There’s this new service called Twitter. It’s part chat room, part mobile app, part social network and if you’re here, you’re thinking about getting yourself setup with it. It’s pretty simple to setup an account but to get the most out of the service, I think there are a few more things you ought to […]
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Yesterday, I started grabbing the public_timeline xml file from twitter every 2 minutes and sticking it into a database. Then I hooked up my favorite ajax search script and set it up at http://www.davidsterry.com/tsearch. What you do is just type in a word or a couple of words and in a second you’ll see some […]
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I recently installed Ubuntu on a laptop that’s resource challenged. While that could mean a lot of things, let’s just say it has 128 MB of RAM and a mobile P3. It’s not so bad because it’s a small and cute laptop but anyway, I had to do a PXE boot(since it has no CD […]
There’s this nagging problem I have on my laptop and maybe you, my trusty readers, have a solution. I’m running Beryl in Edgy and every time I boot up, everything is fine until about 1 minute after everything loads. Right then, Beryl restarts. I don’t know why or how but it happens like clockwork and […]
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That’s it. I’ve had it. I’ve been surfing too much on the web and have nothing to show for it except an absurdly intimate knowledge of web 2.0 and the social procrasto-sphere. Twitter. Kyte. Pownce. Please. So I’ve decided to enhance my copy of Firefox with what may be the most productivity-enhancing extension I’ll ever […]
I’m extremely excited about a new company and what they’re enabling people to do in terms of using audio, video and text to communicate in a brand new way. Kyte.tv allows anyone with a recording device to create a channel and produce shows on that channel. Each channel has its own url and producing a […]
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I’ve discovered Google Reader. The next best thing to having an ethernet jack right between the skull and 1st vertebra. Google reader along with their little “Next >>” bookmark makes sifting through all the news (or detritus) of the day all too easy. First you get yourself an account with Google if you don’t already […]
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Today Robert Scoble posted an episode of ScobleShow where he interviews Drew Clark of IBM Venture Capital. It’s a great interview and lets us peek into the world of technology and business strategy that IBM both exists in and builds on. Check it out at Scobleizer Here are my notes on the interview: IBM has […]
Not so long ago, I found a service called Twitter. It’s a website where you can log in and repeatedly update the question: What are you doing? Now, that’s a simple way to put it but that’s the kernel of its function. People answer that question and look for some feedback or just enjoy announcing […]
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Today, I was searching YouTube for some recent linux videos and ran across this great talk given by Linus Torvalds for Google. The subject of this conversation was Git, his source code management brainchild. The main theme of his talk was that Git is so much better than CVS and Subversion for collaborative software projects […]
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