Tag clusters and hyperbolic interfaces
Lately, I have become very interested in the whole tagging/folksonomy phenomenon that seems to be a defining element of Web 2.0. In particular, I am drawn to tag...
Help for victims of Katrina
If you have made a financial contribution to the Red Cross or other official charitable organizations for the victims of Katrina, forward the payment receipt to donate@speerio.net and let us...
I want this keyboard
This Optimus keyboard is pretty cool. Each key is an OLED display. This would be fantastic for usability. Imagine having the key icon change based on the shortcut depending...
Tintin and Asterix
Most foreigners I encounter know all about Tintin and Asterix, my two most favorite comics, but most Americans have no idea who they are. I am always puzzled...
Urgent vs. Important
Set Godin made an excellent point about the difference between urgent and important in his blog post today. My takeaway was this gem: You will succeed in the...
ASP.Net dynamic code generation
ASP.Net supports dynamic code generation and compilation. Sometimes, you just need a quick and dirty solution. This is one such solution. It writes out a control script, loads...
Enigma
Alan Turing is largely credited with breaking Enigma and it is quite unfortunate that not many sources give as much credit to Marian Rejewski. Rejewski and his team...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1
Finally decided to download the IE7 beta from MSDN. I am running it side-by-side with IE6 and I see some occasional error dialogs, but not sure if they...
DasBlog 1.8
I had paused my DasBlog conversion to DotNetNuke as Omar had hinted that an upgrade was in the works and had many bug fixes and trackback spam protection....