Matt's final post to PVRblog: a recap of the rise of the DVR and quotes from famous web folk talking about the impact of TiVo et al on their lives.

I need to try this. [via boingboing]

Fun article about the ubiquitous Zapf Dingbat snowflake. [via torrez]

J.D. has some good Oregon weather rules that sound right to me. I guess it really is eight months of rain, wow.

Another SQL-based log analyzer from Microsoft.

This handy tool lets you query apache logs with SQL. (Had to install on Ubuntu.) Much handier than awkward awk commands for me.

Why is Google offering DNS? "...they want to speed up people's Google search results."

Google takes aim at OpenDNS and John Gruber calls their response "Pure FUD". I agree, but any move Google makes has big repercussions. Distributed infrastructure is good.

Nice article about tapping into the Java chart component with ColdFusion to access chart types CF doesn't support.