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Very interesting that he didn't become a full-time author until 20 years after his book was published. I'm always interested in how successful people became that way.

Mr. Patterson was born in 1947, published his first book at 29 years old (1976) and didn't become a full time writer until 49 years old (1996). He's been writing an average of 2 novels per year since then (!) and is getting more prolific with age. Considering that some people never get around to "finishing their novel", I find these data points amazing.

What are you doing today that will be news worthy 20 years from now?

Very useful, but the :: separators are distracting. I think that most first-time visitors are looking to scan your collection for a particular technology (that's what I did).

This view [http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag] is more readable. How about using the 'tag' view layout, but add categories to make browsing easier.

Another suggestion: add 3 or 4 'similar cheat sheets' to each cheat sheet to facilitate browsing and reduce bounce rates.

I really wish they had made _this_ movie.

For those who don't want to read this all, some bullet points. Read the entire piece for in-depth description and analysis, but these bullet points are the main, stark differences between Project 880 and Avatar - Earth and its environmental problems are explored

- We see Josh Sully's Avatar being born

- It's revealed the Avatar program exists to train Na'vi to be an indigenous workforce for the Corporation, since it's so expensive to send human workers

- There are more humans, including a bioethics officer on the take, a video journalist, a head of the Avatar program and a second military dickwad

- There is an Avatar controller who is burnt out because his Avatar died with him in it. He committed Avatar suicide because he had fallen in love with a Na'vi girl who had been killed by the military

- The Avatars have a Na'vi guide named N'Deh, who is sleeping with Grace

- Grace survives the soul transfer

- Josh Sully gains the Na'vi trust by being a member of the community. He also excels in a major hunt

- Josh Sully shows his leadership not by taming a dragon but by leading a raid on Hell's Gate to rescue prisoners

- Josh Sully isn't the only Na'vi to ride a big dragon

- Pandora is a living entity and it sees the humans as a virus; it has been mobilizing the plants and animals to attack all along because it wanted to force the humans out

- There is no unobtainium beneath Hometree. The military just wants to wipe out the local Na'vi to send a message to all the tribes that they must be obeyed.

- Some of the humans and the Avatar controllers rise up in the final big battle

- Josh Sully tells the Earth that Pandora will give any humans that return a disease that will wipe out humanity

It seems that auctomatic is just the app you are looking for.

I'd LOVE something like this for Craigslist!!

Clickable links:

Oracle Certification

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.ge...

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MBA for IT Professionals

http://www.bryant.edu/wps/wcm/connect/Bryant/Divisions/Acade...

Priceless:

  This is pretty nice I would like to see the interface 
  enhanced so I could enter several math problems at once (for
  example: Chapter 7, problems 1-19 (odd)) and have the output
  in a printable / customizable format (ie a script font that
  looks like my handwriting).

I don't have a lot of experience in selling software online, but as a consumer, these are the places that I'd be looking to find niche software.

1. Your own website (with Google AdWords campaign)

2. CNET Downloads (if you have a free trial version)

3. snapfiles.com (if you have a free trial version)

4. eBay store

5. Amazon store

Really, it seems that you'd want to push ALL traffic to your own domain where you can completely control prices, offers, wording, etc.

EDIT: I just checked out your site [http://www.watermelonexpress.com] and it seems like you've already done a lot of the leg work. The problem that I see is that this market (test prep software) is saturated. I think an aggressive AdWords campaign would be your best bet.

It's been two days, so I'm not sure if this will be seen by the OP, but I was really trying to make the point that even though popurls/alltop may not have the features you are looking for, you may find that some of the sources that feed these aggregators may have those features. You can use popurls/alltop to find more sites that have the features you're looking for.

http://popurls.com/ - There's a Technology section at the bottom with lots of different tech news sites. Some may fit what you are looking for.

http://alltop.com/ is surprisingly good. Again, not positive if it will fit exactly what you are looking for, but I found http://python.alltop.com/ to be useful.

I was searching for a way to enable/find the chat logs for Microsoft Communicator which we've recently switched to at work.

Google was basically filled with dead end forum postings and SEO spam.

DuckDuckGo was more helpful and brought me to the MS TechNet article with full documentation on MS Communicator Policy configuration.

Bing was surprisingly the most helpful and brought me to the Communicator Team posting from 2008 which shows me where I should have been able to find the logs.

It looks like my work has blocked/disabled this feature on a global setting even though I haven it enabled locally.

I agree with your point. I had to do some digging to get more concrete information.

When a friend’s link from YouTube or flickr arrives, your messaging client should be able to show the video or photos near or as part of the message, rather than rudely kicking you over to a separate browser tab. Notifications from computers and mailing lists should be organized for you, not clutter your Inbox or require tedious manual filter setup. It should be easy to smoothly integrate new web services into your conversation viewer entirely using open web technologies.

http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-rain...

I'd love one! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01z36FzWox2sTUICB08NO2JA==...

I love the idea of the cash-flow muse and I'm VERY intrigued by these types of stories.

Can you give any more details? Exactly (or approximately) how many dollars is half your living expenses? How did you start the project and keep it going? What marketing tools do you use? How much time + money have you put into the project?

Sorry if I'm prying, but I am genuinely interested in people that taken a simple idea and built something strong and profitable out of it.

I have a 3 kids between the ages of 2 years and 11 years. My youngest would definitely enjoy these and I think it's a good start.

It's a very simple idea, so I think you'll need to add some features (pause button, music, more card sets, etc.) to encourage parents to visit often.

Also, I love the domain name and can see that this project was created while scratching your own itch (which is a great way to stay motivated).

I'm familiar with RAD, although at least for my employer it's more than just drag-and-drop GUI builders.

It sounds to me like jeffspost is over generalizing and suggesting that Google Chrome OS will only succeed if it's embraced by large corporations. The software hasn't even launched and jeffspost has already figured out it's "one missing piece".

Yeah - I noticed this too. It seems like they wanted to 'scoop' the story before Google announced it on their own blog perhaps? I'm not one to criticize another person's grammar or writing style, but it was unusually bad with this NY Times article.

Can you clarify your statements a bit more?

I don't think that Google Chrome OS would be suitable for most corporate shops that are generally Microsoft centric (and have been for quite some time). I think this free OS will be geared towards light users that primarily use their computer for surfing the web and checking their email.

You can set up shared folders using Dropbox, but I'm not sure if version control is set up for that (I don't think it is, but couldn't find any information on getdropbox.com)

How about Google Docs? Super easy to use (Just like MS Word, only better!) and has great version control/sharing/collaboration features baked right in.

I'm confused: how is "ETA: 13 Jun 2009 at 11:19:38 AM GMT" == "Friday afternoon"

Isn't June 13th Saturday?

1. http://www.brighternaming.com/Naming_Portfolio.html

2. http://www.namesharks.com/#services

3. http://www.namedevelopment.com/product-service-naming.html

4. http://www.stokefire.com/we_name_stuff/ << this one looks pretty good.

More: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=product+naming+service...

I was merely trying to make the point that I see this as a useful service/start up. Perhaps 'qualifications' was a poor choice of word here.

For some reason, I pictured the original poster as single.

I'm not sure what your qualifications are, but I've given mine -- a parent of 3 kids. Drugstores (in my area, anyways) are NOT able to handle ear infections because antibiotics require a physicians prescription. Urgent care facilities are always preferable to ER visits because they cost less for the patient and permit ER staff to handle true emergencies, there there are many instances where urgent care just isn't an option.

Sounds like a case of burnout to me. I think a lot of people would envy your position, especially given today's economic climate. Without knowing anything of your situation, except that you don't want to work on computers any longer, I'd suggest taking a step back and really analyze your situation. Have a serious conversation about your immediate future with someone that you respect (parent, mentor, older friends/siblings, fellow hackers) and see what they'd say about your life, in general. Also, get out and socialize more. You obviously have a knack for putting together successful projects, so use those skills to help other people out. You will feel better about lending your skills and time to someone less fortunate.

Also, read some books? The 4 hour work week comes immediately to mind. You haven't defined success for YOUR life yet, it seems to me.

I'm a father of 3 and this service would have been useful on several occasions. TRUE emergencies are handled VERY quickly at the ER, but there are a lot of times when the regular doctors office is closed (holidays, weekends, after business hours) but you REALLY need to take your sick child to get medicine or whatever. We've had more middle-of-the-night ear infections than I'd care to remember. :)

Sounds like a neat idea. You obviously have to get hospital permission/buy-in before this idea could really take off. This is a similar idea to OpenTable, the dining reservation system. Perhaps you could do (or already have done) some research to find out how that company has succeeded/failed and apply those lessons to your efforts. Online based reservation systems are a great idea, but seems like a lot of leg work is required to get it really rolling. Classic chicken/egg problem here with early adopters.

1. Add some auto-suggest features to the 'add a hospital' form.

2. Use an IP address/geolocation service to guess where I'm located and pre-populate the state for the form.

3. I tried to add my local hospital, and received a very ugly error message:

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Internal Error

There was an error processing your request. The system administrator has been notified of the problem, it will be fixed as soon as possible. Please try again later. TELEPHONE SUPPORT

For telephone assistance, call our on-duty support technician at (770)-597-9185.

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Cool article, especially since it's from 1997. The opening paragraphs are a very accurate way to describe flow. I love the feeling of 'flowing' down the mountain on a snowboard or mountain bike. I'd never really equated the 'flow' of movement with the 'flow' of programming, but I think the comparison is a good one. Thanks for sharing.

Log Parser 2.2 from Microsoft is pretty good. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890...

I've had some success with this for quick jobs, but you can get really creative and generate very in depth reports/graphs/etc. There are several GUI solutions if the command line isn't your thing. Do some Googling for 'log parser gui' for more results.

This is a really interesting/fascinating webapp. A few suggestions. 1. Improve the design / User Interface. It's a bit clunky and diminishes the experience. 2. Make the search field auto-complete. Use jQuery and you could have it done in a few minutes. I am not a chemist, so I don't know the exact spelling of most chemicals or elements. http://jetlogs.org/2007/10/22/jquery-auto-suggest-with-keyup...