Monthly Archives: August 2005

Found Words : Splogs

By Ian | August 25, 2005

Splogs : short for blog spam, “automated” blogs that point to other blogs with the goal of driving up search engine results, or as they call it, “search engine optimization” (SEO). Also Blogs which do not add value, and exist for no other reason than making cash from click thur web adversiting [...]

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The Google Space takes shape

By Ian | August 24, 2005

Back in April 2004 I wrote about Other uses for the Google Operating System, or the Google Space when Gmail (Googles mail service) was first in limit release, and now this week we have seen a) a major update to the Google Desktop and b) the launch of Google Talk.
Googles Desktop is important [...]

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Freescale Acquires Ottawa’s Seaway Networks

By Ian | August 22, 2005

and has a new Freescale Ottawa Technology Center! Congradulations!
Seaway was mentioned back in Feburary : Startup digs out network worms and is/was an Ottawa-based fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001, is a leading supplier of high-performance, silicon-based content processing, security and traffic-management solutions to manufacturers of next-generation networking and security equipment.
Freescale was [...]

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The new and (un)improved False Positives!

By Ian | August 19, 2005

I’ve Moved over to http://www.falsepositives.com/ so update your bookmarks and web / rss feed! (I beleive the Feedburnerfeed is switched)
all the “old” content is here, till I import it (somehow).
I’ve still got a lot of learning and hacking to do, but its happening.
I expect the only changes here will be changes to the [...]

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Making del.icio.us linkrolls. easier

By Ian | August 18, 2005

Via the del.icio.us blog, we have del.icio.us: we rolling and several new ways to add “my del.icio.us” into your blog or side bar, as “simple” as inserting some javascript or calling Javascript Objects (or JSON’s), either way it’s more stuffing for our sausage makers!
I’ve used this to add a LinkRoll page to the side [...]

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Illuminating the Web, with GreaseMonkey

By Ian | August 17, 2005

Back in November 2004 I made some mention about a system to find and display commentaries on the current web page. We have Progress !…

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Toronto’s Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival Aug 27 & 28

By Ian | August 16, 2005

Bloor West Village’s Ukrainian Festival is August 27 & 28

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Hello World! Welcome to the new FalsePositives

By Ian | August 14, 2005

Yes this is False Positives (Formerly at http://falsepositives.blogspot.com/).

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Word of the Day: parsimonious

By Ian | August 4, 2005

Dictionary.com Word of the Day: parsimonious : frugal to excess.
not applying to anyone I know…

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Sushi Lessons

By Ian | August 4, 2005

via Dan Gillmor’s blog we have Noriko Takiguchi’s series of Sushi Lessons “How to eat sushi properly”.
A gentle guide to the novice and those eager to learn more – history, etiquette, foodie isum, and plus a little San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley Area sushi restaurant guide in 5 parts (so far). Parts inculde: [...]

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