Seriously. It even does realtime updates.

Strange Google keywords that landed at my blog

The default Vim that ships with Ubuntu is lame. To get Real Vim, you need to do this:

I prob’ly don’t need to tell you this, but don’t ever ask search engines to delist your site. Ever. They actually do it.

Google’s messing with search engine results again, but this time it looks like they’re trying to take on Wikipedia, not Digg. At least they’re calling their editable search engine result experiment SearchWiki this time around. It still looks a lot like it did last time I reported on it (here and here). Check out a bunch of screenshots from this iteration here:

Is it better to compete in an industry dominated by a single corporation, or a market full of inconsequential competitors? What if that single competitor is so well established that they’re a now a verb? Maybe have an entire market named after themselves?

What does your phone look like?

I’ve been using Google’s “Edit Search Results” since I blogged about it yesterday, and I have a couple further observations.

I Googled something a minute ago and noticed that my SERP looked a little different…

This post goes out to all my fellow Mac mouse haters:

3.2 ghz core 2 duo
4 gb PC2-6400 ram
10,000 RPM SATA hard drive

Several people (including my buddy Jacob) have posted lists of the supposed failures of the MacBook Air, Apple’s latest offering in the notebook computer market. I didn’t listen to any of the naysayers. I bought a MacBook Air.

One of my favorite features of the Better Gmail Firefox plugin is the “smart read button”. When you select a message, it says either “mark read” if it’s an unread message, or “mark unread” if you’ve already read it. Or at least that’s what it used to do. Apparently the updates to Gmail broke that feature. I’m a bit bummed, someone will come up with a fix soon…

I love Firefox. Really, I do. It can be speedy. It can be extensible. But apparently it can’t be both at the same time… All my development plugins make it slow, and all my browsing plugins make it even slower.

The first free Redbox rental code I’ve seen in a while:

Take that, Apple.

Conversation snippet of the day:

There’s still hope. Convert to the one true desktop environment:

My bank has the worst security for their online banking. Honest.

I just finished a fresh Windows XP SP2 install… Now it’s doing the 65 critical security updates that have been released since SP2.

All of my reports have flatlined :-(

It’s a trooper.

Hey kids, I hope the campout was worth it. One of you should show me your iPhone when you get a chance, because it might change my mind about how crazy and obsessed all you fanboys are.

My roommate just got a new laptop for his trip to Cambodia, and we were talking about what he needed to do to make Windows XP usable. A few quick downloads and he’s well on his way.

A couple of days ago my coworker Jacob was looking through his server logs…

MySpace has been redirecting all external links in comments through msplinks.com for a couple of months. Msplinks turns any posted link into a redirect, supposedly in an attempt to cut down on spammer redirects and phishing.

Google acquired DoubleClick this month. which should be a good thing. but it looks like they acquired a conflict of interest too… they got quite the package deal

You’ve got to be effing kidding me.

Computers make everything better.

Why don’t girls play with computers? I’m not saying there are no exceptions, but this is the rule.

Cliff Stoll, the author of The Cukoo’s Egg points out that the most common vulnerabilities are the ones that come by default on a machine. DEC’s Vax computers came with three system accounts, all with a default password. The system never forced the administrator to change them. For the most part “Hunter,” the hacker he chased for over a year, didn’t use sophisticated tools or brute force. He tried the front door, which was usually wide open.

Venture capital seems to be the most expensive sort of capital out there.

Brian Regan points out that Pop Tarts® are the culmination of our impatient society. In addition to the traditional toaster-centric instructions, they have microwave instructions. Who is so busy that they don’t have time to toast a Pop Tart®? Who needs to be awake and out the door in seconds? I would ask who doesn’t? Who can afford to spend more time on something as trivial as a Pop Tart®? Microwaving is almost always better.

When the question of inappropriate use of technology arises, one must consider whether this question already falls under currently established policy.

I’ve been pondering what it is that makes a person a geek. It’s definitely an identity. But is geekiness inherent, or is it acquired? Which came first, the chicken or the easter egg?

A recurring theme in the short history of modern computing is the response to innovation…

The story of the computer industry is, at its heart, a story about a couple of kids in a garage.

I was just thinking about how everything in life is so relative.

Who in the world needs SO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS IN A ROW that they can’t just hold down the shift key for a while with their pinkie?

My computer is dead.

Dead dead.