Wednesday, October 28

Tuesday, October 27

Report: Stray jet's pilots were on laptops

So, the Northwest pilots were discussing the new aircrew scheduling system... in such detail they missed radio calls and their destination. Uh huh.

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Google Voice Desktop Application

Another bit of Adobe Air goodness. This app gives you desktop access to the mobile version of Google Voice. Voice is another great tool that I and still working out how to integrate into how I do business.

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Waver, an AIR Google Wave Client

Waver is a new Adobe AIR platform client for Google Wave. It does what it says, and it another 'interesting' addition to my 'what the heck do I use Wave for?' equation. If you are also trying to figure out an actual use for Wave, this might be worth a look.

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Hulu Officially Charging for Content in 2010

Say goodbye to free Hulu. That's a shame, as I think it's a great service with a lot of content that I would watch (had I more time). In fact Hulu had me thinking of a media center PC next to the TV in the living room. Now it appears that cable + TiVo will continue to rule the day.

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Tuesday, October 20

Porsche Panamera - The New Family Truckster

Finally! I've been waiting for Porsche to deliver the sports car with room for the kids. Four (real) seats, and still 0-60 in 4 seconds. I'll take two.

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Left vs. Right via InformationIsBeautiful.net

Another great graphic posted today on
http://informationisbeautiful.net. This is a great site for folks
that really appreciate how info can be plotted and displayed.

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Monday, October 12

Serving Office 2007 Files from IIS6

Ran into a problem today where one of our users couldn't access Word
2007 files (.docx) on one of our CMS sites based on Windows Server
2003 and IIS6.

The file was in the right place, other files could be downloaded, just
not the newer Office docs. As you can imagine, it's a MIME type
issue. Here is the link I found to set it right, and it did the
trick.

http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/ConfiguringIIS6ToServeOffice2007FileFormats.aspx#

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FluTracker

Great data visualization site for tracking H1N1. I put this up here because of the slick mashup, not necessarily because I think you all need to be tracking H1N1.

http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com

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