Archive for June, 2007

The Worldbank Releases Buzz Tracking Software

June 26th, 2007

The Worldbank released a piece of software called BuzzMonitor that keeps track of what is being said about the Worldbank on the Internet. While I haven’t tried it (you have to set it up on a server) it has some interesting features like using the Yahoo terms API for automatic tag extraction from all incoming […]

Disk Trouble and Help from Ukraine

June 24th, 2007

Suddenly, my old Buffalo LinkStation network storage at home crashed, and of course there was some data on there I had not recently backed up…so I took it apart (if you ever disassemble a LinkStation, note that they think it’s funny to hide a screw behind the model sticker - I found this out the […]

Jobs & Gates Interview

June 21st, 2007

It’s been a few weeks since Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sat down for an interview together at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference. Only now did I have time to watch it, and can only recommend doing so. The beginning is great - a flashback to 1983 with a Jobs looking like a grad […]

Don’t look!

June 21st, 2007

The folks at verwandt.de are currently running an online version of one of my favorite children’s birthday games…sort of an online treasure hunt where the clues are hidden in various places. I like the idea, so I agreed to hide one on my blog…finally linkbaiting that is some fun!