Glen Scott - Keeping it simple, since 1977

I have one invite to the Fire Eagle beta to give away. Just leave a comment if you are interested.

What is Fire Eagle? From the site:

Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online.

Fire Eagle

Intelligent post from Michael Arrington on the importance of choice within the search engine world, and what can still be achieved in this area:

There are so many areas on search that remain to be conquered. Semantic search. Real language/AI search. The deep web. Media search. Today search basically returns web documents. What I want is for search to complete tasks for me. We’re no where near that today.

The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market

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• Home | Email Standards Project
  The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
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• The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker’s Bookshelf | GrokCode
  Classic computer texts, yummy.
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• Locomotive
  Easy Rails install for OS X 10.4 Tiger
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• Marc Liyanage - Blog - Developer - Two AppleScripts for Perl Developers using BBEdit
  Useful scripts to help debugging Perl code with BBEdit or TextWrangler
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This evening I upgraded WordPress to version 2.5. All seems good so far, but please let me know if you spot any oddities.

• FuseCal - The Web’s Events in Your Calendar
  I was thinking about this just yesterday: how do I keep my web-based calendar synchronised with iCal. This looks like it could fit the bill.
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• The Best Unit Testing Resources: Beginner to Expert : Codeulate.
  A good starting point for learning about the good practice of unit testing your code
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• Automounting NFS shares on Mac OS X
  Useful guide to setting up your Mac as an NFS client: useful for working with UNIX development boxes.
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• Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule
  A new service that e-mails you your flickr photos from one year ago: nice for reminiscing!
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