Inetersting Social Search RSS feed

http://feeds.feedburner.com/10e20

just added it to my daily reading list.

Social Search Issues

Digg is in a way a social search site, focusing on highlighting content that has a "buzz".
Anyway in researching it I cam across a couple of interesting posts highlighting the challenges that these sites have created and how an insdustry of spammers has been created much like search spammers, now we have tag spammers. There were was an inaccurate statement in Search Engine Lands Blog about being unable to get unblocked by Digg - which in fact you can....

This must have hurt

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/12/failing_a_gende.html

More about the GPA hack....

Here is the original conversation, I nearly died reading about the pigeons and squirrels. This guy is clearly going to be president one day.

Why....

...is there an offical Smurf web site? My grandmother used to work for Shell Oil when they gave away Smurfs, it was the coolest thing to go vist and come back with arm fulls of the critters.

Split my sides laughing

I don't know how I found this blog but it replays the story of a very sad individual trying to "hack" someone who has made him made and ends up erasing his own hard drive.

Crawl Research

Do you ever get sent a link and are fearful to click on it as it looks highly in appropriate for work? Here is one of those http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/ it is actually a really useful page which details some awesome research into the behavior of web-crawl technology. I wish I could see how this would look today for the big 5 search engines.

iTunes and Vista

Yesterday I was sitting on a plane with Emma and we were trying to watch a movie I had downloaded on iTunes. The gremlins were preventing me from doing this, I was having issues with Authorization.
I found a useful discussion which pointed me to run iTunes as administrator which then cleared it up.
I also discovered that the properties associated with an application allow me to force Vista to always run as administrator which is awesome as now I don't even have to kludge my way around the issue.

Geek and Poke

I saw this while reading an amusing article about Web 2.0 and thought I would share it with you

Kenny Rogers

At our office holiday party someone told me about this Jack Ass Video on You Tube. If you like Jack Ass you will love this.

Sisters Blog

My sister has started a blog at the request of her work.

Blogger Beta

I switched over to the Beta version of Blogger today, nothing dramatically changed, a few nice features, like their own version of "tagging" called Labels.
I guess the whole world is becoming tag happy, soon we will just all be one big Folksonomy.
I added one label (beta) to this post to see how it affects the UI.

Wow now that was an improvement, I just pressed the spellchecker! It rocks!
That alone has made it worth upgrading, good job to the blogger team.

Savage squirrels

Last week I went out on the deck to light the bbq and throw a steak on it.
The darn thing would not light, so I returned to the house, located a flash light (torch) and investigated.
To my horror several large holes had been gnored through the tube from the regulator to the knobs. The only thing I can think is that squirrels had attached it, I have seen then on the grill in the past.
Any way I logged on to the Weber web site this morning to order a replacement as my trip to The Home Depot was without success. While going through the checkout process I noticed a very strange bug/feature, the web site uses four fixed width text boxes to allow you to enter a credit card. Now I know Visa and Master Card use the same standard account number system, but Amex does not and so it was very odd trying to fit my card number into the checkout page. A minor detail but one that had me scratching my usability head.

My kind of racing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg9U1YaVk8

Funny

http://www.clearification.com/

NYC is a cold place

Yesterday I was standing on the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in the financial district waiting for a car to take me to LGA, my Blackberry had the time for the car marked at 12:00, by 12:15 I was on the phone getting nowhere trying to locate the car. 3 minutes of holding the phone to my ear and my hand was so numb with the cold I could not use my fingers to redial the phone!
When I finaly landed in my home town the waether was a balmy 34F and it felt wonderful, I didnt even wear my coat walking to the car.
Note to self: take gloves next time.

Why migrate to blogger?

I have for some time been very irritated by the banner adds in spaces.live.com, I have had enough of then so I am going to try and see if I can use this site instead.