Year: 2003

  • How Google actually does it.

    How does Google rank pages?  It turns out that it uses a technology called Pigeon Rank to actually do the work.

  • Definitions

    Google has added a new prefix to the search that allows you to search for the definition of a term.  This is useful when you are looking for this sort of result and don’t want all the pages that contain the term.  Check this out, Google for define:rigor or try Dictionary.com for the same search.

  • Bitter EJB

    There is an interesting article reviewing the book “Bitter EJB” in the December issue of Software Development. That gives anti-patterns and solutions for problems encountered during EJB development projects.

  • There is no such thing as try

    There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t.  If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change.  Go forward, go backward.  Whatever it takes!  But you can’t blame other people or society in general.  It all comes from your mind.  When we do the impossible we realize…

  • Happy Halloween

    What do you get if you take a hot dog and draw a smiley face on it, then take out the insides?  Yes you guessed it…  Happy Hollow weenie!

  • Closing the loop

    In addition to By the Yard recycled pop bottle lawn furniture made in Shakopee Minnesota, and the Sierra Club clothing made with EcoSpun recycled Fortrel polyester, you can get backpacks and other carrying bags from Earthpak.

  • Todays thoughts

    Never hold your farts in.  They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that’s where you get shitty ideas from.via eMail from my wife.I always thought that it was the cord that connected the eyes to the asshole; that was corrected by an optirectumyInstead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification.  He…