I'm moving this blog to a new URL which can be found here. I've moved as much of the content across as I could. Comments and some linkage are probably missing and I might work on getting it all over there. However, this site will likely stay archived at this location as well so that old links pointing here still work.

Please be patient while I make changes to the new URL and site over the next week or so.

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Just trying this Amazon MP3 Widget thing:

Wow, whats all the fuss about this HuddleChat and 37Signals??

This looks interesting:

Google has come out with what Brent actually envisioned for the BlogChat webchat application in 2001/2002. He wanted visitors to his website to be able to chat with him but not necessarily give out his IM address etc. The Google Chat Widget is basically that and ties into GTalk (Google IM) without revealing one's actual IM address etc. However, it is only one-to-one so no group chat available at this time (perhaps they'll add that as a feature).

Very nice though.

I'd say this announcement is at least 5 years late!!!

Google released a chat translation thing today. However in my opinion the implementation is really sloppy with the use of a bot. I suppose a possible reason they are doing this is just to show that one can hook bots into GTalk etc so perhaps it isn't really the fact that they wanted to add translation in a user friendly way.



Brent was messing around with translation for BlogChat back in 2002 and had it working in a much nicer way. See his post on it here.

Yahoo released a new version of YUI yesterday. I've been using YUI lately on a few projects and it is proving very useful. See their blog entry on the list of new features.

I'm really tired about hearing about all this steroid use with athletes.

Another athlete (not even sure I should call them athletes) admits using steroids but again like a ton of others is going to come out saying "I didn't know it was steroids". Apparently the pill they are given is called "the clear" and they are told it is Flax seed oil pills. The strange thing is how come not one of these athletes are suing their coaches or whoever they get "the clear" from. If I was slipped a drug for years and years that I  didn't want to have in my system I'm sure I'd sue or do something about it.

Great article on why software is hard and probably why I'll pickup Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software.

Some of my favorite quotes from the article: