I remember hearing in an Economics class long ago that the Federal Reserve has to give hints to the public about future interest rate changes since surprising financial markets is usually a bad thing.
I got to wondering recently if there were certain key words the Fed might use in its statements to warn the markets […]

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Update: Lost Elf has been moved to http://utilitymill.com/utility/Driving_Directions_Compare to save me money on hosting costs It still has all the same functionality though it’s not quite as pretty.
I’m pleased to announce our newest web application: Lost Elf.

What is it?
Have you ever wondered if you were using the right website to get your […]

Well I thought a search for “retrun” would return lots of rarely called functions just waiting to be called and crash. But instead all of the misspellings appear to be in the comments only. Perhaps all languages have a way to catch this.
Can you think of other more treacherous typos that could slip […]

I made a quick Python script to do this for me. Here’s an example of what it makes.
Sure there are plenty of scripts and plugins out there that do just this:
http://nozell.com/blog/2005/01/30/updated-yet-another-daily-delicious-hack/
http://heisel.org/projects
http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=499
http://autoblogger.sourceforge.net/
But I had to make my own because I wanted these exact features:

Only make a blog post after N new Del.icio.us links have accumulated.
Generate […]

Have you ever missed 3 important birthdays in a period of 3 weeks? Well I just did and this experience inspired me to create a program to read birthdays out of my Gmail contact’s notes and add them into Google calendar 10 years going forward. I’ll never forget a birthday again!
Here’s how it […]