Archive for March, 2007
Yahoo! Mail Web Service released!
Off to catch a plane, so more later, but today we announced the release of the Yahoo! Mail Web Service — the same mail platform we use to deliver Yahoo! Mail, the #1 web mail platform in the world with almost 250 million users. Now developers can build on it, too. That’s a [...]
The Englightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything
In these most excellent days of wall-to-wall college basketball (you can take the boy out of North Carolina, but. . . ), conversation in my immediate social circle tends to revolve around hoops. Unfortunately, I have friends who really don’t care all that much about the road to the Final Four, and that causes [...]
Beer: the best beverage in the world
“Beer: The Best Beverage in the World” — as lectures go, that seems like a pretty good draw. I’ll let you read the description of the talk itself (which does look quite interesting), but I love the speaker’s bio: Charlie Bamforth, Ph.D., D.Sc. is Chair of the Department of Food Science & Technology [...]
I’m not at SXSW, but the Shiners are on me
Yeah, I’m not in Austin this year. Between a speaking commitment here in the Bay Area tomorrow and a wedding-related commitment on Saturday, the schedule just didn’t work. Sigh.
Never fear, though — there are plenty of good folks from Yahoo. Be sure to hook up with the MyBlogLog guys, or the Yahoo! [...]
This DST thing could get (at least a little) ugly
Some people (like Paul Kedrosky) are calling the DST time change the “real Y2K,” and thinking about the characteristics of the change, I would tend to agree. Fundamentally, computers don’t like irregularity, and this change is not algorithmically pretty. The Wikipedia page on DST explains it like this:
Starting in 2007, most of the [...]