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Google App Engine

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

I signed up for Google’s new App Engine beta and I’ve already started looking at the APIs. It looks very clean and well-designed. I’m not too familiar with Python, but it looks like it’s fairly simple to pick up. The language itself is easy and has some nice Lisp-like features that I really like. The [...]

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Spam from Google Calendar

Monday, March 24, 2008

It looks like spammers are using Google Calendar now to send spam as invitations from their calendar. These people deserve to die.
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find Chuck Norris

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Via Andre Noel (Planet Ubuntu):

1. Go to Google
2. Type “find Chuck Norris”
3. Click on I’m Feeling Lucky

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Click Fraud

Monday, January 7, 2008

A lot of people have been posting referrals to a new site called bux.to on Twitter & elsewhere. It works by having you click ads and stay at the site for 30 seconds. This is click fraud, and it’s against the terms of service for Google AdSense and every other ad service.

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What part of ‘public’ don’t they understand?

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

There has been a lot of kvetching about Google Reader’s shared items feature. People say that it ’sends their shared items sent to people in their mailbox’, which isn’t true. You need to explicitly add friends to Reader so you can see their shared items.
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New Gmail Feature

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

This morning I discovered a new Gmail feature I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere yet. The More Actions menu has a new item, “Filter messsages like these”. It takes you straight to the Create Filter screen with the search criteria filled in based on the selected messages.
That was one of my favorite features of Eudora, so [...]

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