If you ever tried to search for a book on Amazon.ca you know how incredibly pathetic their search feature is.

I often mistype the things I want to search for and rely on the search engine to pick up on my misspellings and still provide me with some results or maybe to suggest an alternative spelling. (Perhaps I've been spoiled by Google). Amazon.ca does none of that that I can see. Unless I spell what I'm looking for perfectly I get no results back. This is quite frustrating!

iTunes has added an interesting feature recently (or maybe it has been there for a long time and I just now discovered it), called iTunes U. It is basically a collection of lectures from various universities in audio or video format for everyone to enjoy.

This is a very neat idea, I hope that more and more universities will participate in this program. I find myself listening to some of the lectures now and then and overall I find them quite good.

Check out this new feature at an iTunes application near you!

First Law

The Computer is always right

Lemma one

Programmers are occasionally right

Second Law

The amount of time needed to debug a program is inversely proprotional to the time allotted for debugging

Corollary

Programs never work the first time unless there is virtually unlimited time to complete the program

Third Law

Any programmer can find 90% of his bugs simply by explaining his program to an uninterested observer

Corollary

The uninterested observer may be sleeping, dead, nonhuman, or, in extreme cases, nonexistant

Forth Law

The most difficult or nearly impossible programming problems appear obvious or extremely simple to anyone with little or no knowledge of programming

Corollary

Those problems most easily solved by a programmer appear to be overwhelmingly complicated and marvelous to the layman

Fifth Law

Computers are never more intelligent than their programmers

Corollary

Most computers are incredibly stupid

Sixth Law

The rarest bugs in any operating system or major programming effort will always show up in a demonstration of its use to prospective users or customers

Corollary

These bugs usually cannot be reproduced and therefore cannot be located

Lemma One

Customers will never purchase programs which appear to be riddled with bugs as verified by demonstration

Paradox

Most programs are unfit for sale

For a while now I've been thinking about developing something that would track down all of my web accounts and create a mushup of all my web activities. Well, before I had a chance to sit down and write something that does just that the good people at Profilactic have beat me to it.

Their interface is quite easy to figure out. Adding accounts is super easy and the entire process took less than 5 minutes. At the end of that I now have a place that puts my web live together into one RSS feed.

To view my feed just to go my feed page or check out my mashup page