Amazon let's you search through the text of a book now instead of just the title/subject. It's shocking to me that they either scanned so many books or got electonic acess to the text. Now if they just had a link where I could reserve the book at my local library I would be set. Perhaps that would be a bit of a money loser. "Ramsey County Library has eight copies available for free, click here to reserve yours."
Computer: October 2003 Archives
I am experimenting with new garish colors.
I use four computers daily each with at least two different web browsers installed on each system. Over time this has led to a fragmented list of bookmarks. Finally, I merged them all. I am still not sure why. Perhaps it was to make me feel like some small part of my life was organized and under control. For a while I thought that I might be able to forego bookmarks all together as Google was sufficient to remember everything. But as good as Google is it still takes some clicking to find just what I am looking for. This seems especially true with seaches for retailers or items sold by retailers.
I am having a program crawl through the links and see which links have rotted. We'll see how that goes.
I am curious about what sights people visit everyday. Here is my list.
There are a few blogs I visit almost daily. But I'll save those for another day.
Courtesy of Research Buzz, a new google syntax. Type in "define:malaprop" and get exactly one definition with a link. Or type in "define malaprop" and get a normal search listing with multiple definition kind of entries. It's amazing to me the infrastructure of the internet, with very complicated routers, OS's, web servers, wires and buttons allows me to define a word faster than I can find a dictionary and look it up by hand. Stunning.
I don't care how bizarre it is that I have a Tivo so I can skip commercials, but then I d/l them from the internet, but everyone really should check out the videos of Terry Tate, Office Linebacker that are available on the reebok web site. (Unfortunately, you'll need flash to navigate reebok's home page, then you'll need to register, then Quicktime or MS Media player to watch them.) They are well worth watching.
I could use an office linebacker in my office.
Boy is it annoying to wake up and realize that spammers are inserting comments with links to spammy stuff. First it was usenet, then email, now my web pages! I hope this trickle doesn't turn into a flood.
I recently bought a cheap wireless access point and wireless ethernet card, from my favorite local retailer, for my laptop at home. I installed and configured it. Then as the last step I changed the admin password from the default to something better. When I did this I couldn't log back in. This was a little maddening to say the least. I repeated this about three more time, thinking I had somehow misconfigured or mistyped, or something. Then I d/l the latest flash update for the acccess point. The first defect listed in the readme was something like "fixes the problem where setting the password changes the username to blank".
Arrggh.
People wonder why I don't like paying for software.
The problem is fixed now.
