Neat story about a coffee plant, found on only one island in the Indian Ocean, thought to be extinct: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5307047 In 1877, a European visitor, passing through Rodrigues, made a drawing of it and that is the only image we had of this plant, because after that, goats and pigs began to multiply on Rodrigues, [...]

Great, big companies are trying to cash in on Organic produce by having the definition of what is organic changed to included “19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages, hops, fish oil, chipotle chili pepper, gelatin, celery powder, dill weed oil, frozen lemon grass, and a sweetener called fructooligosaccharides.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19837522/ On June 9th, the [...]

I ordered the phone from Buy.com. They had it for $339 and a coupon for $15 off any purchase over $200. Subtotal after the coupon was $320, but as they have a warehouse in Massachusetts there is 5% sales taxes on that, which add $16 to the total. But, that’s still cheaper that most of [...]

Popular Mechanics think the safest seats in a plane accident are at or near the back: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.html 13206

Got that new mobile phone lust. Some friends at home (Mick McG, and Murph) had Nokia n73 phones. They seemed OK, when I played with them. But, looking at the specs, feature list, and the pretty decent photographs it takes has given me that new phone lust: Nokia’s N73 Home Page Nokia N73 Review All [...]

Now that’s a surprise, seems keeping passangers from taking lighters on airplanes is a waste of time and resources: http://www.nytimes.com … authorities have decided to stop enforcing a two-year-old rule against taking cigarette lighters on airplanes, concluding that it was a waste of time to search for them before passengers boarded. The ban was imposed [...]

Feck! I didn’t one good hike in. From last year:

http://www.yourcreditadvisor.com/blog/2007/03/your_identity_h.html

How to get the Jetspeed Login Portlet to work with IBM’s WebSphere 6.1. The default Jetspeed login Portlet doesn’t with WAS, it does work with Tomat, there is an alternative Login Portlet that can be used that will work with WAS. Follow the steps below to disable the LoginPortlet and enable the PortalLoginPortlet. 1. WAS [...]

Yup, Firefox 2′s tabs annoy me a bit, if you’ve too many open you can’t see them all. Here’s how you go back to the old Firefox 1.x behaviour: http://www.humanized.com/weblog/2007/04/05/firefox_20_tabs_gone_wrong/ I met Aza, who wrote the above article, at the Ajaxian Conference here in Boston late last year. Nice lad, very smart, interesting ideas, and [...]