OJ’s rants

This post was inspired by a recent interview question that was posted over at fsharp.it. It’s one of those neat little questions which looks really simple on the surface but is quite tricky.

Here’s another reason why I find Google Reader a excellent choice for reading your RSS feeds.
Most of us have a collection of feeds that contain similar subject matter. As a geek, most of my feeds are geek-related. As a geek who likes to stay up to speed, I also like to know what other blogs [...]

Google Labs has a history of releasing some pretty amazing bits of software. Google Earth, Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Analytics, Google Maps and Google Docs are just a few of the graduates! It’s an impressive list to say the least. All of those applications do a fantastic job. I’m a huge fan of all [...]

As you all know, I recently moved the Blackapache site to a new server. We had some teething issues, as ya do when making the move, but all is now well. One of the things that I hadn’t got round to fixing was my SpamAssassin installation.
I’d already gone through the fun times of setting up [...]

Everyone who uses the web knows how to use Google to find stuff. Well, at least they think they do. Googling is pretty easy, but it’s also a bit of an art form. Some people just seem to have the ‘knack’ of finding things quickly, others take a fair bit of time.
So what makes a [...]

The Search Kings have come up with another rippin’ tool which allows you to crawl through source code for examples and whatnot. The Google Code Search is quite a cool utility - but it doesn’t come without it’s issues. I found an interesting link worthy of reading which talks about a few amusing results returned [...]

Yes this is old news to anyone who reads any form of news But Google have bought YouTube! How exciting. Personally, I’m very happy for those lads who set YouTube up in the first place. The idea was based on the need to share some large homes videos of parties with mates who weren’t [...]

I had a read of Eastabrook’s blog recently (see a link in the Blogroll) and noticed that he posted about an interesting link that he found. The link, entitled Flight Tracking in 3D, shows details of a few downloads that you can grab for Google Earth which actually show the current locations of flights [...]