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A Better Search Engine.
X= (C*15) + (E*40) + ((A1*40) + (A2*30) + (A3*20) + (A4*10) + (A5*5)) + (M*20)

X = The ranking value for any given entry for a given search query.
C = The natural ranking given by a natural search engine analysis (such as provided via Google, Yahoo, Bing).
E = The ranking value given [...]

Figured I’d share with everyone some interesting articles I’ve stumbled across recently. Enjoy!

Five Features We Want to See in Ubuntu (Kevin Purdy, Lifehacker). Techiness: 3
MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org 1.0 GA (Frank Schoenheit, Sun). Techiness: 5
Could One Laptop Per Child be a Bad Thing? (Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet). Techiness: 2
ShoreTel Gives Skype’s Enterprise Plans a Lift (Larry [...]

For those who are interested in website design / management ScrewTurn Wiki will probably be of interest. Free, open source (GPLv2), and under constant development ScrewTurn Wiki is a ASP.NET wiki application. I use it on my freewargamer site.
Why would I suggest ScrewTurn as worth a turn or two? Well:

It depends on whether you are [...]

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Okay folks, I haven’t gotten my hands on this device yet but after reading Andy Oram’s post on it – I want it. The Zeo is a device that monitors how you are sleeping and then offers analysis of how you have been sleeping each night. I’d love to try this and see [...]

Besides my beloved Newsweek for keeping up on the latest happenings in the world I generally keep an eye on the headlines on Yahoo’s front-page. Today I saw an article detailing how Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are considering implementing longer school days/years for K-12 education. I find this to be disturbing on [...]