DeWitt Clinton

If Firefox/Linux hangs on me one more time, I swear I’m going to install Windows.
I’m that frustrated.
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Perhaps one of the most interesting, but as yet most under-noticed, bits of technology to come out of Google in the past year is Google Co-op Custom Search Engines. Google CSE’s give users the power to create a search engine specifically tailored to any topic they can imagine.
A few of us at [...]

My copy of Against the Day just arrived via overnight shipping from Amazon.
I looked through my entire IM list for someone who would be as excited as I am about it.
No luck. So I’m telling you.

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to [...]

I would like to invite everyone to visit the new website for the OpenSearch community:

http://www.opensearch.org/

The OpenSearch.org website houses the most recent version of the OpenSearch specification, hosts a new mailing list, and will provide a resource for everyone that would like to get involved with the design and development process. The site is powered [...]

Sorry to have been quiet for so long. I’ve been heads down getting the final version of the OpenSearch 1.1 specification finished and preparing a community-oriented OpenSearch website. With luck those will both go live within the week.
On a related note, today is my last day with A9/Amazon. It has been an [...]

I’m sure this has been done before.
But not by me. So…
Here are all 26 of the Google “I’m feeling lucky” links that you’ll get when you type a single letter into the Firefox URL bar:
“a” is for Apple, Inc..
“b” is for the Physical Review B Homepage.
“c” is for the C Programming Language (Wikipedia).
“d” is [...]

Does anyone know of software that one can download and install that’s rather like Basecamp?
Basecamp is great — if you can host your data outside your network. But when you can’t, and you still want to be light and agile, what do you do?
Ideas?

Firefox users, file this one under miscellaneous.
Type the letter “f”, and just the letter “f”, into the URL box and hit <return>.

Feeling lucky?

I just now realized that I don’t want my Blackberry any longer. I’m not exactly sure why not. I think it has something to do with dependency issues. I carry it around everywhere and check it incessantly. Sure the Blackberry is useful on occasion, but it is present all the time.
Can [...]