Archive for the 'Geekery' Category

NOAA Weather Data in XML

Monday, December 6th, 2004

From Wired via Slashdot

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week began providing weather data in an open-access XML format, alleviating concerns that commercial providers would continue to play a dominant role in how weather data gets to the public.…Earlier this year, NOAA made the data available in XML as a test, called the National […]

Google Scholar

Friday, November 19th, 2004

A cool new research tool (and a HUGE distraction): Google Scholar. You enter an author, and it returns a list of published articles, with citation rankings and cross references.

[Acknowledgements: Kai von Fintel via TAR]

Firefox PR1.0: Live RSS Bookmarks

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

How good is Firefox now? The live RSS bookmarks feature is sensational.

Thunderbird is Go!

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Just exposing my inner geek … and trying to spread some open-source gospel.
I’m a bit excited today, test driving new versions of my favourite email client and web browser. If you are a Windows user I say ditch M$ Outlook and Internet Explorer, and go for the groovy sounding dynamic duo of Mozilla Thunderbird and […]

Jeremy

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