Archive for April, 2008

Recapturing documents — one spam blocker at a time…

April 28th, 2008 - Technology - No Comments

Some ideas are just awesome … testaments to people power & ingenuity. Everything about this idea is beautiful. The power of people, borrowing a little bit of their effort (effort they need to undertake to foil spam bots) to help resolve OCR (optical character recognition) glitches.
See more at http://recaptcha.net/

Welcome Hummers of 2008

April 14th, 2008 - Colorado, Outdoors - No Comments

The hummers (scouts at least) are back. April 14th (one day before their normal April 15th arrival, but hey — so they don’t respect leap years, that’s allowed. )Make sure you don’t miss out on the pleasure of these feisty critters by cleaning your feeder, ready for the coming season.This snap was taken […]

Remembering the Milk via iPod (saving task lists as notes)

April 8th, 2008 - Technology - No Comments

In my desire to get more organized I’ve started using this cool task management service:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com
It works well and it’s AJAX/Java Script is impressive/quite usable, especially when one learns the keyboard shortcuts. (It’s integrations into other services (Twitter, Google Calendar, etc.) helped sell me on trying it, liking it’s direction and deciding to go along with […]