Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds [http://news.com.com/Google+News+gets+RSS+and+Atom+feeds/2100-1038_3-5825454.html] . There seems to be some problems with the Atom feed [http://news.google.com/nwshp?ned=us&topic=t&output=atom] though. I remember writing a PHP…
I’ve had it with Windows Notepad! It sucks – poor character encoding, missing characters, lousy undo’s etc. I’ve now replaced Notepad [http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/04/30/124093.aspx] with Notepad2 [http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html], making it the default text editor (basically I…
ActiveSkype [http://www.khaoslabs.com/index.php?page=skypeapi] is a COM wrapper around the Skype API [http://share.skype.com/sdp]…
I read this interesting article on Google-Mapping the News [http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=86690]: a prototype of Google Maps being utilized for visual news highlights. A cool idea indeed! Google is turing out to be a powerful application service provider (ASP) with a range…
20Q [http://www.20q.net/] is an experiment in artificial intelligence (learning system). Think of an object and 20Q would quess it in 20 questions. I played with it a bit and it seems to work quite well.…
The 5 Pitfalls of Estimating a Software Project [http://www.christopherhawkins.com/06-01-2004.htm#11]…
The Thrill and Agony of Working From Home [http://www.christopherhawkins.com/08-04-2005.htm#86]…