In my email in-box this afteroon: “We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users.” So Google has a wiki tool now (or soon will, as far as users are concerned). While there is something very disturbing about one giant gorilla consuming all of [...]
I’ll hug him and squeeze him and call him George
My friend John IM-ed me a week ago to ask if I had told his dad that I was coming to visit. I said no, but said I could. We made quick and tentative plans for a winter trip to Illinois, and I signed off on my way to meetings on campus. A few days [...]
Hep, 2, 3, 4 …
Don’t look now, but with a convincing win at The Rock today, the Indiana Hoosiers — who hadn’t had a Big Ten winning streak of more than one game in a decade, and who hadn’t defeated a ranked team in almost two decades — are looking at a legitimate shot as some bowl game. The [...]
Send Chris Money
So while I was taking some time away from making plans to head north to a friend’s funeral Monday — taking my boys to a fun Halloween activity at the Informatics Design Studio — Chris got himself into a little trouble as backwash to publishing an online tool to allow anyone to spoof boarding passes. [...]
GapingVoid.com
In hunting for a blog about blogs, I came across this effort as a followed link during my search. Hugh MacLeod makes his living (currently) selling wine* for a tech-savvy South African company. He enjoys his living, though, drawing cartoons that are freely distributed through Creative Commons. His puts both of those things together in [...]
Hoops Network II
I’ve refined my earlier work (“Hoops Network”) to correct for some of the initial mistakes. First, I had to throw out all of the processed player data because I negected to consider in the database queries the fact that a player’s jersey number isn’t unique for all teams and games. I also adjusted the visuals [...]
Good mail, bad mail
First the bad: Greetings- The lottery for the student volunteer spots at CHI 2007 has been run, and you are on the waitlist for a spot. Unfortunately, we had many more applicants than positions available, so could not accomodate everyone. As the conference approaches, continue to check your spot on the waitlist. SVs drop for [...]