Can I do this?
I'd like to create a web page that list all web pages that don't link to themselves. Technorati Tags: odd
The System Administrators Song
"A song about those very special people that make sure your computer works. They are called System Administrators." "…. sometimes he just presses caps lock and walks away, and wow, hey, my password works again! … "
Funny! Technorati Tags: funny
Funny
Good for a 1 minute chuckle:
"In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." (from The Credit Card Prank)
Technorati Tags: funny
Robin Good has interesting predictions
Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.
"If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting new tools and events happening online, what are the key trends you see? Where among the new emerging online media, should you be looking next when trying to understand where to invest your future energies and money?" (from New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring?)
Worth reading.
Using AJAX to do word processing on the web
You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as "AJAX" - Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (Microsoft claims that they had it like 5 years ago - which everyone scoffs at.) Here's a good article about Ajax and how it's being used to build word processing applications that run directly in the browser:
"None of these methods, however, are as simple to set up as a standard Web browser, which can quickly access a file from anywhere in the world. That's the promise that AJAX brings to the party." (from AJAX: the way word processing will be)
One very impressive example cited in the article is Writely. It's (of course) free and easy to try. It really seems to work. Of course when it comes to word processing, features matter, but reliability matters a lot too. Last thing I want is to lose the 10 page term paper and not be able to retrieve it. Check it out.
Technorati Tags: ajax
They are all fake…
Check out these amusing images which I came across on the Advertising/Design
Goodness Blog.
Yes, they are all fake , but very cool!
Technorati Tags: advertising,
attention,
cool
Long tail UI Widget
This is kind of cool. I am playing around with the
Last.FM music service. Among the many things it
does, is that It 'watches' everything you play with iTunes to figure out your
music tastes. And then with that, Last.FM recommends
music that you might like. What caught my eye is the first use of the famous
'long tail' graph as a
User Interface element. You can drag the vertical bar right and left to affect
whether the recommended music is more in the popular or obscure range of
possibilities. Cute! Technorati Tags:
cool,
longtail
Web 2.0, I knew ye well. Here comes Web 2.5
Check out Liam Breck's new blog.
"Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you've usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work." (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools)
Welcome, Liam! Technorati Tags: web2.0
[GEEK] Maybe Attention.xml and OPML shouldn’t always travel together
"Personally, I want the data the AttentionRecorder is collecting to be used, but I don't want to freight porting my feeds from one platform to another with those additional 10000+ rows of data." (from elliptical…")
While it may make sense to use OPML as a foundation for the format for Attention information, they are not one and the same and should not be inexorably bound. In the world of aggregators , the one of the original and core use of OPML was interoperability -- import and export of a user's set of subscriptions from one aggregator to the next. The potential voluminousness of attention information would harm OPMLs role as the universal interchange format between aggregators. Now the approach of using an app specific namespace for attention information is perfectly fine, as long as it is optional, and as long as aggregators can safely ignore it in cases when it doesn't matter. (I note that from a purely parochial development effort point of view, this is superior to a new format such as XOXO which aggregators generally aren't parsing nor generating.) Technorati Tags: OPML, attention, XOXO
Really cool rowing instrumentation
If there are any rowing fanatics out there, or competitive rowing coaches, take a look at this cool in- boat rowing instrumentation product.
"The RowMetrics system is innovative in-boat instrumentation bundled with software to provide a complete measurement system.The revolutionary force sensors installed between the foot stretchers and the rails capture the amount of force being exerted by each rower on a stroke by stroke basis. It measures the balance between the right and left feet for each rower. Also captured is the total boat's performance and the deceleration after catch. " (from ChampionMetrics web ite)