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Yearly Archives: 2008
geoupdater
geoupdater – does something very similar to what I was working on. I’ve got my location set in FireEagle, which I update via the site and Dopplr. I also found an app that turns FireEagle into geoRSS which allows me … Continue reading
Tagged facebook, fireagle, friendfeed, georss, maps
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Hossein Derakhshan arrested in Iran
Hossein (link goes to his English blog) is known as the father of the Persian blogosphere. I met him a couple of years ago (old link takes a while to load), not too difficult since he also lived in Toronto. … Continue reading
Tagged freedomofthepress, hoder, hosseinderakhshan, iran, persian
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borrowing websites
Goal: find an online tool which allows me to list things that others (friends and neighbours) can borrow, and let me view things that others have listed This doesn’t seem like an impossible goal. One problem is that most of … Continue reading
keeping tracks of books read
So for the past few months I have been keeping track of the books I finished reading. Just a text file with ISBNs and dates. I finally got around to deciding how to expose that online, the choices being to … Continue reading
Tagged amazon, books, librarything, reading, shelfari
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WorldChanging Seattle: Congestion Pricing: Can Tolling Be Fair?
WorldChanging Seattle: Congestion Pricing: Can Tolling Be Fair? – WorldChanging Seattle (one of my favourite websites since I moved to Seattle, but also a great site for people anywhere) links to a really well-done report on traffic congestion and tolls, … Continue reading
Tagged congestion, dataanalysis, driving, seattle, traffic, worldchangingseattle
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timing makes a big difference
During election day here in the US, I noticed a church which was acting as a poll location also had a bake sale on that day. Think about how many more people will pass by that bake sale than on … Continue reading
on returning to microsoft
I started writing this post in early August and forgot to finish it and publish. So here it is now I was an intern at Microsoft the previous two summers, and this week I started full time. Some things change … Continue reading
Tagged composting, microsoft
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Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising – information aesthetics
Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising – information aesthetics – nice ads… we need to see more information graphics everywhere
Tagged advertising, graphs
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Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet
Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet – since I emailed Mikel asking for a list like this about a year and a half ago, I can take credit for … Continue reading
Tagged gis, maps, opensource, openstreetmap
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Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing iCal and CSV Support
Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing iCal and CSV Support – so this news is way old… somehow I never knew that Yahoo pipes supported iCal for both input and output. Pipes is such an amazingly powerful tool, I … Continue reading
Tagged ical, yahoopipes
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