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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Double Your Coding Speed

19-Dec-07

I read some trivia that claimed termites eat through wood twice as fast when listening to rock music. My anecdotal experience tells me this is true. You work faster because you get in the groove. The music tempo seems to push you along at a cheerful allegro pace. In my head I hear the new [...]

Salesforce.com New Years Surprise?

17-Dec-07

I’m not one for spreading rumors or second guessing corporate PR moves. However, for the second time in a week I was going underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge with much suspicion. Upon looking up at the wire frame structure that holds fireworks for New Years Eve, I couldn’t but help see what looked like the [...]

Google Knol – Search Algorithm is not Search God

17-Dec-07

Seth Goddin’s Squidoo.com caught a little more than the eye’s of Google. Seth has an interesting firsthand Google experience posted on his blog. Seth’s Squidoo.com lets you create online content on a topic you have knowledge about that you would like to share online. Much like Wikipedia, but as the author you get rated by [...]

Google Reader Becoming Social

16-Dec-07

Google Reader tells me this morning that I can now share my RSS feed with friends. So the gap closes with Del.icio.us and other content bookmarking tool using humans rather robots to control what is deemed to be a good read.

G$$gle. Is accounting next for Google?

13-Dec-07

Not quite yet, however there is some chat about the idea from Read Write Web. They put this idea up as the next area Google might head into. They are probably right, but it won’t happen for some time. History tells us why. When Google does it will be via acquisition. Google is about SCALE! [...]

Anti-Procrastination Weaponry

12-Dec-07

Procrastination is easily my biggest weakness and I always delay working on it. Yes, that was humor. I even delayed writing this post for a year at least for fear it needed to be perfect. However I was inspired by a great read on the Pick The Brain blog. This post is far from perfect [...]

Wasp Eating 37 Spiders

11-Dec-07

On the weekend I was cleaning old clay wasp nests of the eaves of our house when I accidentally scraped one off that hadn’t hatched it’s youngsters yet. Inside it where 37 spiders in total, all alive (twitching) but paralyzed by a parent wasp who had collected them to lay baby’s in. These wasps make [...]

Bubble Trouble

05-Dec-07

This is funny in a nervous laughter kind of way. Here Comes Another Bubble – The Richter Scales