A Denver man who put an ad on craigslist hoping someone could lend a hand and get a cat down from the top of a 60-foot tree in front of his house got the help he needed.
A professional tree trimmer with a bucket truck showed up Tuesday morning to rescue the high-climbing feline.
MySQL guru, open-source evangelist, prominent tech blogger, and long time Yahoo engineer Jeremy Zawodny has now announced that he will be gliding into our little Shangri-La as of July 21st.
We’re excited to have him joining our team.
Worth mentioning that the CL tech hiring bit remains set to “1″ for star LAMPerl developers, systems heavyweights, and networking wizards.
Yet Another Missed Connections Success Story (YAMCSS)
Unlike most, this one was featured on The Ellen Degeneres Show
We’re experimenting with CAPTCHA images from the reCAPTCHA project at Carnegie Mellon, here’s an excerpt from the reCAPTCHA wikipedia entry:
“reCAPTCHA supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the book digitization project) present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, thereby contributing to the digitization project. The result is that the university receives approximately 3,000 man hours per day of free labor to help in the preservation of books.”
Luis Von Ahn, who originally coined the term CAPTCHA back in 2000, is also the guy behind the reCAPTCHA project, not to mention the ESP Game, and several other “games with a purpose.”
Please don’t waste dirt’s time by emailing dirt and asking for more money.
DIRT isn’t here to subsidize your craigslist lifestyle.
For garage & yard sales:
