Monthly Archives: August 2007

Worse than Danielle Franke Syndrome!

My brother-in-law Eric has been sick lately, with very mono-like symptoms. Since Danielle had something similar last year we thought it may be the same thing, which I called “Danielle Franke Syndrome” since it was never identified. Turns out he’s … Continue reading

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Automated Reputation Discernment

Spencer Critchley proposes a method for tracking the reputation of a politician over at O’Reilly’s blogs. This could very well be called the Age of Recursion. Starting with Google’s original PageRank idea the power of applied recursion is really starting … Continue reading

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I wish CSS was smarter…

There’s a wonderful technology for XML called XPath. XML as you may know is a structured markup language that represents a document as a tree. XPath allows you to find parts of that tree (called nodes, actually there are several … Continue reading

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Karl Rove Resigns!?!

Check out CNN: Karl Rove resigns. I wonder if this means he’s going to pick a horse for the next presidential race and start working on someone’s campaign?

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Pending Nintendo Lawsuit/C&D in 5 … 4 …

You can now turn your iPhone into a Gameboy. It’s a shame that this will be soon Cease and Desisted into nothingness as soon as Nintendo finds out about it. Nintendo would do well to give the developer a job … Continue reading

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Back When Kids Had Imagination!

Ah the good old days:

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