Neat use of Open Calais

February 6, 2009

Kas Thomas has posted a really neat use of OpenCalais in OpenOffice, for “push-button” entity extraction.  Check out his original blog post and also the Calais reaction.

Nice work — web services suddenly become functions in your localhost software.  It’s exciting to see how integrated web service functionality can get.


SSDs: drives of the future

January 7, 2009

Gotta like Anand’s now slightly dated review of Intel’s recent SSDs.  Great primer for anyone interested in the future of external storage.  The hard drive as we know it is on its way out.


A pretty neat site for parents

January 7, 2009

Some friends of mine just started this one: Parenting ideas (http://www.parenting-ideas.com).  It’s all about parenting resources & stuff, for those that have babies and toddlers…


Good evening

January 7, 2009

Thought I would start using this blog as a way to let others know about some great resources out there…

Let me start with a pretty cool technology blog: assertTrue (http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/), including a pretty cool post about forging CAs using Sony PlayStations! Hopefully, this development will get the remaining root CAs to switch to SHA-1.