Cuil is a new search engine on the block, trying to displace Google from the top of the search heap. They say their index is larger than Google’s, as if size is THAT important, and was launched by former Google employees. Rather than trying to mimic Google’s method of ranking the quantity and quality of […]
I didn’t miss the boat on Dr. Horrible, I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about it. If you missed it when it was free, you can get all 3 episodes on iTunes for just 4 dollars. You can’t beat that deal for your entertainment dollar. I highly recommend it, if you like any combination
The following will list all the symbolic links pointing to a file within the same directory. find /my/dir -lname my_linked_dir -maxdepth 1 You could search the whole but it could take some time: find / -lname my_linked_dir
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The anti-immigrant sentiment of the mid 90s, as the Republicans were in ascension, motivated our family to stop procrastinating and become U.S. citizens. History is repeating itself again. Number of Mexicans gaining citizenship soars in 2007 – Los Angeles Times The number of Mexican-born immigrants who became U.S. citizens swelled by nearly 50% last year
I’m meaining to blog about my recent upgrade to Verizon FIOS + Tivo HD at home. The overall conclusion – much better picture quality, and now I don’t have to watch HD content live. But the following post has a great summary of how a TiVoO DVR is more functional than the vanilla DVR everyone
This is something we’re trying to help everyone at work realize. I think we’ve known this all along, clients don’t ever fully understand wireframes. Plus, its more fun, and I think productive, to start building something that works early, gets your head out of the clouds and grounded in reality. A List Apart: Articles: Sketching
If you’re installing phpundercontrol / cruisecontrol and getting compile errors on the web front end, which render the app fairly useless, make sure you are using Sun’s JVM. To do this on Ubuntu, follow the directions at Ubuntu Linux Install Sun Java Development Kit ( JDK ) and Java Runtime Environment ( JRE ) Q.
Mice got into food at a PETCO distibution center – might be worth some prevention if you think you might be affected. FDA seizes pet food at PETCO distribution center: Consumer Reports on Safety The distribution center in Joliet, Ill., provides pet food products and supplies to PETCO retail stores in 16 states: Alabama, Illinois,
I swtiched to Gmail at the end of last year, and am loving it. We did the same at work and we have a much better mail system for much cheaper. The filtering and labeling system is both powerful and easy to use, go learn some Tricks to improve your Gmail experience at Coen Jacobs
The feature I’ve been looking forward to the most, merge tracking, made it into the latest Subversion release. I’m not sure why, but branching/merging has been a conceptually scary thing for me for a long time. I’d always be afraid that somehow I’d mess up the merge and lose updates or somehow mangle my code