Yahoo! has! purchased! Konfabulator! Awesome! (sorry) This is actually very cool news because Yahoo! has said they will be giving the app away for free and releasing the APIs so you can tie into Yahoo! content. I hope they optimize that thing too… it’s cool but it sucks up way too many resources. Link UPDATE: […]
We went on Friday after work. It was hot, it was crowded, we ended up at Arbor Brewing bored out of our minds. But I did get a few photos for Art Fair Bingo. Click the thumb for a larger view. (I swear I had a couple packin’ four kids between them, but apparently my […]
This is all over the place, but Microsoft announced that Longhorn will be branded “Windows Vista”. *yawn* Can we be done with this idiotic name/version march and go back to meaningful release numbers? Link
Brandon at Arbor Update posted the Art Fair Bingo cards for this year. Let people watching begin. Link
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Ah summer in Ann Arbor, when tourists come into the “city”, streets shut down, and artists from around the one-day’s-drive area congeal in the gutters to disgorge their “art” on overly-anticipatory populous. Yes, it’s Art Fair. But not just one Art Fair! Oh no, this is Ann Arbor, where even the artists can’t get along. […]
Google has added the Apollo landing sites to Google Maps to commemorate the first manned Moon landing which occured 36 years ago today (That’s July 20, 1969). If you zoom in all the way, you can really see the detail on the surface. Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites
I don’t think I’ve actually posted about my new house. J– and I have finally settled into our new place in Chelsea. It’s a 1.5 story something or other, 2.5 bedrooms (ok, three, but if you can get a bed in that other room, good on yah), 2 baths, and detached garage. It’s our first […]
Richard Stallman (RMS in the Open Source world) has called for a boycott of Harry Potter. I can sympathize with his premise (a Canadian court ordered that people who were erroneously sold the book early weren’t to read them), but this is the stupidest idea I can think of as a response. RMS obviously does […]
Save yourself a ton of time and pain; backup Firefox bookmarks, cache, extensions, passwords, history, and cookies. Works for Thunderbird, too. Link