Amazon Mechanical Turk is a way to “automate” things that computers are not quite able to do.
There really isn’t enough info out there on it yet. It seems like it could have some pretty interesting applications, but I don’t think you can do anything realtime.
SeaLand (not the one in Florida) is basically an old WWII fort that some guy claimed as his own “Country.”
Now it is up for sale.
This site is getting hammered right now, but I will really want to check back later and see all the pictures.
Here is a good article on ways to get your blog noticed by more people.
Some of the more interesting sites mentioned include:
I installed Vs.Net a few days ago… and so far I think I have had 4 complete crashes of VS.Net.
I am not sure that this is being caused by SP1, but it is crashing in ways it never did before.
I will give it another few days and then rollback if this keeps happening.
I really feel pretty stupid…
This weekend I read on a few tech blogs that Steve Jobs had invited his friends to attend his keynote address at MacWorld.
Obviously he was going to unveil something very cool, and obviously that “something” was probably going to be the long awaited iPhone.
It was at this point that I moved on to other things, instead of making the next “obvious” step.
Obviously this would cause Apple’s stock to go up.
APPL was trading around 85 on Monday and 97 on Wednesday, an increase of 14%.
Maybe next time I will hear news like this and make the final connection :).
At Walsh Construction, we have a service that filters out our spam. This company is called mxlogic.
They really do a good job in my opinion. Since we switched over to using them, I am no longer worried about giving out my email address b/c I know that spam will most likely not reach my inbox.
Now, it looks like Microsoft is going to offer a similar service: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/buy.mspx
I might want to look into this for some of my long lost email addresses.
I have been wanting to switch off of TMobile for a long time due to the lack of high speed data they offer.
I was looking at Verizon, who I currently have my PC card with, and Cingular, who I am currently demoing the 8525 with.
I just looked up their data coverage, and found out that Cingular has a much smaller footprint on chicagoland when compared with Verizon.
See here for Cingular and here for Verizon.
Not the biggest issue, but I do have some clients out West where Cingular would drop me to their slow network.
Update: As far as I can tell, the Cingular 3G network is terrible. Browsing on it is no better than my 56k max connection on TMobile. Bandwidth tests show good results, but acutally trying to get websites to show up is terrible.
This site lets you create images with text in them for fun.
They link to a ton of sites that offer these types of things…
I don’t know anyone having the same problems I am with Outlook 2007, so it could be just my machine, but Outlook 2007 is really ticking me off.
I can deal with a program crashing every now and then, but Oulook does 2 things.
1) Simply stops getting my email from the Exchange server. I usually notice this when I say… Jeez, I haven’t had an email in the last 3 hours? That can’t be right. So I check my status and it either thinks I’m Disconnected (and reconnecting doesn’t have any effect) or it is locked in a “Trying to establish a connection….”.
But wait there’s more….
So I close down Outlook and relaunch it, only it never appears. Sometimes I notice that it didn’t show up, but most times I am already on to the next thing and don’t realize it until minutes later when I am looking for my email and wondering… “Didn’t I already launch it (again)?”.
2) Outlook doesn’t close down properly, and these processes seem to keep new ones from working correctly. So I go to task manager and there will be like 3-6 outlook.exe processes running. One of them will have like 50-60MB of RAM, and the others will only have 3MB. I have to kill them all before I can start a new process and launch outlook successfully.
Really really annoying, esp when you miss important emails… or emails you really need to have sent are found sitting in your outbox for hours.
Google does a lot more than just return search results.
Some of the stuff I use it for include weather, calculation and unit conversion, movie times, and as a dictionary.
Here is a page that talks about some of these, and some others that I didn’t know about, like package tracking.
Chris May 