GMail Atom Feed

You've probably known about the gmail atom feed
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

But did you know you can pull just on label?
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/SomeLabel

And you can also pull your All Mail. So if you get a new message and you have a filter that puts it into a label and archives it then you can pull your all mail to get every unread message in your account.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/all

Only reason I could see for using it is to write your own notifier. But thought it was cool.

Power Over Ethernet

Would be a cool way to put your router in a better location to get the most coverage without having to run power to it. Link

Yeah that's me

A friend at work came up with a description of me that seems to fit well. Mark Deffenbaugh n. Short for computer geek, an individual with a passion for computers, to the exclusion of other normal human interests. Social interests are deeply rooted in Sci-Fi and include, but are not limited to, Harry Potter, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. Depending on the context, it can be used in either a derogatory or affectionate manner. Basically, Mark Deffenbaugh and geek are synonymous; "Look at that freak wearing that Harry Potter costume sitting in front of that computer. He is such a Mark Deffenbaugh."

Nintendo Revolution

XBox 360 and PS3 will be great machines though I have a feeling very expensive.  I'm not that much of a console gamer so they're a bit out of my league.  The last time I was really into playing was when the NES came out.  Nintendo's new game system, Revolution, is very tiny and will be backward compatible.  So it will play every game Nintendo has ever made - I think that's cool.  They say it's geared more for the casual gamer, like me, so I'm curiously waiting for the price of the system.  Link

Google Maps - Traffic hack

http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-traffic.com/

 Another cool hack of Google Maps is combining it with traffic.

The Energizer Bunny has nothing on this

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7843868/ A new type of battery that could last for 10 years. And it's possible that it will be available in the market in 5 years.

Google ponders Blogger, Gmail integration

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/11/google/index.php
Man I hope they do something. Right now Blogger is constantly having issues when you send an e-mail to do a post. Every e-mail gets bounced but the post will still show up - sort of. Most of the time I have to go into Blogger and reedit the post, then republish the post (which works 70% of the time). I think e-mail is really the best way to do a post anyway so a Gmail Blogger integration would be cool.
Update: Yeah, I had to edit this post too.

What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Questions)

Here's a list of possible interview questions for .NET. It's even broken down into categories like: * Everyone who writes code * Mid-Level .NET Developer * Senior Developers/Architects * C# Component Developers * ASP.NET (UI) Developers * Developers using XML After perusing the questions I realized that I, a self proclaimed half-way decent c# asp.net developer, doesn't know squat. I could answer some of those off the top of my head but if that's really what could come out of an interview then I'd be sweating by the end of it. That's what Google's for anyway - right?

New Desk

We got it from IKEA .

15 things you can do with RSS

http://timyang.com/comments.php?id=630_0_1_0_C Lot's of cool stuff you can do with rss here.

Attached file test

This is just a test to see if Blogger will post an image that is attached to my custom blogger.com e-mail address.  If you see this then cool - it works.

Ctrl-Space

I can write code in notepad but I'm so spoiled with intellisense I can never go back now.  To bring the intellisence window back up I've always backspaced and retyped the dot.  I just found out that you can bring it back up with Ctrl-Space.  ....Obviously a slow several days....

Yahoo's "My Web"

http://search.yahoo.com/myweb

This is probably the first time in a long time that I'm impressed with a search option that either Microsoft or Yahoo has come up with.  In my opinion, Google just keeps beating the crap out of them with every innovative thought.  But this time I really like Yahoo's new My Web.  I'm an avid keeper of bookmarks (currently use FireFox and a Bookmarks Synchronizer add-in) so the My Web thing would be something very cool to have.

However, to use it to it's fullest potential I have to install the Yahoo toolbar - hate toolbars.  I'll just wait until Google comes out with their supposed non-existent browser.

Shhh, don't tell the wife

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4504393.stm

A new clothes washer that, via fingerprint identification, requires 2 people to operate it.  So the person that loads it one time cannot be the same person that does it the second time in a row.