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Archive for May, 2008

Yahoo Pipes - Almost Useless

Yahoo pipes is an interesting idea.  You can create “Mashups” from different sources.  I suppose they might be useful if you wanted to aggregate several feeds into one and display the result on your own website.  I looked through many pipes and could not find a useful application.  There are a lot of “find a [...]

The Great American Baby Bottle Scare

“the most worrying thing about the panic about BPA is the extent to which fear prevails over science.”  Nancy McDormattI am truly amused at the panic over this, and amazed how many folks, after tossing out their BPA bottles, still store food in recycled  yogurt containers or even reheat food in plastic containers. 

Google Sites

Trying out Google Sites again (previously tried as JotSpot).  It is ok.  I think Wiki Syntax would be easier than monkeying around with their UI.
But the hosting convenience is great.

VIATeC Jobs

Experimental feed for VIATeC Job Postings built with yahoo pipes.

Google Desktop for Mac

Still waiting for  a review from The John Report or SelfStyled before I use it.

Yahoo pipe for VIATeC events

Yahoo Pipe for VIATcC Event Listings.  Someday VIATeC will syndicate their own content, and make it accessible.

Is all anti-malware malware?

A family members outlook was silently crashing after every IMAP synchronization.  We had previously uninstalled everything Norton from his Windows XP Install.  Uninstalling his anti-spyware software seemed to correct the problem.

Google and EC2

If they don’t provide this  already, I predict Google App Engine and Amazon EC2 will both add an engine based on

Pi Calculus  in year 2011.  And someone will build their own on Google App Engine long before.