Musings

This may be old news, but I just saw that Google does know quite a bit more about a website: Check out the “Blog”, “Screenshots” etc. links in the following screenshot. Is this something that is standard? It’s the first time I’ve noticed that in a Google search result Technorati Tags: google, adium

You haven’t seen this video yet (that’s why it’s called the unseen video, I guess). And the next time you see it, it will be different again. Today and maybe next hour, it looks similar. Check again in a few months… Ingenious way of randomizing the video, check it out - you will see it, when it loads. via Porn Happy (that link will give me an additional 50 viewers each day trough google ;-) ) ...

The usual stuff - cut out the middle man. Been there, done that (at least if you ever bought a Dell computer). What about banks? Zopa is exactly that. A place where people can lend and borrow money. If you lend money, it get’s split up into a number of different “money-parcels” and as a borrower, you get your money from 50 different lenders. That way, risk is spread to a very acceptable level. The lender specifies the interest rate, the borrower decides if he wants to borrow it to those conditions. ...

For an upcoming Rails project, the plan is to use the sqlite database. On Windows, the whole process of getting this installed was easy. Download the DLL, do a gem install sqlite3& and be done. Not so on OS X, where I plan to develop. sqlite3 is installed by default, but trying to install the gem, I get a complaint about a missing sqlite.h file. Fair enough, it’s probably not there. So I download the tarball and do the “./configure && make && make install” dance. ...

A really interesting question. Can a Spam Filter play a game of chess? Matthias might be interested to try this at his job ;-) The tale of the spam filter that learns to play chess is very interesting. It shows, that seemingly simple algorithms can produce interesting results. via indy blog

Bitflux has compiled the Top100 list of swiss blogs. This humble blogs comes in at rank 99 (only a couple of ranks behind my blogging friend tanja) Interestingly, the Muga-Blog, one of the top business blogs in Switzerland doesn’t make the list. Is the Technorati ranking reliable? And when will our invisible business blog make the ranks? Technorati Tags: blog, switzerland, puppy