Google files for RSS ads patent

Apple recruiting Sony VAIO engineers to build the first Intel PowerBook?

Hmm… I worked on laptops at Dell, too bad Dell laptops suck… Designing PowerBooks would be a cool job. 🙂

This is a great guide, I ordered my list of feeds and it definitely helped.

Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers

How to get the most of your blog reading
? Group your feeds by order of importance. You know, like ?Must Read?, ?Not So Important?, etc. This helps so much. If you group things by topic, re-group them by importance within your topic group. This makes the less important easier to ignore.
? Set aside a time (or times) during your day to read. Try and stick to those times as strictly as possible.
? Use ?mark all as read? liberally.
? Weed your reading list on a regular basis. Unsubscribe to anything you consider ?noise? as soon as you realize it?s not being read.
? Set your newsreader to check only a few times a day, or if you use an online service, be sure and resist the urge to interrupt what you are doing and check for updates. Maybe to coincide with your reading times.
? Make use of services like Del.icio.us, Digg and Technorati to find those diamonds in the rough.
? Slow down and read. Spend some time with those sites you really enjoy or those that you find real value in. I?ve found that if I spend more time reading and less time browsing I absorb more.
? Ditch a few link blogs. There are so many blogs out there that are just pointers to original content. These serve a great purpose, but try and find those that offer a unique point of view, or can bring items to the table that you can?t find elsewhere. I tend to follow the link lists of individuals I trust more than actual blogs devoted to linking.
? Keep in mind that if you read lots of blogs in the same space you?ll see things repeated and will be unlikely to miss anything you really should be reading.
? Understand that a day not paying attention to blogs is a day you can spend doing something productive. They?ll be there when you get back.

This is great, LOL!!!

Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’:
Cory Doctorow:

AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It was cracked within 24 hours.”

Before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’)

It turns off the trigger for the key check.

Link

This pretty damn cool… Most of us won’t need the installing Ruby or MySQL on Windoze part, but the rest was interesting… ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails