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I thought it interesting that the Google 2001 index had only 671 search results for “Barack Obama“.
“Sarah Palin” had 0 results.
These old indexes are interesting, especially if you’re searching for old data. I hope we see more of them.
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Over the weekend I installed Rockbox on my iPod, and let me just say that I love my iPod again.
I love that I can rate podcasts. I love that I can delete a song right from my iPod. I love that I can play Ogg Vorbis files. I love that I can make dynamic playlists [...]

I’m way excited about the Utah Mobile Developers user group that is forming. Their first activity is on the schedule for Wednesday, October 29 and will discuss both iPhone and Android development. Here’s the agenda and RVSP:
6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, [...]

The trouble with pizza girls (and everyone else these days) is that they blog.
I love the internet and its bountious opportunities for citizen journalism.  Ten years ago you would never have heard this story.

My brother Gabe wrote an interesting post highlighting how Google Trends searches show that Utah is a hotbed of Open Source. It reminded me that I haven’t plugged the Utah Open Source Conference that’s happening this week. This conference is something you don’t want to miss.  I think you can still get tickets.
If your business [...]

I’m going to the first quarterly Blogger Blood Drive today.  If you’re in the SLC or Utah County area, I hope you’ll join me.  If not, I hope you’ll consider starting one in your own area for next quarter.
See the Serenity Foundation National Bloggers Blood Drive page for more general info.

Warning: Big-time nerder alert! If you find overt nerdyness offensive, zone out now or just click right on through.
I’m neither a computer scientist not a mathematician (and it probably shows), but I’m curious enough to poke around a bit. Lately I’ve been having fun with combinatorics.
One of the programs I often write as I’m learning [...]

Android is looking pretty sweet.

Android Pacman looks good as well.

My friend Mike Smullin (who BTW is an excellent developer of custom Wordpress plugins) sent me this:
Hi Jordy,
Not sure how much you like WordPress or Matt Mullenweg, but I figured I’d let you know about this upcoming event in Utah:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416950/?ps=5
Enjoy! :)
This sounds like it’s going to be a fun event.  I hope to see [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that Spectrum Equity Investors made a $300 million private investment to purchase a majority share in The Generations Network (Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, etcetera.)