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Ben Shoemate

I design corporate intranets, portals, and web strategies. Co-founder of Base22. Amateur philosopher and science enthusiast.

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Dec 17, 2007

office 2007 :The windows installer service cannot update one or more protected windows

I am trying to install Office 2007 onto a clean install of Windows XP (on a friends eee PC — it is really a sweet little laptop.. anyway), I get the error above about protected…

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Dec 9, 2007

Download a backup of wikipedia to your laptop or local lan

Yesterday I downloaded Wikipedia — All of 2,120,684 English articles of it are now on my hard drive.
A few stats for the curious (for the English version only):

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Dec 8, 2007

Design, Paint, and Pimp out you credit card

About a year ago I switched over to Bank of America. Since then, when I go out to…

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Dec 8, 2007

Google Trends API coming soon

Google is planning to release an application programming interface for its Google Trends program, according to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google. She also said the company would make it possible to download data from Google Trends…

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Dec 8, 2007

Eat fruit, lose weight

Here is a list of foods that burn more calories than they contain. Called negative calorie foods, the following 15…

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Dec 7, 2007

Tired of waiting on hold — outsource your waiting to India

It’s not just for Fortune 500 companies, you can use a company like Brickwork and pay someone $4/hr to sit on hold for you. From the website:

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Nov 29, 2007

How to upload and archive all old Chats from Yahoo IM, AOL, and others into Gmail

I love how Gmail stores all your chats and makes them available for search. But what about all the chats from before? — I have 10 years of IM’s saved — ICQ, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, Jabber, etc. My…

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Nov 13, 2007

7 Email Visualizations for Thunderbird

Now that I have all my old email in one place, my next project will be to create some visualizations to start analyzing it. What do I mean? I’m talking about graphs, charts, tables, heatmaps, grids, networks, etc that illustrate patterns in the email. For…

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Nov 10, 2007

How to organize your hard drive

This is a problem every one struggles with: what is the best file structure for old files? The problem is actually compounded by the need to do routine back-ups. As I was going through all my old hard drives as part of my email project to upload all my email into Gmail. I…

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Oct 17, 2007

Google Talk and Lotus Sametime — does not work

Tonight, I discovered what is wrong with the internet, it is very easy to verify something is possible, but almost impossible to validate that it is not possible. Let me give you an example. I was very excited when I read this article on Google’s…