Our good friend Craig Courtnay is taking a 16-month journey around the world. He created a MovableType weblog to keep track of his travels and to post pictures. I’m jealous…check out this travel itinerary: May-June: Scandinavia July-August: Alps, climb Mt. Blanc, the Matterhorn, and the Eiger by way of the Mittelege Ridge September: Spain October: Africa Safari – Tanzania, Rwanda/Uganda ( mountain gorillas ), and Botswana November: start of surf safari, Cape Town and E. London/J Bay December: Australia January: New Zealand/Fiji February: Reno, NV March: Southeast Asia April-May: Himalayas June: China July: Russia, Kamchatka, Trans-Siberian Railway August: Europe September:…
simpsonsmath.com: The Simpsons also contains over a hundred instances of mathematics ranging from arithmetic to geometry to calculus, many designed to expose and poke fun at innumeracy. [Via Ned Batchelder]
Dave’s Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar (or DQSD for short) is a must-have utility for Windows. I recently noticed (in the Story of Feedster) that support for Feedster is now incorporated — just type “rss” followed by your search term. One of the best features of the Quick Search Taskbar is its extensibility. Numerous users have submitted searches for different web data. I’ve created a custom search at work that searches our bug database for keywords or bug numbers.
I’ve been meaning to install ieSpell at home and finally did today. At work I use it for spell-checking bugs (submitted through our web-based bug tracker). It’s also great for checking postings to MovableType which doesn’t have a built-in spell checker (that I know of).
Getting caught up on e-mail, I notice that Plaxo Contacts 1.0 was launched on May 21st. This software looks like an interesting way to keep people up-to-date with changes in their contact information, but I suspect that it will be met with resistance for a couple of reasons: People will be reluctant to send their entire contact list to a company due to privacy concerns We don’t yet know what the business model is for Plaxo — how do they plan to make money? Is there a real problem that needs solving here? For those who care enough to keep…