blog.emilykwan.com

I just created a code sharing and exchange web site. Currently, it just has some articles about Ruby performance tuning. I will put more articles there for different languages and system issues in the future.
http://hack.emilykwan.com/

According to “The Paradigm Shift” a lot of people will mine this data.

http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/

and this is the Bit Torrent link:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/388815

Here is the searchable database for the data.

 http://data.aolsearchlogs.com/search/index.cgi

Every TiVo can do a 30 second skip - you just have to enable it. Here’s how you do it:

1 Start playing any recording.

2 During playback press:

Select - Play - Select - 3 - 0 - Select

3 You should hear three bongs (if you don’t have the TiVo sounds disabled), and you’re done.

Your “skip to beginning/end” button (the arrow pointing to a line) is now a 30 second skip button. During fast-forwarding or rewinding, the button will still “skip to tick.”

The button looks like this:

To turn the feature off, repeat the three steps.