http://www.dankohn.com Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:24:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Roomba iRobot looks like an incredibly fun product, though it's reviews as a vacuum cleaner have been mediocre. I love, though, that the same technology has military uses: "The Army has deployed PackBot, a reconnaissance robot from iRobot, to scope out caves and other dangerous locales in Afghanistan ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/347 There are a lot of mailing lists out there that occasionally discuss an area of interest, but don't necessarily have a great signal-to-noise ratio. I generally want to filter them by either sender or for keywords in the body, and trash the rest of the messages. I also ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/345 First, let me make clear that I think Google AdSense is one of the most extraordinary services on the web and is hugely important in making large parts of the web sustainable over time. It's a new service that they're constantly enhancing, and so I expect them to fix ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/344 My wife's new Toshiba Tecra M3 was hobbled by two major Cisco VPN bugs. The first problem is caused by a bad interaction between the Cisco VPN client and the Intel Wi-Fi driver, which fails to work when resuming from a suspend. The second is that the newest ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/343 I've found that many installations of SpamAssassin work well, but end-users don't optimize them to train their Bayesian filters on false negatives (i.e., spams that get through). A LearnAsSpam IMAP folder is a great solution for this, which even works with Exchange users (they just need IMAP turned on ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/342 It's a trivial annoyance, but I've never liked that the default for viewing NYT articles is a multi-page format. Whenever I start an article, I always click on the Single Page icon so that I can digest the rest of the article without waiting for any page reloads. ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/341 More publishers are becoming familiar with AdSense as a revolutionary business technology for monetizing eyeballs (i.e., for generating revenue from the viewers that spend time perusing your site). Here are the directions for adding AdSense to your MediaWiki 1.4 installation. You can see the results at PWS Notes, ... http://www.dankohn.com/archives/340 I highly recommend switching to Firefox, which is a much better browser than Internet Explorer. To really get the value, I recommend installing a bunch of extensions. I took the time to go through the ones currently available, and here is what I'm currently using: http://www.dankohn.com/archives/339 What Julie and I did for our Christmas vacation. http://www.dankohn.com/archives/338 A photo essay. http://www.dankohn.com/archives/337