Archive for July, 2008

Gender Guesser

Here’s a cool application that guesses your gender based on your browser history. I know, it’s scary, right? No, not the gender guessing but the ability of a web application to look through your browser history.

I just tested it and I’m relieved it guessed my gender 98% correctly.  Here are the “guess ratings” it made when it intrusively navigated through my browser history: Read more »

Nirvana, nevermind

Nirvana Album

Arguably, the album that revolutionized rock n roll… and launched grunge into mainstream.

Nirvana Teenager

The baby in the album is now a teenager. He’s seventeen years old and thinks it would have been cooler to be a teen in the 90’s.  I couldn’t agree with him more. Although I still think my teen life in the 90’s sucked, the rock music scene at that time was much more intense. His name is Spencer Elden, by the way.

Google Code Search

I just learned today that Google has incorporated code snippets in its search results. For example, if you search for the term “mysql_connect”, which is a very popular function of PHP since it connects to its preferred database, MySQL, a code snippet will form part of the search result:

Google Code Search

Apparently, this has been happening for months, in fact, it started the year 2006. So what? I just learned it today. Read more »

Lead Philippines

I received an e-mail about change in leadership selection today (2010 elections is fast approaching).  Basically, it’s an alternative way of choosing our leaders. This initiative is inspired by Lead India.

Here’s a quote from Scholastic Javier Alpasa, SJ, the one who started this initiative: Read more »

Increase your page rank (do follow)

I am now “Do Follow” enabled. I know, I know. That strategy is old news. But what can I say? I just started blogging.

Anyways… for the ignorant. Wordpress, by default, uses a “nofollow” tag on its comments. So what is “nofollow”? - It tells spiders (big search engines like Google and Yahoo) not to crawl the links provided in the comments section of a particular blog. Currently, though, Yahoo and MSN follows links even when the “nofollow” tag is encountered. Read more »

Yahoo & Google learning to search for Flash-based content

Finally, Adobe, Google and Yahoo are working to enable search for Flash-based content. Me thinks Adobe is a bit slow in optimizing their Flash player technology.

One reason why most sites refrain from using Flash exclusively is because of its file size overhead. The other reason is SEO - it’s impossible to crawl Flash content. Read more »