Year of the geek

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Geek of the year awards

Geek of the year awards 01/06/2004 09:16 AM
ZDNet Jan 6 2004 8:35AM ET

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com 07/22/2004 02:33 AM
Geek.com, a popular Web site for computing and gadgetry enthusiasts, has published a review of Electric Pocket’s BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS 5.x—with the reviewer hailing it as “an application that I absolutely cannot do without.” [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems 09/21/2004 06:38 AM

The building I work in does not receive Radio receptions real good. The guys and I in the office like to listen to a particular radio show and we knocked our heads together for a while trying to figure out how to improve the reception. Fixing the reception problem proved to be impossible but we did find a geeks way to fix the problem.

I purchased Replay Radio and set it up at home to record the network stream of the program. It saves the recorded stream in MP3 format every 30 minutes and dumps it in a directory that I have mapped to a FTP server. I have a standard FTP client running on my desktop that downloads the MP3 to my laptop which is connected to the network and we load the MP3 up and listen to the program time delay.

My work does not allow for streaming audio. So to avoid confusion I asked permission to do this via our IT department and promised to keep the file sizes under control. They thought it was cool and gave the thumbs up. It worked out so well that several departments do the same thing and we have 2-3 national talk radio programs to listen to each day. Albeit time delay but it works. [Replay Radio]

" Replay Radio is an incredibly easy way to record radio broadcasts. It's like a "TiVo™ DVR" for the radio. Just pick your favorite radio show, or select a station and a time range, and Replay Radio records it for you. Hundreds of shows and stations are pre-programmed, making recording as easy as point and click."

Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year

Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year 04/27/2004 10:22 AM
National Post Apr 27 2004 2:06PM GMT

"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"

"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?" 01/25/2004 03:03 PM

Forward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te

Forward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te 04/11/2005 10:52 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 11 2005 2:12PM GMT

Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma

Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma 05/25/2004 11:41 PM
InternetRetailer.com May 26 2004 4:11AM GMT

Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year

Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year 01/03/2005 05:55 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 9:36PM GMT

Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year

Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
Apple captured 3.2 percent of the U.S...

Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half

Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half 08/17/2004 05:43 PM
InternetRetailer.com Aug 17 2004 9:36PM GMT

Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys!

Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys! 06/26/2004 02:54 AM
NewKerala.com Jun 26 2004 5:49AM GMT

2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS

2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

Paddling Out to Catch the Enterprise Wave

"From the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a lot of tiny dots...." [MoonWatcher]
RSS was big in 2004, but next year is going to be something else. It's killing me that I can't say more, but I know of two major library vendors that will make big announcements about RSS in 2005. It's going to be a fun year!

Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse

Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse 01/22/2004 10:20 AM
¨§‡ … ˆ ˆ… †Š†Œ€Œ‡§ ¨§Œ §„ †ˆ .. Chinese New Year - 2002 is the Year of the Horse .. Welcome to 4700 .. Monkey .. 4700

chinapage.com/newyear.html
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1 year performance video - please watch
for one year

1 year performance video - please watch
for one year 02/07/2005 01:27 AM
one year performance video .. filmpje dat 1 jaar duurt .. zulke video’s .. ver durante um ano

turbulence.org/Works/1year/performancevideo.php
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The Geek in all of us

The Geek in all of us 04/16/2004 11:39 AM
Geek Prom Has been going on for a handful of years now, here is an older news story 'bout it. That is all, nothing earth shattering. Cheers

I <3 my geek

I <3 my geek 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Kevin is speaking at GDC tomorrow. He done a geek girl proud. :) Any bloggers/readers out there that are...

I'm such a geek

I'm such a geek 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

This morning as I walked into the gym for a quick workout, I noticed an attractive young lady in a short skirt and high heels bent over in front of her laptop. I looked over at her and said to myself:

"Nice laptop."

Man, I'm such a geek.

once more into the geek

once more into the geek 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
Stephen Lynch, who wrote the article in the NY Post I linked yesterday, sent me a link to his personal...

Geek Of The Day

Geek Of The Day 03/19/2005 02:38 AM
There's now a site (wasn't there always?) for geeks to be celebrated without having to wear skimpy bikinis.

Geek DIY

Geek DIY 05/27/2004 07:48 PM
great site listing super geeky projects like building your own catapult

How we geek out in SF

How we geek out in SF 12/31/2004 10:59 AM

Rebecca Eisenberg (and her husband Curtis) are starting to get out again. But it's not like Cyborganic days - no - nowadays we use blogs to promote our parties. And please notice Pierre's hat. And Kaliya's smile.

Here are three of my favorite peeps: Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber and the legendary A-List Microsoft Blogger - nobody less than - his highess - Robert Scoble.

I had the honor of watching over Robert's coat and bag until someone came along and pushed it aside. I also had the honor of teasing Steve Gillmor over whether the lower case semantic web would establish clear meta-data standards for podcasting - faster than the uPPER CaSE heretics.

:-)

Geek at RNC

Geek at RNC 09/01/2004 03:26 PM
Geek At NYC Protests. Here is a take on the RNC convention and protests from a geek point of view.

Geek Toy

Geek Toy 12/31/2002 12:58 AM
GeekTool 1.0 - 222k - Shows system logs or Unix commands on your desktop [VT Mac OS X] A pretty cool little program for OS

Geek ear

Geek ear 09/17/2004 12:59 AM

So I'm eating dinner and half-heartedly watching junk TiVo recorded, including this episode of Landscaper's Challenge (in case you're wondering, it's a homeowner thing), and I'm not actually watching but listening kind of and I hear the client make some jokes and I know that I know that voice from somewhere. I start watching it intently and racking my brain for a few minutes. Where have I heard that before? Books on tape? Narrator in a car commercial? Cartoon voice? And then it hits me: I've heard this guy "Al" dozens of times, but I've never seen him before. He does the commentary tracks on all the Simpson's DVDs.

It was show writer/director Al Jean getting his backyard done.

Geek law 101 audio

Geek law 101 audio 09/09/2004 06:00 PM
Cory Doctorow: My cow-orker Cindy Cohn, EFF's Legal Director, gave a hell of a talk at the last USENIX Security Conference, a kind of geek-security-law 101 crash-course, usingthe fight over the leaked Diebold code as her example. EFF's just posted that talk in audio and as a set of slides. I just finished listening to it and man, did I get a lot out of it. Cindy is an amazing speaker, an amazing lawyer, and she's got a lot to say. Link

Beauty & the Geek

Beauty & the Geek 07/22/2004 07:38 AM
wins Miss Massachusetts .. Beauty & the Geek .. MIT Alumi Profile

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Bored Geek

Bored Geek 02/05/2005 09:11 PM

What does a bored geek do? Put his system logs in RSS, of course.

It works pretty well now that I got a good GUID scheme down and parsed out the dates properly. Cap it at 500 lines, run it every ten minutes ... I can monitor remote machines in situations where I could not be the syslog delegate. Trés nice.

What makes a geek?

What makes a geek? 05/06/2004 09:52 PM

Meri has a great post up entitled Because We Are Geeks, which highlights the differences between geeks and the rest of the world and asks if geeks are really suited to designing and marketing products for non-geeks.

I'll openly admit that I'm frequently baffled by non-geeks. How could anyone not want a USB Devil Duckie? More to the point, I've often wandered what it is that makes some people more inclined to technical pursuits than others. Is it something you've born with, or something that you pick up from your surroundings? I attribute a lot of my geekiness to exposure to both Lego technic and a C64 from an early age, but would I still have been drawn towards geeky endeavours if I'd spent my childhood kicking a football around instead? It's nice to know that Google's Larry Page was influenced by lego as well.

Geek dreams

Geek dreams 05/04/2004 06:15 PM
Do IT workers dream of electric sheep? This hilarious site compiles the nightmares and dreams of coders.

One of the scariest nightmares I've had in the past decade or so was about me being stuck in a Nethack dungeon. Everything was green on black (I'd been playing on a Facit VT100-clone) and in 7-bit ASCII. I distinctly remember being chased by a lower-case x, scared out of my wits and at the same time feeling ashamed of being such a wimp that a mere grid bug was a threat.

Link (Thanks, Eli!)

Bad Geek Ideas

Bad Geek Ideas 12/31/2003 12:19 AM

The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever: I haven't even heard of half of these: Data Play? Magic Cap? Go?

WebTV: A type of internet appliance that used a TV, instead of a monitor, to display web pages. Initially popular with the tech-averse when it shipped in 1996, Microsoft would buy the company for $425 million a year later. But when sales stalled at around a million users, someone woke up and realized that low-resolution TVs are lousy at displaying emails and web pages. Microsoft has since renamed WebTV MSN TV, but it's not any better. If you're reading this on a WebTV - or an MSN TV -- I'm sorry for calling your kid ugly, but get yourself a real computer. You'll like it a whole lot better.

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Geek Dinner Thanks

Geek Dinner Thanks 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
Thanks much to the 20 or so geeks who came out to The House of Orient last night for the Geek Dinner. I snapped a few pics that didn't come out terribly well. Oh, and you'll see a few folks have already pinged the original post with TrackBacks to their write-ups too. As others have noted, most folks seemed to know fewer than 4 or 5 other people there, so there were a lot of interesting discussions. Several folks...

Potsticker Geek

Potsticker Geek 08/19/2004 10:35 PM
Well, normally I’d stick this in a Sunbeams posting, but it’s good enough to go standalone; you might want to take a trip over and check out Potsticker Guru AKA James C. Liu. A geek’s geek and a good writer and funny, too.

Beware the new geek

Beware the new geek 05/06/2004 11:11 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 7 2004 3:33AM GMT

The Geek Test

The Geek Test 11/07/2003 05:28 AM
en@Wed May 28 06:46:28 2003 .. how big a geek you are .. I am 46.54832% Geek .. According to this .. Test your might

innergeek.us/geek.html
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Geek Superhero v1.0.3

Geek Superhero v1.0.3 04/28/2004 09:38 PM
Geek Superhero watches your computer for changes, immediately notifying you when a change is made to confirm you want to keep or reject the change. This saves you from lots of headaches. (A "Computer Setting Firewall" is an excellent description.) [Shareware $25.00 2.12 MB]

Geek Wet Dream

Geek Wet Dream 01/03/2004 12:15 AM
My New power adapter. On the back row are my speakers, phone charger, printer and lava lamp. The front row has a...

Geek Games

Geek Games 11/12/2003 01:11 PM
Some folks in New Zealand have designed a race for the serious Wi-Fi enthusiast: Participants drive around town sniffing for APs. Each AP contains a clue in the SSID for where to find the next. The first to find all the APs wins....

"The Geek Test"

"The Geek Test" 05/31/2004 09:53 PM

Geek humor at its best

Geek humor at its best 07/14/2004 12:04 AM
The House With Too Many Perpundiculars
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