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Kids starting college this fall... The Class of 2005 Mindset List.
US jobless claims fall for third consecutive week: "Jobless claims are now at their lowest level for six months, suggesting a revival in the US economy."
A stolen iMac is recovered by k-rad AppleScript hacking. The machine in question had a copy of the screen-sharing Timbuktu app installed, along with Timbuktu's DynDNS-like nameservice, which meant that the iMac's owner could locate and take control of the machine whenever it was dialled up to the Internet. This is a wonderful account of his battle to get his machine back. At first, he flirts with erasing his machine's drive remotely, but ultimately he solves it in an even sharper way, by reconfiguring the AOL client on the iMac to dial his home number, which gave him a caller ID trace through which he eventually recovered his computer. from Slashdot.
John Robb has noticed that there are a lot of great Estonian Radio Weblogs out there. I wonder how much Estonian my mother-in-law remembers from her childhood?
Yesterday my site was crawled by "googlebot-enterprise (Enterprise; DEVEL-00036; sylvie@google.com)". What is it? Has anyone else seen it? The Google experts at Webmaster World have no idea either.
Yahoo introduces a Premium Document Search. According to the site, Yahoo plans to charge consumers between $1 and $4 to retrieve files from a specialized database of some 25 million research documents culled from 7,100 publications, including academic periodicals. Yahoo also expects to offer a "Premium Discount Search" option of 50 documents a month for $4.95.
Make Voice Mail Work for You: Treat your voice-mail system like a personal assistant, particularly if you're away from the office during the day.
Solar energy is an abundant source of power for spacecraft navigating the inner solar system. But how far away from our star can photovoltaics work?
Bowling Together: Robert Putnam on how Americans are no longer bowling alone as much after 9/11.