Kelly Vista's Blog

Neat use of Open Calais

kellyvista — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:22:18 +0000

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

kellyvista — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:47:47 +0000

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

kellyvista — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:44:18 +0000

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

kellyvista — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:19:07 +0000

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.