Hoosgot

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/daylifes-api-for-the-news.html asks Hoosgot,
Several years ago, my friend Upendra Shardanand tried to get me to join him in starting a company that would remake the way news is created and understood — overturning the worst, ambulance-chasing tendencies of modern journalism, and building tools to help people track and understand the topics and people that shape […]

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http://nothinghappens.net/?p=329 asks Hoosgot,
Yo lazyweb: I have been banging my head against this most of the day. I want to do some “roll it down the hill and see if it crashes” testing in the development environment of my Rails project (1.2.3). In other words, basically, when I fire up script/server, I want to start […]

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http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/06/19/daypi-challenge-mashing-up-the-news/ asks Hoosgot,
DayPI Challenge: Mashing-up the News KevinFarnham, June 19th, 2008 Comments(0) The Daylife DayPI Developer Challenge, which offers a US $3,500 first prize and two $750 runner-up prizes, is under way. The contest deadline is July 25th, so developers still have time to enter the competition and win. Build an application (a mashup, a […]

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http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/06/13/whats-a-good-workflowrequest-tool/ asks Hoosgot,
What’s a Good Workflow/Request Tool? » By Bob Plankers on Jun 13, 2008 in Featured, LazyWeb, System Administration | 5 Comments Dear readers, You folks are full of good ideas, so here’s my latest question. I’m rethinking workflow for my group of 20+ admins, so the customers we interact with have a nice […]

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http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1199 asks Hoosgot,
Dear Lazyweb, I am having troubles getting my Polycom Communicator for Skype speakerphone working in Ubuntu - the microphone volume is always very low in Skype, and when I try to adjust the mixer volume slider for the mic, there is no luck. This does not appear to […]

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http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-is-best-way-to-learn-django-and.html asks Hoosgot,
Dear Lazyweb, With PEP 3108 nearing completion, it is time to start thinking about finally developing my personal web site (so that I can then redo my father’s business web site). That means I need to learn web development in general, and Django in particular. But how to begin? I was planning on […]

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http://arjie.com/2008/06/16/hello-lazyweb/ asks Hoosgot,
Hello lazyweb June 16th, 2008 Roshan Hello World, I’ve been waiting for the chance to see your face. There’s a jingle that starts that way, where have I heard it? It’s stuck in my head. Posted in Me
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http://mashable.com/2008/06/16/twitter-killed-technorati-too/ asks Hoosgot,
Competition is a curious thing: you rarely choose your competitors, and they slide in and out of shot as your strategic approaches converge, diverge and intertwine over the years. Who would have thought, for instance, that Technorati, long time leader in blog search, would see its market share eaten up by an […]

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http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2008/06/absence-citation-needed/ asks Hoosgot,
First things first, as of July 2nd, I will be off to Taizé again. I won’t be back until the start of September, and I’m not sure about the exact date. Because I will have to spend a lot of time taking care of my stay in London at Imperial College after […]

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http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/06/07/0918#dear-lazyweb–i-need-a-new-compact-camera asks Hoosgot,
Dear Lazyweb, I need a new compact camera Created on Jun 07, 09:18 by Rui Carmo, updated 1 week, 8 hours ago. photography, compact cameras, lazyweb Dear Lazyweb, My DSC-T1 gave up the ghost the other day. I blame the electronics (by way of a hard knock sustained during the move back to […]

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