This is one of the most interesting articles I’ve read in a while. It’s taken me all weekend to get through it all, but I’m already more conscious about each step.

Every once in a while a computer application comes along that ends up saving you hours and hours of time over the period you are using it. For the Mac, a good example of this might be Quicksilver. For a developer, it’s an IDE that does extensive refactoring for you. I do [...]

I’m ashamed to say that I have yet to read any of his books, but I’ve seen a few hours of video from his lectures. Let’s just say that Richard Dawkins refers to him as his “intellectual elder brother”. Check out this excerpt from an essay, entitled Thank Goodness, that Dennett wrote after [...]

Yesterday, Hubbers recommended a website called Geni.com to me. It’s a family tree management application. But it can be useful for so much more, because it allows quite a lot of information, such as birthdays, addresses, etc., to be entered about each person, which is only visible to the rest of the family. [...]

I’m always fascinated by the new and creative ways that people think up to make money on the internet. A week or two ago, I found myself looking for ways to better my PageRank. For those of you who don’t know, PageRank is a number from 0 to 9 assigned by Google to [...]

During my investigations into poems, prayers, or dances that could be done to make this stop this seemingly eternal rain, I discovered the reason for all this watery misery. It turns out that everybody else in the world is sending their rain over here to get rid of it! That hardly seems fair. [...]

Eleena, the woman who runs the Voices en Español blog, a podcast-based blog oriented towards English speakers learning Spanish, found my blog a few months ago, and has since become a regular visitor and commenter. I’ve also been following her work on Voices en Español. As a fellow American living in Spain, she’s [...]

Arms tired of throwing that ball? Yet Fido demands that you continue to play Fetch with him? Boy, have we got the solution for you! It’s a robot that will play Fetch with your dog until he wears his little feet out. The video you’re about to see is the perfect [...]

I’ve just discovered this In Plain English series of videos. They do a really good job of explaining things that I have tried explaining, like What’s the point of Twitter? and What’s the point of Facebook? The Twitter video is right on. Check these out.

My latest blog toy is from Feedjit.com. I noticed it on the blog of my fellow Iberian immigrant, Theresa. It will display a tiny map with dots showing where my visitors are coming from, as well as a timeline of recent visitors, and the pages they came from to get here. There [...]