Entries from July 2007

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

The God Shot

This month INeedCoffee received a cool article from a new contributor about the bottomless portafilter (aka Naked Portafilter) used in making espresso. The photo below, which is title God Shot, shows you what it looks like.
The simple definition of God Shot is a perfect espresso. If you require a more lengthy definition read Defining [...]

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

The History of Search

I just finished reading a great book called The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle.

It covers the history of the search engine and focuses mostly on Google. If that sounds boring, it isn’t. At it’s core this is a business book that goes [...]

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

A Decade Without TV

It was June 10th, 1991. The last episode of Twin Peaks final season had just aired. There was nothing left on TV to hold my interest. It was then I gave up television. It wasn’t until May 2001 that I returned to the boob-tube. Yes, I went an entire decade without TV.
During a few of [...]

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

ASP.NET Article of the Day 2

On June 16th one of my Digital Colony posts was selected for ASP.NET Article of the Day. Today I earned my second Article of the Day.
The article selected was Roll Your own Drudge Report in ASP.NET.