A heading appears introducing Hillary Clinton and Chilean President Bachelet, innocent enough. Problem is it appears under a picture of two “little people” dressed as angels. oops.

Google has launched an application to help find people missing in the Haiti and Chilean earthquake at http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/ & http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/

Great idea and tremendously helpful for people attempting to find loved ones.

A group called “ForTheHack” has created a site that tries to force us all to focus on the downside of location-based services like FourSquare.com and GoWalla.com. The mission is “Listing all the open homes out there”.

Of course the site owners don’t advocate actually robbing anyone’s home, they are simply exposing the risks when you share your location with the world. More an interivew on twit.tv with Boy van Amstel.

Sounds like a great idea for a site. What strikes me more is that it seems that the pendulum on privacy may have swung to far that this point. 5 years ago we were all talking about not putting you real name on the internet and now folks are readily sharing their locations with the public. At some point I am sure that there will probably be an incident picked up by the media causing a backlash against location sharing.

I don’t have much knowledge on the NoSQL movement although I have done some work with Google’s Bigtable. The concept of a non-relational, highly scalable database seems to be coming of age given the times we live in. Apparently right now Twitter uses MySQL with heavy caching using memcache but in the future they expect to be able to have no data caching in the future. Impressive given there traffic and the amount of writes that perform.

I love my W500, but this new W701 looks mighty sweet.

Flash developer Morgan Adams gives his point of view on iPad Flash support, or the lack there of. If you haven’t been following this, I can sum it up. The iPad (or iPhone for that matter) doesn’t support Adobe Flash. Some people think there is a vendetta originating from Steve jobs. Others think that Flash is dead. As always the truth is somewhere in between.

It appears that the real reason may have more to do with the mechanics of the multitouch interface than any far flung CEO soap opera.

Bloom Energy wants to power your home with a clean, renewable fuel cell. Big investment are going into this company and big promises are coming out. The official public launch is on wed 2/23/2010.

Incredible numbers. Only a few popular sites on the web get over 50 million visits per month.

As you can see, I have been hard at work building this site. “I am Clint” is intended to be an extension of myself. A place where I can post things that interest me and hopefully are interesting to you. Dunno, we’ll see about that one.

I am definitely still in the process of finding a rhythm and a focus for content here. I intend to generally focus on technology and programming with some general interest stories. Please send feedback to me@clintsimon.com.

Good walkthrough on the why and how of jQuery custom events.

I probably wasted years of my life playing the original and it’s great to see that Blizzard is keeping the Starcraft brand alive. It seems there are some additions in the mix along with a visual overhaul of the old game. Trailer here.

Are you indispensable?

Evidence has emerged that seafaring humans existed much much earlier than previously thought.

NY Times:

Word of the find is circulating among the ranks of Stone Age scholars. The few who have seen the data and some pictures — most of the tools reside in Athens — said they were excited and cautiously impressed. The research, if confirmed by further study, scrambles timetables of technological development and textbook accounts of human and prehuman mobility.