I can’t believe it.

I found a treasure.

I tracked down the very first web page I ever created. Complete with the original audio of my voice.

I can’t believe that I found it.

This little time-capsule will be something that Mindy and I can enjoy for the ages.

I stumbled upon this insightful essay on software design.

Passing it along…

My friend Rich introduced me to an excellent podcast series called Radio Lab.

The production quality on this podcast is just amazing. It comes highly recommended. In particular I found the show about Musical Language to be especially interesting.

It has completed three five show seasons, and my only complaint, thus far is that I am quickly running out of episodes to listen to. Great for anybody that is sick of the mediocrity of traditional radio during your commute or exercise time.

It costs $46,350 per year for an undergrad at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nine months’ tuition for 2006–2007 is $33,400; a Student Activity Fee of $200 increases the total to $33,600. In addition, undergraduate room and board is approximately $9,950, with actual costs dependent on the student’s housing and dining arrangements. Books and personal expenses (including clothes, laundry, and recreation, but excluding travel) are about $2,800

from MIT Tuition site

For those, like myself, that have been out of the college scene for a few years and look back fondly on the collegiate atmosphere for more than just the libations. I wanted to turn you on to MIT OpenCourseWare.

I am trying to go through some of the copious materials on the site to see how my education, compares to what they have to offer. In particular I am focusing on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences courses as that is where my interests lie.

I wonder what would happen if instead of football games I devoted 3 hours every Sunday to this. But then again I am notorious for feeling guilty about my periods of unproductivity.

…not really. I did learn quite a bit while at the conference and it was a great experience to listen to and talk with some movers and shakers in the industry to hear what things they are excited about. By the way, PubCon was a convention held in Las Vegas that dealt with varying topics important to webmasters including intelligent website design for crawlability, e-commerce optimization, podcasting, viral marketing and all sorts of other wonderful ways to better position your website in your market of choice.

The best speaker of the conference bar none was Guy Kawasaki, he was everything that you want in a keynote speaker: engaging, intelligent, and humorous. He gave a call to action to the crowd asking for links to his blog to improve his all important Technorati ranking which I will happily agree to do.

After being inspired by some of the SEO topics I have decided that I might as well do some simple things to improve this very website. One of the most obvious things to do is to improve the URL structure of the permalinks of wordpress. There is a nice explanation about adjusting your permalink settings in WordPress.

I also found a nice post describing some other techniques you can do to improve your WordPress Structure for SEO.

Tis the season for new browser versions. I highly recommend upgrading to Mozilla 2.0.

I am also enjoying IE 7. For those diehard Mozilla fans I would suggest trying it out. With the release of IE 7 it is extremely clear to me how important it is to have competition in the browser space, it really has led to a better product for the end users. I wonder if Firefox had never come along whether IE 7 would exist.

Internet Explorer 7 plays a lot of catch up to get to where Mozilla was several years ago but now I have to admit I am not ashamed to use it anymore. I would suggest getting it now and checking it out, otherwise it looks like you will get it through Automatic Updates, later…