So I read about the improvements in Google Reader in a lot of the feeds I’m subscribed to over the past week or 2, I tried it long time ago and didn’t like it. I think one of the Mac related blogs like TUAW or something even had an entry on switching from NetNewsWire to Google Reader. So I decided to give it another try. And I like it! But, there is no easy way to search all my feeds in there. WTF?! I just find this a bit odd especially coming from Google, they got good search features in Gmail in the very beginning… hmm… Maybe I’m just an idiot and couldn’t find the search input box and button?

I also tried their mobile edition on my Treo 700p and it works pretty well, with the large number of feeds I monitor it takes forever to read them on a phone though. 🙂

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The San Jose Mercury News had an article this past weekend with the latest VentureOne numbers. Apparently $260 milllion was invested in “web 2.0” companies in the first half of 2006, which means that the run rate for the year is $500 million.It’s not clear to me how they define “web 2.0” but then it’s never clear how anyone defines “web 2.0”.

A VC: Web 2.0 Hits The Half Billion Investment Run Rate

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MapQuest was able to get me directions from my office to downtown San Jose without using any highways, kick ass!! Google is still working on that, LOL… With the new draggable/AJAX map at MapQuest maybe I’ll move back to it…

I would like to avoid highways when getting driving directions. Is this possible?We realize that having the ability to choose an alternate route when getting driving directions would be useful. Please note that we’re looking into ways of providing this feature soon.We appreciate your patience as we continue to work on improving Google Maps.

Maps Help

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One of my e-commerce clients has been experiencing extremely long delay in the credit card processing step of the checkout process, I’ve look into this and narrowed it down to the following line of code:

$paypalipn_query = tep_db_query(“select o.orders_status,p.* from ” . TABLE_ORDERS . ” o LEFT JOIN ” . TABLE_PAYPALIPN_TXN . ” p on p.item_number = o.orders_id AND o.customers_id = ‘” . (int)$customer_id . “‘ order by o.date_purchased desc limit 1”);

I’ve disabled PayPal IPN and commented out that line so checkouts are speedy and quick now. But I have no idea why this single line of mysql query takes about a minute and a half to return. I suspect the table is messed up, the orders table (TABLE_ORDERS) is probably okay coz the rest of the site uses that table a lot, so maybe the paypalipn_txn table is messed up, but I have no idea what to look for or how to fix it… It really isn’t very large… If you have an idea of what’s messed up, please leave a comment… 🙂

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Freescale Semiconductor confirmed Monday it is in discussions that could lead to a record $16-billion leveraged buyout, sending shares surging $5.93, or up more than 19 percent, to $36.68 in midday trading Monday.

Two sets of bidders are vying for ownership of the Austin, Texas-based chip maker in what would mark the largest high-tech leveraged buyout ever and one of the largest buyouts ever.

RED HERRING | Firms Bid $16B for Freescale

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Tried everything including a hard reset, nothing helped, so Verizon is sending me a replacement, had to pay twelve bucks to have it overnight to make sure I’ll have a freakin phone this weekend… 🙂 Didn’t think it would be this hard to live without EvDO until I don’t have it. 😉

After some digging poster at TreoCentral and MyTreo said a batch of 700p had “bad memory chips”, I can’t verify how true that is, but whatever… I just want my 700p replacement asap and hopefully I can set the HotSync ID to the same and just do a restore and get everything back.

Here’s a video of the reset loop:

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