Posted by Michael Perlman on May 22nd, 2007 in Transit
One of my teachers presented me with this article from Monday’s NY Post:
Hybrid Buses breaking down
By JEREMY OLSHAN
Hybrid buses may be good for the environment, but they’re also good for the mechanics.
NYC Transit’s fleet of more than 600 Orion VII buses have repeatedly suffered power-generator breakdowns.
Manufacturer Orion Bus Industries hasn’t fixed the problem, according to […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on May 20th, 2007 in Internet, Web 2.0
So far we have the Mint stat-tracking software, the MintPages.net designers’ community, and now the Mint finance tracking service. Although it is an invitation-only service, it looks promising. Want to help me get Minted faster? Click below:
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Posted by Michael Perlman on May 20th, 2007 in Blogging
Throughout the blogging world there is a growing practice to get rid of the rel=”nofollow” addition that WordPress adds to links in comments. I agree that it’s a great way to give commenters an incentive to write comments (they get their share of PageRank value). However, there is a specific reason I don’t “follow” the […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on May 14th, 2007 in Reviews
Thanks to the extreme compulsiveness (more like the way mothers worry so much) of one of my relatives, I now own my first cell phone. Originally I was planning on buying one myself, but luck struck and it came as a present, much earlier than I had hoped for. Like every tech purchase that involves […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on May 7th, 2007 in Reviews, Web 2.0
Starting at registration, IMified is the easiest Web 2.0 service to use. Not many sites that cross the Educated borders are talked about like this, with good reason.
From second one, I realized that IMified is truly simplistic. In fact, the registration process is as simple as this: send an instant message to one of the […]