John Dvorak, guest blogging at Boing Boing, thought about real men's t*ts while eating a tofu-burger and then thought of J. Edgar Hoover as desert.
When I saw J. Edgar Hoover's photo displayed right on top of the Real Men's Tits photo, I thought it was funny enough to post here. What you see on the left is what I saw in my mind. Frankly, 60:40 is not my favorite ratio although the volume looks about right.
Stories about the six British soldiers massacred in Majar Al-Kabir upset me. It reminded me of the Alamo. Soldiers just doing their duty and getting killed by a crazy mob. If Ghengis Kahn was in charge of the British forces, he would have destroyed the town with everything in it.
Since this is the modern age and Ghengis Kahn is long dead, I think the British forces should vacate the town and then completely destroy it to prevent similar thing from happening again in the future. Letting them go about their daily lives without such a severe punishment will just get more soldiers killed. I know this will be harsh to innocent townfolks but I don't think anything short of this level of response will work over the long term.
I added a Technorati link that shows who is linking to this blog in my blogroll OPML. You can find it on the right hand side under My Links. Also, I bought a digital camera today so you can expect lots of pictures in the near future (it's charging its battery at the moment).
In case you are interested, it's Casio Exlim EX-Z3 and I got it at Sharper Image for $280 including tax and all because I had $150 worth of gift certificates. One thing I like about it is that it is really small, size of a cigarette box, yet comes with 3x optical zoom. We'll see how it turns out.
This is my first digital camera because I used to dislike taking pictures and being photographed. Marc Canter and Tim Bray's blogs convinced me that I need a digital camera to enhance my blog. I'll probably end up upgrading to a 5 megapixel camera with zillion controls soon or later, but I want to ease into it with babysteps.
Wish me luck and don't forget to scream if you think I am putting up too many photos. While I don't have pretty roses like Tim does in my backyard, I got lots of birds and other wild animals living within or nearby my house to take pictures of. Ever seen sleepy egrets or ducks having an orgy? It's an eternal live comedy outside my windows.
If you have been keeping track of my posts (#1 and #2) about my personal brush with how blogs are affecting Google, here is an update. I searched for "webcore source code" again today and got a surprise: I am the first result!
I am not sure whether I should be glad or mad that one of my posts got more links pointing to it than WebCore itself.
Update: Direct link to WebCore Source Code to make it first as Már Örlygsson suggested.
If you have a blog with RSS feeds, make a habit of checking it regularly (once a week should be enough). Blog tools are often lax on character encoding and bloggers' tendency to copy-and-paste across tools can occasionally result in illegal characters seeping into your feeds, making them unparseble. If you are using IE, just clicking on the feed link should be enough since IE will barf on illegal characters in XML documents. Thank you for listening. Good day.
Well, the name for the initiative led by Sam Ruby to create a new syndication format from scratch is … [drumrolll] … Echo! Looks like they are going to use it as a brand of sort: Echo API, Echo Enabled, etc. I proposed Wide Open Syndication (WOS-Up!) last night, but most people wanted to go with Echo. Yeah, people will have a lot of fun Googling with 'Echo' as keyword, but then it is a sign of child-like innocence that I like so much in engineers.
Tim is on a roll today. His "MakeMoneyFast" post (actually the title is "$$$$!"), he writes about his experiment with Google's new AdSense program. He made almost $16 in two days. Cool. AdSense reveals what Google is thinking with its Blogger.com acquisition.
Only problem is that popularity of RSS feed usage is on the upswing and will eventually lead to majority of blog news being consumed via news aggregators. This means Google will have to get into the news aggregator business (?) eventually. Sure, they can do this with from the server side, but to cover all the bases, Google will need a client-side aggregator as well.
Tim Bray's post on Intelligent Search repeats the obvious but has interesting histories involving Open Text, Verity, and Architext. I also found this bit interesting:
"One day my CEO called me into the office and looked real serious and said “Tim, I think we’re in trouble. There’s a new search engine about to launch, called Architext, and they don’t search for words like we do, they search for concepts. See, it says so right here in their Powerpoints that this VC slipped me.”
Naughty but not uncommon.
Recently, I have been getting spams with subject lines containing words I have used in my blog posts. These spams arrive within hours of a blog posting. If this is being done by a spambot, it seems to be using words I used to retrieve or build a short sentence. For example, within an hour of posting "Just for Fun", I received a spam with "What are you doing for fun?" as subject.
I think bloggers open a window of security vulnerability each time a blog entry is posted. Blogs provide hackers with enough information about the people, relationship, and context of each interactions between bloggers to attempt break-in via social engineering. For example, if I wrote about something Marc Canter has written and then receive an e-mail with attachment from 'Marc Canter', I am more likely to open the attachment than an e-mail from "Mary Joe Slapfinger" out of the blue.
Don Park's Weekly Habit 