Notable URLs on 2007-07-30

• vayama | international travel solved: Vayama is not just another travel web site. Vayama is a new (and fun) way to search and book your international trip!
  ( Travel Services Cartography WebApps )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-29

• CaringBridge: Free online service connecting family and friends: CaringBridge offers free, easy-to-create web sites that help connect friends and family when they need it most.
  ( Healthcare Services WebApps Blogs )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Notable URLs on 2007-07-27

• Top 25 Web Apps for iPhone - Rev2.org: From the ones we could find, we selected the top 25 iPhone apps and made a list (with descriptions!) — just to make your life easier. So, in no particular order:
  ( iPhone Lists WebApps )
• Showtimes
  ( iPhone Cinema )
• Texterity Magazines for the iPhone
  ( iPhone Magazine )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-26

• Pete Goldlust | Carved Crayons
  ( Art Design )
• Hot Library Smut: By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guil
  ( Porn Libraries Photography )
• Top 10 GMail tweaks : TrendPlex: Well written Greasemonkey scripts can integrate changes so well that their additions appear to be natural parts of the web page. I’m going to present the most useful 10 plugins and tweaks to be used with GMail.
  ( GMail Lists Firefox Extensions )
• How To: Infrant ReadyNAS NV memory upgrade : Meandering Passage: Infrant built in the option for a memory upgrade in the ReadyNAS. It has a single slot for a 200pin DDR SODIMM PC2700 notebook memory module (It will support up to 1gb module). You can find a list of compatible memory modules here.
  ( Hardware Tutorials RAID )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-19

• Generation Chickenhawk: Unauthorized College Republican Convention: MUST SEE: I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went
  ( Politics GOP Video Amusing )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-17

• Taprell Loomis - Products that hold the images you capture.: Professional photo albums/mounts.
  ( Photography *ToBuy )
• Treo CDs Now Available For Download - TreoCentral.com: If you need a replica of your 300, 600, 650, 680, 700p/w/wx or 750 CD, here ya go:
  ( Software Treo MacOSX Win32 )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-16

• WebReach Inc. - Mirth Webinar Downloads: First Mirth webinar/demo recording and slides
  ( sw_Mirth HL7 Webinar *MSC )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-15

• How Intel Grooms Its Leaders The succession formula is downright revolutionary: It picks CEOs years in advance, without drama or surprise. - July 1, 2004: Otellini, the company's current president and COO, has already crammed in more than 50 tutorials over the past year, on everything from next-generation wireless networks to microprocessor design, with many more to come. His main tutor? Intel chief technol
  ( co_Intel Management Business )
• Free Press : Who Owns the Media?: Check out these resources to learn how big Big Media really is. To help in the campaign to save local media from monopoly control, visit StopBigMedia.com.
  ( Media Reference Journalism Power )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Notable URLs on 2007-07-14

• ocropus - Google Code: OCRopus is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities.
  ( OCR Software Text )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

PCPA: Importance of Being Earnest

Hol and I took the afternoon (and night) to drive up to Solvang to see one of my most favorite plays, The Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde). PCPA, my alma mater (you can see the Solvang Theaterfest in the very center of this map -- the other main theaters are further north in Santa Maria. The red-ish semi-circle is the outdoor seating.), did a run this year and we made it up on closing night. As expected, nothing really exceptional on the technical/effects front (the play only calls for a few settings and relies on quick, sarcastic dialog more than anything else). It was a solid show and everyone did well. In particular, Eleise Moore who played Cecily Cardew, did a wonderful job. There's something very fun about seeing a show outdoors -- everyone brings blankets and drinks hot cocoa, coffee or wine.

I think the only thing we'd do differently next time would be to stop for dinner in SB. There is a limited selection of restaurants in Solvang.

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Notable URLs on 2007-07-13

• Welcome - Bazaar Version Control: Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that aids open source development and reduces barriers to participation. Our priorities are to be safe, friendly, free and fast, and to support Windows, GNU/Linux, UNIX and the Mac OS.
  ( SCM Development Software Win32 Linux SourceControl )
• VIM syntax file for MUMPS: " Mumps syntax file " Language: MUMPS " Maintainer: Jim Self, jaself@ucdavis.edu
  ( MUMPS *MSC sw_VIM )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-12

• Doug Ross @ Journal: Telecom Analyst Bruce Kushnick has inspected the iPhone's terms of service and offers some surprising revelations
  ( iPhone co_ATT co_Apple Op-Ed )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-11

• Welcome to photocastr!: Making it easy to turn flickr photos into iPhoto v6 compatible photocasts. There is a FAQ.
  ( Feeds Flickr iPhoto Phot )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-10

• Review Board: For too long, code reviews have been too much of a chore. This is largely due to the lack of quality tools available, leaving developers to resort to e-mail and bug tracker-based solutions.
  ( Development Tools SCM Software WebApps )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Bates Girls' Retreat

Unfortunately our friends the Bates are making the leap out of California -- Shandon has taken a new job in NC. With his start date fast approaching, they needed to make a quick trip to their new town to nail a new pad (er, lease one until they find what they really want).

That meant Hol and I got an opportunity to spoil their two little ones. We only had a short three days w/ little A and M -- so we worked hard to get in as much spoiling as possible. Play dates, story time, "camp outs" (in the house), movies, naps, playgrounds, walks, swimming, the zoo... Actually, I'm fairly certain Hol and I were more tired than the little ones. What fun though -- the girls are welcome to come stay with us anytime.

Posted by ben at 01:30 PM

Notable URLs on 2007-07-03

• Insanely Useful Websites | Sunlight Foundation: The following sites and resources are “insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politic
  ( Government FOIA Congress Politics Reference Search )

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Notable URLs on 2007-07-02

• Welcome to EBG Consulting: EBG Consulting helps your business and technical teams get product requirements right so your projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time.
  ( Requirements Development Reference Consultants )
• Analysis: 'Sicko' numbers mostly accurate;?more context needed - CNN.com: Our team investigated some of the claims put forth in his film. We found that his numbers were mostly right, but his arguments could use a little more context. As we dug deep to uncover the numbers, we found surprisingly few inaccuracies in the film.
  ( people_Moore Cinema Healthcare Reference )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Notable URLs on 2007-07-01

• ScrumWorks - Scrum Lifecycle Management Tools | Danube Technologies: the only commercial project management solution designed exclusively for Scrum lifecycle management.
  ( Scrum Agile Software Win32 Development )
• Mayford Technologies - Extreme Programming: Extreme Programming (XP) is a deliberate and disciplined approach to software development. Unlike traditional methodologies, it is lightweight and low-ceremony. It was first used in 1996 on a project at Chrysler to reengineer their compensation system, it
  ( XP Development Reference )
• Open Source Directory: Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects. Ohloh collects software metrics from a variety of sources including the project's source code and the software development infrastructure used by the project's developm
  ( Opensource Services Community Reference Statistics )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM