I am now the proud owner of a shiny new red swingline stapler. It goes really well with my new desk.
Presidential debate
I did not get a chance to watch the debate last night, but from what I’ve heard, this video posted on the Democratic Party site sums it up pretty well. I’m not sure how persistent the link to the video will be so check their site for the orginal post if it doesn’t work.
Color Management in Photoshop
Author Bruce Fraser’s collection of articles on color management and Photoshop. We have finally started messing about with our Epson scanner and color printer. I need to work on getting the most out of both.
Brandon Fuller’s plugin for iTunes incorporates iPodder and BitTorrent
Interesting update to Brandon Fuller’s Now Playing iTunes plugin for Movable Type. It now supports downloading of enclosures via iPodder and BitTorrent technologies. Haven’t had a chance to test this out and I’ll post an update once I get it up and running. Here’s his post on how he configured and is using BitTorrent More tools for podcasting.
Podcasting
Doc Searls nails some of the key advantages of podcasting in his post DIY radio with PODcasting bq. “The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it’s live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it’s Net-native. That is, it’s archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience…
Capturing ideas
I have used a variety of tools over the years to capture those fleeting thoughts and bits of information that stream through my mind and across my desk every day. Here’s my current setup: * Moleskine notebooks – I keep a pocket version with me at all times. When I am at my computer I dump my notes into my…
Flickr plugin for MT
Flickr Photosets Movable Type Plugin This plugin uses the Flickr API to fetch a list of Photosets from Flickr that you can then include in your MovableType weblog.
Addicted to the Daily Source Code
Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code is now part of my regular listening habits. My iPodder script snags the latest show, loads it up into iTunes (don’t have an iPod) and away we go. Part of the appeal for me is that it is truly a work in progress. Over the past few weeks, Curry has been trying various software and…
Happy birthday Lisa
I want to wish my wife Lisa a happy XXth birthday. We have been married more than half of my life now. As Melvin Udall said in the movie As Good as It Gets, “You make me want to be a better man”. Here’s to many more birthdays together.
Proud papa
I was surprised and a bit proud to see my son’s name in my aggregator this morning. Rajesh Jain linked to him today in his Emergic.org weblog. My son decided to write an introduction to mesh networking as a way to introduce the concept to non-technical folks and also by posting it on his weblog he hoped the mesh networking…