This is a pretty cool tool for people who develop sites, like myself. It basically lets you browse around in the Yahoo! search index to see everything related to a given site.
Yahoo! Site Explorer Beta
Some stats for isitnormal.com

1,020 Pages Indexed (This seems a little too low)
296 In-links

Some stats for breasy.com

20 Pages Indexed
43 […]

You’ve probably seen these things… Instead of some ugly 5 long line link to an article that you have to cut and paste out of an email in 3 separate steps, you get something clean like http://tinyurl.com/9lcad.
Nice idea, bad execution. The problem of course, is that when I get one of these […]

Today while watching a webcast of a talk at Berkeley by Google’s Sergey Brin, I heard him say something that was… well… interesting.
In response to a question about the future of the semantic web and ideas like tagging, Brin said the following:
I think that tagging and semantics are great, as long as the computers […]

I just read a great article from Joel Spolsky arguing that it’s advantageous to hire a few great programmers instead of many mediocre ones. Especially relevant to my own situation was this piece near the end of the article:

It’s not just a matter of “10 times more productive.” It’s that the “average productive” developer […]

Is there anything more annoying than trying to get one of those little stickers off of a piece of fruit? Anything?
Can’t they make part of the sticker not sticky so that it’s grabbable? Or maybe give us a little flap that comes up out of the middle of the sticker? Is that […]