Archive for October, 2004

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Furl

Monday, October 11th, 2004

Furl a service that lets users save a full-text copy of any page on the Web, then search and share that data.

Furl is a tool for saving, sharing and finding information (you know, the pages you want to save for future reference but then can never find again). At the core, Furl is a place to store content you find on the Internet and know that you can find it again at any time in the future (i.e. articles, product descriptions, web sites, e-commerce receipts, etc.).

Furl is used for many purposes by many different types of people. From travel planning to recipe sharing. Medical research to sporting news. Thousands of people use Furl every day to save, share, and find information that is important to them.

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Web Industry Still Flies Blind

Friday, October 8th, 2004

The truth is it’s difficult, if not impossible, for web publishers to know precisely how many people visit their sites. Web servers track IP addresses, not people. So if I have a PC at work and one at home and I read Wired News at each place, Wired’s server counts this as two visits — without being able to tell that it’s just one person behind those two visits. Likewise, 100 people a month might use a PC at a library, university computer lab or cybercafe to visit Wired News, but our server would count only one IP address.

More…

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Learning Blogger

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Unless you are totally clueless, I don’t think you need to buy this 3.5 hour CD. It’s not for sale as of today, so I don’t know what it will cost.

Learning Blogger with Molly E. Holzschlag is a movie-based workshop for audiences new to blogging and to the newly revamped Blogger weblog service, a free service from Google. Begin by learning what blogs are and the various ways they can be used. You’ll quickly get into setting up your weblog, adding specialty features such as comment systems and news-feeds, working with and customizing templates, and even creating team blogs and audio blogs. The included exercise files, articles, and resources enhance the title, allowing you to follow along with the movies and learn at your own pace.

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PayPal Alternatives Revisited

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Previously I posted about PayPal alternatives.

Here’s more on that subject:

(I’ve) long regarded PayPal as a very poor choice for people interested in online payment systems.

The short of it is that there are many online payment services to choose from. It simply isn’t the case “that PayPal is a de facto monopoly for internet payments.” Rather, PayPal seems to be a widely used system that has a lot of problems. It may have the most market share,but it also has the most trenchant critics and a great many fundamental deficits.

Again, we have had no problems with PayPal.

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Coopers Hawk – Accipiter cooperii

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Back in August of this year, I posted about a hawk putting on a display outside my office window.

In September, Mike in La Mesa wrote:

Wanted to add something for Steve who posted below me. That’s not a red tailed hawk. It is a Coopers Hawk. You are lucky, Coopers hawks sightings are much more rare, as they are stealth hunters. Red tails hunt from high positions which makes them easy to see. You can identify the Coopers hawk because the tail feathers are much longer than they would be on a red tail. Although it can be easily confused with an immature red tail as the tail feathers have the same barring on them :) Sorry for the novel.

Thanks Mike, for the clarification, which I just saw today.

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Security Guru

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a “security guru,” Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.

Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 100,000 readers. In its seven years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security.

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Protecting Your Computer

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Michael Horowitz teaches Protecting Your Computer in New York. Lots of useful and relevant links on his site.

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