Notes for 2/8/2009 at MasterMaq's Blog

Notes for 2/8/2009

By Mack D. Male | February 8, 2009 at 10:54 pm

Here are my weekly notes:

Just got back from celebrating Andrea’s birthday at King Noodle Hot Pot, and I feel like I gained a hundred pounds! Very good though, and she was definitely surprised. Happy Birthday Andrea! Pictures are here.

On Friday, Sharon and I went to Eden Lilly for “a very sexy party” which Sharon wrote about here. Yesterday we went to check out the Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair, which you can read about here.

Despite repeated statements to the contrary, Microsoft will indeed change the behavior of the UAC control panel in Windows 7. All you need to know is that this’ll make Windows 7 more secure.

Very cool from the New York Times: the Article Search API. With it you can search through more than 2.8 million articles from 1981 until present, via 35 searchable fields.

Opera is working on a new Javascript engine called Carakan. I’m glad to see the JS-engine wars heating up!

Facebook has joined the OpenID foundation. That’s pretty cool, and something I didn’t think would happen.

Another interesting (and long overdue) announcement from Facebook – they’ve opened up the status API to other applications.

Should be a couple of Twestival-related articles published this week! If you’re planning on joining us on Thursday, please register online.