Puzzlepieces lives!

So for all of you (~2 people) who complained that Puzzlepieces was dead, I’m happy to say it is back and doing well.

During this between-semesters holiday I’ve finally gotten myself a new host, and have (almost) successfully moved all of my websites over. My University of Waterloo search engine (UWhub) doesn’t work, but that will be fixed once I change all my file request function calls to use CURL instead. There is also a minor problem with Fagan Finder’s older .shtml pages, but I’ll worry about that later.

So, congratulations to me. Also, I’ve finally gotten myself a website, faganm.com, and so I intend to move this blog over to somewhere there instead of hijacking my old website’s domain.

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michael fagan blog post generatrr (Beta)

michael fagan blog post generatrr (Beta) – I’ve been immortalized. gotta love roommates

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Official Google Blog: Spot On

Official Google Blog: Spot On – Google has bought JotSpot; this is big news to me (and far, far more interesting than YouTube).

I’ve considered applying to work at JotSpot in the past, but one of the reasons I didn’t is that their stuff seemed so good I wasn’t sure if I had anything to add. I first wrote about JotSpot in October 2004. Crazy.

This doesn’t bode very well for Microsoft, that’s for sure. If Google plays their cards right, that is.

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Live Search’s WebLog : Create your own search engine (an update to Live Search Macros)

Live Search’s WebLog : Create your own search engine (an update to Live Search Macros) – congrats to Live.com and Zach for getting this out. It would be cool even if it didn’t have OpenSearch support 😉

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‘Farm market’ opening this week

‘Farm market’ opening this week

Student enthusiasts have teamed up with Food Services to create the UW Farm Market, which will open for the first time this Wednesday, selling local produce as well as other products from the area, brought in mainly from the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative.

excellent

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Sam Ruby: OpenSearch Description Validation

Sam Ruby: OpenSearch Description Validation – it’s so nice to have Sam on board the OpenSearch train 🙂

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DeWitt Clinton�s Unto.net � Blog Archive � Introducing OpenSearch.org

DeWitt Clinton�s Unto.net � Blog Archive � Introducing OpenSearch.org – this is excellent news. more when I get some time…

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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?

both via Jeremy Zawodny’s linkblog

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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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