This is so cool, I couldn’t help linking to it (although it’s late and I ahve to go to bed…) ASCII Generator turns any text into ascii art. Very helpful for e-mail signatures, text-based e-mails, etc. Very nice work. (by … read more →

I just noticed: http://www.georgewbush.com/ gives me an “Access Denied” message. That’s strange… Is it that my IP is outside the US? Let’s try from an IP located in the US… ssh.. lynx http://www.georgewbush.com/ It works! It seems that after China … read more →

So, we had to export this MySQL table, nearly 1,000,000 rows. 1m rows is not much, I know, but the machine is a PII with 512MB RAM. mysqldump –opt dbname mytable >exportfile took for ever, and I think the machine … read more →

From Jeff Barr’s Blog: “We rolled out the new release of the Amazon Web Services today. This release includes the E-Commerce Service and a beta of the Alexa Web Information Service.CNet already has the story.” I should have a look … read more →

From Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: “Yup, it’s another public beta. This time it’s My Yahoo Search. And it’s launching in Yahoo! Next, which is where we’re starting to put stuff we’d like the public to play with… Read the full post. … read more →

Clusty the Clustering Engine. It looks like this search engine is the joint effort by looksmart.com and vivisimo. Looks nice and fast. I will need some time to use it before I can understand its features.

It looks like everybody is talking about Firefox. It’s not just WIRED that declared Firefox “hot”, or Charles Cooper, Executive Editor, CNET News.com, who dumped IE for Firefox. It’s the whole Internet community that seems to love it! I did … read more →

[27/9/2004 11:51 UTC, Update: you can now see the top-10 results returned by google.] After many experiments, the new and improved g-metrics.com is alive! * UI improvements.- The user interface has been redesigned from scratch, and I think that is … read more →

Jeremy asks what we would like to see in a Yahoo! API, sould Yahoo! decides to publish one…. Please, everything! The nice thing with Yahoo! is that they are much more than a search engine. They are a complete application … read more →