Month: March 2005

Transparent Screens

I’m not going to have time in the near future to setup my own transparent screen shot, but these are so cool I had to share what others have done. The image above … Read more

A Visit from Mayor Ron

Mayor Ron Rolander, as part of his voter outreach effort, dropped by the house this afternoon. As those who care about Lindsborg are aware, there are a number of issues being debated during … Read more

Anything Besides eTech ‘Round Here?

If you’re overwhelmed by all the recent eTech postings, you can see our latest travel photos, or view images of our hometown of Lindsborg, (scroll past the political articles) or view some images … Read more

eTech05: Whew!

Wow! I’ve never done anything quite like this before. 27 eTech posts over a 4 day period. Written pretty much in real time, with only a quick scan for outright stupidness before posting. … Read more

eTech05: From the Garage

Mark Fletcher, CEO and founder of bloglines, shared with the eTech audience his experiences with starting a couple of different web services companies. Garage philosophy: * passion for the idea * cheap technologies … Read more

eTech05: Making Web Services Personal

Ben Trott, co-founder of SixApart, the creators of MovableType, presented this afternoon at eTech. Talking on the subject of building personal web services, he talked about building tools for personal use. Remixing of … Read more

eTech05: Life Hacks Live

One of the most enjoyable eTech presentations was the return of last year’s Life Hacks talk. Like last year it covered a wide range of topics related to techniques that geeks and hackers … Read more

eTech05: Google Code

Google announced a new web site at eTech, Google Code. It’s appears to be an open-source portal, with a focus on google technologies such as their API, info on their open source involvement, … Read more

eTech05: Ask Jeeves Alpha

One of the meta tracks here at eTech seems to be “a peak inside modern software research labs”. Today, we heard from Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves provides an alternate search engine. In their … Read more