Flickr is a site that allows you to store and share photos. It was acquired by Yahoo. You can create multiple albums. There is a neat way to create a “Flickr Badge” to put on another website that leads to one of your photo albums:
.zg_div {margin:0px 5px 5px 0px; width:117px;}
.zg_div_inner { color:#666666; text-align:center; font-family:arial, helvetica; font-size:11px;}
.zg_div a, .zg_div a:hover, .zg_div a:visited {color:#3993ff; background:inherit !important; text-decoration:none !important;}
zg_insert_badge = function() {
var zg_bg_color = ‘ffffff’;
var zgi_url = ‘http://www.flickr.com/apps/badge/badge_iframe.gne?zg_bg_color=’+zg_bg_color+’&zg_person_id=41043338%40N00’;
document.write(”);
if (document.getElementById) document.write(‘
}
zg_toggleWhat = function() {
document.getElementById(‘zg_whatdiv’).style.display = (document.getElementById(‘zg_whatdiv’).style.display != ‘none’) ? ‘none’ : ‘block’;
document.getElementById(‘zg_whatlink’).style.display = (document.getElementById(‘zg_whatdiv’).style.display != ‘none’) ? ‘none’ : ‘block’;
return false;
}
zg_insert_badge();
if (document.getElementById) document.getElementById(‘zg_whatdiv’).style.display = ‘none’;
Quantum Google
Borrowed without permission from Scot Hacker:
Been a long time since your last quantum physics class? Lost touch with the essential weirdness of the double-slit experiment? Amazingly clear and enjoyable explanatory video, now visible inline thanks to the new “Put on site” feature at Google Video.
Thanks Oliver
Choate on iPod Shuffle
Danny and I were out shopping for nail clippers for the ladies when we spotted a bunch of iPod accessories at Target. Danny gets a lot of use out of his iPod shuffle, but he thinks he would like to get the video iPod.
Brad Choate is an engineer who now works for Six Apart. I’ve followed his postings for a while. He says he’d take an iPod Shuffle any day over an iPod or Nano. He really likes the simplicity, small size, and durability.
A Writely Doc
This is a document. I am writing it with Writely which is an online word processor of sorts. I can write a posting using Writely (which has spell checking) and then post it to my blog. Writely will post it automatically.
Bold is this. Color are these.
- Bullet one
- Bullet two
- Bullet three
Will I ever use Writely again? Perhaps.
Estonians in the News
From an article about the recent OfficeMax security breach…
Oakland resident Alicia Vagts, 34, illustrates this possibility. She discovered in October that someone in Estonia was running up about $2,500 in fraudulent charges on her Washington Mutual debit card.
"I barely knew where Estonia was," she said. (It's on the Baltic Sea, right next to Russia.)
Fighting Sharks
A tip to take to the beach….
“If you’re being approached by a shark, you certainly want to act aggressively toward the animal. They’re a predator, they respect size and power,” Burgess said.
“If you can smack them on the nose, certainly do so … sharks seem to respect pops on the nose.”
Print Button Won’t Work In Tiger
I could not get my iBook to print to the shared HP Deskjet 6540 on our iMac. In a print dialog, the Print button would do nothing. I could only Cancel to get out of the dialog.
This posting solved my problem. It basically involved resetting everything print related.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=727249&#727249
1. Delete the Print Preferences. Do a search (File menu/Find command) for files that start with com.apple.print and delete them. Then restart.
2. Launch Printer Setup Utility. Choose “Reset Printing System” from main menu.
3. Select (in this case shared) printer and add.
I was able to create a PDF immediately and then Print right after that.
Hands on Fingers
Be careful. You might get hypnotized.
Thanks to Scot.
Adorable Jeb Sucking Thumb
Following a google ad for “everything jeb” on my own blog, I landed on an e-bay item entitled “Adorable Jeb Sucking Thumb.” I have 3 hours and 37 minutes to decide if I should by this for my Mom.
del.icio.us
If you find a website that you want to revisit, where do you store the link? You can bookmark the link, but I don’t like this because I use more than one computer and the bookmarks end up on different machines.
I’ve used bookmarks.yahoo.com for a long time to store links I regularly visit… bank login site, 401k site, and the like. I put the bookmarks module on my.yahoo.com page. I even keep important (and difficult to remember) links that only work inside our company including human resource links and reporting links.
But what about links that you want to share and maybe revisit some time in the future once or twice? This is where del.icio.us comes in. You can quickly store a page on your del.icio.us page and go back and quickly find it later on. You can even share it. My public site is del.icio.us/fishback. I’m surprised how often I go back and look things up there.
One of my most recent links is to an article on how to include your del.icio.us links on your MovableType page using Feed Digest. You will see my most recent 10 links to the right.
It took me a while to understand how to use del.icio.us. Remembering how to spell it and where the dots go was one hurdle. However, I installed two bookmarks in my various browsers: one to del.icio.us/fishback for my own reference and one that lets me quickly post new links. Along with my.yahoo.com and bloglines.com, del.icio.us has become an important web surfing tool for me.
Oh… and in December, Yahoo bought del.icio.us, but I have not seen it show up as a Yahoo module yet.