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Since I don’t have Internet access on my BlackBerry (because I’m in prison), I’ve had a pretty low incentive to use Twitter. Twitter’s really handy when you’re on the move, and over the last year, there were dozens of occasions where I really wanted to tweet something, but didn’t have anything except my BlackBerry on hand. Since T-Mobile doesn’t support Twitter via SMS, e-mail is my only option, and I haven’t been able to find a decent service that does what I want it to do. ...

It’s been three weeks since I initiated the effort to type in the Dilbert strips and the results are encouraging. About 2 years worth of strips have been typed out. So this Dilbert viewer now has a reasonably sized index for searching. Many thanks are in order here. The first is due to geek.nl, whose images I have taken the liberty of hotlinking. Thanks also to those who’ve taken the time out to type strips: ...

UPDATE: 13 Jan 2026: Scott Adams passed away. RIP. UPDATE: Mar 2023: Dilbert.com was closed but archives are accessible via the Wayback Machine (slow). Search does not work well. Dilbert viewer is an alternate interface via Reddit. UPDATE: 2012: dilbert-search.appspot.com died, likely of old age. – Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to search through the Dilbert archives using text? This used to be possible at Dilbert.com some years ago, as a paid service. In late 2003, I needed to find some Dilbert strips for a client, so I’d subscribed for a year. I could then search for the quotes (I happened to be looking for “outsourcing”, so you can guess the context). ...

I’ve added some interactivity to the Statistically improbable phrases application. You can now: Filter out stopwords Dynamically filter infrequent words and commonly used words Dynamically play with the contrast and font size Comments Srikanth 12 Apr 2008 12:00 pm: Dear sir, I was searching for Ilayaraja songs and came across your wonderful compilation of 15 wonderful articles. Good one. Please do write more on music. Collin 12 Apr 2008 12:00 pm: I love this application. Because now, I can create a url to NY Times, and see what is the main subject of the day. :) S Anand 12 Apr 2008 12:00 pm: Thanks, Colin! Spencer 12 Apr 2008 12:00 pm: I was curious as to whether or not I could use this pointed into a specific personal corpus to separate documents from one another.

I read about Google AppEngine early this morning, and applied for an invite. Google’s issuing beta invites to the first 10,000 users. I was pretty convinced I wasn’t among those, but turns out I was lucky. AppEngine lets you write web apps that Google hosts. People have been highlighting that it give you access to the Google File System and BigTable for the first time. But to me, that isn’t a big deal. (I’m not too worried about reliability, and MySQL / flat files work perfectly well for me as a data store.) ...