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The talented Shimon Rura just launched a new service called tweet and shout: music people are talking about. It mines Twitter to find bands and musicians that people are talking about, and provides the number of people and tweets and cross-references with the Amazon sales rank.
What’s refreshing about Shimon’s work is that he admits the [...]

xkcd - Geohashing
Be sure to check out the implementation.
(tags: kommix)

Betalogue » Word 2008: How to assign command-G to ‘Find Next’
Wow. That’s 1500 words about how painful keyboard shortcut reassignment is in Microsoft’s latest version of Word. That’s a product manager’s worst dream.
(tags: productmanagement microsoft schadenfreude humor)

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy and the [...]

I switched on Monday to a new theme, Excel, that addresses a few of the issues I had with Cutline. The color balance is much better than with the version of Cutline I was using (which I must say, in all fairness, was a much older version of the theme). I also like the layout, [...]

Looks like the hosting provider for the Brackbill Wiki, my extended genealogy site, is temporarily offline because of a move. I’ll post another note when it comes back online.