Archive for September, 2006

Apple tries to own “podcast”

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

An article on Wired describes how Apple slapped a cease and desist order to stop Podcast Ready from using the terms “podcast ready” and “myPodder”. I think they are off base with that.
I can understand them trying to protect the word “pod” as it relates to music players. However, podcasts aren’t players, rather they are [...]

The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

OKCupid! The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test is a fun diversion. 60 questions and then it tells you the definitions (if you didn’t know, which I didn’t).
My results:
Pure Nerd
78 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 34% Dork
It seems that if you score more than 50% in one of the categories then you are a “pure” nerd/geek/dork. I [...]

↑↑ Site24×7 – Website Monitoring Service

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Have a website and ever wonder about its performance? Then Site24×7 is for you. I use 2 shared hosting services and always wonder about their uptime claims. Well, site24×7 lets you check on them.
At time intervals you set (I use the default 15 minutes) it loads any web page you give it and reports on [...]


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