Don’t just think outside the box… use it for kindling…
January 29, 2006
You’re never without options for a garden — as long as you’ve got a roof over your head. Why not take advantage of natures insulation — an eco or green roof? Here are several resources to get you started: Portland’s Green Roof Project, Friends of Trees, Lower Columbia River Project, or Hawthorn Hostel Ecoroof.
January 28, 2006
Looking for something interesting to work on? Not sure what’s hot and whats not? Check out indeed.com‘s job trend search engine — specify your keywords and see where there action is… Here’s a glance at the Ajax trend.
I was meandering through some MLS listings sourced from TReND and kept having to cut-and-paste my way to Google Maps… Time for a quicky greasemonkey script! This little beast wraps the address of the candidate crib with a link to the hybrid birds-eye view. Enjoy…
January 27, 2006
Looking for a high end home roaster? Deidrich roasters are at the pinnacle of home roasters. $3800 USD should qualify as high end, right?! Fear not, there are lots of cheaper options if you’re tired of making your weekly run down to the local roaster… Finally, check out this recent thread on alt.coffee.
Need something trail worthy? Check out the Jeep Hurricane. Rather have something that gets better mileage … but still does 0-60 in 4.2 seconds? Thanks BMW (don’t miss the crash-test video)…
January 20, 2006
Its the official end of an era… Its been amost 20 years! The proof is 95723092-42342-552 (thanks aka’ Vic Durant).
January 18, 2006
The Singularity was coined in the early 90s by Vernor Vinge. This explains why most of the folks you bump into just don’t get it… GiddieUp!
January 15, 2006
What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching is a must-have free e-book that will be your personal guide to the skies! No scope required… Want more, subscribe to Universe Today.
January 14, 2006
Want an easy ride into web services with Axis, Tomcat, and Eclipse? Here you go. Download Tomcat 5.5.12 per your platform and install. Ditto for Axis 1.3. You’ll need to copy webapps/axis from the Axis installation tree into webapps in your Tomcat installation tree. Start Tomcat and hit Axis — happyaxis will tell you if [...]
January 12, 2006
Who’s not looking for something carrier grade that’s innovation friendly native XML space?! If you haven’t taken a look at MarkLogic Server 3.0, its time … NOW! They have both commerical and OSS offerings (the later metered at 50MB). Out of the box, they’ve provided support for fast, standard-compliat XQuery (early standard, only Oracle, Sleepycat, [...]
