Most old line media doesn’t have a clue; thus I was pleasantly surprised when Business Week recently added a custom RSS generator to their web services. The tool is easy to use, and allows one to use company stock symbols or your own key words to create custom feeds.
… an example feed … a feed focused on GPS
This past Labor Day, Cyrus joined our family. This black and white kitten … in his attempt to learn about the world, is into everything. Not being a cat, I’ve found a new site which helps my curiosity streak:
If you still have "wonder" about the world around us, you should visit this blog. Some of my favorite sections are:
One posting from the "video and podcast" section is Curious Cast webinar favorites; these range from Google Technology Talks to the Science Live archive from the University of Cambridge. You may also subscribe to the entire blog, or your favorite section(s).
In a few hours I will head up north to my small cabin near the Canadian border … no computer … no TV … no phone service … no running water in the Winter. We heat by wood stove!
Given my impending departure, I thought long and hard over what the topic should be for my final posting of 2006 … Eureka … Nerd Food! Thus I challenge everyone to enter via the comments section their two favorite nerd food items. Here is my entry:
These two items combine to give "nerd energy" during all night gaming or coding sessions. Oh, yes … here is the photo of my cabin. Happy New Year!
Over the past few months I’ve created a number of Google Co-op search engines, ranging from an Engineering Podcast Search Engine to WikiSearch. I thought folks might like to see how easy it is to create your own search engine with Google Co-op … thus:
This tutorial was created with Wink. Although the audio is not quite as clear as I would like, Wink gives a surprising amount of power for a free web recording tool. You may wish to check out my other screencast tutorials.
I just created a new search engine, Wiki Search, which indexes this content:
What’s a wiki? Learn from a talking computer … but definitely not Hal 2000 ! (or from Common Craft … Wikis explained in layman’s terms)
Note: Wiki Search site addition suggestions are welcome; however given the number of wikis on the web (Google it!), my focus is general reference wikis. This search index also includes my blog.