Archive for February 2007
Schneier on Securtiy
I recently removed some of my links from the sidebar as I have them all in my del.icio.us account. But I’ve really enjoyed a few of the articles from Bruce Schneier’s blog recently and thus feel the need to point them out.
Open up that box.
Ok, I don’t like writing about something I haven’t used for a while, but this one I don’t I can’t wait any longer. I’ve been messing around with Pandora an Internet radio station that is aimed at helping you find new music. Sure there are other services out there doing the same thing, but I’ve been impressed with how well Pandora is doing it. This is more of a short recommendation than a check out all the details kind of post, as they do well with that at their own site.
You start out by making a station formed around a song or artist you currently like, then they’ll make suggestions based of that. With each suggestion you can see why they recommended the song and choose to give the song a thumbs up or down to help refine their understandings of your music tastes.
The best peice of advice I can offer if you choose to checkout Pandora is to make seperate stations based on genre, mood, or something like that. I started off with one mega station but soon learned that you could use a “Quick Mix” feature if I wanted to combine all my substations. Hopefully, if you haven’t yet, you will check it out.
Keeping track of post ideas.
I often have trouble keeping track of ideas I have for posts. I used to find a scrap of paper, write down the idea, lose the scrap of paper, then wonder what I was going to write about. More recently I’ve been using Google Notebook to help me keep track of my ideas or just things I want to check out more when I have time. I’d give you an overview here, but I don’t think I’d do justice to the one Google already has here. It also seems it would be a handy tool if you were doing research for a paper or such, but haven’t used it in that manner yet. I’m begining to think I might be a Google fanboy, though what can you expect when they have a good product.
