Yahoo! has recently opened up their ‘pipes‘ application, which is a web-based app to visually manipulate XML feeds. Techcrunch has more on this, plus screen shots. The system seems down right now, so I can’t play with it, but it looks to be very interesting. This has the potential to open up [...]

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Yahoo! has recently opened up their ‘pipes‘ application, which is a web-based app to visually manipulate XML feeds. Techcrunch has more on this, plus screen shots. The system seems down right now, so I can’t play with it, but it looks to be very interesting. This has the potential to open up [...]

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I put up an interview with Joe Brinkman of the DotNetNuke project over at http://www.webdevradio.com. Grahame helped me clean up the audio (well, did some detective work really). About 15 seconds in to the interview (after I’d already done a sanity sound check) a distinct hum came in to the audio, and was [...]

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I’m a Detroit boy.  Raised there and lived there up until recently.  I was *accustomed* to cold winters.  The winters we had that weren’t cold were, of course, welcomed, but I hadn’t lived without very cold winters ever.  Until this year.  I know we’ve had warmer winters around the country this winter and last.  I [...]

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Was brainstorming at work today and came up with the concept of a “mental gym”.  People have no problem paying $30-$100/month for a gym membership to get access to weights, machines and trainers.  A mental gym would give people access to all sorts of exercises and personal training services for your mind.

Large collection of periodicals
“Exercise” [...]

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I had the pleasure of listening to (and briefly meeting) Mr. Sammy Haroon, who is an Associate Director at Procter & Gamble. I was looking around to try to find his specific title, but couldn’t find it. I would think “Director of Innovation” might be appropriate, given what I learned about his work [...]

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I had the pleasure of listening to (and briefly meeting) Mr. Sammy Haroon, who is an Associate Director at Procter & Gamble. I was looking around to try to find his specific title, but couldn’t find it. I would think “Director of Innovation” might be appropriate, given what I learned about his work [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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Java 6 was released last week (or was it two weeks ago) to, in my view, surprisingly little fanfare. It may be the circles I travel in now, but it just wasn’t seen as that big of a deal with most people I know, nor with many tech sites I visit. From what [...]

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Not sure if I wrote about this before - can’t find a reference here, so I’ll assume I didn’t. 
Something that has been a request on a lot of projects I’ve worked on is keeping a changelog of all data changes to a table.  I’ve seen this handled various ways, usually using triggers to [...]

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