Friday, November 24, 2006

The perfect Christmas gift

If anyone is looking for the perfect gift to get me this holiday season, I would really like a Panasonic 103-inch high-definition plasma TV. I'm not entirely sure it would actually fit in my living room; however, I'm willing to make some modifications to my house for this baby. :)

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Have you ever accidentally sent an e-mail before you were done? Or sent something that you immediately wished you hadn't?

Here's an article that explains how to configure Outlook to delay the delivery of messages, giving you an opportunity to stop them from being sent:

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Google accidentally deletes blog...

According to News.com, Google accidentally deleted their own blog, which allowed another user to register the username:

Google has admitted that it accidentally deleted its own official blog on Monday night. "We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad," Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager, wrote in a posting on the Google Blog. Apparently, the Google Blog was unavailable for a short time on Monday.

You can read about it on Google's Blog.

Google accidentally sent e-mail worm...

According to News.com, "Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group."

Read the full story.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

According to Wikipedia, the RSS-DEV group created RSS 1.0 in December 2000. While the technology has been available for nearly six years and mainstream for at least two or three years, I have only recently started producing and consuming RSS feeds.

RSS feeds have several pros and cons. On the pro-side, RSS makes it very easy to aggregate content from multiple sources; however, on the con-side, the RSS aggregators often download RSS feeds that are never viewed by a human leading to large amounts of wasted bandwidth.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Mobile YouTube

Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and chief executive, said "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device, it's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mind-set we're dealing with, it's a natural transition."

News.com has additional information on the proposed mobile YouTube service.