July 31, 2008 at 9:30 pm
· Filed under Design
It may be time for me to start using delicious again. They’ve just launched a big site redesign, which at first glance looks very good. I also didn’t realize they were now owned by Yahoo (since 2005) — and I think Yahoo does a very good job with its web apps (i.e. flickr ). The site was also a regular theme in David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, which I just finished reading. I’ll write more about the book in a future post (in short it has some good ideas and is worth picking up).
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July 31, 2008 at 9:12 pm
· Filed under Lifestyle
I never bothered with MySpace, so I can’t really compare. And frankly, while I have a FaceBook profile I can’t say I am an active user. I mostly have it to keep current with ‘what its all about.’ But at least for the moment it looks like I picked the right place to be…
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July 31, 2008 at 8:56 pm
· Filed under Learn
Here is a recent article on the whole textbook industry vs. student peer-to-peer sharing mess. The Pirate Bay, which has proved pretty untouchable with music sharing, is now being used for text book sharing. The article offers the example of an Organic Chemistry text book that can cost $110 used, up to $210 at full retail value. In digital form, wrapped in digital rights management, with a one semester subscription, it runs $110.
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July 31, 2008 at 8:31 pm
· Filed under Technology
Here is another good reason to use flickr — a nifty application that uses your photosets to provide a full-screen photo viewer. It is all web based — if you don’t have flickr, but want to see it in action enter rodeworks as the flicr name. You can enjoy pictures from our recent hike to the top of Mt. Washington.
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July 28, 2008 at 8:20 am
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I’ve taken two excellent PHP classes offerred by New York PHP. They just announced a partnership with CUNY to offer a 4 day intensive course on programming with PHP. If you are looking for a quick-start with PHP this may be your chance.
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July 24, 2008 at 11:18 am
· Filed under Lifestyle
Why not? For me I use it as my notebook on things of interest. Some entries are quick jots on a technology/book or other bit that I think I might refer to later. Others are more thoughtful, and offer me a chance to work out a thought drawing on recent reading and research. And I like the writing. I hope others find this of interest, but if not it still serves my needs. And when it stops doing that I’ll stop.
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