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  • Introducing Motorola H5 MINIBLUE

    Motorola H5 Miniblue

    EEEwww! I want!

    A barely-there Bluetooth experience, the revolutionary Motorola H5 MINIBLUE is designed around the way your body works. The tiny headset fits discreetly in your ear and includes a built-in microphone and speaker, so your ear canal picks up your voice.
    …
    The advanced in-ear technology lets you hear and talk clearly. When you find yourself in a noisy environment, don’t worry about having to remove yourself when you receive a call. Just use the Motorola H5 MINIBLUE for strain-free conversation on the freeway* or in a coffee shop.

  • Podcasting $ounds fun!

    Remember how I used to talk up Rocketboom? Since discovering it on September 27, 2005 I didn’t miss a show until… I have yet to be able to watch Rocketboom again. I now suspect my Linksys router is the problem.

    Sarah wants to get into podcasting so I’ve made some efforts at understanding podcasting. In my research I discovered that Rocketboom has grown!

    Yesterday I was talking with Amanda Congdon, one of the co-founders of Rocketboom. Her videoblog is now seeing about 300,000 viewers a day. That’s, what, a year or so old? Did you know that advertisers are now paying her $85,000 per week? That’s almost as much money as I made in an entire year of working at Microsoft. [Source]

    This is not to imply that a 3 minute video blog is 3 minutes of work. "…Amanda tells me she and her team are working nearly around the clock right now to put together their three-minute videoblog…" Great success comes from great efforts! Money aside, video podcasting sound fun and is definitely a medium worth learning more about!

  • Rush Limbaugh held UP for 3 1/2 hours

    It’s hard for me to comment on this without laughing.

    Customs officials found in Limbaugh’s luggage a prescription bottle labeled as , a prescription drug that treats erectile disfunction, Miller said.

    “The problem was that on the bottle itself was not his name, but the name of two Florida doctors,” Miller said.

    This is certainly going to get a rise out of the left while leaving the right a little hard up. . Some more at Daily KOS.

  • Army of one

    In my race against time, I’m losing.

  • Keep those posts coming! Some of my blogging tricks.

    WordPress dashboard showing scheduled posts

    I enjoy blogging. I enjoy both the writing side of blogging as well as the reading and interacting side of blogging. I personally think it is more pleasureable to read a blog that has a steady stream of information rather than bursts of quantity followed by silence. I believe that is one aspect of Instapundit that makes Glen Reynolds (and his rumored ghost writers) stand out. Like dead air on the radio, several days or weeks of no posts can cost your blog readership.

    I collect links and tidbits as I work. When I’m researching and see something interesting I open a tab in Firefox and hold the link. My goal, of course, is to write something substantial and correlate to other sources and similar tidbits but rather than Pulitzer I often end up with a couple of sentences saying, "check this out!" I also have friends that instant message or email interesting links which go into the pool of possible publishings. And my browser homepage for Firefox is the Geek Crack site http://popurls.com/ while Internet Explorer retains the news portal iWon.

    My trick to steady posting is to devote a bit of time each Sunday to making non-time sensitive posts into the future. This was a feature that Blogger lacked. On blogger, posting in the future made the information immediately available but with a future date. As you can see in the picture, WordPress handles future posts correctly! The screenshot shows my recent posts today but also reveals seven scheduled posts already written which will appear whether or not I’m frantically working, or even away from my computer. The next one arrives in 16 hours then another in 20 hours, three post in 2 days, and finally two posts 4 days from now. These non-time sensitive posts come from the links I’ve collected over the week. The scheduled posts may only be a couple of sentences but if time permits over the week, I can improve the information before their scheduled time (and being what a blog is, I can update them at any time but my style is typically to leave a post alone once it publishes).

    By using scheduling features of your blog publishing software, you can have posts appear while you are at the office of a business that has a policy against blogging at work. You can keep your readers satisfied with a steady stream of good writing. By spreading your material out over time, you avoid turning your readers into skimmers because of information overload. Write steady!

    Update: Swap Blog also offers bloggers some good advice.

  • Use your tools correctly.

    We all use Microsoft Office. Maybe some of us use Open Office but most people will lay hands on MS Word or Excel at some point in the day. So why not use them better? Microsoft offers all kinds of downloadable templates to make our lifes easier! I’ve decided to quit reinventing the wheel and appreciate what is already made for me.

  • Ajax Tutorial and Prototype

    I’ve had Pete Freitag’s Ajax Tutorial and Prototype open for awhile with intent to share. Since I haven’t looked through it yet, I can’t say anthing beyond that. It is written in conjunction with ColdFusion.

  • Hanso Foundation Hacked

    So, is this part of the game? Is it real? Or are the developer buying time to work on the next phase?

    The Hanso Foundation site has been hacked by malicious infiltrators seeking to blemish the good work of many dedicated researchers. Until a legal investigation is complete, the site will no longer be accessible to the public. Namaste.

    [Source]

  • Profiling based on online behavior

    My wife is a male under the age of 18 based on her domain name. But based on a query against her real name, she is a female between the ages of 18 and 24.

    I’m a male between the ages of 35-49 based on my name. http://blog.siliconholler.com/ is gender neutral and under 18.

    Michael Silence is a female under the age of 18–nice pseudonym for a female writer! KristyK is under 18 and split exactly between male and female. Big Orange Michael is a teenage male. And Barry is a female between 25 and 34. Wow! Did I ever have the wrong impression about you guys! Btw, Google happens to be absolutely written by a woman age 25-34.

    I don’t have a lot of confidence in Microsoft’s Demographic Predictor.

  • DDR – Dance Dance Revolution

    Ok, Now I give the game some respect.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Amy, deep asleep, loud and with enthusiasm: "Thank you elephant!"

  • Large walls

    My dragons are formidable today.

  • Understanding Net Neutrality

    I posted a link called Understanding Net Neutrality which presented a video in favor of net neutrality. A commenter pointed to a video against net neutrality. Both videos seemed to leave out critical information in my mind. Tom Maszerowski point us to Larry Lessig who links us to a must watch video by Tim Berners-Lee. The summary:

    Net neutrality is this:

    If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.

    That’s all. Its up to the ISPs to make sure they interoperate so that that happens.

    Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the internet for free.

    Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will.

    Be politically active in your life. There is time for a simple phone call or email. Contact your representative frequently!

  • Because your panty liners and writing materials should coordinate!

    In the category of "not something you see everyday" is Velvet Journal and Pad Collaboration

    This is a special collaboration between Becky’s Paper Creations and Go With The Flow.
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    This set would be a wonderful gift for a young girl starting her journy to womanhood.

    Ok. Let’s review that. "This set would be a wonderful gift for a young girl starting her journy to womanhood." Can you imagine that journal? "omg! The cramps!" and "wtf! I wuz wearing white today. I say white!"

    Mrs. Eaves at AtomicTumor says, "Don’t ask me how I came upon this link…" but I want to emphasize exactly where I came upon this link. That’s right! I got it from Mrs. Eaves at AtomicTumor! Just to be clear incase you were asking why I’d be looking for just such a link.

    If you are going to get this as a gift for someone, she might enjoy a purse to carry her journal and things in.

  • Sleep tight

    I think it says a lot when you fall asleep to Joe Walsh singing, "life’s been good to me so far."