The New One

Very Funky Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Any one else had unusual issues with Blogger? While it shows me as looged in any attempts to go the the Dashboard return a bx error. Any attempts to go to www.blogger.com also returns the same bx error.

Very strange.

Tv on Labor day

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Back and forth Bourdain marathon and Gustav coverage. Mildly confusing. Wonderfully stimulating. Want to cook all day. Drink Rum and stay dry not cry.

NOLA being belted by wind and rain. A great city under stress again. Why do we build them so near hell.

Amazing all civilization grows from its ports. Those are always vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather.

Ernie stays home!

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:50:00 +0000

one of the first real blogs I stumbled into is Ernie the Attorney
Ernie lives in New Orleans. He is staying put. he intends to update thru his blog as long as he has power. He's also updating his twitter stream @ernieattorney . Should be quite interesting. He held out quite a while during katrina then eventually left town.

This is remarkable!!

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:37:00 +0000

CPU vs GPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg

The Mythbusters do amazing things. (hattip Kottke.org)

TXTNG nw rlgn?

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:41:00 +0000

I have a link to this article from languagehat.com

"TEXTING: NOT THE END OF THE WORLD."

And I find it fascinating enough to write about. I bought a blackberry pearl about 2 months ago. I wonder how I existed before.

Man those keys are small. But "suretype" sure works.

And they enable me to try and say exactly what i intend in 140 characters. Thats perhaps how txtng came to be and it has so many antecedents. Remember that secret code you had for the fort down in the wild area behind the elementary school. (No girls allowed) In the tradition of those silly but wonderful "Our Gang" movies from saturday morning.

Telegrams armys just plain abbreviations. oh my.. Read the piece its good.

the upcoming forecast

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:17:00 +0000

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/upcoming_hurricanes.png

Also at Pajamas Media checkout brendan the weather geek.

One I really want to try

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:57:00 +0000

The concept is wonderful.

<a href="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000225ceviche.php">Ceviche</a>

the real maddness of the wsop

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:00 +0000

via Tao of Poker by Dr. Pauly on 7/14/08

2008 WSOP Day 45: Main Event Day 6 - The Battle for Tiffany Michelle's Breasts

By Pauly
Las Vegas, NV

Just wild stuff. Money Deals Sex(?). Pretty girl with spunky attitude. Money. TV time.
Money.

more pictures www.tiffanymichelle.com

Just wild

Read the Tao of Poker.

OH I almost forgot!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:56:00 +0000

For the very best in coverage of the WSOP. Dr Pauly rules.

Yesterdays (7/7/08) edition The Kitten Fields is a Classic.

interesting concept

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:28:00 +0000

So with the WSOP having its summer hiatus till November, what will the November Nine do?

Vin Narayanan of Casino City Times has coaching suggestions. A better question would be how would you structure the compensation for such tutelage?

Percentages flat fees what would your choice be? Remember as I think I do that all would be paid at least 9th place before the Final Table (900K as I read the payouts.)

Coaching Arrangements might be very interesting.

Alltop

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:07:00 +0000

Guy Kawaskai started alltop.com based on the wonderful ideas of popurls.com. Both of these sites are wonderful. You could waste days perusing the now 120 topics of alltop. Some have lead me to wonderful things, some have disappointed. But its always fascinating.

Several other aggregators that i look at are Freshnews.org , tech.newsjunk.com and techmeme.

Online Apps

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:19:00 +0000

Jeremy Zawodny, a voice that I have paid attention to for several years, has an interesting post up about Online Apps.

I am always surprised when i show Google Apps to people that they have not discovered these gems themselves. Google Apps can do almost everything one needs to create effective documents. And they keep adding new features quickly and quietly.

Go ahead give it a try. Use it most anywhere. Docs & Spreadsheets

Fascinating Map

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:05:00 +0000

This map shows a distribution of the worlds religions. Very nice.
Also shows the current distribution in pie chart with some future projections. This is a large one.

I found that using F11 (view fullscreen) that it fit into my 1280x1024 screen.

Religious Map

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:16:00 +0000

Boy are there a lot of options out there.

In the past I have praised the virtues of itasoftware. Now there are many more wonderful choices out there.
Among those that I like are two that both probably are built upon the itasoftware engine.
Kayak is nice. I have seen the founders on TV and they seemed very down to earth. A good tool.

My Current fav is built ontop of kayak (at least it gives credit to kayak on some of its result pages) FareCompare does a couple of interesting things. One is the grand scan. When are the lowest priced flights? Shows you a year.
Neat.

Also does some neat drilling down into the fares. Neither Kayak or FareCompare are booking sites, you make your own choices about where to buy. Also great fun to plan that dream vacation

Extrmely Cool Article

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:42:00 +0000

I have personally used almost all of these and can attest to their durability and general suitability to task.
The few I have not used will soon be in my toolkit.

From Computerworld

Must-have Windows utilities for 20 essential tasks

An Outstanding Photography Site

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:26:00 +0000

This is on  I don't know how  I stumbled into but I go back every day. Nice searchability and a very wide scope.

www.kenrockwell.com

WSOP 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:50:00 +0000

WSOP time in Vegas again.

Looks like over 6000 players. Down from Last year stil more than 2005.

Best Coverage Pokernews.com

And for the great feel articles  see the Tao of Poker
Pauly is the best.

New Approach

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:48:00 +0000

Well I'm Going to try and add something new every day fro a while.

On the google outlook google for "swim 3426 miles".  Some interesting trips.

Ncaa this weekend OSU-Georgetown  could be quite a game. Florida also looks resilient.

Should be quite a weekend.

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:27:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:18:00 +0000

I find the occasional trip to Google Video outsanding. This is outstranding.
I have to find the Directors Cut now.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3807826142091223684

ITA Software

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:58:00 +0000

This is great stuff.
Ever wonder how the airlines get their software. Turns out they buy a lot.
The Company below has agreat trial application that is a joy to use for comparing airfare. which by the way is a very competitive field.

ITA Software: Welcome

ITA Software's QPX system is the world's leading airfare pricing and shopping system.

This may be the oracle. This page makes my query resistant skull vibrate. Its gotta be a slew of static queries rebuilt on a timely basis.

for a wonderful example look at Month long search for September. lets choose nyc-aua as a comparison tool.
Jet Blue enters this route 9/15. See how the rates change. THis will eventually blow out to any jetblue served markets.
A neat Visual look at a disruption in a set market. (Choose the graphical view in your results.) Very Neat stuff.

ITA Software: Trip Planner

Interesting Article on Source code control

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:03:00 +0000

This article http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000660.html
Has some interesting opinions on source control,

An Interesting read.

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:28:00 +0000

I have read his blog and used some of these technigues. A good read.

A couple of roadposts

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 29 May 2006 14:02:00 +0000

paulie at http://taopoker.blogspot.com/

has a wonderful post the beginning of a blockbuster I'm sure.

http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ernie_the_attorney/
Now this one of my favorites a great read consistently.

A fun one that I have been reading lately is http://www.famousfatdave.com/blog/

A cabiie whwho eats his way thru the day wonderful reading. And while we are on NY heres another NYC link A cabdriver who tells tales abourt her fares. http://newyorkhack.blogspot.com/

http://mattmatros.com/journal.htm

Matts a Poker player very good blog. He also has a soccer journal with some interesting views of the US tean headding to the World Cup Check it out.

Picasa for Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Sun, 28 May 2006 15:16:00 +0000

Google on Friday released Picasa for linux. I dont have the URI available but google will surely show you the way.

I downloaded and installed on my Fedora Core 3 box. Seamless ran immeadiately. Much of the functionality of the Windows version is there. Very Impressive configuration.

If they keep this up they wont need a googleOS just a google configuration. Control the layer abvove the OS. An interesting concept.