Archive for October, 2006
Access Hackfest 2006
I had two suggestions in for this year’s Access hackfest and I’ll confess my suggestions were motivated purely by self interest (as both are things I’d really like to be able to use in my day job (as Mike mentions)). Happily, for me, both were tackled by this year’s Hackfest participants.
I chose to work [...]
Boston’s “Free Your iPod” Party (Today)
Free Culture Boston and the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab are hosting an iPod liberation party. They will be helping people install RockBox or iPodLinux on their iPods — freeing them from Apple’s file type, and DRM, limitations.
I don’t own an iPod (I bought an iRiver instead precisely because of the [...]
The New and Improved Google Reader
Ready for another haiku?
Google’s new Reader –
feeds, like email, are better
when sorted by source.
Who do I think I am… Matsuo Basho? Far from it! Still, this is fun.
So, I tried the Google Reader when it first came out and, well, was extremely underwhelmed. I’m a fan of Google’s search, Google Maps, GMail, [...]