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Best data center ever.
Sweden’s Pionen is the most awesome geek lair ever.
Originally a nuclear bunker, now a data center with triple-redundant Internet connections.
Located in central Stockholm below almost 100 ft of bedrock.
German submarine engines for backup power.Now they need a guy with steel teeth and a cat babe.
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Nice List of Interface Ideas
Smashing Magazine rounds up a bunch of Web 2.0 ideas, and it makes for an occasionally frustrating browse.
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Google’s New Browser
Google’s new browser is launching today, and, between a Monday deadline and the Lone Star Ruby Conference, I’m too busy to pay much attention.
bah.
I will say:Yay for browser competition!
Yay for a new, smart-looking browser!
Yay for testing your browsers on a million sites that people already go to!
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Ubiquity
Ubiquity is a natural language web service connector for Firefox.
That’s clear. Right? … I can already feel you thinking, “Man! I’ve been looking for one of those!”
What it does is let you bring up a dialog, type “email this to mel,” for instance, and it emails the page that you’re looking at to Mel. (It’s [...] -
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Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008?
Hell, yeah!
I’m registered, and signed up for the “thoughtbot’s Rails Best Practices” training course, which should be killer.
Particularly enticing was this bit, “In addition to gaining real world experience and knowledge that will prove invaluable during your next Rails project, you’ll be armed with the following: The [...] -
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FaviconizeTab
My favorite Firefox plug-in of the moment is FaviconizeTab, which takes your tabs and makes them iconized.
So this:becomes this:
… which is probably only important if you’ve got 25 tabs open at any given time. But, I do, and I think it’d be better if you surfed that way, too. (Remember life before tabbed browsers? There [...]
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jott.com
Perhaps I’m the last to know, but Jott.com is pretty sweet. The premise is “you call from your cell phone, it sends email.” … which, in itself, doesn’t feel that awesome.
They pump up the coolness with direct tunnels to Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, Wordpress, and a whole bunch of others.
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Back of the Napkin
Took a break and read Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. It’s a breezy read — lots of pictures! — with a few great ideas.
Definitely worth a read, particularly if you’re a “let’s go to the whiteboard!” kind of person (or want to be).
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What I’ve been up to…
Man. Long time, no post.
I’ve been working on a site for the Navy with the great folks down at db interactive.
I’ve been plowing through Obie Fernandez’s The Rails Way, which is the best Rails book ever. (And heftiest. 912 pages of framework goodness.)
Next up: Deploying Rails Applications (Zygmuntowicz, Tate, Begin).
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Firefox 3
Firefox 3 is on the way, and looks promising.
Among the improvements:Significantly improved memory management which means that it won’t hang as often when it’s been open for long periods of time. (Who closes their browser anymore?)
Better integration with the base OS’s makes for a smoother ride, both with the u/i and the underlying code.
“Noticably snappier,” says PC World. It does feel zippy.
Better guessing in the location bar. You type an url, it suggests you might be getting [...]
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