Whiteboard Pictures

I have some great notes for an upcoming project on a whiteboard. I have a digital picture of that same whiteboard courtesy of my phone.

I once saw a web based application that would take a picture and clean it up or even OCR it. As I recall, it even had some decent reviews. Does that

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A Look at Diet Television

Earlier this year I found a nifty Web 2.0′ish web site aimed at fitness and exercise. I signed up and used it to track my workouts for a month or two. Then, as is too often the case, I slowly stopped using it.

Sadly, I can’t even recall the name now! I remember the glossy images

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Whaddaya Mean, Firefox isn’t Secure?

Did you see the articles this past week about Firefox 2.0.0.5 vulnerabilities?  Here’s a snip from a linux.com article:

According to a message posted over the weekend on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.5, contains a password management vulnerability that can allow malicious Web sites to steal user passwords. If you have

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Ideas? Tracking Updates on Web Pages

Keeping up to date with a site that doesn’t offer some sort of notification system can be a real pain. While a lot of blogs and news sites will offer feeds and/or email notifications, the majority of sites still do not.

For both home and work use I’m trying to turn up a useful way

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Got your Joost Invite Yet?

Getting Joost invites has been, until recently, pretty much impossible unless you’re a well-connected person with well-connected friends.  However, that’s loosened up this week.  In fact, Gigaom has worked out some sort of arrangement with Joost that has resulted in a simple page with a simple form that will result in a Joost beta

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