Monthly Archives: October 2007

Google Website Optimizer

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Joe

Last night I attended a Google Tech Talk in Seattle – they were doing an overview of Google Website Optimizer. For those who haven’t heard of this, it’s a feature buried farther than most, under the AdWords application functionality. But … Continue reading →

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Woot! Gmail IMAP

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Joe

Yeah!!! I’ve got IMAP enabled on my Gmail account. I’m sure I’ll continue to use the web interface during the day, but having more general access to it (and through Apple’s Mail.app) is going to be great!

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Upgrading to Leopard

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Joe

It’s been an interesting day on the laptop. I picked up Leopard this morning, and after having backed up my laptop last night, I did the install. I thought about an upgrade install, but I decided against it – maybe … Continue reading →

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GrandPerspective

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Joe

I spotted this tool at first from jonathan saggau’s, but I didn’t know what it was. mdmunoz pointed me to the tool – GrandPerspective. Man – this is a tool I’ve been looking for. I’ve seen the grid-maps used before … Continue reading →

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Voice in Leopard

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Joe

Leopard’s new “read me that…” voice (the built-in voice synthesis) is just amazing. I spotted a post talking about it at Jonathan Saggau’s blog. Anyone know what Jonathan was using to get that relative size map of file sizes? I’d … Continue reading →

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no Gmail IMAP love for me

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Joe

Google has announced IMAP access to GMail accounts, but it’s apparently not enabled for everyone. I guess they might be doing it in sections or something, but when I followed the directions for setting it up, the “Enable IMAP” portion … Continue reading →

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Making Things Talk

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Joe

A few weeks ago, I took some surveys and received some Amazon gift certificates in return for my semi-random murmurs and reasonings. I did what any other geek might do – I bought stuff from Amazon with them – geek … Continue reading →

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official iPhone SDK coming February

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Joe

The story is (briefly, I suspect) available on Apple’s “hot news” page. (Although I caught the news of it on Twitter from Buzz, Gruber and Dan Pasco). The text of the announcement reads like we’ll be seeing some sort of … Continue reading →

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MacPorts curl not resolving localhost

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Joe

Here’s an odd one I ran into tonight. I had been using curl to debug some http REST code I’ve been working on, and recently it stopped working. I finally tracked it down to a version of curl that I … Continue reading →

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Finished Halo

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Joe

Tonight we finished Halo 3. My brother in law (Dan) and I finished it up this evening, playing “Heroic”. Of course, now we have to take it down on Legendary…

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