Monthly Archives: April 2006

If You Wanna Work, Don’t Be Too Special

The title sounds a bit bitter no? It’s not intended to be so. Tonight I stumbled upon a blog post on raganwald.com regarding what (certain) university stints land some people jobs at certain corporations. “Why you need a degree to … Continue reading

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Web Tip Of The Day

Today’s tip is really a call for a movement amongst bloggers as much as anything. I call it “Creative Criticism via URL Hashes.” WordPress (optionally) utilizes something called XHTML Friends Network (XFN) for tagging links that you include (in this … Continue reading

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Web Tip Of The Day

Earlier today I wrote about putting an hCard-formatted URI in a book so the book can follow me around. While I was looking on the hCard wiki I came across the contact page of Keri Henare. Being the inquisitive little … Continue reading

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Ownership URI

Today I lent a book to a friend and co-worker of mine. Instead of putting my name in the front to indicate my ownership, I put the following URI: info.josh-peters.name. This way, I can keep the page up-to-date with various … Continue reading

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Yesterday’s Thoughts

Yesterday I did two things that were not directly related, but at the end of the evening they might as well have been.

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New Phone #

Hey all, just to let you know, my (and by extension, Bryan Roach’s and Jay Simpson’s) local phone number has switched. We recently became Vonage customers, and due to some annoying crap with the way telecommunications companies (don’t) work, Verizon … Continue reading

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Solving New Problems With Old Methods

I’ve been thinking again (cue frightening music). Beware, this post contains evidence of my math degree and computer science studies. You’ve been warned What I want is an open database of intersections so that existing packet routing methods can be … Continue reading

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Sabifoo for you!

Here is an interesting service: Sabifoo. Basically, you IM sabifoo and the website keeps track of what you send it. The best use I’ve seen is for sending yourself a reminder to do something. The question at hand of course … Continue reading

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AJAX plus history

Damn. Sometimes people come around and do something really innovative that you should’ve already done yourself, you know? (What a haughty thought that is, huh?) This OnJava article about adding history support to AJAX apps is one of these things. … Continue reading

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Amazon has a new service that should be aimed squarely at LiveJournal users. Mechanical Turk is a service where you can answer some “human” questions: questions that a computer isn’t good at answering (eg. name your top 3 memories of … Continue reading

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