Fixies in the Times
by jpreardon on April 29, 2007
There is a great article in the Times about fixed gear bikes. It offers a quick peek into bike culture and introduces a few of the people that make it interesting. Don’t miss the interactive feature which includes some spectacular (…)
Google Alerts RSS Feeds
by jpreardon on April 28, 2007
Contrary to the title of this post and my understanding of Google Alerts, RSS or Atom feeds of Google Alert emails are not available. This is too bad since I am always looking for ways to reduce what arrives in (…)
foning it in, Again
by jpreardon on April 24, 2007
Time Warner Cable and fon are entering an agreement that will allow TWC broadband customers to set up fon routers on their connections. fon customers install a special fon router that splits their broadband connection so that the subscriber gets (…)
Mayor Calls for Congestion Fee Pilot
by jpreardon on April 22, 2007
During Mayor Bloomberg’s Earth Day Speech he stated that he is seeking a pilot program to implement congestion pricing in Manhattan: In setting the fee, there’s no magic number, but it has to be high enough to encourage more people (…)
NYC Congestion Pricing Coming Soon?
by jpreardon on April 21, 2007
It sounds like Mayor Bloomberg is about to propose congestion pricing in Manhattan. The official announcement might come on Sunday. If he does propose congestion pricing, it will still be far from becoming a reality since there will be plenty (…)
Gotham Ruby Conference
by jpreardon on April 21, 2007
Rather than enjoying a long awaited Spring Saturday in New York, I was at the first–and hopefully annual–Gotham Ruby Conference. Although the great weather was enticing, the conference was well worth the day spent indoors. The fact that it was (…)
Working Vacation
by jpreardon on April 15, 2007
Want to try something new without quitting your day job? Vocation Vacations might be the answer. Rather than telling your boss to shove it, you can take a couple days off and try your hand at something else. The Vocation (…)
Amazon Web Services
by jpreardon on April 10, 2007
Unlike what we might think of as traditional web services (e.g. send some information to a server, get a map), some of Amazon’s services expose big iron infrastructure through simple interfaces. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is an unlimited supply (…)
Earthlink Customer Service
by jpreardon on April 7, 2007
I recently switched my home phone service from Vonage to Earthlink. Unlike other stories I’ve heard, this transition was pretty seamless. There seems to be one last hitch though. Earthlink wants me to update my account information. How do I (…)
Simple, right?
by jpreardon on April 4, 2007
Dabble DB lets customers change the colors of their interface. Lots of web applications allow that. But how many automatically pick the interface colors based on a custom logo? Obviously, this feature took a fair amount of thought and work (…)