Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Automatically generated content

Posted in Computers & Technology, Humour, Law by Elliott Back on June 30th, 2005.

So I came across this book (adult) on Amazon.com that contained some interesting sexually explicit exerpts automatically pulled from the book’s contents. It’s probably all automatic–but would/could you police something like this?

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QuickSub = Very Bad

Posted in Code, How to Blog by Elliott Back on June 30th, 2005.

OK, I don’t mean to slam the product. See, what it does is popup a pretty, dynamic list of XML subscription programs and options and so forth that let the user select the right one for him:

Quicksub Popup

Unfortunately, that’s a bit of a bad thing. People create standards, like the feed:// protocol, so that readers don’t have to ever see this–they just click a feed:// link and their favorite program opens it, because it’s registered itself as an official protocol handler. Standards!!! They make the user experience seamless.

Mutual Fund Advice

Posted in Law by Elliott Back on June 30th, 2005.

So I was looking at this one Fidelity Energy fund that is a great performer:

money.cnn.com/quote/mutualfund/mutualfund.html?symb=FSENX

It has a 4-star morningstar rating, and really good returns. There’s another fund of theirs I like, too:

money.cnn.com/quote/mutualfund/mutualfund.html?showpage=overview&osymb=FLSAX&sid=440152

It’s a 5-star high risk fund, but it seems pretty cool, and fairly diverse. Fidelity also seems like a great mutual fund company:

personal.fidelity.com/products/funds/?refhp=pr

Any thoughts, guys? I might take a 10-15% cut off my paychecks and auto-deposit it into a fund I set up, but I certainly could use some advice! ^_~

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