Today, I read that Google just released yet another service: This time, it’s a free 411 service via a 1-800 number. Now I can’t remember the last time I actually called 411, but I’m pretty sure the main reason behind that is because of all the surcharges I remember getting the one time I did [...]
Archive for April, 2007
I’ll trade you my identity for a hamburger
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
The Boston Globe had an article today about students paying for their school lunches using their fingerprints. This is a great example of a subject that people love to hate, or hate to love. My initial reaction is a positive one: I find biometrics intriguing, and see them as being a great way of slowly [...]
Contact management
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
In my never-ending relentless search – no, make that crusade – for a sufficient content management system for our company, I have dealt with maybe fifteen different people from ten different companies. This, on top of all the other standard contacts I have (ISP relations, software and hardware companies, etc) means that I do a [...]
Where’s my online menu?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
One more entry on my favorite subject (food) before I move on. I was browsing through some tourist website about Italy the other day, and noticed how every single one of the dozens of restaurants listed had a URL associated with it. We’re not talking about chain restaurants here (the only one of which I [...]
Yelp!
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
This weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Boston’s North End, or their version of Little Italy. My wife and I drove down to Wonderland (an exuberant name for a subway stop that is anything but), got on the subway, rode it for three stops before we found out the rest of the line was [...]
