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NORTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 06: Jim Furyk watches his drive on the second tee during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston held on September 6, 2009 in Norton, Massachusetts. (Photo by Michael Cohen/Getty Images)
The pose was a familiar one for Jim Furyk - buckled over as if he'd taken a punch in the gut, barely able to watch the flight of the ball. The ending felt achingly similar, too. Denied in another major championship. Furyk came up two shots shy of Jason Dufner in the PGA Championship, unable to mount any sort of charge coming down the stretch on a warm, sunny Sunday at Oak Hill. Dufner seized control just before the turn. His playing partner in the final group never punched back, the agony apparent in his mannerisms as all hope slipped away on the last two holes. ''I wish I could've put some heat on him,'' Furyk said. ''I wish I had made him work harder those last two holes.'' Even with a bogey-bogey finish, Dufner redeemed himself for throwing away a four-stroke lead at the 2011 PGA in Atlanta, where he lost to Keegan Bradley in a playoff. Furyk felt the sting of another close call on the Grand Slam stage. This was the second time in a little over a year that he has had a se...
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The New York Islanders have introduced a Third jersey once again. In place of the dreaded and infamous "Gordon's Fisherman" or the bright bright orange of the Yashin years, the Isles instead went with a black jersey with orang piping and grey added in. Many are outraged, many don't want other teams colors pushed on them, or a color fad being brought up years later. Personally, I just...can't find the outrage or joy over the new jerseys. I've paced around my kitchen, I'm trying to come up with chides and things to mock the Isles for adding black and grey to the color palette that's always been and should always be white, navy and orange. But, honestly, I can't.
As a Mets fan black jersey's bring back memories of things like Robin Ventura's grand slam single, of Roger Cedeño stealing bases on a whim. The black jerseys the Mets wore hit their peak in the Bobby Valentine era and you reminisce about Piazza, Ventura and the best infield money can buy. And while they didn't wear the black jersey's on September 21st, 2001, the first game back from 9/11 and Piazza's epic home run that night (just thinking about it brings me to the brink of tears). Those are what I think of when I think of black jersey's in NY.
See, it's not the jersey that makes the mark. It's the players behind them. We associate the traditional jerseys of the Isles to the glory years of the organization. We fear change. The Isles still made the playoffs with the orange 3rds.
I see no difference between these new jerseys and the regulars we now where and their affecting the performance of the team. Just because they'll wear a third jersey maybe 15 times this year (if that) doesn't mean the team isn't flawed in a number of ways (defense, secondary scoring, leaving a goalie in the dust seemingly at all times).
I mean, who knows, maybe the Isles will record memories in the new jerseys and they'll grow on folks. Thirds come and go. This team still has other issues and demons to confront before I care which jersey they wear which night. Just win and people won't care.
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Posted October 1, 2009 at 10:43AM
Freeview users had to retune their settop boxes yesterday and there have been complaints of lost channels, crashing websites, etc.
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ANyone on the forum have problems retuning Freeview or know of anyone who did? Or was it all a breeze?
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Posted October 5, 2009 at 12:45PM
Having successfully retuned I found I still had a message warning me about September 30th on Channels 30 and 31. I retuned again, with no change. This was still there yesterday (Oct 4th)
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Posted October 5, 2009 at 1:03PM
Panasonic EX79 DVD/Hard disk recorder (3 months old) with freeview - it prompted us to retune when we switched it on. Retuned no problem
Grundig GDT2000 (5+ years old) - retuned easily enough, but some ITV channels are named "ITV" rather than ITV3 or whatever
Proline 19" TV with Freeview (about 1 year old) - retuned no problem
Hauppage Freeview USB stick (2-3 years old) using Windows Media Centre - first time having deleted existing services and rescanned didn't work properly. It didn't seem to properly delete channels. So re-deleted services and it worked fine, although I had to update the guide to fully get it as I wanted.
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Posted October 5, 2009 at 1:11PM
The message says if you haven't already retuned, to do so.
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Posted October 8, 2009 at 4:50PM
I run update (retune) on my philips DTR 1500 several times (or 1 Oct, 2, and later), but still have strange issues:
800s channels - that doesn't bother me
funny that freeview.co.uk have a page about it and suggest manual retune, but link to the document is broken
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some channels, like rocks&co show only some part of the day, till 6pm instead of 9pm as it supposed to be. Some channels itv1+1 or something like that doesn't work anymore. This is really annoying as all of this used to work before!
Any ideas (apart from buying new freeview box)?..
PS: my box always is left on standby overnight and automatic updates are on, so it receives all updates.
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I did the retune on 30th without any problem, on a Panasonic with a loop aerial and a Metronic digtial receiver plugged in - absolutely pefect up until 5th when I went into hospital.
Got out today and everything has gone to pot - TV-wise, not with me, I hasten to add. So here I am, flat on my back and unable to watch Corrie...
Any ideas, anyone, please? The aerial was perfectly capable of getting a signal between 30th and today, so what can have gone wrong??
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I've been watching tv through my pc in my living room and have a freeview flat screen tv in the kitchen for months with no problems - since 12th November I cannot get itv1, Itv2, Channel 4 & Channel 5. I retuned, rescan everything I can think of. Is there anyone having the same or similar problem.
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If you are just scanning for more channels this could be your problem.
On your computer try delete all channels and rescan.
TV try scanning for channels as though you just got the TV.
If the aerial cable is old check for damage, water can get into the cable and reduce the signal.
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|Another great visit on Friday evening with the usual friendly welcome from Debbie behind the bar (ask her about the Tart and Slapper!) and Colonel Gareth and his eggs on the other side. The Thornbridge Jaipur was in excellent condition.
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Matthew Webb of Detroit won the title earlier this month after a daylong recitation competition at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center.
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A 17-year-old Detroit prep football star is expected to face trial in the assault of a security guard who was slammed to the floor after telling him to remove his hood in school.
High School Football Star Arraigned On Assault Charges
Cass Tech High school football star Jayru Campbell appeared via video in 36th District Court.
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Jayru Campbell has been charged with assaulting a security guard who asked him to remove his hood inside a high school.
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High school junior Jayru Campbell, accused of body slamming a security guard at his school, is now facing assault charges according to online court documents.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Some South Florida researchers are confident they have found a more reliable way to bring medical care to HIV-positive crack cocaine users, hard-to-reach patients who may spread the virus through risky behavior.
At the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, a University of Miami team on Monday presented preliminary results of an experimental program to link HIV-positive crack-cocaine with health care. The study, to be completed in 2010, is being done with researchers at Emory University in Atlanta and funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The Miami team, led by Lisa Metsch and Dr. Allan Rodriguez, decided to study crack-cocaine users after hearing anecdotes from hospitals about how frequently users came in with infections.
"We were told over and over by the HIV clinicians that about a third of the people who are going into the hospital are involved in heavy drug use, particularly crack cocaine," Metsch said.
Crack-cocaine use often leads to HIV infection because of the risks _ including prostitution _ users will take to get more of the highly addictive drug and cuts that result from using a crack pipe, said Tom Liberti, chief of HIV/AIDS at the Florida Department of Health.
Among the study's preliminary findings: 25 percent of participants reported sexual behavior more likely to lead to HIV transmission and 17 percent reported never seeing an HIV-care provider. Seventy-six percent were not receiving medications to treat HIV.
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The standard approach _ telling a patient when and where to show up for an appointment _ leaves behind patients who are unfamiliar with the complex health system, who need transportation, or who lack the confidence to speak up when they are ignored by nurses or doctors, said Virginia Locascio, who runs the classes that are part of the experiment.
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Over the eight weeks, patients in the experiment take classes in how to use the health system, share stories of finding out they were HIV-positive and hand out condoms in their communities. Locascio accompanies them to doctors' appointments, and the team tracks down patients who don't show up for the classes or doctors' appointments. Finally, the experiment attempts to link patients to drug treatment.
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This is really a horrible feeling. Have you thought about what would make you not hate yourself? Maybe you could come up with a few things and work on those. Instead of crying yourself to sleep at night, which can become a habit, could you try thinking of some happy things instead and fall asleep thinking of those? Surely there must be some positive things in your life you can be thankful for. Maybe focus on those things at night instead of all the stuff that is wrong.
this mexican friend i had used to tell me she felt like dying everyday. I feel that way these days. Believe me, reading poetry does not help at all, but i cannot stop it hehe :)
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Time for the next part in the Last Week at Google series – I hope you didn't miss the post last week!
Time for the next part in the Last Week at Google series – I hope you didn't miss the post last week!
In my role at Google, I met a ton of people interested in what we are working at, what's happening, how to get involved and learn more etc. Therefore, with this as the first post, I'll be blogging about things that happened last week at Google.
Time to announce my new job: I'm joining Google! My role will be Developer Relations Program Manager for the Nordics.
About a week and a half ago I was happy to get an invite to Google's new take on e-mail: Google Inbox. The idea is to make it much simpler for users to deal and bundle e-mails they get.
I take turns using a few different mobile phones, which is quite interesting to the see pros and cons of each platform. I've had a few experiences with Android lately, so I thought I'd share a couple of tips: apps failing to update, and using any music file for ringtones and notifications.
Time again for a number of interesting, entertaining or otherwise all-round good links I recommend taking a look at!
As always, there is so much discussion going on about HTML5 and video on the web, and I thought I'd suggest a solution to it all.
Yesterday Google announced they're dropping H.264 video codec support in Google Chrome. Whatever you think about this, it's an interesting move and I thought I'd express my thoughts on it.
Instead of presenting a certain technology or approach, my idea with this post is to get some discussion and feedback about iOS vs. Android.
Seasons come and seasons go; life turns in a constantly changing manner. But, as after every summer, I'm back and I long to write for you!
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I'm saying something really really important has happened for the future of the Open Web. Finally, it looks like there might be a solution to the video codecs and patent encumbered alternatives we have been dealing with.
There has been discussions about allowing CSS to help developers create smooth transitions of CSS properties for elements, and it's something being specified in CSS3 in W3C CSS Transitions Module Level 3. Here I'm going to show you how to implement it in Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari & Opera.
More and more services around us focus on where we physically are located at the moment, and how we can be assisted in the best fashion depending on that. Today I'd like to introduce the geolocation possibilities we developers have, and also play around a little with Google maps.
I put a lot of time into ensuring web interface code quality, both for code in projects I work in and in doing code audits for other web sites. One of the best ways to find undesired inline styles, inline JavaScript events and
javascript: links, I believe, is my Inline Code Finder extension and now it's available for Google Chrome as well!
In our world of developing web sites, it is always interesting with web browser statistics, and how some people view them. Pair that with a new player in the market and various opinions about its success.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited by Mozilla to Prague to, amongst other things, discuss the future of Firefox.
Yesterday, Google outed a very bold move of theirs, and then followed up with a statement that, to me, meant even more. We're talking Google Chrome Frame and Google Wave deciding not to support Internet Explorer.
Wow. I can't really believe these are my first words of blogging again in almost two months. It always feels a bit funny getting back in the saddle, but once there, I'm as happy as a butterfly on a flower!
For anyone focusing on SEO and duplicate content indexing, i.e. the same page indexed with several URLs, thus having a negative page rank impact, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft now all support the canonical relation on
link elements.
Ever felt that you have had the need to enhance your web browser, or the functionality of some web site you frequently visit? Here I will explain how to do that.
The end of 2008 is near, and I felt it was time to summarize the passed year.
The time is here: Google Chrome is now officially released.
Ok, time for an admission: I now, honestly, own an iPhone.
When I review web sites, and also in my own projects with a number of different team members, I almost constantly stumble across something web developers should really refrain from: inline styling and inline JavaScript code.
One browser to rule them all, one Google to find them, one extension to bring them all, and in the darkness (Redmond?) bind them.
I just thought I'd mention that I have a new visitor record for this web site.
The web is buzzing! Something which was due to come, sooner or later, has happened. Google is launching their own web browser today: Google Chrome.
I'm back.
Just as the need I saw to for running Facebook stand-alone with facedesk, the turn has come to Gmail. Let me present GMDesk – run Gmail as a stand-alone application.
Since Gmail released a new version a month or so ago, it crashes several times every day for me.
As promised in my @media Ajax – Journeys and stories post (now updated with pictures!), this one will focus on the presentations during the conference.
I thought it would be interesting to give some examples of how some terms, from my posts, are ranked in Google; both funny and more serious ones. It seems like I know How to get a good search engine ranking.
For some reason it just hit me that it really was a long time ago since I used any specific color for visited links in a web site. How so?
Just playing around on the Internet, I'm finding out that Google has implemented yet another outstanding, supremely cool feature, this time for Google Maps. Now, you can get virtually explore neighborhoods at street-level virtually with Street View.
I'm constantly baffled why most companies and web developers don't understand, or care about, the importance of using good semantic URLs. Therefore, I though I'd outline some reasons to help you understand why you really should care.
When done properly and in a serious manner, SEO is truly a fascinating field! However, I have some wonderings about how Google and other search engines treat and index certain things.
Some people like to proclaim that the so-called web standards war, i.e. a wide-spread usage of web standards, is over. Let me take a couple of web sites as example why I don't agree:
The hunt for getting a good search engine ranking affects more and more companies. A higher ranking equals more visitors equals (most likely) more customers. More customers, in turn, equals more money, which is what business is about.
But sometimes, the hunt hurts the quality of a web site.
So, 2006 is almost over and it's time to look ahead at 2007. Will it be an exciting year? No doubt, we have to wait to see just how riveting it can get! I thought I'd go through some notable things that happened in 2006, not just web-related, and scribble down some words about them…
So, you all have your favorite search engine, right? And probably also the tools/approach you prefer to search with it; for instance, a text field in your favorite web browser, perhaps a web browser toolbar or have it set up through Quicksilver. What I'm interested in, though, is what would make you switch search engine? What would make you use another one?
I will be featured in the next issue of Internetworld . There will be a two-page spread called The Pro's Choice, where I list three web sites that I like and the reason for choosing them.
As of recently, I've had enough of trying to keep track of appointments and other assorted obligations. Fredrika writes things for hand in her little secret calendar, which means there's no way I can stay on top of things going on or actually double-check when I'm not actually in the same room as here.
This led to me starting to look around for web-based calendar services, where one can enter data and it will be available from any computer at anytime, and also get reminders. Just as I was testing some services, Google were kind enough to apply to my needs and released Google Calendar.
Google Calendar has got the look and feel of GMail and other Google applications and you can just start using it with your existing Google account.
Google Calendar supports five different views:
It is very easy to create an event: just click the desired date/time and enter a subject. You can then drag and drop existing events to move them to another date/time.
It's possible to get a notification through an alert box, e-mail or a SMS text message. I would love that last option, but it seems like it's only available for US citizens.
You can also share your calendar and events with others, which is a great thing! This lets you have your own calendar, share some or all events and then also color-code your and other calendars' events to easy distinguish whose appointment it really is. Your calendar with the events labeled as public is made available at a public address, and there's also a private address you can use in other calendar applications.
I would love some way to synchronize the information with a PDA or cell phone and be able to use it offline.
All in all, a great service that is yet another step for me from being dependant on just one specific computer.
When doing a web search and your search engine of choice (Google, for most of you, I presume) doesn't return as accurate or useful results as you had hoped, you might decide that you just want search blogs. Reasons for this can be because blogs usually contain very interesting information, comments on the information and also that they are normally very up-to-date.
The way I see it, there are two major tools for searching blogs: Technorati and Google Blog Search. Google seems to be a little faster, although Technorati has really picked up lately. Technorati also offers ways to see how popular that blog is that contains the information you searched for while you also know that the information that is most up-to-date will be amongst the top results.
Personally, I use Technorati to see how many people link to me and which the latest links are. I never use Google Blog Search.
Do you use any? If you do, which one?
With the humble title of this post, I guess I really need to add that these ways mentioned below are the ones I've experienced to be very reliable to get a good search engine ranking. Naturally it varies a lot, but I get somewhere between 28 – 45% of my visitors from pure Google searches, out of just having a high ranking (and sometimes for terms that amaze me :-)). These are my advices:
Make sure you have URLs with a good descriptive value, as opposed to one being made up of just a lot of parameters. There are different tools and settings to achieve this in most, if not all, web development environments. For instance, these two links both lead to the same web page:
This is a good URL:
and this is a bad one:
These are the only tips I can give you; basically, it's just about good web development practises and maintaining good relations with other web site owners.
I'm sure there are good SEO companies out there, but the ones I've come across have all been unprofessional and/or been using very suspicious methods. And as soon Google update their algorithms, there's a big chaos when some SEO's dubious work fail, since some of their tricks have been found out and taken care of. Then, naturally, it backfires so their customers get a very bad search engine ranking.
Just do as I suggest above; code properly and you will be safe. Look around to see how good search engine ranking most web developing blogs get, just because they know how to implement a web site in a correct manner.
Sure, but only since you asked for it. Recently the web site http://www.larmdirekt.se/ was brought to my attention. If you navigate to their web site and disable CSS in your web browser (
Ctrl/Command + Shift + s is one way to do it if you use the Web Developer extension in Firefox), alternatively view the source code of the page.
So, go check out the code of your own web site right now, or ask your SEO what methods they use.
A while ago I read Garret Rogers' post The personalization war, which in part inspired me to write this introduction to different personalized start pages. So what are those, really?
The main purpose of such a start page is for you to get a good and easy overview of a lot of things, including the feeds you follow. Different services also offer different gadgets that you can use, such as seeing your e-mail inbox. Naturally, one of the most useful parts of this is that you have access to the same start view and information wherever you are and whatever computer you are using.
The ones I've tested are:
Most of them are, of course (sigh…), in a beta state, so I haven't really taken that into my observations. I've tested them in different categories, and I name a winner for each and finally, a total winner. Live/Start is developed by Microsoft, but I'm not sure if Start will still be around and if they're putting all their energy into Live now. Both are pretty much the same service right now, though.
Google Personalized Home's service looks pretty much like all of the other Google services, as opposed to Netvibes and Live/Start who have got very lean interfaces. Netvibes has also got a nice distinct background and borders around its parts to easier tell them apart. My Yahoo! offers a lot of themes, and each and every one of them almost makes me barf.
Winner: It's a tie between Netvibes and Live/Start.
All of them, except My Yahoo!, rely heavily on an AJAX approach with drag and drop to position your different parts wherever you feel like. Netvibes and Live/Start also offers the possibility to expand and collapse different parts, where Netvibes also has links for expanding/collapsing all parts. Netvibes is the only one showing you a number of unread posts for each of your feeds.
Google Personalized Home and My Yahoo! only present direct links to the posts in your feeds, whereas Netvibes and Live/Start present the text for each feed when a link is clicked, together with the other posts for the same feed, and there you can choose to expand or collapse the text for all of the feed's posts.
Netvibes and Live overlays a "page/window/layer (yeah, I'm sorry for that word :-))" that fills the entire web browser window when the links are clicked, as opposed to Start that just opens a small one. Start's behavior is definitely the one of these I prefer.
Live/Start also offers small arrows after each post in a feed which is a direct link to the post in question. This would have been great, if they haven't added the functionality to these links to automatically open a new window. Extremely annoying. This is 2006, ok? People want to choose themselves if they want to open a link in the same window, a new window or a new tab; don't force a behavior on users. And if you're so worried most users won't get, just offer this as a setting then.
I wish Netvibes would also have these arrow links, but naturally not with the behavior mentioned above that Live/Start have. In the overlay that is opened up, Netvibes' also dreadfully opens new windows when each direct link to another web page is clicked. Stop it! Now!
Settings-wise, Live/Start is the winner with offering you how many columns you want to use, from one up to four columns. My Yahoo! is the only other service offering this, with the choice of two or three columns. My wish is that all of them should really offer a way to see the text for each feed post in the same view when it's clicked, and also to expand or collapse all posts for a certain feed or the entire web page. I also wish Netvibes would add a way to mark all posts for all feeds read.
Another thing that blows my top is that the sign in-link on Live for a long time didn't work in Firefox. Then they fixed it, but apparently added some new update, so now it's broken again. It's just a link, dammit, how hard can it be? And the number of dead links and things of inconsistency one stumbles on while using My Yahoo! are too numerous to mention.
If it hadn't been for Live/Start forcing me to use a Microsoft Passport account, I would've declared a tie between Live/Start (because of being able to choose what number of columns to have, and Start also for its nice reading window) and Netvibes (for its unread items feature). However, because of that, it tripped Live/Start at the finishing line.
Winner: Netvibes.
Winner: My Yahoo!
The most efficient way to use your feeds in different services is to have them categorized in an OPML file and then just import them. Netvibes and Live/Start offer importing as well as exporting of OPML files, although, for some, reason, Netvibes didn't work correctly with my OPML file that seems to work fine for all the other services on the web. The problem was that I could indeed import the feeds but then the grouping went wrong so I could never see the content of any feed or add it to my page.
Google Personalized Home and My Yahoo don't offer neither of these, which, to me, is shocking.
Winner: Live/Start, for working flawlessly with feeds.
Google Personalized Home offers you seeing your GMail inbox (surprise), My Yahoo! offers you to see your Yahoo! Mail (another shocker) and Live offers you to see your Hotmail (yeah, I'm trembling with excitement now…). However, Live also has a number of other gadgets for you to use, where Netvibes seems to have the best ones. Netvibes have, amongst others:
Winner: Netvibes.
All of them have validation errors, but Netvibes seemed to be the only one that didn't have well-formedness errors or invalid elements. Google Personalized Home and My Yahoo! didn't even have a
doctype. Semantically, they were all pretty poor…
Winner: Netvibes.
If you've mustered enough strength to read this far, you have probably guessed that it is: Netvibes. Overall, they offer the most stable, reliable, usable and customizable service. While it's far from perfect, it's definitely my pick of the pack. Are you using any of these, or some other personalized start page service? Let me know!
As of lately, I've been trying to move my program/service usage online more and more, to make it accessible from any computer and also not to lose information in case of a computer crash. Part of that has been finding a service to follow all the feeds I subscribe to. If you don't know what a feed is, read Wikipedia's Web feed definition.
So, deciding which ones to test, amongst other sources, I turned to the statistics for this web site to see what the people who are subscribing to my feeds are using. My conclusion was that the four that seemed most popular were:
The important thing to think of when using these kinds of services is that they should support importing and exporting of OPML files. Then you can just move your feeds from service to service and save them in a file for later reference, instead of entering all the feeds over and over again.
Don't regard this as a professional review but rather just as a regular computer user testing them out. My impressions were:
From what I gathered, Bloglines seems to be the most popular service online and generally I think it's ok to use, no more, no less. I don't like the layout using frames, although I really have to give them credit for their excellent PDA version (the only serviced I've had the opportunity to test on a PDA). My preferred usage is to keep my read and unread posts together in the order they were posted by the author, together with an indication in the navigation of how many unread posts there are in that specific feed. Bloglines, as well as all the other services have that indication.
However, one thing that bothers me is that the read feeds disappear from the default view when I click on a feed. It is possible to retrieve them again, but that requires extra steps. An alternative to this is to use Clippings to save your favorite posts, but that's not as interesting to me.
NewsGator is very similar to Bloglines but with a slightly more appealing layout. It implements the same things with removing read posts from the default view and having Clippings for favorites. The thing with NewsGator, though, is that the whole feed disappears from the left hand navigation, if it doesn't contain any unread posts. Very annoying.
Google Reader has a default layout which is very sparse but good, and it displays only the latest updated posts. It also has support for keyboard shortcuts, of which I'm a real aficionado. But, as soon as you click the Your Subscriptions link, it takes up the entire top part of the web page.
I would really like to see a way to check posts feed by feed without losing so much space of the web page. Google Reader definitely has potential in my eyes, though.
First, I love Rojo's front page with the Most Read Stories and Recently Tagged Stories, it's a great and simple way to see what's talked about right now. Rojo has also taken a little different approach with tagging posts, something I really like and it makes it very easy to find mine and other people's posts for a certain topic.
After that you have a number of ways to view your feeds, and the different options you make should stick. Unfortunately, expanded blocks in the Feeds tag view doesn't seem to be consistent/stable when it comes to that, but otherwise it works fine. Overall, it does seem just a tad slow, though.
I didn't really find any service that was perfect, but out of these I have to say that Rojo is my pick. One of the reasons for that was the updating frequency, the other services can lag behind up to half a day; I want my information instantly!
So now I use Rojo and another similar service that I will tell you more about another day. I do urge you to test these out; maybe one or several of them are spot on for you.
Are you already using any of the above, or some other service that you would like to tip me about? Let me know!
It has been some talk about this lately, and Google has now released Google Pack. Basically, it's a package of different software that's there to make your computer life better. I guess this is targeted at users who aren't very computer savy, or people that just want it all bundled. Google's first step towards world domination, maybe…?
The Google software is pretty obvious, but I think Norton with a subscription that ends after 6 months will annoy people. My guess is that they will perceive this as a free package that will just work. No fees, no additional download, no extra costs.
The other shocker is Real Player. Is it a joke? I mean, really, come on. We all know how hard Real Player sucks. Not the company I'd like to get associated with, I tell you that.
What's your take on? Will you download it?
The last couple of the days, the whole world wide web seem to be talking about Google and their latest release, Google Analytics. Since I thoroughly enjoy Gmail, think Google Maps is pretty cool and, naturally, use the search engine daily, I was intrigued to say that they were releasing a statistic service in the form of Google Analytics. And for free!
Of course I could've written a post right away telling about the release, but I wanted to test it first to tell you about my first impressions. Apparently it took 12 hours to get the account activated after signing up, a truth with modifications if you asked people who tried. After maybe 20 hours the account kicked in. Fair enough, I know everything about deadlines and tight releases schedules.
There seems to be lot of different views and ways of analyzing the data collected, all presented in a design that's easy on your eyes. All you need to use it is to create an account (or use your Gmail one) and to include a JavaScript in the pages of your web site. Two things that bothered me right away were:
On top of that, it gave off some inconsistent behavior in different pages, but I guess every new release has its problems. However, just before I wrote this post, I tried to sign in to check if it was more stable now, and guess what happened? Every time I signed in, I got redirected to the start page of the search engine. WTF? I mean, really…
For the moment, I'm pretty disappointed. If a product/service is as shaky as Google Analytics seems to be right now, cancel it. Pull the plug. Fix the problems and re-release when it works, before it has created such enormous badwill (or perhaps that's already too late).
Well, then this might become interesting. It's a free service which supposedly offers a lot of ways to analyze your stats; it's bound to compete with other services. What will happen with things like Mint, Measure Map and StatCounter? Will they be pushed to become better? Will all aspects of those mentioned, as well as other statistics services, become free? Who knows…?
I use StatCounter, and so far I'm very pleased with it. It has always worked but one time, and then I got instant feedback and support, and within an hour or two it was working fine again. Maybe it doesn't offer as many ways to check the data as Google Analytics, but I prefer a small reliable service over a bulky shaky one any day.
I'm also very interested in what Measure Map will come up with. I signed up for an invitation a while ago (re-did it today), but still haven't heard from them. If you guys read this, let me try it!
Why not Mint, you say? It's created by the multi-talented (I did a search for multi-talented, by the way, and one of the results was Vin Diesel. Ha ha ha!) Shaun Inman, and people say it's really good. I have two simple replies to that: I want it to be free and I don't want to host it myself. Simple as that, but I do wish Shaun all the best and I'm sure he'll do fine without me as a customer.
I also wonder, if you use one, what statistics software do you use? Let me know!
PS. By the way, why haven't Google released Gmail to the public yet? Let people use it, it's great. If you want a Gmail account, but don't have an invite, just write a comment and tell me. I can send you one right away. DS.
PS 2. Thanks to Dejan who first tipped me about Google Analytics. DS.
Yes, that's right folks. A baby named Google, and he has already got his own web page.
If I have one more child, maybe his/her name should be Semantics. Or Semantica…
Stranger things have happened…
The new software release from Google: Google talk; an IM client that is most likely out there to compete with similar programs like:
and others…
The interface is quite trimmed and sleek and I like the look of it. I miss emoticons, though.
Also, I guess I need to add this to my list with speculations about the future of Google.


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Hotels in Ireland
Ireland Hotels
Known commonly as the Emerald Isle, owing to it's lush and fertile greenness, Ireland is located in the Atlantic Ocean, separated from Britain by 50 miles by the Irish Sea.
The north-eastern part of Ireland (Northern Ireland) however, is part of the United Kingdom. Ireland's landscapes are a unique blend of hills, bogs, lakes, rivers and remote islands where the weather is ever changing and rain is never far away.
The people of Ireland are one of it's many attractions, famed for their friendliness, laughter and sense of fun.
The capital city, Dublin, is home to much of Ireland's cultural heritage.
Magnificent public buildings such as Trinity College, Leinster House, and the Bank of Ireland at College Green are not to be missed.
Other sights that should be on every visitor's list are Dublin Castle, Christ Church cathedral, the historic General Post Office where the 1916 Rising took place, and Kilmainham Gaol.
Dublin comes alive at night, the city has one of the best pub and club scenes in Europe. No visit to Dublin is complete without a trip to the world famous Guinness brewery. Cork's narrow alleys, waterways and Georgian architecture give it a markedly Continental feel.
It is the second largest city in Ireland, and it's mood is reflected in the city's attitude to the arts and its bohemian spirit, which is very much in evidence at the lively annual jazz festival.
A popular day trip from Cork is to Blarney Castle, where many a visitor may feel compelled to kiss the Blarney Stone. .
Galway is Europe's fastest growing city and the fourth largest in Ireland. Galway's finest medieval building, the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is the largest medieval parish church in Ireland. .
A lively university city of narrow streets, quaint shopfronts, bustling pubs and stunning surrounding scenery.
- Dublin hotels (134 hotels)
- Cork hotels (35 hotels)
- Lucan hotels (2 hotels)
- Limerick hotels (17 hotels)
- Killarney hotels (27 hotels)
- Galway hotels (41 hotels)
- Dun Laoghaire hotels (2 hotels)
- Kilkenny hotels (15 hotels)
- Athlone hotels (4 hotels)
- Portmarnock hotels (1 hotel)
245 hotels in Ireland
1 Clayton Hotel Silver Springs
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The Silver Springs Moran Hotel is situated just five minutes from Cork City centre and within a few minutes' drive of Cork International airport. It is a renowned event and conference venue with... More
2 George Boutique Hotel
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Boasting an ideal location with excellent accommodation and friendly service, the George Boutique Hotel Limerick offers you a unique experience and loads you with memories that you can treasure for... More
3 Royal Hotel Killarney
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Featuring cosy accommodation and convenient facilities, Royal Hotel Killarney is the perfect place for you to reside and explore the surrounding areas. GeneralDuring leisure, guests can enjoy an... More


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Stafford Civil War Park
41-acres park tells the story of the Army of the Potomac's Winter Encampment in 1863. More than 135,000 soldiers occupied Stafford County while their new commander, General Joseph Hooker rebuilt his army. This critical time has been referred to in soldier's letters as "The Union Army's Valley Forge." The Stafford Civil War Park preserves 3 earthen artillery fortifications many winter hut holes and protects the landscape that also contains a Colonial bridge abutment and a corduroy road.
Assisting the visitor are many interpretive signs and maps that give voice to the landscape and life to the past. Park hours in the warmer months are 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. - April - October; and 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. November - March.


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A central objection to the cooking hypothesis has been that there is no archaeological evidence of controlled fire as far back as the hypothesis predicts. Currently the oldest traces come from one-million-year-old deposits in Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. But you have recently identified an independent line of evidence that humans tamed fire earlier than the archaeological record suggests. How does that work support your thinking?
Chimpanzees love honey, yet they eat very little of it because they get chased away by bees. African hunters and gatherers, in contrast, eat somewhere between 100 and 1,000 times as much honey as chimpanzees do because they use fire. Smoke interferes with the olfactory system of the bees, and under those conditions, the bees do not attack. The question is: How long have humans been using smoke to get honey? That's where the honeyguide comes in. The greater honeyguide is an African species of bird that is adapted to guiding humans to honey. The bird is attracted to human activity—sounds of chopping, whistling, shouting, banging and, nowadays, motor vehicles. On finding people, the bird starts fluttering in front of them and then leads them off with a special call and waits for them to follow. Honeyguides can lead humans a kilometer or more to a tree that has honey in it. The human then uses smoke to disarm the bees and opens the hive up with an ax to extract the honey inside. The bird gains access to the hive's wax, which it eats.
It used to be thought that the bird's guiding behavior [which is innate, not learned] originated in partnership with the honey badger and that humans moved in on this arrangement later. But in the past 30 years it has become very clear that honey badgers are rarely, if ever, led to honey by honeyguides. If there's no living species other than humans that has this symbiotic relationship with the bird, could there have been some extinct species of something that favored the honeyguide showing this behavior? Well, obviously, the most reasonable candidates are the extinct ancestors of humans. The argument points very strongly to our ancestors having used fire long enough for natural selection to enable this relationship to develop.
Claire Spottiswoode of the University of Cambridge discovered that there are two kinds of greater honeyguide females: those that lay their eggs in ground nests and those that lay in tree nests. Then she found that the two types of behavior are associated with different lineages of mitochondrial DNA [DNA that is found in the energy-producing components of cells and passed down from mother to offspring]. Based on a fairly conservative assessment of the rate of mutation, Spottiswoode and her colleagues determined that the two lineages had been separated for about three million years, [providing a minimum estimate for the age of the greater honeyguide species]. That doesn't necessarily mean that the guiding habit, which depends on humans using fire, is that old—it could be more recent—but at least it tells you that the species is old enough to allow for much evolutionary change.
If cooking was a driving force in human evolution, does this conclusion have implications for how people should eat today?
It does remind us that eating raw food is a very different proposition from eating cooked food. Because we don't think about the consequences of processing our food, we are getting a misunderstanding of the net energy gain from eating. One of the ways in which this can be quite serious is if people who are dedicated to a raw-food diet don't understand the consequences for their children. If you just say, "Well, animals eat their food raw, and humans are animals, then it should be fine for us to eat our food raw," and you bring your children up this way, you're putting them at very severe risk. We are a different species from every other. It's fine to eat raw food if you want to lose weight. But if you want to gain weight, as with a child or an adult who's too thin, then you don't want to eat a raw diet.