flickr del.icio.us digg 30boxes twitter edit: link removed since I’m not using this service. Check me out on tumblr.com instead jaiku /edit And facebook (although, really, not so much)
and now, tumblr. I have a feeling this one is going to win out over jaiku, and lemme tell ya why.
First up it’s what they are calling a tumble log. Not quite full blown blogging (I have a few sites for that already as you know), but more than micro-blogging (twitter). It’s for random thoughts, photos, quotes, junk, whatever.
PLUS…(yes, there is always a plus, and this might be the best of them all)
It, like jaiku and 30boxes, has the ability to import as many RSS feeds into as I like, and then condenses them all down to a single feed. I’m still playing with it to see how much and how often it imports, but so far it looks promising.
I don’t think I’m going to stick with Jaiku. There is just too much going on there and it’s distracting and sometimes hard to follow. Besides, I really don’t need another place for comments. What a pain. Oh yea, you have to visit the site to post, which I’ve already mentioned is a major turn off for me. At least with tumblr, there is a Firefox bookmarklet and a dashboard widget should I actually feel like posting something.
In about a week I’ll come back and let all y’all know what I really think and share the feed. If you want to check it out now, I’m dbwilldo.tumblr.com. Feed is at the bottom of the page.
If you need to gain access to a folder on an XP Professional hard drive installed within a computer running XP Home, reboot into safe mode as admin. There you can change permissions and ownership so you can have full access to whatever you need.
Just stuff for the ol’ personal wiki gang.
So, here I sit, the year 2007 (at my new desk even) surfing around to get some information at a couple of sites. Imagine my surprise to find not 1 but 2 sites that don’t work at all UNLESS you access them in IE.
What? Are you f’ing kidding me? Who hires shops in this day and age that produces this kind of work? Honestly people! This wouldn’t be such a big deal except that in doing this, close to half of the people that visit your site won’t be able to access it.
The offenders? LA Fitness. The site for my gym. It’s mostly flash based, but the numbskulls that did the dev made it so you have to use the Flash Active X plug-in, not just flash. I’ve been to the gym. There are Mac users there, I can just tell. Too bad none of them can use the site.
The other, oddly enough, is Western Union. Huge site, lots of potential for sales and all that with the money transfers. Weird thing is this site used to work in FF no problem at all. Not any more. I thought maybe it was FF on the Mac, so I fired up the PC and tried FF again, still no joy. I had to actually start IE to get the damned site work.
This is completely inexcusable in this day and age gang! IE only sites are for your intranet, not your public-everyone-can-use-it site. That’s just insane. At least, if you are going to insist that your site only work in IE, you should put one of those graphics on the page, circa ‘95. What, you don’t remember it? Well, I can’t find one right now, but I know they have to still be out there!
Started playing around with Jaiku tonight.
I’m thinking this might be cool. Lemme tell you why.
Like Twitter, you can post short messages of up to 140 characters. Unlike Twitter, you can also link up other feeds that have you written all over them. For example, I have my Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, dbmini.us and WRR all linked up.
I’ll report back at the end of the week with my final thoughts. If you want to see what it does for me, check it out at dbwilldo.jaiku.com.
So, at the end of June I’m going to be in Europe for a week and we just made a couple of changes to our itinerary.
The original plan was to travel through London and maybe get a tour of the MINI Plant before heading over to Amsterdam. That is still the plan and it looks like MINI is going to really take care of us for it. That means we’ll be soundseeing the plant in Oxford prior to MINI United, as well as some other things I’m sure. We might even get a press car for the day too!
We will be in Amsterdam 1 day early to get setup. We’ll have a tent, a fast internet connection and places to sit for us and anyone else that wants to stop by. Todd thinks we should have a full bar too, but I’mnot sure we’ll get that.
To recap where we will be posting (it has changed a bit).
- Audio and video will be on WRR and MF
- Still waiting for this, but there will be blog posts at the MINI United site.
- With my newest gadget, I will be posting pictures to the Flickr. Oh yea, I’ll be sharing those on the MINI United Flickr Group as well.
- Y’all know I’ll be posting a nugget or two here too.
Personal Wiki time
Things I still need to get.
- Power plug adapters x3 (laptop, camera charger, mixer)
- Need a way to communicate, since I won’t have a phone and I won’t buy an unlocked phone with a prepaid SIM. Maybe a Skype phone?
- A new backpack. Target has a keen Eddie Bauer laptop backpack that I’ve been eyeing
- A pouch/bag for the camera.
- Extra battery for the camera (maybe)
- Airplane power adapter if I fly perferred economy on VA or BA
- Airplane ticket
Misc Stuff
I recently realized that I’ve been making good use of the Wordpress more tag. I also remembered that I complained about that not too long ago. My apologies. I will stop. I only did it because my posts tend to get fairly long sometimes and they hog the page. Trust me, it’s not any wacky SEO tricks (do you see any ads?) or a lame attempt to get you back here to comment (since I’m pretty sure you’ll do that anyway).
Fixed the Google reader problem, for those of you that use it. It was the search highlight plug-in. Probably too old for this version of WP.
And, today, I will end with a few pictures that I have taken this week.
a zoom test. This was taken at full zoom from 25 feet away.
playing around when I had a few extra minutes in the office
taken on Ortega Hwy when I was waiting to pass through the construction zone. I’m pleased with how it turned out.
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