Slow but sure

I have been working to get all my old posts moved over from my previous blog to this new location. Fairly tedious work. Hope to wrap this up in a week or two.

Go Bears :)

Memories

A long time ago, on a PC far far away... Start Me Up

More pointless fun

Sometimes the simpliest things can waste the most time....

http://www.florito.net/Wind_generators/applet/index.html

Four great Internet phenomena

Based on the purchase price of You Tube, I think it we would have to add it to this list, but here are four other VERY successful simple ideas that got over BIG TIME.

Raply - Browse and chat

Raply is an interesting tool to let you chat with other Raply users viewing the same page. Free, easy, and only mildly confusing :)

This is brought to us by the gang at Numly. Numly, along with docly and writely are all worth a peek when you have the time.

And the Web 2.0 winners are...

Not MySpace!

Wired has provided a list of their cut on Web 2.0 winners and losers. Interesting read. Minor quibbles from me on this list. Digg is not in the top 5. and MySpace is in the bottom 5. While I totally agree with their assessment of MySpace's shortcomings - especially the design trainwreck that nearly all sites display - I can't see how this is not still considered the 600 pound gorilla.

Who is even close to the user base of MySpace? If social networking is all about people... don't they kinda win??

Search party

New search engine out there that blends community with the search tool. Interesting.

www.chacha.com

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - an unlikely blogger

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has his own blog. Once I clicked on the small, mildly defaced, American flag I was able to read his first (lengthy) post.

He also had a poll for readers to vote yes or no on America's intentions to start a world war. I am pretty sure the next poll wont be "who is you favorite Backstreet Boy"... but I will check to make sure.

The site even offers an RSS feed. Since Iran has the most sophisticated internet censorship systems in the world, not sure how necessary RSS is, but who am I to judge.

Personalized home pages

I still stick with the figure that only 10% of people will ever bother to personalize a home page. As Yahoo, Google and others develop their widgets to drop on your desktop, this seems to offer a carrot to get people to spend a bit of time providing basic information to better personalize content and apps.

So, does life begin at your browser default page or your desktop in the future? Desktop methinks. Eventually.

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/09/programmed-personal-homepages.html

More useless fun

Digg is becoming a very effective way for me to waste far too much time.

This was a fun discovery...

Ragdoll and Spikes

Dark matter... ummm matters

Read a good article that explained the universe is made up of about:

• 25 percent dark matter (matter does not absorb or emit light)
• 5 percent ordinary matter (planets, K-Fed,and basically everything else with mass)
• 70 percent dark energy (the force that is pushing the universe apart at an ever increasing rate, maybe K-fed fits here too)
  

My e-mail inbox seems to be overflowing with dark energy lately.

Poor Pluto

In a move that will undo the ruler-based nun training I received at a tender age, looks like we are moving from 9 to 12 planets. Pluto was on the bubble, but instead of hanging with the jock (Classical) planets, it now must live with being ranking member of the geeks (Plutons).

I bet UB313 is the first to get a swirly.

The purpose of the Internet

Sure you can book travel, social network, keep up on news, yada yada... but the Internet REALLY exists to provide you this.

Meet Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager

Good for Google

Google is now posting warnings about sites in your search results list that might behave badly

I am sure someone will have a problem with this - but I, for one, am glad to see it.

URLs gone bad

This got sent my way and I thought it was pretty funny.

URLs gone bad

Making fun look like work

Web pages (text heavy please) magically transform into office product clothing...

www.workfriendly.net

While one chicken might disagree...

Alice Cooper...

national treasure

Microsoft's "Windows Principles" are definitely worth a read.

Seems like some sound thinking, but nearly every article I read on these introduced them as the "non-binding Windows Principles". One would expect that this was not a radomly chosen adjective.

IM replacing e-mail?

Interesting article on IM turning e-mail into the next snail mail.

I am guessing this rings true... depending on your age and texting skills.

XBox Portable and the World Cup Head Butt

Of little or no redeeming value, but worth 2 minutes of your time...

XBox Portable and the World Cup Head Butt