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Yahoo has something new called the Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

This almost feels like a referer page, but cached […]

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Lexmar has a usb drive called the JumpDrive Secure II which touts:

JumpDrive Secure II comes preloaded with advanced security software that lets you protect your data securely, quickly and easily. Creating a secure area using both password protection and 256-bit AES encryption is a snap. Simply drag files to the secure area and […]

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I missed this on Friday (vacation), but the Washington based Liftport Group has successfully tested their robot climber to 1,000 feet.
Full story here.

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Quite a few of you probably know about Technorati.
If you do, chances are you know about RSS. For some reason, Technorati doesn’t RSSify all of their site. I felt cheated by this. So why not create my own?
Well, I did. There are links to subscribe directly via this site, […]

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MAKE has a first hand account of a family who took matters into their own hands and came up with some DIY practices to get through hurricane Katrina.

I won’t bore you with any more of the little “bumps in the road” that we endured during our 11-day ordeal, but suffice it to say that it […]

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In helping with the Sudoku habit, I found a site that has a daily puzzle and I’ve created another RSS feed generator.
I’ve got the email out to the site owner offering help if he wishes to set this up under his domain.
Another thing I’ve employed with this most recent script is the help of XML::RSS. […]

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A relative of mine recently picked up the Motorola RAZR, which has bluetooth technology.
This meant I had a reason to turn on BT on the powerbook, so I played around with syncing the addressbook and all that.
Well, last night I thought it might be cool to see if I could access the photos on the […]

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Gizmodo had a link yesterday about the rumored Google OS .
Let’s assume for a moment that it isn’t a spoof. Is this a good thing? I’m still flipping between OMG that is cool and OMG that is scary.
One thing that this sparked though, is that it would make searching the […]

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Dave has pointed me to a new blog he’s started up with a group of rocketry buffs called Rocketgeeks.org
I went to a launch of theirs a few years ago, and it was a blast (ok, some pun intended there). The highlight was when Dave’s 5ft rocket turned into a core sampler after a […]

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O’Reilly has an interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails.

If you are happy to work along the golden path that I’ve embedded in Rails, you gain an immense reward in terms of productivity that allows you to do more, sooner, and better at the application level.
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It took one day to say, “I […]

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