Guess who's back!
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=117022
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=117467
Friday, December 16, 2005
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Not so Great Success
Borat's country has some problems...
Kazakistan is threatening to sue Sasha Baron Cohen over his Borat character's website www.borat.kz, which the country feels is a bad portayal of their citizens...
Read More...
Kazakistan is threatening to sue Sasha Baron Cohen over his Borat character's website www.borat.kz, which the country feels is a bad portayal of their citizens...
Read More...
Sunday, November 27, 2005
RSS Feed Parser
Made a little RSS Feed Parser on my website, with PHP: http://durginus.dyndns.org/
Took just about all day to complete. PHP is just way too loose of a language, so is JavaScript.
Took just about all day to complete. PHP is just way too loose of a language, so is JavaScript.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Joy Asia at Home!
Comcast is now offering Kareoke on Demand as part of their on Demand service: http://www.mediainfocenter.org/story.asp?story_id=84887598.
Also checkout "dating on demand".
Also checkout "dating on demand".
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Flock
http://www.flock.com
Flock is a great new browser based on Firefox. It has some great features such as:
1.
The Star button
Out with bookmarks, in with Flock Favorites.
They're stored online, and they're shared, searchable, and tagged. Simply click the Star in the URL bar and you've flagged a page. You can easily retrieve it later. The Star turns orange (and is orange the next time you visit the page, to remind you that this is one of your favorites).
Example:
1. Go to del.icio.us and get an account if you don't have one. Then start Flock, visit a web page, and click the Star button. You're done. No need to herd your favorites into folders and manage them.
2. When you see the "Share your favorites online?" prompt, say yes, and enter your Delicious user name and password.
2.
Tagging
You can add tags to Favorites by simply clicking the little arrow next to the Star icon. Or, if you like to tag, Open the Flock menu, choose Preferences, and go to the Web Services section. Activate the "Clicking Star Performs Star and Tag" option. You can also bring up the tagging dialog by clicking CTRL-D (Windows).
Example:
1. Go to an interesting web site
2. Click the little arrow next to the Star, and select Star and Tag This Page. To add multiple tags, separate them with commas, the enter key, or quotes.
3.
Favorites Manager
The Favorites Manager is a simple way to organize and view your Favorites and a feed reader (see below).
Example:
1. Click the button with the three stars
2. You can organize Favorites into collections, or by tagging them. Use the tabs to switch between these two views
3. Click the + button in the lower left corner to create a new collection
4.
History Search
Flock comes with the open source Clucene search engine built in. Each time you visit a web page, it indexes all the content on that page so you can easily retrace your steps later. Pages you've starred as Favorites float to the top when you do a History Search. History Search is stored locally for privacy. For more privacy, you can wipe it out using the Clear Private Data command.
Example:
1. Visit some interesting web pages, such as Yahoo News.
2. Start typing a few letters of a search query (for example "tech") into the search box.
3. After you type a few queries, a menu appears showing you matching results from your browser history and pages you have starred. You can use the keyboard to navigate through the menu.
4. When you press Enter, a normal web query is done using the search engine you have chosen.
5.
Most Frequently Visited / Most Recently Added
Flock keeps track of which web pages you visit most frequently.
Example:
1. Use the browser for a few days.
2. Open the Favorites menu and choose Recent Favorites or Frequently Visited Sites.
6.
Multiple favorites toolbars
With Flock, you can have multiple Favorites toolbars and switch back and forth between them.
Example:
1. Create a few Collections in the Favorites Manager.
2. In the right corner of the Favorites toolbar, you'll see a flyout selector. Click it to choose a different Collection. Voila! Your choice becomes your current Favorites toolbar.
Feeds
7.
Feed discovery
Just like Firefox, Flock puts an icon in the URL bar when a site has one or more feeds. In Flock, you can click that icon to get an feed view of the page.
Example:
1. Go to the Flock home page.
2. Click the orange feed button in the URL bar.
8.
Feed caching
When you star a web page that has a feed, the feed is cached and updated every hour.
Example:
1. Go to the New York Times home page.
2. Click the Star button to mark that page as one of your Favorites.
3. Click the button with three stars to open the Favorites Manager.
4. Find the New York Times entry. You'll see a little expander icon next to that entry. Click that icon to see the feeds for that Favorite.
5. Click the feed icon to get the feed view.
9.
On the Fly Aggregation
Flock automatically creates an aggregated view for all of your collections. If you create a collection of news sites that you visit every day, you can see an aggregated view of all your news site on one page.
Example:
1. Create a new collection called News.
2. Add several of your favorite news sites that have feeds (nytimes.com, slashdot.org, news.com etc.).
3. Click the feed button next to your News collection in the Favorites Manager's sidebar. You'll see an aggregated page.
Blogging
10.
With Flock, blogging is a fully integrated part of the Web. Flock includes a blog editor that works with WordPress (and the new Wordpress.com hosted service), Movable Type and Typepad (and shortly also Live Journal) and Blogger. Other blogging platforms have not been tested.
Example:
1. Click the Blog icon (that looks like a feather pen).
2. Set up your blog account (you can manage your accounts, including setting up additional blog accounts, from the Blogs section in your Flock Preferences).
3. Create a simple blog post using our blog editor and click Publish.
11.
Blog This!
You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks.
Example:
1. Highlight a passage on a web page that you would like to blog about.
2. Right-click that selection and choose Blog This.
3. The blog editor opens with that selection already inserted. Not only that, the selection is properly formatted as a Blockquote and appropriate citation is included.
Other ways to Blog This:
1. Open the View menu and choose Topbars and then Blog Topbar.
2. Highlight a text passage and drag it to the box labeled "Drag stuff to blog it!"
Or you can use the Shelf (see The Shelf, below).
12.
Flickr topbar
With Flock, blogging Flickr pictures is easy. You can drag and drop pictures from our integrated Flickr topbar right into your blog post.
Example:
1. Click the Blog Editor button (that looks like a feather pen).
2. Click the Topbar icon and select the Flickr topbar.
3. Type your Flickr user name and click Get Photos.
4. Drag your pictures into your blog post.
13.
The Shelf
The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later.
Example:
1. Open the Tools menu and choose Shelf.
2. Drag interesting URLs, pictures or text snippets from any web page onto the shelf.
3. Click the Blog Editor icon (that looks like a feather pen).
4. Drag items from the Shelf into your blog post
Flock is a great new browser based on Firefox. It has some great features such as:
1.
The Star button
Out with bookmarks, in with Flock Favorites.
They're stored online, and they're shared, searchable, and tagged. Simply click the Star in the URL bar and you've flagged a page. You can easily retrieve it later. The Star turns orange (and is orange the next time you visit the page, to remind you that this is one of your favorites).
Example:
1. Go to del.icio.us and get an account if you don't have one. Then start Flock, visit a web page, and click the Star button. You're done. No need to herd your favorites into folders and manage them.
2. When you see the "Share your favorites online?" prompt, say yes, and enter your Delicious user name and password.
2.
Tagging
You can add tags to Favorites by simply clicking the little arrow next to the Star icon. Or, if you like to tag, Open the Flock menu, choose Preferences, and go to the Web Services section. Activate the "Clicking Star Performs Star and Tag" option. You can also bring up the tagging dialog by clicking CTRL-D (Windows).
Example:
1. Go to an interesting web site
2. Click the little arrow next to the Star, and select Star and Tag This Page. To add multiple tags, separate them with commas, the enter key, or quotes.
3.
Favorites Manager
The Favorites Manager is a simple way to organize and view your Favorites and a feed reader (see below).
Example:
1. Click the button with the three stars
2. You can organize Favorites into collections, or by tagging them. Use the tabs to switch between these two views
3. Click the + button in the lower left corner to create a new collection
4.
History Search
Flock comes with the open source Clucene search engine built in. Each time you visit a web page, it indexes all the content on that page so you can easily retrace your steps later. Pages you've starred as Favorites float to the top when you do a History Search. History Search is stored locally for privacy. For more privacy, you can wipe it out using the Clear Private Data command.
Example:
1. Visit some interesting web pages, such as Yahoo News.
2. Start typing a few letters of a search query (for example "tech") into the search box.
3. After you type a few queries, a menu appears showing you matching results from your browser history and pages you have starred. You can use the keyboard to navigate through the menu.
4. When you press Enter, a normal web query is done using the search engine you have chosen.
5.
Most Frequently Visited / Most Recently Added
Flock keeps track of which web pages you visit most frequently.
Example:
1. Use the browser for a few days.
2. Open the Favorites menu and choose Recent Favorites or Frequently Visited Sites.
6.
Multiple favorites toolbars
With Flock, you can have multiple Favorites toolbars and switch back and forth between them.
Example:
1. Create a few Collections in the Favorites Manager.
2. In the right corner of the Favorites toolbar, you'll see a flyout selector. Click it to choose a different Collection. Voila! Your choice becomes your current Favorites toolbar.
Feeds
7.
Feed discovery
Just like Firefox, Flock puts an icon in the URL bar when a site has one or more feeds. In Flock, you can click that icon to get an feed view of the page.
Example:
1. Go to the Flock home page.
2. Click the orange feed button in the URL bar.
8.
Feed caching
When you star a web page that has a feed, the feed is cached and updated every hour.
Example:
1. Go to the New York Times home page.
2. Click the Star button to mark that page as one of your Favorites.
3. Click the button with three stars to open the Favorites Manager.
4. Find the New York Times entry. You'll see a little expander icon next to that entry. Click that icon to see the feeds for that Favorite.
5. Click the feed icon to get the feed view.
9.
On the Fly Aggregation
Flock automatically creates an aggregated view for all of your collections. If you create a collection of news sites that you visit every day, you can see an aggregated view of all your news site on one page.
Example:
1. Create a new collection called News.
2. Add several of your favorite news sites that have feeds (nytimes.com, slashdot.org, news.com etc.).
3. Click the feed button next to your News collection in the Favorites Manager's sidebar. You'll see an aggregated page.
Blogging
10.
With Flock, blogging is a fully integrated part of the Web. Flock includes a blog editor that works with WordPress (and the new Wordpress.com hosted service), Movable Type and Typepad (and shortly also Live Journal) and Blogger. Other blogging platforms have not been tested.
Example:
1. Click the Blog icon (that looks like a feather pen).
2. Set up your blog account (you can manage your accounts, including setting up additional blog accounts, from the Blogs section in your Flock Preferences).
3. Create a simple blog post using our blog editor and click Publish.
11.
Blog This!
You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks.
Example:
1. Highlight a passage on a web page that you would like to blog about.
2. Right-click that selection and choose Blog This.
3. The blog editor opens with that selection already inserted. Not only that, the selection is properly formatted as a Blockquote and appropriate citation is included.
Other ways to Blog This:
1. Open the View menu and choose Topbars and then Blog Topbar.
2. Highlight a text passage and drag it to the box labeled "Drag stuff to blog it!"
Or you can use the Shelf (see The Shelf, below).
12.
Flickr topbar
With Flock, blogging Flickr pictures is easy. You can drag and drop pictures from our integrated Flickr topbar right into your blog post.
Example:
1. Click the Blog Editor button (that looks like a feather pen).
2. Click the Topbar icon and select the Flickr topbar.
3. Type your Flickr user name and click Get Photos.
4. Drag your pictures into your blog post.
13.
The Shelf
The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later.
Example:
1. Open the Tools menu and choose Shelf.
2. Drag interesting URLs, pictures or text snippets from any web page onto the shelf.
3. Click the Blog Editor icon (that looks like a feather pen).
4. Drag items from the Shelf into your blog post
Friday, November 11, 2005
Free Microsoft Developer Tools!
Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions + SQL Server Express
Be warned... installation and configuration is a pain!
Also, here's a link to Free Microsoft Development Courses:
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005/
Be warned... installation and configuration is a pain!
Also, here's a link to Free Microsoft Development Courses:
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005/
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
80 Java Tips
Found a good resource that has good information about how to use new features of J2SE 5.0...
http://java.blogeasy.com/article.view.run?articleID=104992
http://java.blogeasy.com/article.view.run?articleID=104992
Friday, November 04, 2005
Falling into the Microsoft Empire
I have refused to do this for years, but I'm falling into the void of .NET. I believe I must learn at least something about .NET. right now I'm reading Oreily's .NET essentials:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596005059/qid=1131133142/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14/103-0436613-9311825?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Looking at .NET so far, it seems like a good idea in theory, the architecture is not too much different from a J2EE application. I think I still prefer my cup of Java...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596005059/qid=1131133142/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14/103-0436613-9311825?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Looking at .NET so far, it seems like a good idea in theory, the architecture is not too much different from a J2EE application. I think I still prefer my cup of Java...
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Get perpendicular!
Get perpendicular baby! Hitachi's new storage technology.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
Friday, September 16, 2005
Google Desktop Download
This is probably the most useful tool ever, it integrates everything you need: e-mail, tasks, news feeds, photos and more into a small side bar that is customizable, and you can get a lot of different plugins for it: Google desktop 
Friday, September 09, 2005
New PDA
Just recieved my new PDA: A Dell AXIM x50
I like it so far, it has everything you need: movie player, mp3 player, excel, word, outlook, it even has Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, still figuring out everything that I can do with it.
Dell AXIM x50
Also the Jamacian Jolt turned out alright, I think I have made a better rub before though.
I like it so far, it has everything you need: movie player, mp3 player, excel, word, outlook, it even has Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, still figuring out everything that I can do with it.
Dell AXIM x50
Also the Jamacian Jolt turned out alright, I think I have made a better rub before though.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
New Rub...
Trying a dry rub from the BBQ book that Christine gave me for graduation.
I was asked earlier what exactly a "dry rub" is. A dry rub is another way to add flavor to meat, sort of like marinading, but no liquid is involved, just dry ingredients. It usually consists of a mixture of spices, which are "rubbed" into the meat to force the flavor in, break down the muscle fibers to make it softer and tenderize it. You then let it sit in the refrigerator for a couple hours or overnight. Then throw it on the grill. The dry rub will turn into a nice crust, locking in all of the meat's juices as well.
Heres the recipie I'm trying out, we'll see how it turns out:
I was asked earlier what exactly a "dry rub" is. A dry rub is another way to add flavor to meat, sort of like marinading, but no liquid is involved, just dry ingredients. It usually consists of a mixture of spices, which are "rubbed" into the meat to force the flavor in, break down the muscle fibers to make it softer and tenderize it. You then let it sit in the refrigerator for a couple hours or overnight. Then throw it on the grill. The dry rub will turn into a nice crust, locking in all of the meat's juices as well.
Heres the recipie I'm trying out, we'll see how it turns out:
Jamacian Jolt
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup coarse salt (sea or kosher)
- 1/4 cup freeze-dried chives
- 2 Tbsp ground black pepper
- 2 TBsp Onion powder
- 2 TBps Garlic powder
- 1-4 ts Chilli powder
- 1 Tbsp tyme
- 2 ts allspice
- 2 ts coriander
- 1 ts cinnamon
- 2 ts dried ginger
- 1/2 ts ground cloves
- 1/2 ts ground nutmeg
Heard from Randy.
Got a call from Randy today. He's wicked bored in Iraq, but hes supposed to be coming home within 3 weeks. He defenitly needs the break. Need to look for things to do to entertain him.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
AJAX
Iv'e come across an emerging technology that has actually been around for a while: AJAX(Asynchronous Java an XML).
It uses javascript and XML to send data to a server and retrieve the results without having to reload the presentation page.
This is why Google's G-Mail and Google Maps works so quickly.
For more information on AJAX go here.
It uses javascript and XML to send data to a server and retrieve the results without having to reload the presentation page.
This is why Google's G-Mail and Google Maps works so quickly.
For more information on AJAX go here.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
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