May
31
2005
Bill Wendel and The Real Estate Cafe Podcast About The Real Estate Bubble
Last week on May 24th after a meeting with Bill Wendel (who I helped set up his initial set of company blogs) I suggested we record an impromptu podcast about the Real Estate Cafe's "Bubble Blog" and his thoughts on an ongoing podcast series about the real estate bubble. Many thanks to Bill for ...
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May
31
2005
Why are you still using Internet Explorer?
As of the time I am writing this note, the Firefox web browser has been download 60,492,725 times. It's a fine replacement for the antiquated Internet Explorer. If you're looking at this website with IE, it probably looks less than fabulous because IE is outdated. Firefox is faster and more secure, too. ...
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May
27
2005
Karaoke Tonight at The Courtside
A few friends and acquintances are getting together tonight for karaoke at The Courtside, a restaurant and bar in Cambridge near Lechmere. I've been to The Courtside for karaoke a couple times and it has never let me down in the entertainment department. Spectator or participant, good times are likely. If you want ...
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May
27
2005
Voltaire and Free Wi-Fi
Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Networking News wrote yesterday about a coffee shop in Seattle that decided to "experiment with taking back its culture by turning off the Wi-Fi juice on weekends." Various weblogs are linking to Glenn's story including Engadget. But one of the only places I've seen people discussing it beyond blindly linking ...
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May
26
2005
Yahoo! Photo Mail
Marc Canter noted on his weblog that Yahoo!'s new Photo Mail service is available for the 100M Yahoo! Mail users. It only works if you've got Windows 2000 or XP with the Internet Explorer browser [version 5.5 and higher]. My iBook and I are apparently out of luck.
Quick Select is the browser software ...
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May
26
2005
Freight
The new header graphics above for the title and description are Freight Sans Black and Freight Micro Book, part of the new Freight Family designed by my colleague Joshua Darden. I also use Freight Micro as my screen font for web browsing, email and IM. Freight is available from Garage Fonts for review and ...
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May
25
2005
RSS Syndication Etiquette or Type-A Blogger Syndrome?
When I moved sooz.com over to WordPress from Movable Type I decided to only show summaries in the RSS feed instead of full text. My reasoning for this is because I preferred someone to view the full entry at it's archived location on my website. There are websites such as Frassle that ...
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May
25
2005
Universal Hub and Community News
Adam Gaffin has had a long-time Boston website at boston-online.com. A few months ago he set up UniversalHub.com as a community news website for anyone to contribute their own content to.
Last night he wrote an entry about Brian's blog entry about a two-car accident near his home. Within a couple hours, ...
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May
23
2005
Rebekah Gewirtz
Fellow Lowden Avenue resident Rebekah Gewirtz and her campaign manager knocked on my door earlier tonight. She's launching a campaign for Ward 6 Alderman in Somerville and needs to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot to run against incumbant John M. “Jack†Connolly. Apparently I was her first signature. Fun! ...
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May
22
2005
Relocating to Canada
Before the last presidential election, many people would talk about how they'd want to leave the United States if George Bush won again. For most people it was just a lot of talk. Well, someone I know is really doing it. David has been writing about the process of relocating to Canada on ...
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