Yearly Archives: 2006

IEBlog : Search in IE7 RC1

IEBlog : Search in IE7 RC1 – they support the newish “referrer” extension – yay. let’s hope everybody else starts supporting this too

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WoW.com Forums -> I played WoW, I became a terrorist (story!)

please tell me I’m not the only that thinks terrorism prevention can be improved without insanity such as the following? WoW.com Forums -> I played WoW, I became a terrorist (story!) An outrageous incident at JFK both via Jeremy Zawodny’s … Continue reading

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Google Code – Updates: New GData API: Google Base

Google Code – Updates: New GData API: Google Base – two of my biggest hopes – Google opening up Google Base, and more wide adoption of APIs based around OpenSearch – all at once. This could be big.

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randomness

work seems to be keeping me rather busy Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. The query I was sending … Continue reading

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Women in my newsreader

always read Tara Calishain Susan Mernit sometimes read Charlene Li Angela Beesley compare this to around 200 feeds in bloglines (which by the way, has gotten their act together). hmn, maybe I should resubscribe to Marry Hodder, I don’t quite … Continue reading

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Globe4D

Globe4D – this is fantastic. For a while I’ve envisioned something quite similar, although mine involved projection from the centre of the sphere, rather than from outside it. Clearly their method makes more sense Every school in the world should … Continue reading

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She’s back!

The web is a funny place. I’ve never even met Danny Ayers in person, but I feel quite relieved that his cat Sparql has been found. and if you know what sparql is, then my readership has certainly shifted to … Continue reading

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OpenSearch Update

I’ve been fairly busy at Microsoft, working, and hanging out with other interns and so I’m way behind on blogging about OpenSearch. Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 and Firefox Bon Echo are out, both with some degree of OpenSearch support. … Continue reading

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Tantek’s Thoughts – Building Things

Tantek’s Thoughts – Building Things – I have no idea what Tantek has been working on, but congratulations on the imminent launch and being so dedicated to something. I can’t wait to see it.

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Aharef: Websites as graphs

Aharef: Websites as graphs – neat visualization. Via Tufte

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