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Shopping Sites
tantek/log/2002/12. Tantek notes the new Froogle search site which is Google applied specifically to home shopping. Personally, I’ve found Pricegrabber followed by Half and eBay search to be the most useful way now.
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Lord of the Rings: Yes!!!!!!!!
[brad choate dot com] The Two Towers and lowMag.net’s loves it too. I haven’t seen such an incredible movie in a long time. We went with the other Geek Fishermen and I can only report that is was an amazing experience. Not just Gollum mind you, but the scenary, the battlescenes. It was just amazing…
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Rich's Heroes
CNNSI.com – 2002 Sportsman of the Year – Lance Armstrong. I’m sure he is heroes to millions of people, so I’ll just have to add my name to the list. Just finished reading the Sports Illustrated article on him that went with the Sportsman of the Year award. Who could not admire his dedication. Get…
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Camera Brain Lock
Photo.Net. Wow, this is an incredible site with really great information. For instance, Camera Equipment Forum – Advice for beginners threads and Building an SLR system. I can’t stand the fact that picture quality on point and shoot cameras is so poor. Here are two good guides to getting into photography with 35mm SLR cameras.…
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Santa Cruz Blur
Santa Cruz BlurBeen lusting for a mountain bike. This is the current one I’ve been eyeing. Also studying the Specialized Epic and maybe the new Klein Quantum based on the Turner Monolink. Reviews 2003 Santa Cruz Blur Reviews. The folks on mtbr continue to rave. 2002 Full Suspension Santa Cruz Blur Product Reviews Santa Cruz…
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Old programmer wakes up
download : vim online. I’ve been reliving my past and one of my favorites editors was vi on Unix. Thank goodness they now have it on the PC. I’m literally remember keystrokes I haven’t typed in 15 years.
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The Final Days
Information Letter 14. This memo by John Walker was one of my touchstones more than a decade ago. Written in 1991, it talks about the quaint Eighties. It’s amazing to me how much changes with the Internet and how in many ways nothing changed. I rate this a must read for everyone. Actually, his whole…
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Categories and Website organization
Categorization. An interesting piece on categorization. I’m a little obsessed with this too as I figure out how to turn the rest of my web site into a giant blog. He’s a bit like John Ludwig in believing in dynamic categorization or a big content search
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Rise of the Stupid Network
Stupid Network. This is one of those classic articles written by Dave Isenberg five years ago about how the basic telco assumptions aren’t valid anymore. I’ll be a little contrarian in a day when essentially every startup carrier is in bankruptcy and say that the trend is still in the direction the he talks about.…
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Email Innovations
It’s amazing that there hasn’t been more innovation in email. Part of the problem is that there isn’t an easy to code, modular platform to innovate on. Here are some of the projects I’ve found with food for thought. POPFile – Automatic Email Classification. It’s interesting that this is the most active project current on…