Archive for February, 2005

“You can google my name….”

Monday, February 28th, 2005

I just received a submission for a podcast to review at The New, New Podcast Review that contained an interesting phrase. The fellow who was emailing me said:
You can Google my name for some history if you wish.
Now I know he was probably only suggesting this as a means to get some background on […]

Bait and switch

Monday, February 28th, 2005

UPDATE; 2005-12-04: Having received the response below from George (presumably at podkeyword.com), and having looked at the few podkeywords I know of, it appears that podkeywords is providing the services expected.
I can’t comment on the recent disagreement between Erik at Erik’s Diner and Pokeyword, and I would certainly expect that Podkeyword would redirect to the […]

Open Letter to Bloglines

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Dear Bloglines-Congratulations on being purchased. I hope that it works out to be everything you’ve hoped for as well as everything it can be for your users. You folks have produced a really quality product here and deserve the best.
I’m also writing to mention my concern about something I read in the most […]

Jack Chalker dies

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Sci Fi Wire — Jack Chalker dies
I know that Hunter S Thompson’s death a few weeks ago should be more worthy of comment; he was probably a more influential voice in American society than Jack Chalker.
But realistically, Jack Chalker has had a much more direct and profound impact on my life than Hunter S Thompson […]

eBay - ipaq parts, PDAs Handheld PCs, Desktop PCs, Consumer Electronics items at low prices

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

eBay - ipaq parts, PDAs Handheld PCs, Desktop PCs, Consumer Electronics items at low prices: ““
Why can’t I subscribe to this eBay search via RSS?
Oh, I guess I can!
cool!

iPodder.org : Podcasts

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

iPodder.org : Podcasts
I’m curious if any other FireFox users are having the same problem that I do with the OPML link from the iPodder.org directories. When I try to open them, either from the XML link on the page or by downloading the actual file and then opening it from within FireFox, FF opens […]

GMail un-beta’d?

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Looks like Google’s taking the next step towards making their beta e-mail offering GMail a public offering. Before I bought my first GMail account (yes, I was one of those - luckily I only paid $5 for it on eBay, mere days before the prices plunged to $1 each) I signed up to get […]

Really beginninng to hate this page

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

the css is all screwy and I don’t like the look any more. Haven’t liked the look for a while, but now I’m really beginning to HATE it.
BTW, Looks like Google is opening up the flood-gates on gmail invites (the virus must not be spreading fast enough). I now have 50 invites, and […]

NPR : Personal Radio Via Podcasting Grows More Popular

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Dear All Things Considered;
I only listened to the 1st 15 seconds of this segment before I knew that you guys missed the point.
From the first mention of podcasting it was clear that there was a negative slant on the article with the reference to podcasts as “online rants,” and “the quality is low.” They […]