Month: July 2008
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Cuil Stomping on Google’s Turf?
CNN is reporting that Anna Patterson, who sold her first web search technology to Google, is coming out publicly with a new, supposedly better search engine called Cuil. She claims it spans a much larger portion of the web than Google, and therefore gives better results. Read the full article on CNN here. In Google’s…
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Dessert?
Dessert? Would you like some dessert? 25 feet of the most intense dessert spread I’ve seen in a while…. — Sent via mobile. —
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WordPress App for iPhone
WordPress 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch was just released on iTunes. So far, it seems to be working well. I’m composing this post on my 8gb iPod touch. The installed app had no problem interfacing with the XML-rpc of my wordpress 2.6 blog backend. Additionally, it gives me full access to all of my…
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Dinosaurs Roam the East Village
Dinosaurs Roam the East Village Originally uploaded by jamfan2 Seen painted on the side of a building, SW corner of 13th Street and 3rd Avenue, NYC. Sent via Blackberry Curve 8300
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Writing My First Program…Again.
Over on pagetable.com, they managed to pull the original Apple I Basic off of its uber-old school cassette tape, and re-compile a working version of the code. And… it works! I managed to run it on my own computer, and re-write my first program. I actually remember writing this program, and many other similar programs…
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Portable Photo Safe – Backup Those Giant Memory Cards
This Photo Safe II from Digital Foci sounds like nifty gadget..especially for traveling. I’d use it to backup pictures on my memory card, and not necessarily to offload the pictures…. ie not deleting memory cards after copying to the it. That way,the camera is lost or stolen while traveling, there’s still a backup of the…
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DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist Originally uploaded by jamfan2 DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist @ McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
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WordPress Updates to 2.6
WordPress.org just released, ahead of schedule, the 2.6 version of WordPress – the backend that runs this blog. Some of the new features are much appreciated – live preview of themes, wordcount, post revision history, and a more robust image control box. I just did the upgrade, which went smoothly, for the most part. The…
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Manhattan Skyline from the New Museum
Tonight, between the Gawker Media Meshing situation and dinner, I randomly met up with a friend and checked out sunset from the top of the New Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I think we got there just at the right time, because the sun was just below the horizon, giving great light. This little…
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Musical Roots: The Breezeblock on BBC Radio One
Update on 2010-02-21 – BBC Radio One’s show “The Breezeblock” hosted by Mary Anne Hobbs has long been one of my favorites. Back in college, it was one of the two main influences in defining the sound of my radio show on Radio1190, “The Acid Lounge“, along with Gilles Peterson’s show “Worldwide”. Although I’ve listened…
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Shooting the 4th of July BBQ
Nat and David’s 4th of July BBQ was tasty – and I had a good time shooting some photos… Photos on flickr.