Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Mark Ecko has put up a website asking us to decide what to do with Barry’s home run ball: For The Record…
I, for one, voted to put in the Hall of Fame w/o defacing it. No matter what you think of Barry, it is still a monumental part of baseball and deserves to be cared [...]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Microsoft Defends Stealth Windows Updates - Yahoo! News
Solution: Apple.
Posted in Apple, Privacy, Software | No Comments »
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Atlantic subtropical storm heads for N. Carolina - Yahoo! News
Yeah, we might finally get some real rain here! Seems weird to be cheering for a tropical storm or hurricane to hit, but that’s how dry it has been here in the Triangle.
Posted in Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, NC, Raleigh, The Triangle | No Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Anyone have experience with a company threatening legal action over what you wrote on a blog? I got a call today from a company attorney saying I must remove a certain page from my blog because it is libelous and because it appears on the first page of Google’s rankings. They said they [...]
Posted in ACLU, Blog, Blogging, Free Speech, Google, Jobs, Misc., Search Engines, legal, libel | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group
I will be speaking November 19, 2007 at the Triangle Java Users Group on Lucene and Solr. The talk will be an introduction to the features and capabilities of both Lucene and Solr, as well as some basic compare and contrast information.
Posted in Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Java, Lucene, NC, Raleigh, The Triangle | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Dear Sears,
Please get with the times and put your product manuals online for easy download. There is no reason why I should pay $1000 for a fridge and then have to pay to get a product manual. Not too mention the number of trees you kill printing out the stupid thing. Most of your competition [...]
Posted in Misc. | No Comments »