WAMP = Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP
A few years ago, someone coined the name LAMP to refer to the combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and either PHP or Perl (conveniently, both are powerful an...
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Spell Checking Using the Web, Microsoft Research, PDP Family Tree
Via the Above The Fold mailing list, comes a white paper (in PDF form) from Microsoft Research: Spelling correction as an iterative process that exploits the...
Space Needle Fireworks
Here’s a picture of the Space Needle, taken shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve:
Syndic8 2004 Retrospective
2004 has been a really good year for Syndic8, and I wanted to take the time to enumerate all that’s happened. I have spent a lot of time coding and answering...
Message Tags
I don’t know what I will use it for, but I just bought one of these scrolling message tag devices.
Feeds with Bit Torrent Enclosures
On the podcasters mailing list, someone asked for feeds where the enclosure was a torrent file (media type application/x-bittorrent). I have been tracking th...
Random Links
Time to clean out the old inbox:
Mega-Hobbies
Whenever your wife complains that you are spending too much time or too much money on your hobby, it is good to be able to point to what someone else is doin...
Bruce Springsteen on the Importance of the News
Way back in October, Bruce Springsteen had something fundamentally important to say about what should be in the news:
Great Moments in Microprocessor History
IBM just published an informative article titled Great moments in microprocessor history. It was interesting to read through this and to see if I could come ...