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Wow, after "Eleven Days of Hell", I'm glad to say that I'm finally back to work from my gallbladder surgery. If you were thinking I haven't responded to your comments or emails lately, well, you were right, and I'll try to catch up soon.

This announcement is a little premature, but ... for at least ten years I've thought about creating a search engine to make it easier to find source code examples, and while Google and thousands of writers have pretty much eliminated the need for such a search engine, I decided to create one anyway. The approach I'm working on is to create a source code search engine that is driven by "tags", in much the same way that del.icio.us and other tag concepts work.

Every once in a while technology leads to something pretty funny. For me today it was the Google News page, showing a story about a California mayor being arrested after a "wild-ride purse snatching." The funny thing was that Google News had the story under the category "Data Storage", which I can only assume was a reference to the storage capabilities of the woman's purse. Here's a partial snapshot of the Google News page:

As I was working with MailChimp this weekend, I stumbled across a blog article they shared about the success of their new Freemium business model approach. They took the "freemium" route a little more than a year ago, and their numbers look like this:

Yikes, with all the earthquakes we've had in Alaska this year I thought I'd start doing some research on the big one -- the 1964 Alaska earthquake. Here's a link to 1964 Alaska earthquake facts I've uncovered on my One Man's Alaska website.

2011 Update: Late February, 2011, and the earthquakes have started again in this part of Alaska. Yesterday there was a small earthquake near Wasilla and Palmer, and this morning there was an earthquake in Fairbanks, Alaska.