an...
October 12, 2007 - 44 words,

Firefox for mobile: being built to to provide a browser for the GPhone?
Firefox for mobile: being built to to provide a browser for the GPhone? — Seems...
October 10, 2007 - 48 words,

Yost infection -- The Hardball Times
Yost infection—The Hardball Times — The Brewers' 2007 collapse was largely aided and...
October 8, 2007 - 19 words,

How not to manage your customers
How not to manage your customers — Two lessons for retailers on the Web: 1....
September 20, 2007 - 56 words,

Shocking origins of cut and paste.
Shocking origins of cut and paste. — "I told these twentysomethings ... you would type...
September 18, 2007 - 42 words,

Ye old ball game
Ye old ball game — From the tiny gloves to the early rules and role...
August 24, 2007 - 31 words,

Tether your iPhone: EDGE internet on your laptop
Tether your iPhone: EDGE internet on your laptop — Instructions for using your iPhone’s internet...
August 7, 2007 - 36 words,

jQuery Plugin: highlightFade
jQuery Plugin: highlightFade — Plugin to fade and transition between colors for backgrounds, borders and...
July 19, 2007 - 16 words,

75 + jquery examples and demos
75 + jquery examples and demos — Dozens of tutorials, plugins, and examples using jquery....
July 19, 2007 - 15 words, 5 comments

WebShell
WebShell — WebShell is a web-based ssh shell for the Apple iPhone....
July 13, 2007 - 12 words,

iPhone IM client
iPhone IM client — JiveTalk for iPhone is currently available to the public as an...
July 13, 2007 - 27 words,

Inside MySpace.com
Inside MySpace.com — Baseline Magazine chronicles the growing pains of MySpace and discusses some of...
June 8, 2007 - 21 words,

Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? — "You need not argue about...
June 1, 2007 - 48 words,

libcurl Emulator
libcurl Emulator — A pure-PHP implementation of the PHP CURL extension, for use on systems...
May 22, 2007 - 24 words,

Jabber Client PHP Class
Jabber Client PHP Class — A PHP class with a complete XMPP implementation. Build Jabber...
May 22, 2007 - 18 words,

Centova WebSupport
Centova WebSupport — Live IM-based support over the web. PHP backend....
May 22, 2007 - 11 words,

isnoop.net universal package tracking
isnoop.net universal package tracking — Package tracking over RSS and with Google Maps mashups...
May 22, 2007 - 14 words,

Is Ruby the dog and PHP the dogfood?
Is Ruby the dog and PHP the dogfood? — Let’s have a little reality check....
May 22, 2007 - 50 words,

Tub Monkey
Tub Monkey — Best name ever for a hot tub company....
May 15, 2007 - 11 words,

Microsoft needs Wizards
Microsoft needs Wizards — A recruitment letter looking for software engineers for Microsoft posted to...
May 3, 2007 - 18 words,

Translation from PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Steve Jobs’ “A Greener Apple”
Translation from PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Steve Jobs’ “A Greener Apple” —...
May 2, 2007 - 21 words,

Widgetsphere: New Playground For Marketers
Widgetsphere: New Playground For Marketers — Using widgets to market your company. Focuses on building...
April 20, 2007 - 26 words,

Hidden links
Hidden links — Google’s Matt Cutts: "Google is going to be looking at paid links...
April 16, 2007 - 32 words,

Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th — One of the first attendees of SacStarts events has joined Wordpress....
April 12, 2007 - 30 words,

5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne — None of these scaling approaches are...
April 12, 2007 - 44 words,

Mass Video Conversion Using AWS
Mass Video Conversion Using AWS — Using EC2, S3, and Python to convert video files....
April 10, 2007 - 15 words,

YawsPack for ejabberd: Embedded Web Server with Web-based Applications
YawsPack for ejabberd: Embedded Web Server with Web-based Applications — A web applications pack for...
April 10, 2007 - 24 words,

Opening Day Genesis.
Opening Day Genesis. — "God separated the dirt from the grass. He called the grass...
April 2, 2007 - 23 words,

CleanArchiver
CleanArchiver — Create zips, Disk Images and more on OSX without including DS_Store and other...
March 28, 2007 - 20 words,

Varnish
Varnish — High performance HTTP accelerator, claims 20x performance improvement over Squid....
March 26, 2007 - 12 words,

Twitter updates through Feed Crier
Twitter updates through Feed Crier — With the Twitterbot down, are you missing your instant...
March 26, 2007 - 24 words,

APML Workgroup grows
APML Workgroup grows — Things are getting serious for the attention metadata format. Digg, PWC,...
March 20, 2007 - 20 words,

John Kruk Is With Leather
John Kruk Is With Leather — "Did anyone actually think this was a good idea?...
March 12, 2007 - 20 words,

Topps facts
Topps facts — Topps baseball card trivia from a 6 year old USA Today article....
February 27, 2007 - 15 words,

Jumpcut Case Study- Startup Review Blog
Jumpcut Case Study- Startup Review Blog — How online video editor Jumpcut went from launch...
February 18, 2007 - 20 words,

Jabber @ OSCON 2004
Jabber @ OSCON 2004 — Jabber presentations from the 2004 OSCON. Includes bot for monitoring...
February 17, 2007 - 17 words,

Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges
Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges — Suggestions for writing more browser friendly JavaScript widgets....
February 17, 2007 - 26 words,

FirePHP
FirePHP — Firefox extension and PEAR package for debugging PHP apps. (via)...
February 17, 2007 - 12 words,

Magic Groups - A ScreenCast
Magic Groups - A ScreenCast — A screencast and instructions on how to build a...
February 17, 2007 - 26 words,

Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box
Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box — Combining several techniques for a good liquid...
February 17, 2007 - 23 words,

The Truth About SEO
The Truth About SEO — Great comment detailing some simple white hat SEO techniques....
February 17, 2007 - 14 words,

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music'
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to...
February 17, 2007 - 48 words,

Sucky shirt
I told Mike Arrington he sucks and all I got was this lousy t-shirt....
February 5, 2007 - 14 words,

The Nuisance Of The Read More Flag
The Nuisance Of The Read More Flag — How to change the Drupal Read More...
January 24, 2007 - 17 words,

Free Non-profit hosting at Dreamhost
Free Non-profit hosting at Dreamhost — This could be a great option for scouting organizations....
January 1, 2007 - 15 words,

Dilbert's Cost Benefit Analysis
Dilbert’s Cost Benefit Analysis — I once had this exact same conversation....
December 31, 2006 - 12 words,

Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)
Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!) — "I’m not writing a 'story' for Digg Corporation...
December 30, 2006 - 34 words,

Prime Ribe with Cabernet Jus
Prime Ribe with Cabernet Jus — My favorite prime rib recipe. Add some mashed potatoes,...
December 22, 2006 - 27 words,

Outsourced Parenting
Outsourced Parenting — Surely, though, we thought, no one actually does delegate every single responsibility...
December 22, 2006 - 26 words,

Poison Powerbook
Poison Powerbook — An alteration for an aluminum Powerbook changes the color of the Apple...
December 21, 2006 - 20 words,

Spirited Away 0.5
Spirited Away 0.5 — if an application isn’t active for a certain fixed time, Spirited...
December 21, 2006 - 22 words,

Seek & Destroy Music Duplicates
Seek & Destroy Music Duplicates — Java app to find duplicated music files and remove...
December 21, 2006 - 38 words,

Five Myths and Six Facts About Blog Advertising
Five Myths and Six Facts About Blog Advertising — Why aren’t more advertisers and bloggers...
December 21, 2006 - 31 words,

Why JSON isn’t just for JavaScript
Why JSON isn’t just for JavaScript — Simon Willison explains how to use JSON for...
December 20, 2006 - 17 words,

Making Compact Forms More Accessible
Making Compact Forms More Accessible — Ultra-compact forms with great accessibility thanks to a bit...
December 20, 2006 - 19 words,

Sample Contracts and Business Forms
Sample Contracts and Business Forms — Thousands of real-life sample contracts. Get actual legal agreements...
December 20, 2006 - 18 words,

phpMyID
phpMyID — Single-user OpenID server in PHP...
December 20, 2006 - 7 words,

Yugma
Yugma — Free conferencing tool in Java. OSX and Windows....
December 20, 2006 - 10 words,

phpMyID
phpMyID — Single-user OpenID server in PHP...
December 19, 2006 - 7 words,

Laser cat
Thanks to Google’s patent search, I can now quickly find my favorite patent of all...
December 14, 2006 - 22 words,

Testers needed for Feed Crier Jabber
Over at the Feed Crier blog we have a call out for people who want...
December 12, 2006 - 24 words,

Graffletopia
Graffletopia is a directory for OnmiGraffle stencils. Yummy....
November 21, 2006 - 8 words,

Textmate for Windows
Textmate for Windows? Not quite, but pretty darn close....
November 21, 2006 - 9 words, 1 comment

MySQL Bar charts
Clever use of the MySQL command line and REPEAT() to create bar charts of your...
November 21, 2006 - 16 words,

Zune Marketplace Confusion
Zune Marketplace’s Absurd Pricing Scheme—"What you are in fact doing is giving an...
November 14, 2006 - 28 words,

Meridian Project Systems acquired
Yet another local acquisition. Meridian Project Systems has been acquired....
November 5, 2006 - 10 words,

TechCrunch Disclosure
"No one should think TechCrunch is objective or conflict-free. We aren’t. We never have been....
November 1, 2006 - 43 words,

Baseball technology
Apparently the pitch tracking stuff you see on TV during this years playoffs has some...
October 23, 2006 - 39 words,

Adobe acquires Sacramento firm
Adobe has bought Serious Magic, a Folsom-based software company that makes consumer-focused video editing software....
October 19, 2006 - 15 words,

First impressions
Studies have shown that first impressions correlate closely to evaluations based on extensive knowledge. What...
October 8, 2006 - 35 words, 1 comment

Reality check
"People still search for the domain name in search engines while we worry about what...
October 3, 2006 - 27 words,

Snapple grapple
Grapple? No, snapple....
September 29, 2006 - 3 words,

Mysql Tuners
Tuning a new MySQL install from the excellent MySQL performance blog....
September 29, 2006 - 11 words,

RSS the Oprah Way
"So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m...
September 21, 2006 - 53 words,

Enterprise fears
Overcoming management fears of Enterprise 2.0...
September 18, 2006 - 6 words,

Google Video RSS
Get an RSS feed of Google Video searches straight from Google. (via Jason Bentley)...
September 15, 2006 - 14 words,

Numbnuts Broadcasting
"No, fool, you made a lot of money from YouTube because your long-dead stinker of...
September 13, 2006 - 48 words,

Unfortunate headline
"Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS." Maybe they should have worded that...
August 30, 2006 - 22 words,

Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Greasemonkey
Watching my fantasy baseball team’s progress just got easier with this live stat Greasemonkey script....
August 28, 2006 - 15 words,

You might be an entrepreneur if...
Tom Evslin’s top ten ways to know if you’re an entreprenur. "7. You can’t stand...
August 17, 2006 - 38 words,

Magic mirror
I have no idea what I’d connect it to, but I really want a magic...
July 27, 2006 - 16 words,

Double slam
The Mets today hit two Grand Slams in the same inning. Think that’s amazing? In...
July 16, 2006 - 34 words,

MySQL performance blog
Anyone working with MySQL should be reading the MySQL Performance Blog. There’s some great insights...
July 12, 2006 - 29 words,

Link sales at W3C
So text link ads are okay according to some. Do you feel the same if...
July 12, 2006 - 22 words,

Huff to Astros
Third baseman Aubrey Huff moves from Tampa to Houston. The 'stros now have two power-hitting...
July 12, 2006 - 23 words

Oh the irony
TechCrunch rips PayPerPost, a company that pays bloggers to write blog posts for advertisers. That’s...
July 3, 2006 - 39 words, 2 comments

Management by Crowds
Wisdom of the Crowds is great and all, but can the crowd run a baseball...
June 20, 2006 - 16 words,

SimplePie
SimplePie is a RSS/Atom parser for PHP. Designed to be more robust and easier to...
June 16, 2006 - 18 words,

Autotagging photos
Yahoo’s ZoneTag automatically tags Flickr photos with location information from cell towers. Works with some...
June 16, 2006 - 20 words,

Productized consulting
Consulting doesn’t scale. The only way to make more money is to work more hours...
June 7, 2006 - 47 words, 2 comments

Presentation blog
If you’re going to blog one thing, then blog it well. Presentation Zen does just...
June 7, 2006 - 33 words, 2 comments

Two types of entrepreneurs
Matt Blumberg describes two types of entreprenuers: the start-it-and-leave-it and the keep-it-running types. The former...
June 7, 2006 - 40 words, 1 comment

Mentos and Coke
Mix 202 liters of Diet Coke, 523 Mentos, and two wacky guys and you end...
June 7, 2006 - 23 words,

Tags in RSS2
Niall shows how to properly implement tags in RSS 2.0....
June 6, 2006 - 10 words,

Fletcher leaves Bloglines
Mark Fletcher is leaving Bloglines because he’s "a startup guy" and Bloglines is now corporate....
June 6, 2006 - 15 words, 1 comment

Hosting reviews: pay to play
Dreamhost’s blog has an expose of the pay-to-play schemes used by "independant" hosting review sites....
May 23, 2006 - 37 words,

It's the network
Jeff Jarvis has been promoting the idea of an open ad marketplace. His latest piece...
May 22, 2006 - 29 words,

Motivation
Create a custom motivational poster for free. Buy a hi-res version for $1. I just...
May 20, 2006 - 18 words,

714
Why couldn’t he have done this yesterday when I was there....
May 20, 2006 - 11 words,

Co-founders
Why you’d want a co-founder for your startup and how to find them....
May 20, 2006 - 13 words,

Startup Starts
Niall Kennedy has transcripts, slides, and summaries from a recent Mark Fletcher talk on starting...
May 20, 2006 - 17 words,

Because I'm a rockstar, that's why
While it may be better to be lucky than good, it’s certainly better to have...
May 18, 2006 - 22 words,

Policy scars
37signals says that policies are like scar tissue: they’re created as an overreaction to a...
May 17, 2006 - 28 words, 1 comment

XML, mutliple encodings, and PHP
A clever way to deal with XML files containing lots of encodings (like RSS feeds)...
May 17, 2006 - 17 words,

Calendar creator
Create simple printable calendars from your digital photos. Try the very cool CD case desk...
May 16, 2006 - 16 words,

Chinese Math
If you think all you need is 3% of your market to break even, you’d...
May 9, 2006 - 20 words,

Open ad marketplace
Jeff Jarvis’s column in AdAge gives more detail about his idea for an open ad...
May 9, 2006 - 16 words,

Home run records
Think Barry Bonds should have an asterisk in the record book because his record might...
May 9, 2006 - 54 words, 1 comment

2006 Whaton Business plan winners
Knowledge@Wharton has a summary of the 2006 business plan competion, the eight finalists, and the...
May 8, 2006 - 16 words,

Yahoo ad improvements
Shortly Yahoo will be rolling out improvements to the contextual ad engine that powers their...
May 8, 2006 - 32 words,

Andy Griffith on simplicity
Just do what’s needed and no more. Andy Griffith has a lesson in simplicity for...
May 5, 2006 - 16 words,

Email hoax breaker
Most people I know have stopped sending me email chain letters because they’ve gotten sick...
May 5, 2006 - 38 words,

Retail tagging
An interesting idea for retailers who want to implement tagging—autotag your products to...
May 5, 2006 - 34 words,

Personal branding
Rajesh Setty has a free ebook to imrpove the personal brand of tech professionals. That...
May 5, 2006 - 33 words, 1 comment

Best buy madness
Improv Everywhere sent 80 people in khakis and royal blue shirts to hang out in...
May 5, 2006 - 21 words,

Hasbro instructions
While looking for a link to The Inventors game, I discovered that Hasbro has an...
May 5, 2006 - 33 words,

Startups jobs - Simplelinks
Startups, employment, and Enterprise 2.0 make appearances in today’s Simplelinks
April 20, 2006 - 164 words,

Tagging ads
Tagging, icons, advertising, entreprenuership, application lists, and more are in this edition of Simplelinks
April 18, 2006 - 180 words,

Stuff for later
PDF merging, procrastination, baseball, and managing your bits in this edition of Simplelinks.
April 5, 2006 - 94 words, 2 comments

Tack-it
A local biotech company is hiring a "Web 2.0 developer" to build internal and...
March 31, 2006 - 138 words,

New Under the Iron
For new Under the Iron interviews for your reading pleasure.
November 12, 2003 - 97 words,

Writing tips
Quick, funny, and immediate impact. What more could you want in a writing guide?
November 13, 2002 - 61 words

Open Source in Business
A new blog called Open Source 4 Business.
November 6, 2002 - 59 words, 2 comments

Banana Republic
Hartlepool, England has elected a monkey for mayor.
September 27, 2002 - 55 words,

Chinese filtering check
Is access to your Web site being blocked by the Chinese government? Here’s how you can find out.
September 16, 2002 - 68 words,

Robocode
I’ve been meaning to learn Java for some time now, but I just haven’t had...
May 8, 2002 - 67 words, 1 comment

Perl Monks RSS
Cool. Perl Monks has an RSS feed....
February 19, 2002 - 7 words,

The Grok is back
Media Grok was one of the best reasons to read The Industry Standard. The team...
January 14, 2002 - 74 words,

Married Bloggers
On a related note, Erin and Shawn are married and both have blogs. Both blogs...
November 23, 2001 - 33 words,

Weblog romance
Charles and Denise both have Weblogs. What’s so interesting about that? Well, they’ve been dating...
November 23, 2001 - 33 words

Working from home
Jim Roepcke has a great stream of consciousness article about working at home. I worked...
November 20, 2001 - 34 words,

Internet Radio
Despite a MP3 collection that is approaching 30 Gigs, I still like to listen to...
November 19, 2001 - 45 words, 1 comment

TCP/IP for children
The reader reviews of The Story About Ping are hilarious. [via Elegant Hack]...
November 19, 2001 - 14 words,

Free ebooks
Qvadis has created a library with over 5000 free ebooks for Palm OS....
November 7, 2001 - 14 words,

Goth or not
Another Hot Or Not knockoff:Am I Goth Or Not?...
November 1, 2001 - 10 words, 2 comments

Instant geek costume
Print this out, cut along the lines, and pow! Instant computer geek costume. (PDF) [via...
October 31, 2001 - 17 words,

More costumes
Still don’t know what to wear to that Halloween party? Here’s some more costume ideas,...
October 24, 2001 - 28 words,

Boot disks
If you ever find yourself needing a boot disk for a machine, try the Boot...
October 23, 2001 - 17 words,

Jack-o-lantern patterns
This list is a few years old and some links might be dead. You...
October 22, 2001 - 77 words, 3 comments

Pumpkin totem
For something a little different this Halloween, make a Pumpkin Totem Pole....
October 22, 2001 - 13 words,

My house, in color
And there’s my house again. In color this time......
October 22, 2001 - 9 words,

My house from afar
I can see my house from here....
October 22, 2001 - 7 words,

HP Digital Entertainment
HP Digital Entertainment DE100c:Stores 750 CDs, 9000 tracks, 635 hours Plays standard music CDs, CD-R,...
October 19, 2001 - 91 words,

Mario
Remember Mario Brothers?...
October 18, 2001 - 3 words,

Condit mask
Can’t decide what to wear for Halloween? How about a Gary Condit Mask?...
October 18, 2001 - 13 words,

SW review
Ain’t It Cool News has a spoiler-filled review of Star Wars Episode 2....
October 18, 2001 - 14 words,

Poor support
I’ve had some bad tech support before, but this is absurd....
October 17, 2001 - 12 words,

CueCat scanner
If you have a CueCat scanner, you can convert it into a barcode scanner with...
October 16, 2001 - 19 words, 1 comment

Spaced Penguin
Play Spaced Penguin, a strangely addictive game featuring a penguin launched from a slingshot....
October 15, 2001 - 15 words,

More Evil Bert linkrot
More Evil Bert linkrot. First the Evil Bert photo was cropped. Now it’s been removed...
October 14, 2001 - 17 words,

Evil Bert Stamp
blackholebrain: "If you should receive any package or letter bearing the new 'Evil Bert' stamp,...
October 14, 2001 - 27 words, 1 comment

Smokin Bert
Apparently the face in the smoke was Evil Bert......
October 12, 2001 - 9 words,

Robot or Language
Pop quiz time. Movie Robot or Programming Language?...
October 12, 2001 - 8 words,

Job-Hunting Tips from The Onion
The Onion: Job-Hunting Tips: "Have a long history of experience in the field you’re applying...
October 11, 2001 - 32 words,

Flash terrorism
The latest in the wave of anti-terrorist Flash cartoons....
October 10, 2001 - 9 words,

Evil bert site
A few people have asked where to find the Bert Is Evil site. For those...
October 10, 2001 - 26 words,

Mail your Hippo
The US Post Office has official instructions on how to pack a Hippo for mailing....
October 10, 2001 - 27 words,

Addiction
Mark Pilgrim was fired for this essay: Addiction is......
October 9, 2001 - 9 words,

Halloween hampsters
With Halloween coming up, it’s time to dust off the venerable Hampster Dance, but with...
October 9, 2001 - 22 words, 1 comment

Web service directory
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October 4, 2001 - 28 words,

Herb Zipper
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September 26, 2001 - 3 words, 1 comment

More Gartner
"I admit that I might be biased, but [the Gartner IIS security] report strikes me...
September 25, 2001 - 26 words,

Liberty from the WTC
The Statue Of Liberty as seen from the World Trade Center...
September 15, 2001 - 11 words,

Barry gets serious
Dave Barry wrote a serious commentary column today instead of the usual humor....
September 13, 2001 - 13 words,

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