Testing

I think I've turned this hardly used blog into my test blog. I try out new templates, embeds and other cool stuff here before I put them on my other blogs.

Testing Themes

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Wow, so this is the new Blogger

Very interesting. I see a text box down below that allows me to enter Labels for this post. That's nice because I used to add Technorati Tags into my template to accomplish the same thing. Let's see if I can add a table.

Test
Nope, doesn't look like it.

Now test out a quote.

I may be stupid but I ain't breathing heavy - Rocky Balboa

Interesting indeed.

Free Energy

What if you created a free energy machine, but nobody believed you.

But What about Mickey?

Scientists decide Pluto’s no longer a planet - Space News - MSNBC.com

Yahoo Answers is pretty cool!

Superheroes On Patrol

Masked crusader: "Mr. Silent just brushes it off. People aren't accustomed to seeing superheroes patrolling the city . . . yet. But since the duo began this 'experiment,' as Mr. Silent calls it, the superhero trend has started to catch on. Others have e-mailed the duo asking how they can join and superheroes have popped up in other cities worldwide, he said..."

Unleashing Cosmic Destruction

Asteroid to narrowly miss Earth.

I've heard of this before. 2000 years later, the Earth will be reborn into a world of savagery, super science and sorcery. But one man will burst his bonds...

He is Thundarr, the barbarian!

Poor Screech

Screech is selling t-shirts now to try and raise enough money so the bank doesn't foreclose on his house. Sounds like he's having a run of bad luck. Hope it works out for him.

Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday

Wow, this is pretty cool. I remember when Kevin Rose mentioned on TWIT a while back that they wanted to expland Digg.com beyond Tech News.

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats

I think the most impressive part of the Digg.com story is the incredible traffic that they're getting now. 800,000 uniques a day and 8.5 million page views. That's a lot of people who like to Digg.

Jagr doubtful for Game 3; Lundqvist back

Jagr doubtful for Game 3; Lundqvist back: "He moved his injured arm here and there, but nothing to suggest he's close to returning to help his struggling New York Rangers for their biggest games in nine years.

'It would have to be a miracle,' Jagr said Tuesday. 'But hey, I believe in miracles.'"

Espressotini

Just found the recipe for an Espressotini. Next time I want to get wound up and relax at the same time I'm breaking out the espresso maker and the cocktail shaker.

Pool Work

Check out the pool work being done at the Compost Bin Blog. Good Stuff

Howard Stern paid less per hour than Oprah Winfrey

No surprise that Oprah makes more than Howard Stern but these numbers are just out of this world.
Howard paid less per hour than Oprah: "Stern’s deal is fatter, but he’s got to work a four-hour day. Still, $93,000 an hour is nothing to sneeze at – unless you’re Winfrey, pulling in $705,000..."

Macworld Expo Prediction: Apple + Intel + Tivo = Home Media Dominance

I've been meaning to write this prediction down for a while now and I'm finally getting around to it. Most people agree that Steve Jobs will announce his latest "one more thing" the new Intel Mac Mini with Tivo-Killer functionality at the Macworld Expo. But the surprise will be that the Tivo-Killer functionality will be provided by Tivo itself.

Let me explain how I came to this conclusion. As the owner of a Powerbook and a Tivo, it's very upsetting that there is no Tivo-To-Go support for OS X. Sure lots of companies don't support the tiny 5% of computer users on the Apple OS but Tivo's really handled the issue as if they were handcuffed by an NDA. They're working on it, no date set yet but we're working on it. Maybe sometime soon, etc, etc.

The other announcement that confirmed it for me was the joint Intel/Tivo support for the Viiv thing. Viiv (rhymes with Alive) equiped computers are designed to run your home media centers.

Hmmm, sounds like something big is hiding out there in plain sight. Taken separately these two items seem like normal everyday news. But when you put these facts together, it gets you thinking.

Regardless of what is announced at Macworld Expo, it will definitely be an interesting event.

Tags: apple, tivo, Intel

Seth Godin's Squidoo Opens It's Beta To The Public

More Web 2.0 news. It seems like Web 2.0 is all I can talk about lately. Seth Godin's Squidoo is now in open beta. I was in on the closed beta test and came up with a pretty good lens about Fondue.

Diggity, Digg, Digg... in the dirt.

More Web 2.0 News: Digg.com receives 2.8 million dollars in venture capital.

I heard in one of the TWIT podcasts that Kevin Rose has a lot of plans for Digg.com. I think Dvorak said something like, You could use the Digg idea for a lot of other things. Kevin Rose replied that there were other things already in the works. I guess that's what the 2.8 million dollars is for. Good for him and good luck too.

Now remember what happened during the boom and don't waste that money on Aeron Chairs and pool tables and other crap. 2.8 million could give you a nice sized staff to help promote those other situations where a Digg model would be helpful.

I’m on a Web 2.0 kick lately. They say that before the internet crash it took millions to form a new startup. The first step back then was to get angel funding. Now in the web 2.0 era, there’s free open source software, cheap hardware/hosting, and built in revenue streams like adsense and affiliate programs. You can literally start you company from your garage on a shoe string budget and grow your company with revenue instead of selling your soul to investors.

The other part of the web 2.0 definition is that these new websites are services. Users and other developers should have access to your services so they can create all kinds of new tools that you would have never though of. Another aspect of a web 2.0 site is that they’re very community oriented. The users are in control of content. There’s sites like Flickr, Digg, Technorati, del.icio.us and more. Those are the sites that stand above the rest and a lot of them seem to just be hype. I saw one that reminded me of the internet boom and I was like, yeah so what? Another thing that I just heard in the web 2.0 podcast is that Digg doesn’t fully pay for it’s hosting. They have 7 servers and their own switch, etc but someone helps them out with that. Kevin Rose met a lot of people on TechTV and made some great contacts. He said that they wouldn’t be able to afford to pay for it with their adsense revenue. Interesting stuff.

One startup that I’m waiting patiently for is Squidoo. Seth Godin who wrote permission marketing and a bunch other excellent books that I read during the boom came up with the idea of lenses. 1 page guides to any topic. He believes that these pages will become more valuable to people looking for information than a seach engine. Think about the last thing that you searched for in Google. Did you find what you were looking for? If you did, you probably had a dig through a few pages of sites selling stuff to find the information you were looking for. Squidoo is hopefully going to filter out the noise better than the search engines with their new LensRank algo. We’ll see how that works out. I know I’ll be banging out all kinds of pages once the beta opens up.

Web 2.0 is the internet's 2nd chance. I’m sure that some people will believe their own hype and blow it again but some good is definitely going to come out of this.

So the big rumor today is that Google and Sun are going to announce their Microsoft Office killer. It’s be a web based tool based on OpenOffice with online storage of your files that you can access from any web browser. Sounds to me like we’re back to the days of dumb terminals but I welcome someone trying to topple the Microsoft monopoly.

Ajax, Ajax, Ajax! It seems like you can’t look at the web without someone telling you how great Ajaxis or how it’s going to change the web (like in the Google/Sun Office killer). For someone used to PC development, Ajax just makes the web more useable. Better user experience, less submitting forms and page reloads make for more efficient use of server resources. Maybe these dumb terminals won’t be so dumb after all. So I guess we’re back to Client Server Development with Fat Clients.