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Month: July, 2008

Wednesday WTF #5: cuil

30 July, 2008 (10:22) | General | By: Bryce Boe

So the hottest (or not) new search engine is cuil (pronounced cool), and let me just say my first impression of cuil is terrible. As with most search engines I usually type in my name to see the results. Well I guess cuil tries to add images with their search listings and for some reason [...]

Google: Week 5

29 July, 2008 (01:10) | General | By: Bryce Boe

After just finishing my post on F8 I’m going to keep this one pretty short. I actually was only at Google 3 days last week because of F8 and I took Friday off to head down to Santa Barbara for a wedding. Anyway since I use IRC at work I discovered ERC which is a [...]

F8 08 – The Facebook Developers Conference

29 July, 2008 (00:11) | General | By: Bryce Boe

The following is a detailed description of last Wednesday, 2008-07-23. I started the morning by driving to a park and ride next to the San Antonio Cal Train station. I was aware that parking was $2 but I didn’t have the common sense to break my twenty prior to arriving. Fortunately there was another person [...]

Wednesday WTF #4

24 July, 2008 (15:47) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Yes I realize it’s Thursday but I was gone all yesterday at F8 so I’m a day late. This one is coming straight from the keynote yesterday. More on F8 later. Watch Bill O’Reilly flip out! See how carelessly he goes from uptight to calm and collected once on air. Haha, wtf?

Google: Week 4

21 July, 2008 (20:26) | General | By: Bryce Boe

If you are visiting looking for information on Jaymie Darrow please see my previous entry: A Loss — RIP Jaymie Darrow Lately I have been writing my Google updates on Sunday, unfortunately after hearing of Jaymie’s death, I didn’t feel like writing about my week, and it still feels inappropriate to do so, but life [...]

A Loss — RIP Jaymie Darrow

20 July, 2008 (16:00) | General | By: Bryce Boe

As a twenty-two year old, I am fortunate to have not lost any close loved ones, however there have been four people who I was moderately close to that passed away. The first, whose name is escaping me, was in seventh grade when a fellow student who I shared classes, and occasionally ate with, died [...]

Wednesday WTF #3: moo!

16 July, 2008 (12:18) | General | By: Bryce Boe

This one isn’t really a surprise to me, but I couldn’t really find anything better. Someone posted this nearly two year old unresolved Ubuntu bug to digg. The bug filer complains that the current cow displayed when someone types apt-get moo does not look like an actual cow. The following is output from my terminal: [...]

Google: Week 3

13 July, 2008 (23:01) | General | By: Bryce Boe

First I would like to acknowledge my mother’s coworkers who started reading following last week’s bidet story. I hate to set the bar low, however I do not think I will be able to keep up to par with that level of humor. Anyway thanks for reading and please feel free to leave comments, as [...]

Wednesday WTF #2: ICANN Domains Hijacked

9 July, 2008 (12:54) | General | By: Bryce Boe

On June 27 New York Times reported that Turkish Hackers ‘hijacked’ a few of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) domain names. Last Thursday (July 3) ICANN confirmed these attacks mentioning that social hacking was partially involved. It should not be possible that the company in charge of assigning IP address and [...]

Google: Week 2

7 July, 2008 (01:20) | General | By: Bryce Boe

On Monday, I discovered pancake breakfast is pretty standard at the Moma Cafe and oh so delicious. Tuesday I had an awesome time playing volleyball. Lots happened Wednesday. I had my first experience with a modern bidet and I believe it went something like the following. I went into the bathroom to deuce it up, [...]