February 2007 Archives
By far the easiest way to make a Catalan angry is calling him/her Spanish. Berry knows this very well, and used this for his practical joke with the flags.
Google finally opened up GMail for users in Canada and the USA, where this service was still invite only. The popular mail service remains in beta though.
This will probably also end one of the largest comment threads on Brain Tags (138 comments up to now), where visitors could request a GMail invite.
The release op Yahoo! Pipes is definitely the news of the day:
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
Of course I have tried out Pipes, and used it to create a consolidated feed of all my writings.
Until now, I have two remarks about this service:
- I tried to sort my writings by publication date. It did sort them, but did not recognise the date format used in some feeds, starting with the weekday (Mon - Sun). Therefore, my writings made on Wednesdays ended up at the end of the list;
- As there still are relatively few Pipes, it is easy to game the listing, which is sorted by the number of times a Pipe has been run. I simply clicked a few time on the Run this Pipe link, and little by little moved upwards in the list.
Update: Two minutes more clicking, and my Brain Network pipe ended up halfway on the second page, in front of some way more interesting feeds. Help me get to the front page by running my Pipe!
I just tried out IMified, and felt like I stepped into a time machine bringing me back to the 80's. Web 2.0 finally got text menu's:
*** Main Menu ****
1 - IMified Notes
2 - IMified Reminders
3 - IMified Todos
4 - My Account
type 'M' at any time to return to this menu
Forum: http://forum.imified.com | Blog: http://blog.imified.com
Jeroen: 3
IMified (ColdFusion): *** IMified Todos ***
1 - Add
2 - View
3 - Completed
type 'M' for the main menu
Hire me. My rate would be onehundredandtwentyfive an hour. Plus VAT and expenses. Four hours minimum. Dollars for small problems, Euros for big problems. British Pounds for management problems.
If you buy a brand new PC with Windows Vista, you might find a big surprise when Vista does not look the same as the Vista in the showroom. After installing Vista, the so-called Windows Experience Index is calculated for your PC. Depending of the results of this test, certain features of Vista are enabled or disabled to give you the optimal performance.
This is great from a technical point of view, but makes it difficult to know exactly what you are buying. Only at home you will find your Experience index and see what has been disabled. And until now I haven't seen any hardware manufacturer publish the Windows Experience Index for the PC's they sell.
