I found a card at SXSW for a free music sampler from Verve. They want you to go to verveforecast.com/sxsw, then register, thenenter in the “download code” of vforecastsxsw. The music sampler (Jamie Cullum, Brazilian Girls, Jackie Greene, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi, Teddy Thompson) comes in four formats, all of which are annoying: WMA, zip …
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Better Google Finance URLs
It would be nice if Google Finance allowed you to use easy-to-type URLs, i.e. http://finance.google.com/goog Which could redirect you here: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=goog Perhaps something like: RedirectMatch /([a-z]{4}) http://finance.google.com/finance?q=$1
Best discovery of SXSW
I saw a lot of great music at SXSW. But one performer stood out. Just after midnight Thursday—making it Friday—I walked in to the Hotel Café showcase at Copa. I was immediately impressed. No. Amazed is more like it: the woman on stage did in 30 seconds what nobody else did at all night. She …
My favourite Tiger feature
The title here is a bit misleading. My favourite Tiger feature really is Spotlight. But I want to talk about something really cool that nobody is talking about: kABWithinIntervalAroundTodayYearless kABWhat?
T-Mobile and Amazon don’t really like you
My sister likes to talk on the phone. A lot. And Cingular charges use $85 for a family plan where we share 1250 minutes. And 35 cents/minute for extra minutes. Highway robbery! With T-Mobile, we could get 1500 minutes each with two $50 individual plans. Great, I thought. However, T-Mobile doesn’t work in my house. …
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