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Finished reading: There is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm 📚 One of those books that leads you to immediately want to know what others think happened in the book. Christopher Nolan could have some fun with it.

Waffle Time: I feel that I spend a lot of time watching AI think and know that I should be doing other things while it processes. We have a guy here in town who will show up and make waffles for church fundraisers and such. He doesn’t wait for one waffle to finish, he lines up a couple dozen waffle makers …

I keep thinking about how much the playing surface comes into play with the Winter Olympics, while struggling to come up with similar situations in the Summer Olympics. Whether it is on snow or ice, the most athletic, most prepared athlete can find themselves far off the podium because they found a …

Why do we have interleague games and why in the heck are we opening the season with it?!?! Been waiting since fall for baseball. Let’s start with a great division game!

Throwing away some old discs…

Our radio club’s education chair said he expects over 40 people for a free one-day technician (entry-level radio license) class this weekend. That’s awesome, but it’s been causing me to wonder what’s driving people to attend? Science? Public service? Weather Prep? General …

Radio is amazing. Despite a small geomagnetic storm yesterday, I turned it on for a few minutes before dinner and immediately had a short chat with someone from São Paulo, Brazil—5,500 miles away. Nothing between me and him but two transceivers and nature.

While I’ve traveled the public transit a lot here over the years, a recent YouTube video I saw mentioned the PedWay which I guess I’ve seen signs for but never checked out. It was the perfect way to explore the loop area without going outside on a frigid morning! We started at Macy’s, went through …

I brought a meshtastic node to Chicago and it was fun to see how many nodes were in place here. There was a little chatter on it last night.

In Chicago for a couple days to celebrate NYE and I’m liking our 23rd floor hotel room view

2025 Holiday Nebraska Beer Tour complete! We drove 185 miles west to Cozad for “The Frontier Frau” and enjoyed their German brews and sausage/kraut pizza! We followed that up with Lost Way Brewing in Holdrege and finished at the Liederkranz in Grand Island.

The latest Google Year in Review is out and they just get lamer every year — at this point it feels like something they put out because they feel they have to. These were at their best nearly 15 years ago.

Old debate: Is Steam Deck a console or a PC? It runs Windows games, so it is a PC. It is a known spec that developers target, and it has a simple interface to minimize friction in launching and running games, so it is a console. Both terms attract and scare would-be buyers.

My kids are both involved in band and choir, and I love this time of year with the end-of-semester concerts. Throw in some choirs and carols at church, and it makes the 0º temperatures and icy surfaces just part of the fun :-)

Black Friday Prep: My kids (high school and college) have brought up going out for some early Black Friday shopping, as we have done many times in the past, but I’m increasingly asking them and myself, “Why?” Black Friday specials start days, if not weeks, before Friday. Stores aren’t open as …

Flu-season = mask-season: While I hate wearing a mask, I am PRO-mask. That said, I can’t help analyzing people’s mask choices and how they should guide my interactions with them. The thin blue masks that come in a box of 100 tell me that you may be ill and trying to protect others — I would go near you at my own peril. An …

Just finished: DIGITAL FORTRESS by DAN BROWN 📚 Only Dan Brown book I hadn’t read, and I probably should have just left it that way. I’m glad I can check it off and move on to something else.

I spend a lot of time just doing the necessary things for keeping our sites up to date and functional, but every once in a while, I get to spend a few hours doing something really fun, like creating an underwater environment for this science fair site :-)

I’m VERY excited that Drum Corps International is coming back to Nebraska. It has been many years, during which we’ve primarily gone to Fort Collins to see it. Troopers, Phantom… It’s going to be an excellent show.

Nuremberg: Watched: Nuremberg 🍿 I took my birthday off and saw this. Based on the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, I expect it should get some attention for the Oscars. You don’t have to see between the frames to get its warnings for the political situation today. The movie’s last …

Welp. My 50th trip around the sun is complete. It’s always fun to hear from family and friends to celebrate the beginning of another orbit. 🎂

I’ve wondered about the gap bisecting a building here in town. It looks neat, but it seems it would hurt the functionality of a covered pick-up/drop-off area when it’s raining. I figured I was missing something — but nope. It creates a waterfall right where folks are getting in and out …

Working audio for Saturday worship so being a good Lutheran by enjoying a German beer to prepare my heart, mind and liver.

Watching: Death by Lightning S1E2, Party Faithful 🍿 ”Music! Fighting! Sausages!” Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur

Pluribus Apple TV Series Gets Humorous ‘Bloodsong of Wycaro’ Book Tie-In Will Carol record the audiobook version? Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD did the narration for his “The You You Are” 🤣

Paramount Skydance is working on a new Star Trek movie Are we going to have a third timeline?!

My son is at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) — the world’s biggest gathering of people who like to hit things with sticks. It’s been fun to follow social media around the conference. I’m sure it’s a pretty different vibe from the technology …

Planning to watch: Death by Lightning Season 1 🍿 Have been a long-time fan of Candice Millard’s books and checked Amazon to see if she has one I haven’t read, and only a week ago a brand-new limited series came out on Netflix based on one of her books. I can’t wait to watch it!

Nailed it: It’s hard to cheer for billionaires, but it’s impossible not to get excited for scientists and engineers who create something that does exactly what it was designed to do. Congrats to everyone at Blue Origin. That was awesome! :root { --yt-aspect-ratio-16-9: 56.25%; --yt-bg-black: #000; …

Casey’s pizza is gold, I guess.

Cancel Shenanigans: I’ve been a subscriber to Font Awesome at $99/year for about a decade. I considered canceling and they reduced my annual fee by $20 — forever. That now shows up as a “Loyalty Discount”. What the heck is up with that?! I’m only considered loyal after I’ve threatened to …

Watched: Zero Dark Thirty 🍿 I saw The Hurt Locker, but after House of Dynamite, I realized that I had never watched this. I didn’t realize how messy the operation at Bin Laden’s compound was, with a downed chopper and all. I felt like I was watching Black Hawk Down. I figured it was some …

Watched: A House of Dynamite 🍿 Felt silly when I discovered this was on Netflix. With all I’ve heard about it, I was sure it was in theatres. Saying that I “enjoyed” it seems a little inappropriate – but it was a good enactment of the decisions that would need to be made in a …

November 2025 Auroras

UNL Percussion Ensemble — Fall 2025: The percussion studio at the University of Nebraska had a great program the other night. Unfortunately, the streaming/video/audio in their new building isn’t performing at the level of the musicians. :root { --yt-aspect-ratio-16-9: 56.25%; --yt-bg-black: #000; --yt-play-button-bg: rgba(255, …

Chrome Split-View: Not as full-featured as the split windows in Arc, but a very welcome addition. I hope they might add the option to have more than two in the future. At work, I like to have a split tab with calendar and mail, then a split tab with the ticket I’m working on and the site I’m editing. When I run my …

Reading news on NetNewsWire. Posting via MarsEdit. I feel like I’ve been to the future and I’m back to get a hug from 2005.

@mrwilson I used to enjoy that it was the service that everything else was built to talk to; also, that it was a sort of social media, showing me what all of my friends were up to. Increasingly, it seems they are making it more difficult, if not impossible, to interface with their data. At the same …

Doing radio support for a run this weekend and at the start (kickoff? step-off?), the feels-like temp is going to be 7º.... Yikes! Time to dig out the winter gear...

They did it—Alleluia! https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-added-shortcut-for-em-dashes

Palabra jot

What is more full of false hope than a document whose name ends in "FINAL"?

@bigzaphod my daughter was kind enough to go with me to see it at the theatre and somehow fell asleep through most of it so… maybe not as violent and exciting as I thought it was 😁

Mac user that needs a code editor? You can't beat Nova, and it's having a rare sale. Get 40% off for the next couple of weeks: https://nova.app/buy

I had a Virtual Boy when I was like 20 for a few days. I ended up returning it because it was uncomfortable/awkward to play, couldn't be enjoyed with anybody else and was expensive – that said, I remember thinking that the games were fun and the 3D effect was neat. I'll definitely have to …

Who wants a vomiting backpack?!

@DeniseG and I've been seeing people trying to do the math and thinking that it might not be enough. I'm not so excited about the beer — but I wouldn't say no to an irish coffee in November. :-)

@rustywx What do you think about lightning in the area for the marching band exhibition at 7?

When you were a kid, did you ever fall for the "Do you want to play the game 52-card pickup?" joke? That's how I feel every time I get a PDF that needs to be re-tagged for accessibility.

Sunday ARES net… I just need a cigar to really feel like Edward R. Murrow or something…

At what point do we talk about phones as the apps that they have become by saying "I spoke with them on Phone"?

@jw @cpultz I’ve always said the same thing… run temp Tuesday for a day in July!

Burger King Poutine… not bad!

It always takes me a second to process questions like "do you want that hot?" and "will that be hot or cold?" at the coffee shop because I get stuck on "people drink this cold?". It seems like a nonsensical question.

MacOS 26's Liquid Glass sure looks like the "Lickable" interface of MacOS X.

I thought this had something to do with a Die Hard game... nope. https://nintendoeverything.com/tamagotchi-plaza-coming-to-nintendo-switch/

@cpultz Looks like you might have another week of quiet :-)

@cpultz I think those happen automatically from the city's system — they even recommend using Waze (owned by Google) to keep up to date with closures. https://www.lincoln.ne.gov/City/Departments/LTU/LTU-Projects/Street-Closures-Map

@cpultz I agree — but when the Lincoln Community Foundation is offering matching funds to those who participate, organizations are silly to not take advantage of it. There was a time when it seemed that groups were thinking that November's Giving Tuesday was pretty neat and that every Tuesday …

I'm very happy to see MLB putting the camo and red/white/blue away this year for Memorial Day—opting instead for the humble poppy that they should have been using all along. U.S. fans may be confused by a symbol that forces one to reflect on the now-silent grounds where thousands died rather …

@cpultz no storm woke me up but my station reports 1.01 inches of rain. Hopefully it keeps coming for a couple days here.

@mrwilson Maybe they'll bring back the KarmelKorn that used to be on the first floor :-)

@nirak @aejolene There is an internet bridge that is supposed to be able to connect folks that aren't within radio-range of each other — but I haven't explored this much since I have LOTS of ways to communicate over the interwebs... like Mastodon! :-) …

@aejolene For sure. I'd love to see more pop up — and slowly, there seem to be. It's license-free, relatively cheap and fun :-) I've laughed at some of the YouTube videos about Meshtastic saying things like “The phone companies do NOT want you to know about this” — but it is neat to …

@nirak @aejolene Yes! I have 3 at the house — one on the north side, one on the south side and one that is portable — has a potential to be a lot of fun, but there aren't a lot of nodes around yet, so there's not much of a mesh. A friend was in LA this week and there were a LOT there

@mrwilson Looks like I'll be hanging out on the backside of route at 48th and Normal. I'll keep an eye out for you. :-)

@mrwilson good luck on Sunday!

@mrwilson I love marathon day and supporting the runners. We haven’t been given locations yet. Supposedly that’s coming today.

@cpultz volunteering for it and enjoying it 😀

@rustywx Thanks for posting here!

A system that requires an emailed verification code for each login, which must be entered within 5 minutes, but takes 20 minutes to send it to you, might as well be offline.

@RonSupportsYou we need something like Keegan-Michael Key’s anger translator… a fascist filter to communicate what is really being said

I’d say Happy Opening Day but MLB.TV seems to be on the injury list already!!

@mrwilson I bet that sounded wonderful in that space

@ajh have you tried removing the house from the equation? Sometimes I do a POTA-like setup in the backyard and I find that even then, the neighborhood noise is quite high compared to when I’m away from the city in a park. Frustrating, for sure.

I had the opportunity to visit the Voice of America museum near Cincinnati last spring at their retired Bethany Station. One of the exhibits that stuck in my mind afterwards was of radios from around the world, usually designed to only tune in the local regime’s broadcasts, but had been modded — …

Web services — *cough* Issuu *cough* — that make me jump through a million screens to cancel them, while detailing the extreme loss and sadness I'm supposedly going to feel without them — even though they want to increase my annual cost by nearly 150%, justified by features I have no use for — …

My wife and I had a couple of days off so decided to spend some time somewhere drivable that we’ve never been — that knocked out easy picks like KC, Des Moines, and Minneapolis and sent us driving to Wichita! We had a lovely couple days, the highlight of which was an awesome German restaurant called …

@FosseLeo Wow. Hadn’t seen one of those in a while. Yes. 50.

Sporting KC season opener! Could be a rough season, but first games are always full of hope! 😀

Installed PixelFed and, it seems to be what Instagram used to be before it was turned in to a scrolling wall of billboards and stories … it’s almost confusing — but welcome!

@cpultz it was a lot of fun and a lot of good music but it’s a real sign of my age. I used to do 6 L and now I’m taking a nap after three. 😴🍺

End of Winter = BockFest! End of 10 days below freezing = Let’s Drink! Let’s Drink = (by my wife) let’s sort your health insurance claims … what?! 🤪 good luck with that.

I was pleasantly surprised when I asked Siri for the time of a college basketball game, without specifying men’s or women’s, and it made me select rather than just assuming I wanted the men’s team.

Since our department takes care of both live-streaming and digital signage in our school district, making it possible to watch show choir events in overflow areas, cafeterias, volunteer rooms and coach lounges falls to us. We do this for 6 of our 8 high schools and each usually lasts around 15 …

Question-of-the-day on the lunch net here in town was "do you have a typewriter?" and it reminded me of this German one I've had since middle school — when I found it in the attic of a home we lived in. It was used the most when it served as a sort of guest book in my college dorm …

@cpultz I like the cash option, too, although I think it's not enough. I think $5 is like 1000 points, while you can get a Runza for free for 800 points, and it costs more than $5.

Some friends and I had a fantastic #winterfieldday weekend at a state park cabin. How many radios do 3 people need? 30ish? 😂 We hunted satellites, used meshtastic, erected a variety of wire, horizontal and loop antennas, used phone modes, data modes and cw/morse code. Can’t wait for next year! …

@cpultz use those points, man!

#huskers going to a bowl! Our son is in the drumline and we’ve heard tales from so many parents whose kids went all through school with seasons that always ended in November… I’m so happy for him and the band that they get to travel this year… — As one that was college-aged during the National …

James Hoffmann has been talking about doing this for a lonnnnng time and I’m so glad it’s here. I’m excited to pick up a kit or two and learn about these processes. #coffee https://youtu.be/2t7Ba8Vr9HY

#hamradio fun tonight… aimed the yagi antenna at the ISS and pulled a SSTV image off of it. Hoping to get some better ones with higher passes over the weekend. https://www.ariss.org/

My daughter had fall break today so we took the opportunity to go on a photo hike at a nearby camp. It seems like fall has taken forever to arrive.

Been doing the Sunday night ARES net for over a year now… here we go again…

@cpultz me too!!

Drove out of town to catch the #aurora last night and got there just in time. It faded pretty quickly after this.

@nirak i’d have to take peanut butter for sure! Some love chocolate — I’m in for PB 😋

@cpultz I was trying to remember last night. Was there a time, during the couple postseason runs the Royals had a few years ago (probably longer ago than I realize) that there were concurrent home royals and chiefs games? I seem to remember a helicopter shot showing that — but perhaps …

@Strandjunker Neither side wants geography to decide. Show me someone who wants local control and I'll show you someone who doesn't have total control. Next it will be the left fighting to retain local control while the right works to prevent women and doctors from making their own decisions …

I don't know what the point of Google Maps' automated moderation is. We have people updating properties with information that doesn't require Gemini-level intelligence to say, "That seems bogus.”

Seems like Big Ten could at least update their logo to reflect reality

My daughter is a living-breathing denial-of-service attack. She talks so much I can’t even have thoughts of my own. My brain just shuts down under the onslaught of words. 😀

@alper Cool. Just curious about general impressions — things that specs don't tell you… build quality, how does it feel, how does it sound…

@rustywx Thanks. I hope that will hold. It will give everyone a reason to go home 😄

@rustywx East graduation on Saturday and hoping/planning for an outdoor party... how's that looking to you right now? Forecasts that I've seen seem to indicate overcast and a little chilly, but mostly dry. Thanks!

@cpultz Funny to read people here on-upping each other on how bad road construction is in their own country: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cq4mrk/in_switzerland_a_mobile_overpass_bridgeastra/

Risking a muscle strain from rolling my eyes every time someone mentions that they "researched" something. It's clear from what they have recently discovered that they didn't even get past the result screen of their Bing search — there's no way this person went with anything …

Glad that a game vs Messi’s Miami team brought such a large crowd last night — likely with a whole lot who have never been to a KC game before, but sure wish we could have gotten the win. The boys played well but had multiple opportunities that they didnt take advantage of and made defensive …

@Kb9vbr Maybe for Q&A? Any fun ideas/projects for one who has collected a few 17' whips? Some sort of multi-band setup? K4OGO did an interesting video this week on co-phasing. Anything else? Thanks!

Last night’s result was spoiled by a bad call in the 90’+4’ but I still keep thinking “those new lights are pretty neat” #SportingKC

Sad way to start morning when your #coffee grinder is broke, so you put some pre-ground coffee in the V60 and pour a little water on it to bloom — which of course it does not. The lifeless coffee which outgassed lonnnnng ago just sat there like a cup of mud. Time to find a new grinder.

I guess I've missed out on "core memory" but I think about “core programming" a lot — things that, no matter what I learn about people and the world, I just can't shake from things I learned when I was young. There some good stuff in there like saying "Please" and …

Got comfortable handling the Sunday ARES net here in Lincoln, NE so took on the nearby Saunders county Wednesday one also… the repeater is right next to a camp near Ashland I’ve been connected to nearly all of my life and almost 1000ft above the surrounding area when you consider the hill it is on …

I haven’t said it recently, but I love mastodon. I never see the word “sponsored”anywhere. It’s not full of click-bait. Just real people with ideas and observations. Thanks for being here!

@chrisfarnham Thanks! I hadn't seen that site before. What an awesome combination! :-)

I mentioned my dislike of Grammarly always putting commas all over the place. AP style does not use the oxford comma unless required for clarification. Someone asked if you could change that — I immediately felt dumb that I had never even checked. Problem solved!

Good morning from Lincoln 🥶

I just shared the icy roads with thousands of humans, many of them teenagers trying to get to school, and everything moved along very sensibly given the conditions. There were no wrecks or fender-benders. I didn't even see anybody do something careless. Yet, I get to work, and one of the first …

@cpultz “I CAN’T GET UP!”

One of favorite local breweries seems to think that it’s June… little but Pilsners, Lagers and IPAs on the board… this is Stout Season! It’s cold and snowing outside and If it’s under 10%, I’m not interested 😁

Got my /AE tonight. Kinda bummed that there isn’t more to study for, but there is so much more to learn. At least I don’t have to be careful to not key up under 14.225 anymore 😁 #HamRadio

@mrwilson the Venn diagram circles of "Created after Edge was released" and "Created when Browser Compatibility notices were a thing" do not even come close to touching...

Been isolated with COVID since Tuesday afternoon, but have generally felt fine outside of a sore-ish throat -- still, that doesn't mean that someone I spread it to will fare so well... so it's a great time to drive around alone, to empty parks in the winter and talk to folks all over the …

Had a pretty good parks-on-the-air activation while my son was doing some drumming at UNL this evening. 21 easy contacts and could have had many more. Was getting rave reports of my signal with only 20 watts… amazing what such little power can achieve. (Xiegu G90 & Wolf River 213” Whip) …

@cpultz Thoughts and prayers for the judge and jury 🙄

@mrwilson 😁 it does look like a Guitar Hero or Rock Band! Here’s a quick scan through 10 meters with audio with stations up and down the west coast and South America. Very busy today.

Well, when 10 meters opened up it really opened up! #HamRadio

Excited for 10m contest this weekend and solar flare wrecks the band #HamRadio

End of season Nebraska Marching Band concert is one of my favorites of the year… loads of brass and drums in a performance hall? Yes Please!!

What’s the worst interface you deal with daily? Mine is the induction burners on our oven. Three buttons and, unless you want the highest or lowest setting, you have to push all three — one to turn it on, one to go to top or bottom of range and the third to move the setting up or down from there.

Monday after Black Friday: “ONLY HOURS LEFT TO SAVE!!” Tuesday morning: “SURPRISE! ONE MORE DAY!”, “EXTENDED!”, “YOU STILL HAVE TIME!”

@cpultz tells me I’m going to die on my wife’s birthday… Happy Birthday, Honey! 😵

@christianselig PhotoResize Pro in the app store works well, and I think it is less than $10 for a lifetime license. Ihttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoresize-pro/id536956866?mt=12

@kr1st I figure I can be frustrated or laugh at it... but it comes across like GLaDOS in Portal :-)

No matter how often I do it, I'm always amused by the lengths a fresh install of Windows goes to to convince you not to install Chrome or set it as the default.

@RadioGeek Still on? Mode/frequency?

Enjoying this last Friday of Daylight Time. Next week at this time it will be dark ☹️

@cpultz Ha! They must have accessibility-checked those colors, or just got lucky. 😜

@cpultz born in TX. Lived there, then OK before getting to Lincoln when I was about 3… so, I don’t remember all of that but …

@mrwilson That was a fun exercise although I was confused about the difference between stayed and visited. My most debatable point is my “passed here" for Kentucky, taken only because I think the Cincinatti airport is actually in Kentucky.

Happy Reformation Day :-)

@ethanschoonover that looks like fantastic software. My radios, so far, have been Yaesu and I get kinda jealous when I some of these neat apps that leverage the unique features on Icom rigs. One thing I've liked about RumLog is that it can keep your log in iCloud, then it has an iOS app that …

@ethanschoonover I love to work from here… a nearby camp where I worked in summers as a college student and met my wife. I usually have the place to myself in the off-season. Logging app is RumLogNG. I bounce between it and MacLogger… they are both fine. What do you use?

@jsonstein @KJ7OFH Great radio. Display/UI feels like an early draft of what 101/10/710 have now but perfectly usable and inclusion of 2m/70cm makes it such a great all-in-one rig. Rails a must if you are toting it around!

A quiet morning operating W1AW/0 for Volunteers on the Air. A few contacts in New England and one in Belize so far. Come find me at 28.435 until 10am CDT #hamRadio

Loved the internet in the 90s? #HamRadio may be for YOU! 😁😂 No commercialization, pure joy in the ability to chat with randos around the globe, data modes that feel like hitting up PPP and Kermit… complete the throwback vibes with your favorite grunge flannel.

@mrwilson It was a quiet day for me. Always fun to see all the teams, vans and costumes. Pink Gorilla really does a great job organizing the event.

@mrwilson I've wondered about those Omaha segments. There was enough going on with radio traffic on our side of the Platte without listening to the other side. We were having issues with traffic (including team vehicles) on 310th around Murdock. Teams have to be relieved to get on to the MoPac …

@jsonstein Thank you! I love the check list idea. I did my third net last night and I have relied on a heavily scripted net — and I know that I sound like I'm reading the whole thing, but that's fine for now. I've had a couple mishaps and been grateful to have the next words right in …

Had a pretty busy weekend helping with #HamRadio support for the Market to Market Relay, the largest day-long relay race in the U.S., then taking care of a corner for the Crop Hunger Walk in town on Sunday. I managed to complete my Lincoln Craft Beer Week card in between 😁🍺

@cpultz you’re just going to have to suck it up and eat at both… Joey Chestnut eats like 1,500 hot dogs… you could manage a couple burgers… 😂

Dropkick Murphys… Always amazing ☘️

@w7voa 🙄

@cpultz how do we say “Joe’s ElCamino” without saying it?

Spoke with stations in both Australia and Austria this morning. There’s a Dumb and Dumber “Throw another shrimp on the Bar-B!” joke there somewhere… #HamRadio

@retroist I had a teenager last night show me his walkman and tell me about the old songs on his mixtape. I should have asked if he made the mixtape himself... funny how something that was so ordinary at the time seems amazing now — having a double tape deck, cueing both up to the appropriate …

@AE4WX Thanks! I've been trying to record calls on our nightly net with pen/paper the last few nights to practice and haven't been great at it. Our Sunday evening net tends to have fewer check-ins, so I'm hoping that holds true this week!

Found out tonight I’ll be net control manager for the Sunday night ARES net here in town for the next few months while the normal manager teaches an AE class for the club. Time to start hitting the whiskey and cigars so my voice can have the proper gravitas on 146.76 this weekend. 😂 Seriously though …

Another #POTA this morning… A quick 30 minutes and 14 QSOs at K-5649, Pawnee Lake State Rec Area. I hadnt been to this picnic ground in a long time and forgot how nice it is. Trying to find best way to log (for me). Tried direct in to HAMRS on Saturday, and today tried paper. Each had their own …

@kc2ihx yes!! Won’t be anything to remember about those 24 packs other than how you felt afterwards or how long they sat in your garage before you finally dumped the rest out :-)

You know it’s going to be a good beer when the price of the single can catches the cashier’s attention and they ask you “that much?! For one can?!” 😁 It’s always time for a great barrel-aged imperial stout.

I’ve hunted a lot of POTA (Parks on the Air) but this morning I tried my first activation and it went all right! It’s so much easier to hunt when you pretty much know the call and park before you even check in, but to have everybody coming at you is quite a challenge! Thanks so much to so many hams, …

Spent an unforgettable evening with 92,002 friends watching Nebraska Volleyball in Memorial Stadium — the largest crowd to ever watch a womens’ sporting event. #huskers

@cpultz yeah, losing the “what’s everybody saying right now” aspect of Twitter has been hard, and without a login, that jackhole, Elon has even made it impossible to view posts. My best hope right now is that Threads becomes the place that a lot of that ends up and that Threads holds true to …

Haven't talked with South America in a couple months. Was happy to see Paraguay pop up on 17m. Just worked ZP5WBM in Paraguay (Gridsquare: GG16HC / distance: 5129 mi) on 17m using SSB #hamr #cloudlog

@JosephAndriano @clew@octodon.social @ai6yr Michael Lewis' "The Coming Storm” really opened my eyes to this. I've hated going to Accuweather ever since. …

@mrwilson Some at the Weather Channel seem to agree: "Abrams argues that numbers in the WBGT may not sound "ominous" enough with critical values "only" in the upper 80 to lower 90 degrees F range." I think she's right, later in the article, that perhaps if they …

Just worked CT3MD in Madeira Islands (Gridsquare: IM13TB / distance: 4309.2 mi) on 15m using SSB #hamr #cloudlog #IOTA AF-014

Our Lincoln, Nebraska mountain bike team has grown every year. It's a wonderful community of middle and high school athletes and their families that I'm lucky to be a part of. We've been practicing all summer and get to start racing this weekend — when it may be over 100ºF 🥵

That one was a challenge! Just worked Jeff, F4GGQ in France (Gridsquare: IN77SX / distance: 4299.2 mi) on 17m using SSB #hamr #cloudlog

The first day of school is always a fun one and we have a lot of fun at Lincoln Public Schools celebrating it with our #firstweeklps coverage. Our communications crew has been all over the city taking photos, videos and more at our buildings and I've had the pleasure of being the relay man, …

Just worked W8B (special event station in WV celebrating world's largest teapot) in West Virginia (Gridsquare: EM98LJ / distance: 844.6 mi) on 20m using USB #hamr #cloudlog

Finished my second of two 6 1/2 hour shifts driving the “free ride” golf carts at the county fair for the local radio club. So many were excited to take a bumpy trip across the parking lots in the large 6-passenger carts. I just wish I had time to actually attend the fair myself! 😁

Just worked W3PAW in Queenstown, MD (Gridsquare: FM19AW / distance: 982.6 mi) on 20m using USB #hamr #cloudlog

@r2d3522 @dynode Its not my thing either, but it seems that every aspect of radio one could be in to also has a contingent of folks that think it’s pointless and a waste of bandwidth. I figure I can try to find a way to play along, find a quieter band or shut it all off and go do something else for …

Just worked S51DX in Slovenia (Gridsquare: JN75DW / distance: 5089.6 mi) on 20m using USB #hamr #cloudlog

Fun night at the Sporting KC Leagues Cup game last night but I have never seen the stadium just get taken over by the other team. It was a Chivas home game (they were even selling Chivas merch!)— but we got the win and they are out of the tournament 😁

‘Twas the night before Quilt Auction and all through the camp, not a creature was stirring. It was too hot and damp! https://www.cjhcenter.org/quilt-auction starts tomorrow morning!

Just worked KC2MIB in North Carolina (Gridsquare: FM05PB / distance: 1050.7 mi) on 20m using USB #hamradio #cloudlog

Just worked CO8LY in Cuba (Gridsquare: FL20CA / distance: 1886.2 mi) on 17m using USB #hamradio #cloudlog #IOTA NA-015

@WXFanatic Another meteorologist for you to add to your awesome list at https://rentry.co/wxlinks-mastodon : @rustywx in Lincoln, NE

@cpultz Funny how, in the past, being able to self-host your social media server would be considered a positive, but today it seems like a hurdle. I still think that having a known domain attached to your username is the ultimate blue checkmark, but I haven't seen a lot of that happening yet.

@w7voa Tricky thing with Mastadon… you could not see it on your timeline and, as far as you could tell, does not exist due to it being blocked, but does not mean it isn’t happening. Is this Mastodon’s problem? Certainly an image problem if their name keeps coming up in relation to it but does Apache …

@mrwilson Dozens! 😂 Spent countless hours with Warbirds and California Games!

Well look what showed up today… I wish it was a little cooler out. I’d love to get this new random wire on the air! #HamRadio

@cpultz I agree that it's a sad situation, but eyeballs, clicks and engagement are support and I don't see this as anything that can be supported anymore. I sure didn't want it to turn into what it has, but that's over. I wouldn't create an account on Truth and likewise, I …

@neverflw Yes! 🤓

16 1/2 years on the birdsite... today it's over. I had held on to the account the past several months thinking that maybe it could become a worthwhile place to return to, but I've lost that hope. I won't be on X.

My painful experience is that "better" rarely matters. I had a Magnavox Odyssey when everybody else had Atari, a Sega Master System when my friends had Nintendo, a Genesis when the more popular system was the SNES, an Atari Lynx when Game Boys were hot... I could keep going. The most …

@mattdsteele super cool. Knew about Spot but not about the APIs that were available. Wonder if something similar could be done with APRS — but you'd need reliable digipeater coverage over ride area. Good luck preparing for the Long Voyage!

A local brewer here in Lincoln, NE called Code, that has always used a lot of Morse code in its decorating, seems to have started to lean into this further with radio-related beer names. It’s had me thinking about other possible names… “Ragchew IPA” for a session beer, “QRT Imperial Stout” implying …

Maybe Twitter did it earlier, but it seems that you can no longer view anything without logging in. The institution I work for, when we started using social media, felt okay posting to Facebook and Twitter partly because you weren't required to have an account to see what we posted there. Now …

It was a fun morning out with local radio club supporting the mountain bike race for the Cornhusker State Games.

@cpultz https://youtube.com/shorts/DBpDvCu8yYI?feature=share

I don’t like these MLS vs ___________ games. If MLS wins, the other team is in preseason — of course MLS should have won. If MLS loses, the other team is much better, of course MLS lost. Last years against LigaMX All Stars was the best iteration of this they’ve had.

I really enjoyed the first couple episodes of #silo on AppleTV+ and decided to blast through the first book from 2011, which I hadn’t even heard of. It was a fantastic story, but I’m not sure what light it has shed on the TV series. I assume the book and show are headed to the same destination, but …

@tsherrygeo Yep. The Whole XYL, YL, OM thing amongst others needs to go. I don’t expect that anybody that has used these for years and thinks nothing of them will drop them, but more and more of us can just refuse to adopt it going forward and hopefully phase them out over time.

@cpultz Bo Knows Hiccups

@mrwilson One could make the argument based on youth participation and national team performance that IF you need to qualify one, it should be the boys that get the tag.

@mrwilson Thank you. It seems that things like “lady huskers” are in the past, but then you see goofy things like this. Should be an easy fix if someone wanted to do it. The place I saw it this morning is the score embeds on the NSAA “Soccer Championships HQ” site: …

Not sure if this is a MaxPreps thing or an NSAA thing, but this is pretty ridiculous in 2023. If you’re going to call it girls soccer, then call it boys soccer. #lnk #nebpreps

@cpultz This is awesome. I love it. I'm a big user of terms like "please", "just", "simply". I also frequently add exclamation marks. I would have a lot of self-censoring to do if I were writing for them.

I wish U.S. sports would be more selective about when our Anthem is performed. The only option we have is to go beyond that by adding on extra songs (America the Beautiful, God Bless America, Lift Every Voice...) It's particularly awkward with soccer when a large number of our players are not …

@mrwilson thankfully morse (CW) isn’t part of the licensing anymore or I’m not sure I would have gotten into it, but that’s definitely something I would like to learn.

Was adjusting the rabbit ears your favorite part of watching TV? #HamRadio May be for you! 😂

@cpultz well then it is compressed as though it passed through a black hole. When moving from one end of the floor to the other, everything just becomes a piece of impressionist art.

@cpultz not being 4K is one thing but this looks like garbage. There is no reason for it. Apples new MLS coverage is 1080 and looks amazing.

Signs of Spring: Bike Rides, Baseball and Storm Spotter Training or know-your-cloud-anatomy. Hoping for a quiet season on the plains.

Been taking off #openingday for as long as I remember, but many have been a bust between skimpy day-one schedules and early-spring weather postponing many of them. Today looks glorious with a full schedule and good weather. 3 hours until there is meat on the grill and multiple games on the TV. Play …

@megahertz Hold on. Let me swing my antenna around to your direction and increase my power. Can you say that again? 😁

@cpultz maybe the new steelhouse in Omaha will bring some of those back into the area

For #waterfallwednesday , Smith Falls in Nebraska — the highest waterfall in the state and a requisite stop while floating down the nearby Niobrara River.

@simon I can't even remember what caused it to pop up. A bike-rental maybe? I was surprised when it did — thought "Hey! There's one of those things!" — and have never seen one again.

@cpultz maybe you’ve just lowered your standards? :-)

@fatherroderick I’ve always enjoyed your projects, particularly some of the earliest where you would walk, talk and record your surroundings… almost like Apple’s “Time to Walk” — but nearly 20 years earlier 😁 I’m glad to hear you are embracing Mastodon and look forward to more of your posts here.

@zacharybaehr I think that was back in December some time. :-)

Listening to my physician-wife dictate a note about a patient’s period to dragon is “who’s-on-first”-level comedy. I asked how it is at discerning the menstruation from the punctuation and she said “usually pretty good”. Amazing.

Thanks to all for your replies. I went back through a lot of the loggers I had already looked at along with some new ones and found Log4OM to be quite good for my purposes. I like all of the panels being in one window instead of being scattered across multiple. I also love that the DB file can be …

#LNK LPS District Day tomorrow ❄️😁

🙄 News apps that send notifications about items for which the app has nothing

@cpultz the Disney wait line of drive-thrus?

@n2epe I’ve messed around with N1MM a bit and love the field where you can enter a frequency or log a contact. I just wish it didn’t look like a HyperCard stack from the 90s.

Is it too much to hope for that the #House might get past this by turning into the moderates vs the far-right and far-left, choosing a leader that has the respect of the middle majority and can actually get things done?

Hard to hear over son drumming down the hall? Is that considered QRM? 😂🥁📻 #HamRadio

@DeniseGutzmer Sorry. Serious information, but I can’t avoid hearing the NOAA weather radio voice in my head as I read your post … “And now for the climate summary… “

Got a bit muddy enjoying a #firstday hike with friends at camp then worked my way through the bands hunting POTAs, trying to be noticed in pileups with 20 watts and a random wire. #HamRadio

“Let me turn my antenna towards you” always sounds a little humble-braggy to me… I want to say “hold on a minute while I get shoes and a coat on, go outside and throw my wire into a different tree” #HamRadio

Happy new year everyone! May your 2023 be full of happiness and new experiences!

@jarred it’s 2023 somewhere!

Sister-In-Law’s home. Reminds of me of Caprica before the Cyclons attacked. Ominous start to 2023.

@weezmgk was thinking the same thing…

Just a general licensee hearing somebody at 14.152 calling “cq cq testing testing…” and thinking “It’s a Trap!” #HamRadio

Rest in Peace Pelé. Just heard this podcast episode about him a couple days ago: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/22-goals/id1632498934?i=1000590145148

Annual holiday small-town brewery tour stop 3: Salt Mine City Brewing in David City, NE

Annual holiday small-town brewery tour stop 2 Five O Five Brewing in Fremont, NE #craftbeer

Annual holiday small-town brewery tour stop #1 Heavy Brewing in Gretna, NE

I was just complaining yesterday to some friends about how breweries seem to all be trying to out-hop each other and I appreciate some of the maltier cold-weather beers… but then here I go cracking this open 😁🍻

@elonjet can’t be late for the Illuminati Christmas party https://www.uncovercolorado.com/conspiracy-theories-denver-international-airport/

@mattdsteele , @rustywx from Lincoln has been sharing weather updates.

Hadn’t really considered sending QSL cards until some started showing up in the mail and I felt like it’d be rude to not return one — so here’s my first couple ready to go out. #HamRadio

@jarred right?

Cup of #coffee is off to a great start when there’s a flat bed in the V60 ☕️

I think the only questions we ever ask our Google Assistant are those along the lines of “Are [insert food item] okay for dogs?”.

@cpultz it was great! Did my drive and walk then the sidewalk all along this side of the street and still had half a battery left. If we had more than a couple inches I might have had to switch to the second battery. It didn’t have much to throw today.

@cpultz I don’t have a two-stage but I spent some money on an battery-powered toro last winter and barely got to use it… I was too excited to go out at 6 this morning to clear things off for the doc before she took off for the day.

@cpultz Agreed. All night, my wallet and I are worried about what’s going on out there…

@dj3ei People were posting photos of natural waterfalls for waterfallwednesday… I was just posting a radio waterfall. Couldn’t help it :-) 73

#waterfallwednesday … Did I do that right? 😁📻 #HamRadio

Trying the Mr. Milko at Cosmic Eye Brewing!

@chrisdunker Captial Jazz Society holds their weekly concerts there. With holiday, looks like next is Jan 9. http://www.artsincorporated.org/cjs/

Contacted a nice collection of European countries this morning, but FT8 is still kinda like being a kid at a fishing game where the adult inside the box is putting a prize at the end of your line for you 😁 #HamRadio #ft8

@chrisdunker storm cellar is pretty great on Mondays with jazz music

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@cpultz Congrats on the KState win! We were at Big 10 champ game where Nebraska got blown out by Wisconsin. I was glad we were all in red as I think it saved us some harassment leaving Stadium 😂 I’m sure some TCU fans were thinking the same today.

Those couple of seconds between thinking you solved all of the RF noise issues in your home and realizing your antenna isn’t plugged in… wonderful. 😂

In the absence of blue check marks, I’d love to see mastodon instances hosted by trusted domains … to validate them the same way we validate anything on the internet. mstdn.npr.org, mastodon.NYTimes.com… This could be a tremendous convenience for institutions that manage hundreds of accounts.

Viva Magenta! https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2023

Anybody else ever wish your HT had some sort of Tx Lock? When just monitoring? When messing around with settings? I’d love a switch, similar to iPhone silent switch, to disable Tx. D878UVii can prohibit Tx per channel, so for some local repeaters I have one channel that can Tx and one that is …

#7FilmsToKnowMe Hunt for Red October Field of Dreams Star Trek IV Thomas Crown Affair Napoleon Dynamite Evil Dead: Army of Darkness Office Space

Friday Night Lights: Nice night to ride but a rough evening of pitching for my son. He was so good last time he pitched, allowing no one to score over the 3 innings he was in. Tonight he’s pitched one and got lit up for 5 runs (the limit). It’s so hard to watch him stand out there and struggle 😧 I have to go …

Smog Ride: Test post

Closing Down Spilker Ales: More coming here

Birth Day: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Birth Day, originally uploaded by cynomyso.

Video: Introduction to Android (gPhone): 

Asus Eee PC pseudo-review: The Computer There is enough speed here to do anything that I would want to do on a day-to-day simple productivity computer. There is no more wait launching applications like Firefox and Thunderbird than there is on a full-size computer. It plays back video and display flash-based video on websites …

Liam in the leaves: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Liam in the leaves, originally uploaded by cynomyso. I can't believe the number of leaves that we have had at the new place. …

Go Sox!: Sox beat the Indians and wait for the Rockies to come to Bostonon Wednesday. P.S. Pabelbon is insane:

Website brainstorming with post-it notes: 

MAX - Assessed: This will be my last post specifically about the Adobe MAX conference. I promise. This year’s conference was, in my opinion, the best that Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire has ever put on. The developers that were with me seemed to be pretty satisfied with the technical content, and I was more than pleased …

MAX Day Three: Responsible Web Design with Dreamweaver CS3 I took notes during this and am going to have edit this when I find them, but this was an excellent session given by the product manager for Dreamweaver that covered good web design practices in general. Designing the Obvious One of the great things about …

MAX Day Two: Rapid Prototyping in Fireworks This is one of the few sessions that I ended up attending that taught or demonstrated how to do something. One of the new features in Fireworks CS3 is the ability to create an entire prototype of a website as images. Fireworks, besides layers now has what it calls …

Lounge against the machine:  Lounge against the machine Originally uploaded by cynomyso Our entertainment last night was lounge against the machine

Back to the future.:  Back to the future. Originally uploaded by cynomyso

Adobe OnAIR Bus:  Adobe OnAIR Bus Originally uploaded by cynomyso Adobe has been taking this bus around the country demonstrating air to user groups and web developers. This was the last stop on its north American tour.

Monday in Review: Here’s a look at my day yesterday and some thoughts Opening General Session Kevin Lynch demonstrated a lot of fantastic AIR apps. Some of them include a twitter client, an instant messenger, ebay, paypal, salesforce.com and a desktop client for Google analytics (which I don’t think was …

Inspire:  Inspire Originally uploaded by cynomyso A new thing this year at max are the inspire sessions. These are fantastic sessions featuring some of the best designers talking about their methods and definately madness. This is Joshua Davis.

Here we go...:  Here we go... Originally uploaded by cynomyso Getting ready for the kickoff of adobe max 2007!!

Chicago!: Chicago!

HTML Templates: There is a lot of debate over whether HTML email should be used at all, but if you are going to do it, here are some templates to get you started.

Business Card Samples: I’ve always wanted to get better at creating a portfolio of good designs that I find. A friend that I used to work with had a file cabinet full of magazine clippings and other things that that they had stored away for inspiration. This was a great resource to spread out on the floor when …

Steve Jobs Alter Ego?: I thought that this reporter for USA Today (shown here on CNBC) looks a little too much like Steve Jobs himself.

Despair: I love these posters every time I see them

New Jeep Travelbug:  New Jeep Travelbug Originally uploaded by cynomyso Every year Jeep releases a new travel bug edition. Today, I received one in the mail, enabling me to be the first to place one! Now I just need to decide where. Don't know about geocaching or travel bugs? Visit wikipedia ;-)

Baseball and Rainbows:  Baseball and Rainbows Originally uploaded by cynomyso A good storm passed during the second inning of a Lincoln Saltdogs game the other night. As the storm moved out, the tarp was removed and the players warmed up, a full double rainbow broke out over Lincoln. A hot humid day quickly gave way to …

iPhone Video: Apple today released a nearly 25 minute-long video about the iPhone demonstrating its use. There are two things that it confirmed to me. One, it seems be a great pocket-sized mac in the way that it handles email, the web and sms chatting. Second, I think that its going to be an awkward phone. The …

Podcasting with Manila: People seem to get bored with technology. I know that I often do. It’s why I can’t wait for Apple to release Mac OS 10.5 even though 10.4 works great. It’s why I check macupdate.com throughout the day looking for something that’s new or improved. It’s also why I think …

Pultz Links: I just said that I’d stop posting constant lists of links… but these are from somebody else, so it’s okay. Chris Pultz (trainer extraordinaire) sent me some great links through del.icio.us that would be useful to anybody getting started in designing with cascading style sheets …

More blogging, less linking: I really see my blog as the center of my life on the web. My blog is the first place I search when I want to recall something that I did months or years ago. For this reason, I have often muddied my posts with everything I have been bookmarking and more. Throwing all of this information in one pot …

New Web Sites All Around: The beginning of this summer has been hectic as I have launched a couple of sites already including the new Lincoln Public Schools web site. The new site is a little wider than the old site, now being 990px wide. We had quite a bit of discussion about this before we went live wondering if it was the …

Best Mice Ever: It may not be often that you give your mouse a lot of thought, but I just had one of those moments where I thought “Wow! What a great mouse." I use a Logitech VX when I’m portable and a Logitech MX at my desktop. These are basically the same mouse with some small differences that …

Columbus Dreamweaver Workshop Followup: Thanks again to those of you that attended my workshop in Columbus on Tuesday. Here are some of the resources that I told you I would post here: Firefox Add-ons Firebug (Firebox-based CSS Inspector) Firefox Web Development Toolbar MeasureIt (screen ruler) ColorZilla (Color grabber) Browser …

Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design: Digital-Web Magazine offers an educational article about PNGs and how to use them in ways that no other web image format can be used.

Child hit by car followup: I have really enjoyed reading the blog recently started by our city’s police chief. It gives, what I think, is a rare and honest look at the inside of law enforcement. Yesterday he provided his response to the many complaints he hears about there not being enough police around schools in the …

Intel Metro Laptop Video: Of course Intel doesn’t make laptops, but they often put out demonstration technology that they hope hardware manufacturers will draw inspiration from and run with. Here is a new ultra-thin laptop with an e-ink display in the lid to allow checking of calendar, email etc without opening the …

links for 2007-05-18:  » 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part5) 50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity - lifehack.org

links for 2007-05-17:  Tubes. Connect Instantly.

While we're on coffee houses... My favs: I visit more coffee houses and drink more java than I’m prepared to fully disclose, but here are some of my favorites in Lincoln. The Mill: This is, along with 'the coffee house', the classic coffee house. I love the wood and brick. I love the dock. I enjoy the atmosphere that all of the …

Lincoln's Coffee houses in today's Journal Star: Brian Christopherson of Lincoln’s Journal Star took on the burden of visiting some of downtown’s larger coffee joints to compare the vibe and prices. Powered by ScribeFire.

links for 2007-05-14:  Effect Measure

links for 2007-05-13:  Lighthouse Pro

links for 2007-05-12:  Top Teacher Shown the Door After Showing “Baghdad ER” | The Progressive

links for 2007-05-09:  W3C Semantic Web FAQ (tags: semanticweb semantic web ontology) John Nack on Adobe: 200+ CS3 videos on Adobe Design Center Adobe - Creative Suite 3 trials (tags: adobe trials) the martini shaker*: ephemeral words for creative readers

Office Suites / Replacements: First, Congratulations to Kirk Langer for his semi-annual posting. They are rare, but good. Concerning Sun’s committing a couple people to the aqua port of Open Office, I am not impressed. Sun makes me yawn almost as much as Microsoft. First, I know that Star/OpenOffice has been around for …

links for 2007-05-08:  The Baseball Scorecard (tags: baseball scorecard)

links for 2007-05-04:  Blogger & Podcaster Magazine

links for 2007-04-26:  Adobe Branded Merchandise - Welcome

links for 2007-04-23:  PileOfPhotos - Have a little fun with your coffee Arthur Bryant's BBQ in Kansas City Jack Stack Barbecue | Official Site | The First Taste of KC GCALDaemon - Installation on Mac OS X

links for 2007-04-20:  35 Designers x 5 Questions | Smashing Magazine

Speed test - Pefect Cup - Lincoln, NE: I like going to Perfect Cup on East O Street in Lincoln. Good coffee, close to work, big windows and CNN running on an overhead TV. It makes it hard to work there however when they have by far one of the slowest internet connections I have seen.

links for 2007-04-19:  MediaStorm: Low Morale: Creep by Radiohead and Laith Bahrani Mac News Online » No Leopard, No problem MLB.TV Mosaic Blog

links for 2007-04-17:  Hack Attack: Supercharge your Gmail - Lifehacker Netvibes Launches Universe: Customized Public Pages

Speedtest - Haymarket Scooters - Lincoln: Powered by ScribeFire.

links for 2007-04-16:  Summary of Findings: Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions Living with Technology: Keep your kids safe online - CNET.com The Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Database

VT Tragedy on Wikipedia: It’s hard to say anything about this without sounding insensitive, but unfortunately Wikipedia sometimes shines when there are terrible events. Here is Wikipedia’s coverage of today’s shootings at Virginia Tech University.

links for 2007-04-13:  » 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3) Conduit.com - Free community toolbar Builder in a Few Easy Steps Isarie » Blog Archive » sIFR Flash Fonts Library

links for 2007-04-11: SafariU (tags: education web2.0 books ebook learning) Michelle Malkin: Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart (language warning) The Blog | Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Imus Got His Trash Talk Pass Yanked, Now Yank it for Blacks Who Talk Do The Same | The Huffington Post Digital Web Magazine - …

links for 2007-04-10:  mobile.feisar.com - Sony Ericsson Phone Plugins for iSync v2.4 W200 K810 W880 W610 W850 V630 W300 Z610 Z710 K510 Z550 W710 K618 K320 Why Use Software Illegally When You Can Use Legally .... « Linux and Open Source Blog

New Maroon V Video: 

Speedtest - Braeda, 33rd and Pioneers, Lincoln: 

links for 2007-04-05:  Geek to Live: Complete, free Mac backup - Lifehacker How To: Backup your Mac to a Dreamhost Server (part 1 of 2) at Addison Road Geek to Live: Mirror files across systems with rsync - Lifehacker Desktop On Demand - Signup

Speedtest - Panera, Gateway Mall, Lincoln: 

Speed Test - Scooters, Village Point Mall, Omaha: 

links for 2007-04-02:  About Gmail Paper Barbecuebible.com :: Index

links for 2007-03-29:  TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net New mobile web browser – Deepfish!

Shortest Contribute Version Ever?: I’m not sure how long Contribute 4 has been out, but it has not been a long time. Six months? I was surprised to see, during the Adobe CS3 launch event yesterday, that a new version of Contribute (Contribute CS3) was being bundled with the web studios. I wanted to give Adobe the benefit of the …

Braeda Internet Access - SLLOOOWW: I’m sitting at Braeda this morning having coffee while I catch up on some things and as always, the internet connection is pitiful. I wanted to know how pitiful, so I fired up one of my new favorite sites: speedtest.net Here is what my results were: To get a comparison, run this same test …

links for 2007-03-27:  Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript (Ask the CSS Guy) Main Page - Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium 10 Quick Tips for an Easier CSS Life

links for 2007-03-26:  Tick » Screenshots » Timecard

links for 2007-03-25:  TechFrenzy.NET :: View topic - Fireworks tutorial: Web 2.0 tabbed menu Flash Component Source File Download FLA - Menu Navigation : Photo Gallery

links for 2007-03-24:  Fonthead Design ClickBits Download Free Fonts and Dingbats | Urbanfonts.com Stockvault.net | free stock photos and images - free image resource web design forums for designers to website design » 30 Great Website Designs (Part1)

links for 2007-03-23:  FRONTLINE: news war: watch the full series online | PBS

links for 2007-03-22:  Wordpress Plugin Directory Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail » MakeUseOf.com

links for 2007-03-21:  Introducing the book - Gutenberg offers 'In your home' support - on Bore Me

links for 2007-03-20:  LabPixies - Coolest Gadgets On The Web

Nasal Flush: This might land in the realm of TMI (too much information). After hearing a couple of stories on NPR (Got a Runny Nose? Flush It Out!) that seemed to endorse the idea of running large amounts of a saline solution through your sinuses to clear them out, I decided to give it a try. I drove down to …

links for 2007-03-19:  The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (tags: me:church) Nebraska District LCM (tags: me:church) Holy Savior Lutheran Church (tags: me:church) Holy Savior Lutheran Church › Dashboard (tags: me:church) bubbl.us - brainstorming made simple (tags: me:productivity) twittervision ThinkingRock …

ApolloCamp: I guess this is Apollo day. Learn more about Apollo from these videos created at Adobe’s ApolloCamp. See ‘em here

Christian Cantrell: Firefox 2 Live Titles: I had forgotten about this supported feature in Firefox 2 - microsummaries. It allows people to create bookmarks of your page that you can later change the titles of - live. Christian Cantrell: Firefox 2 Live Titles

Apollo Alpha Preview - lynda.com Online Training Library ™: Mike Chambers has a set of training/introduction videos up on Lynda. Apollo Alpha Preview - lynda.com Online Training Library ™

Adobe Apollo - Write Your Own Desktop Apps!: Adobe has released a public alpha of it’s upcoming Apollo development software / runtime. This looks to be an incredible technology with wild possibilities. With Apollo, HTML and Flex developers (among others) can write code as they usually do, but then have it compiled into a distributable …

links for 2007-03-16:  How-to: Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive | Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks Avenue A | Razorfish - points of view (tags: lpsnewmedia)

links for 2007-03-15:  2007 National Youth Gathering (tags: lcmsnenews) Church Marketing Sucks Kent Del Castillo - "Best of MacOSX Hints" MacWorld Presentation Summary Best 7 Must Have iPod Applications Panel - LPS (tags: me:google) Panel - brianfitz.net (tags: me:google)

links for 2007-03-14:  Alpha Geek: 10 cool cell phone tricks - Lifehacker No Margin For Error (tags: browser css design browsers) Free Faux Column CSS Layouts (tags: css design development columns) SXSW Panel: Business side of web design (tags: design tips web2.0 webdev development)

13 best tips for Improving CameraPhone Pictures: I hate taking photos with my camera phone as I know they aren’t going to look as good as a picture taken with a normal camera, but sometimes you need a shot and it’s all you got. Here’s some tips to make the best of your situation. Digital Photography Weblog: 13 best tips for …

CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions | Smashing Magazine: Looking for some ideas for that next site navigation you need to build. This article from Smashing Magazine displays a whole bunch of good-looking ones. CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions | Smashing Magazine

links for 2007-03-13:  Virtual Appliance Installer For PunBB Discussion Forums - vTiger CRM - tWiki - WordPress

DSC00131:  DSC00131 Originally uploaded by cynomyso.

Why don't we...: There was an article on NPR this morning regarding the Southern Baptist church and their unwillingness to teach contraceptive use alongside abstinence. I get tired of hearing this argument and it seems as though there is a similar story on there regularly. Why don’t we teach people how to …

links for 2007-03-12:  Speakeasy - Speed Test Test your network speed Icebrrg - HTML Web forms, surveys, and invitations made chillingly simple Nomadishere : Seeker of Truth » Blog Archive » A Note To Employers: 8 Things Intelligent People, Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happy That Voodoo You Do · Flow: Get into the …

links for 2007-03-10:  Imagini Visual Profile :: You

Nintendo DS Browser - June 4: In a story detailing how some Pokémon game will be the first to tie the Nintendo Wii and DS together, an upcoming schedule sets June 4th as the release date for the Nintendo DS web browser. I’m pretty excited to see how well this Opera browser runs on a DS compared to other available portable …

links for 2007-03-09:  Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser (tags: lpsnewmedia) WriteMaps (tags: me:freelance)

links for 2007-03-07:  Active Voice Writing & Editorial Services in Baltimore -- Downloads Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders WoFoo Free HTML Form Builder - Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations (tags: forms) 5 free ways to chat with other Web site visitors | Webware : Cool web apps for everyone Lingr: …

links for 2007-03-06:  dopefly dot com - CFEclipse Resource Page My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots (tags: mobile design) Zamzar - Free online file conversion (tags: convert video conversion) USB XUbuntu 6.10 install | Pen Drive Linux Ira Glass on …

links for 2007-03-05:  Seminary Professor Responds to "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" Seminary Professor Responds to "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" (tags: lcmsenews) Creating Flash-Based Slideshows with Fireworks Adobe Engage - How Will Apollo Impact Mainstream Users? (tags: apollo adobe) Software For Virtual Teams

Jack We Hardly Knew Ye: AIGA has a current article titled Jack We Hardly Knew Ye. It tells the story of the creation of the Cingular and AT&T logos. The Cingular logo (orange X with a head) is of course on its way out as the AT&T brand takes over the new merged company. Its too bad. I think its one of the best …

links for 2007-03-03:  Mobilcast – Get Mobilcast Mobile Phone Podcast Listening Software

links for 2007-03-02:  LIVE FIRE WISDOM - WEBER'S ONLINE COMPANION TO CHARCOAL GRILLING 202

links for 2007-02-28:  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans - Insurance - Property & Casualty Insurance TextMate (tags: macosx webdesign tools Development)

links for 2007-02-27:  How a Church Could Use Google To Host Its Calendar Online for Free : Church Communications Pro | Church Website Design | Church Marketing O'Reilly Network -- Stream Live HDTV from Your Mac Medstory (tags: health reference medicine)

links for 2007-02-26:  Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (tags: hsluthblogs) Lutheran Carnival XLIV - Spring Training Edition! (tags: hsluthblogs) Public Launch today (tags: hsluthblogs)

links for 2007-02-25:  Trampoline 2.0 - MacUpdate

links for 2007-02-23:  Webware: Cool web apps for everyone

links for 2007-02-22:  Wombat 7 » Joost invitation project Drivl.com | How to Make Square Corners with CSS Jesus, in Your Dying Woes (tags: hsluthblogs) Ash Wednesday (tags: hsluthblogs) Intype Textmate like text editor for windows Making a Good Favicon

links for 2007-02-21:  Lutheran Carnival XLIV (tags: hsluthblogs) Shrove Tuesday St. Theodore the Studite on the Lenten Fast (tags: hsluthblogs) Modern Depictions of God (tags: hsluthblogs) Lorna Writes from Kenya Women's Resource Centre (tags: hsluthblogs)

links for 2007-02-20:  A little smokey (tags: hsluthblogs) ESPN Radio Insider (tags: me:fun) smith project Smith is a freeware, cross-platform ColdFusion engine, written entirely in Java. Running on the top of Java Runtime Environment and Java Servlet Container, it can be virtually deployed on any operating system …

links for 2007-02-19: 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine This is an amazing list of CSS Techniques (tags: css development design) Plugins/Plugin Compatibility/2.0 « WordPress Codex (tags: wordpress) Luther's Catechism for Lent Day 2 (tags: hsluthblogs) What Does Rick Joyner Really …

53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without: Chris Pultz hit me with this incredible list of 53 CSS techniques. A couple of the methods listed here are duds, but most of them are fantastic. If you don’t do CSS yet, you should look through these to see what you’re missing. If you are on CSS, then get to using them! powered by …

links for 2007-02-18:  Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft installs IE 4, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5 and 6 for browser testing on Windows (tags: browsers ie browser)

links for 2007-02-16:  meebo.com Computing Services (tags: me:lps) SEOmoz | 15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should) (tags: css webdesign development browser) RSS feeds | LCMS Pastors' Resources 'Lutheran Schools Week' set for March 4-10 (tags: lcmsenews) Lutherans join thousands in D.C. …

links for 2007-02-14:  MediaFork 0.8.0b1 - MacUpdate MediaFork is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter originally based on HandBrake, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. The DECK the premier advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals ConceptShare …

links for 2007-02-13:  Crosswords & Games - New York Times (tags: me:fun) Flash Video Player This creative commons player can be partnered with an uploaded FLV file to provide a streaming video experience on your web site. (tags: flash flv swf video)

links for 2007-02-12:  DocuShare (tags: me:lps)

links for 2007-02-09:  83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen (tags: wordpress themes)

links for 2007-02-08:  Information Security Program Development Omaha Information Services Company provides a wide range of operational risk management services and consultation. It is a subsidiary of insurance giant Mutual of Omaha.

links for 2007-02-07:  TB Unix Cheat Sheet (tags: unix terminal) swag roll

links for 2007-02-06:  How to install Ubuntu in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough - Simplehelp (tags: mac linux ubuntu osx parallels) This Side of the Pulpit » Blog Archive » Preparing for the Fast (tags: hsluthblogs) More megapixels, better photos: Fact or fiction? | CNET News.com (tags: cameras photos) …

Apollo Demonstration: Mike Potter from Adobe demonstrates Apollo at FlashInTO.

New Tools at Google Analytics?: Looks like Google has added some new tools for following backlinks on a site.

Online Invitation Sites: Read/Write Web has an article today on a web site genre I hadn’t considered before - event invitations. After taking a look, some of these sites could be a real help to anybody planning any kind of activity.

Microsoft "WPF/E" beta available for download!: Macintosh users can now download the “WPF/E” beta from microsoft. This allows Macintosh users to play files created by Microsoft’s new “Flash Killer” application Sparkle. Once you have installed it, the plugin works with both Safari and Firefox. You can see examples of …

Google Presentations Coming?: The Google Operating System blog has found clues that Google may be working on a presentation application to go with it’s word processor and spreadsheet application. While Powerpoint is fine and Keynote is fantastic, I think that I would be very willing to give up the beautiful looking slides …

links for 2007-02-04: /Message: Pew Internet Study: Why Tagging Matters (tags: tagging) Overreaction? (tags: hsluthblogs) God's Eyes (tags: hsluthblogs) Good News from Dago (tags: hsluthblogs) An Exhortation from our Synodical President (tags: hsluthblogs) Bobby Lee's Birthday (tags: hsluthblogs) Jesus Still …

Zoho Notebook Announcement: Zoho has released their new notebook application as a part of the zoho suite and it looks uh… sweet (I had to do that). Anyway, it’s just another example of the best applications moving to the web.

links for 2007-02-03:  That's What She Said (The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, Scrubs) Mux Video Transcoder (tags: video tools)

links for 2007-02-01:  EVERYTHING 2.0: SURVEY 2.0 A good list of solutions to run your poll or survey online. Most offer some free version, only charging for those that will get heavily. (tags: survey poll web2.0) The Web Design Journal (tags: design webdesign)

links for 2007-01-31:  CSS3 Multi-Colum Layout Demonstration and Documentation - CSScripting.com (tags: css javascript css3 layout columns design xhtml webdesign)

Playstation 3 -- Too Cheap?!: The New York Times reports Sony blaming profit slides on subsidizing the cost of the Playstation 3 too much. Selling consoles at a loss is nothing new. Sony and Microsoft have both done this knowing that it will establish market-share and that they will easily make up the difference in game sales. …

links for 2007-01-29:  80 Wordpress Themes | Dr. Web Weblog (tags: css themes wordpress)

Design Widths: I’m working today on designs for the next www.lps.org and this morning trying to establish a target width. To get started, I’m examining some of the best sites on the web to see what width they are using. Here’s what I’m finding.  * ESPN, MLB, NFL: 990px * New York Times: …

Car in front of me during snow storm wit:  Car in front of me during snow storm wit Originally uploaded by cynomyso.

News Now on Wii: An update to my Wii last night gave me the new Wii News Channel. Some thoughts: The Good The interface is clean and easy to read I like how it shows you on a very nice map where the story is from. The animation when you change text sizes is cool It does a real neat effect where as you zoom out on …

links for 2007-01-25:  Kati Kim describes harrowing week lost in woods | CNET News.com iusethis.com: applications used by merlinmann - Free Software for the Mac population

links for 2007-01-24:  World of Warcraft @ Curse (tags: wow worldofwarcraft) Instiki (tags: ruby application wiki) YouTube - BRADY

If Microsoft Designed the iPod Packaging: This is kind of old (as evidenced by the model of iPod shown) but its spot-on. The side with the man listening to headphones against a red background looks similar to the Zune packaging.

links for 2007-01-23:  Macworld: Feature: Find the good stuff fast, Page 1 (tags: tips) WiiCade.com - Flash Games on your Nintendo Wii (tags: wii flash) Erratic Wisdom: CSS Printing Guide (tags: css print printing reference design) The Sun Online - Bizarre: Cruise 'is Christ' of Scientology

links for 2007-01-22: cfAnswers.org | Find Answers to Your ColdFusion Questions (tags: coldfusion tips) Frames Suck Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 1996) Digital Web Magazine - User Interface Design for Web Applications (tags: application design applications tips reference) Google Web Toolkit - …

links for 2007-01-21:  Sensitive Light: Wallpaper (tags: wallpaper desktop pictures)

links for 2007-01-19:  sakaiproject.org Home page for the Sakai project: collaboration and learning environment for education. (tags: opensource education elearning cms collaboration sakai lms)

links for 2007-01-18: e-learning 2.0 Infiltrates the Classroom (tags: lpsnewmedia education google web2.0 elearning) Footnote - The place for original documents online (tags: history reference archive education documents research tools) From the Sunday Lectionary (tags: hsluthblogs) Dangerous Weather and the Divine …

The Influence of TiVo: This article on the O’Reilly Radar credits the TiVo with forcing cable companies to demand better equipment/interfaces from those that produce their set-top boxes. I think that a similar effect may be the best thing that will come from the release of the iPhone. While phones in other parts of …

e-learning 2.0 Infiltrates the Classroom: Here’s an article at read/write web with good information about some current web 2.0 e-learning products.

links for 2007-01-17:  UNL | PEAR.UNL.EDU Open Source PHP Development at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (tags: php development)

Bye Netflix!: We signed on with Netflix last summer sometime. During the time that we have been members, its been embarrassing how few movies we have watched for what we have paid in membership fees. Except viewing the Ken Burns baseball documentary (which I really enjoyed), I think we could have bought the …

Cyberduck update - 2.7.2: Cyberduck - the free ftp client for macintosh has been updated to 2.7.2

links for 2007-01-15:  Firefox Magazine An online magazine devoted to Firefox. A good place to find news and add-ons. (tags: firefox) Piggy Bank An extension for firefox that can grab news from many sources (including via screen scrapes) and display it in one interface that can then be shared with others. (tags: …

Dumb start to the week...: I’ve been telling friends and family for a week that I didn’t have today (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) off. I was pretty surprised when I drove by the parking lot at the office this morning and found it to be empty. I went to one of the coffee shops I frequent and checked the calendar and …

Web Developer Toolbar 1.1 Available: Chris Pederick has updated the invaluable web developer toolbar for Firefox and Flock to version 1.1.

Apple TV - Reaction to a Reaction: iPod Observer: Analyst is Skeptical of Apple TV I’m not saying that Apple TV is going to be a big hit. I really don’t know. I do think that this analyst is missing the point. The Jupiter analyst doesn’t see the point of such a device when one can get the content over the air or via …

iPhone - Thoughts: It’s been a day and a half since Steve bestowed the iPhone unto us. Here’s the thoughts that I’ve had on it. A souped-up nano seems like an odd choice for Apple's first widescreen video player It would be easy to drain a battery while flying and not have a phone when you get where …

Star Trek on iTunes: They’ve added the classic star trek shows to iTunes. Get your ‘Trouble with Tribbles’ and ‘Space Seed’ now!

Gmail all the way...: I like gmail. I like it a lot. The interface is clean. It’s available from any computer. It handles attachments well. It offers a ton of space. It has great utilities available for OSs and browsers to inform you of new messages and it is very fast with search speed that you would expect from …

links for 2006-11-30: A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds This is a method that I am certainly going to use. It really is a hassle to create and store a different gradient for each colorbackground that you might want to use. This rather simple procedure creates two PNG files and then uses the …

What is a social site?: I created a post a few months ago about the social web. I’ve just come to the conclusion that my definition of the social web and the one that seems to be generally accepted are different. I do not consider a site that simply allows people to communicate to automatically be part of the social …

Starcade on Brightcove: I don’t remember if I actually watched this show or not, but it looks familiar. Either way, its hilarious now.

links for 2006-11-28:  Google For Educators (tags: google education)

Verizon begins to show advantage of Flash integration: Verizon and Adobe announced at the Max Conference last month that Verizon would begin putting Flash Lite on compatible phones. At the conference, it was spun as an advantage to flash game developers that would like a huge new audience to deploy their work to. Today’s BBC previews something …

One more ThinkFree Post: This is just a sample Powerpoint presentation hosted on ThinkFree. The posibilities with this are really pretty fantastic. I'm thinking about how a person's blog really becomes the one-stop shop for everything related to that person. My blog already incorporates my links (del.icio.us) and photos …

Test Posting from ThinkFree Office: I'm working with the ThinkFree Office Online beta and one feature in it is the ability to publish documents directly to your web log. This would be really useful for publishing workshop/session handouts and presentation slides. You can see an example of a document right here. Powered by ThinkFree

links for 2006-11-27: Confluence - Enterprise Wiki Software (tags: Wiki) wiki:dokuwiki [DokuWiki] (tags: Wiki) KwikiKwiki - The Official Kwiki Web Site (tags: Wiki) CFX_Markdown - a Markdown processor for ColdFusion (tags: coldfusion markdown) Daring Fireball: Markdown (tags: markdown) MediaWiki - MediaWiki …

Useful tools this morning: I have really liked using textile for my post formatting as it provides easy to read and write code while also publishing very clean HTML. I have had problems with it when I mix HTML and Textile code as I do often on my web log. Textile's main alternative is similar language called Markdown. I have …

What is LaTeX?: I’ve seen references to it often, but have never really understood what it was. Besides learning that it is pronounced Lay-Tech (the x is the greek “chi”), this post explained it use and benefits better than anything else that I have seen. technorati tags:LaTeX

links for 2006-11-21: Google Code Search Now supports ColdFusion (tags: google coldfusion) Digital Web Magazine - CSS Styling for Print and Other Media (tags: css print) 3 Trumpets Mobile Web Breakthrough with X-Series A new mobile service being offered in a few spots around the world with phones that have skype, …

New CF Box: I've been working today on building a new LPS WWW box that will use ColdFusion as it's primary scripting language since the NetCloak that we have used for around 10 years has been discontinued. Here are some quick notes of things that I have either learned or been reminded of today. ColdFusion MX7 …

Non-Screen Media Styling: One of the greatest things about CSS is the ability to create styles for non-screen delivery. Digital-Web features has a new article called “CSS Styling for Print and Other Media”.

Google Code Search Adds ColdFusion: Google’s code search allows visitors to search publicly accessible code for answers. It now includes ColdFusion. technorati tags:coldfusion, google

Fireworks Design Center at Adobe.com: Adobe has launched a new design center on their web site specifically for Fireworks. If you are looking to get the most out of Fireworks, this will be the place to stay tuned to. There’s already some neat articles up there including one on how to “Create a night scene with …

Wii Videos: Here’s just a couple of videos that show the Wii through its unboxing and demonstrate the gameplay on it with an upcoming game: Farcry Vengeance.

Wiiiiiii!: Number 17 in Line Originally uploaded by cynomyso. It was handy this year that the playstation 3 and wii launches sandwiched my birthday on the 18th. I've really had my eye on the Wii since its announcement though. Even without the $600 pricetag that the PS3 is sporting, I've just resigned myself …

links for 2006-11-17:  More religion in politics (tags: HSLuthBlogs)

Brightcove Video for LPS: I started visiting Brightcove a couple of years ago when Jeremy Allaire (creator of ColdFusion) mentioned it at the 2004 Macromedia MAX Conference in New Orleans. It took a long time before it became publicly available, and even then it seemed to be geared towards professional media producers and …

links for 2006-11-16:  Microsoft Zune software review with screencast (tags: zune) Kuler A new application on Adobe labs that allows users registered with Adobe to view, review and submit color schemes via a sharp-looking rich internet application (flex?). 10 best extensions for Firefox 2 | CNET News.com CNET lists …

Bad Google, Bad!: If you tried visiting my blog yesterday, you may have seen a short-lived experiment as I considered moving my blog from Wordpress to Blogger. My only real reason for trying Blogger is that I've really become pretty fond of Google's other tools and figured that I might as well do everything that I …

Flash - Full Screen Video: Adobe put out the first non-beta release of the Flash 9 player with full-screen video this week. Brightcove is already utilizing it. Try it out here… technorati tags:flash, brightcove, adobe

Rich Internet Applications - Compared: Ryan Stewart uses Google Trends to compare Rich Internet Application technologies and shows that Adobe Flex is ranking best compared to other environments like OpenLaszlo. I ran his query then added AJAX and they were blown out of the water - basically flatlined at the bottom of the graph. …

Panera Wishes You A Cup Half Full:  Panera Wishes You A Cup Half Full Originally uploaded by cynomyso. Half Full? I realize this comes from the "Cup Half Empty" saying, but by itself it sure doesn't sound like much of a toast. "Here's to a tolerable life..." Maybe they are trying to save some money by encouraging half-full cups of …

links for 2006-11-15:  Leopard 9A303 Screenshots and Features Apple Announces iPod Airplane Integration [Updated] Core 2 Duo MacBook Also Supporting 802.11n?

New Skype Beta for Macintosh: New beta for Mac today offers many new features and improvements. technorati tags:skype, mac

links for 2006-11-14:  OpenStreetMap Project to create a publicly-available, open-source map (tags: map gps)

Cache-Crazy: I've always been a map/navigation freak, so it's no surprise to me that I have found this geocaching quite addictive. I enjoy the creativeness of the quests. I like how each of the caches that I have found so far have introduced me to a place that I would probably have not otherwise visited. I'm …

links for 2006-11-06:  Colors on the Web - Color Theory for web designers - color combination, color wheel, color schemes Another good-looking web color and color theory site (tags: colors) $398 Compaq Laptop at Wal-Mart I'm sure that this is a quality piece of uhh... laptop (tags: laptop walmart crap)

Geocaching: I mentioned the term geocaching in my last post. Geocaching is a sort of scavenger hunt, or hide-and-seek game where someone hides a small “cache” and then puts information online to help people find it. The clues online include GPS coordinates to where the item can be found typically …

Geocaching with a Mac and a Garmin GPS 3 Plus: I've written before about geotagging photographs. This has become super easy since Flickr has added a geotagging function in the last few months. Sometimes, this may not be enough though. Tomorrow, my family and I are headed to Maine and plan to do a little boating (cold boating). I was interested …

Student Vote: The sour feeling that’s in my tummy this morning tells me that today is Student Vote at Lincoln Public Schools. This is the fourth time that we have done student vote online (we do it every two years) and I’d like to think that I’ve gotten a little better at it each time – …

Firefox 2... and improvements: While Flock is still my favorite browser, I’ve been working a lot with Firefox to see what I think of it. I like it. As is typical, I think that the appearance of the windoze version seems a little more polished than the mac one (which is funny since they used different themes for them this …

links for 2006-10-31: del.icio.us/help/firefox Del.icio.us has a new firefox extension that is superb! It replaces the built-in bookmarking in Firefox with a del.icio.us powered one. It makes it very easy to create, tag and search your favorite sites in a way that is accessible to others that may be i (tags: delicious …

links for 2006-10-30:  Security Bites Podcast: Firefox 2 beats IE 7 | CNET News.com (tags: ie firefox security)

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Max 2006 Flickr Group: See photos from max attendees here

Another Max - Over: Max 2006 Wed Party at PalmsOriginally uploaded by cynomyso. Max 2006 is over so I guess that means that its time to take a look back over the last couple of days. One thought that was going through my head this evening was how much this conference confirmed my feelings that web development is …

Apollo Uses WebKit!: I attended a session today covering the use of HTML and Javascript with Adobe’s upcoming Apollo product. Among many other things, Apollo will allow web applications to be deployed as desktop applications. For this to happen, Apollo must have its own HTML rendering engine. To my great surprise, …

Blue Man Group Opens Conference:  Max 2006 Tues General Session - Blue Man Group Originally uploaded by cynomyso. The Blue Man Group opened this year's MAX conference. Fun to watch, but sure seemed like a commercial for their nightly show here at the venetian. $99 a ticket?! Ha ha ha...

MAX Day One: I’m out in Las Vegas this week with some co-workers attending the Adobe MAX conference. It’s a little different this year as it is the first year since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia (whose conference it was before). Here’s what I’ve taken from today: Adobe is …

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ColdFusion and MySQL 5.1: I nuked my MacBook last week and this morning reinstalled ColdFusion using these instructions that I found earlier. I also installed the latest MySQL 5.1 which required some extra work detailed here. technorati tags:coldfusion, mysql

Firefox 2 RC 3 Available: Mozilla has made release candidate 3 of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser available. technorati tags:firefox, mozilla

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links for 2006-10-13: FatBits: John Siracusa's Journal: Open Apple When the big thing on the web now is corporate blogs (and I LOVE them), where are Apple's? I personally find Adobe's, Microsofts and others' blogs the most informative places to learn about what's going on. It seems to me that Apple could say and communic …

links for 2006-10-12:  Any Thoughts on Crucifixes? (tags: HSLuthBlogs)

links for 2006-10-11:  The End of the World (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Pray continually (tags: HSLuthBlogs)

links for 2006-10-09:  Evangelical Lutheran Worship (tags: HSLuthBlogs) ABC News: Google to Buy YouTube for $1.65 Billion I don't understand dot com finances. How can anything like this be worth 1.65 Billion dollars? I realize that it is stock, but the fact that Google can spend that much is just ridiculous too. It's …

links for 2006-10-06: The Nativity Story (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Chart DrillDown Animations These drilldown animations done in Adobe Flex are amazing and the source code is available to see how they were done. (tags: flex) Google releases code search service Ars Techica details a new beta service from Google allows …

Acrobat 8 Webinar: If you haven’t seen a demonstration yet of Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect, you can catch one here (done of course with Acrobat Connect - formerly Breeze). technorati tags:acrobat, breeze

Songbird: Have you seen songbird? It’s an open-source application that looks a lot like iTunes. I’ve always thought it was an iTunes knockoff to give all those poor folks on Linux something to feel included with. This screencast on the songbird site showed me and will show you that while it looks …

links for 2006-10-05:  Redefining content management Everyone's using content mangement systems but is anyone effectively managing their content? (tags: cms "contentmanagement")

Flash Player Does Full-Screen Video: A newly available flash plugin supports full-screen video. You can download the plugin here, then try out some samples here. It looks great and is very welcome on the Macintosh where full-screen video is hard to come by. Quicktime doesn’t support running embedded movies as full screen. Real …

Contribute 4: Contribute 4 has been released by Adobe. I was pretty surprised as Macromedia NEVER released a product without announcing them almost a month in advance. I have downloaded it and am using it right now to create this blog posting. That’s a new feature in Contribute 4! Don’t get too …

One Blog: On this blog, you will find increasing amounts of ‘religious’ news. I didn’t just find anybody, but have become the webmaster of my congregation’s web site. Since this blog serves as the center of the content I put online, it is unavoidable that content I collect for this …

Links... again: I’ve added my links back to my blog. I’ve posted about this a few times and I’m sure that no one cares, but I want my thought process to be here. I have long had my del.icio.us links displayed on my blog, but I have gone back and forth on including them in the blog postings. …

links for 2006-10-04: Remember the Day of Atonement (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Touching God's Heart? (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Is ColdFusion Harming Itself? (tags: coldfusion) Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet A social networking newbie? Want to get up to speed? This article will give you the history, the present and …

MacForge: This can be filed under “posting so I can remember later”. Darwin Ports has become MacForge. This is a super useful, albeit geeky resource for open-source projects that run on OS X. technorati tags:macforge

NECC Workshop Submission: Today is the deadline for presentation submissions for the National Educational Computing Conference occuring in Atlanta next summer. I got mine in last night. I proposed a three hour workshop covering the creation of web pages using web standards (xhtml, css, xml, etc.). I’m not real hopeful …

Shooting yourself in the foot: A co-worker of mine sent this out today. It’s called “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language”. My favorite is CSS: “You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a …

Go2Web20: It’s a Web 2.0 application that serves as a directory to Web 2.0 sites. I wonder if it lists itself…

Fresh Apollo Information: Adobe Labs has posted new information regarding Apollo â?? their upcoming build-an-application-out-of-html-css-javascript-and-flash development environment. technorati tags:apollo, adobe

CNet: Looking to add a few new programming languages to your repertoire? CNet has 10 suggestions.

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MaxUP at Max: MaxUP is a un-conference that will run in parallel to max in October. An un-conference is a conference where you must participate to attend. Think open-mic night at the coffee shop, then require that everyone take the stage if they would like to listen. Here's the details.

Google to Archive Newspapers: Google plans to add 200 years of newspaper history to its search archives. Perhaps they will run into the same problems with this that they have encountered in trying to put books online but I hope that they succeed. The internet, I believe, has introduced a barrier to history that has not existed …

NECC Call for Participation: The Call for Participation for NECC 2007 in Atlanta is Open. Deadline is October 4.

100,000 free wikis for education: Wikispaces is giving away 100,000 FREE wikis to educators. Get yours!

Designers: Revealed: Dan Saffer helps the world understand designers.

Beginner's CSS Guide: New to CSS? Here is a fantastic guide to starting out with CSS.

Aligning Things Vertically-Center with CSS: This isn’t as easy to do as it sounds. Horizontally center, easy; Vertically-center, tricky. Here’s a shot at a solution.

Insurance Design: Here’s a site design that takes the painfully boring topic of insurance and makes it fun.

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Apple, From the Inside: A former Apple employee compares his time there to time at other companies.

IE7: Solid Browser or Ford Pinto?: Read/Write Web explores question with Opera’s CTO Håkon Wium Lie.technorati tags:ie7

Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons: Read/Write Web’s Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons

Adobe - Flash Tenth Anniversary: Flash is Ten years old! Flash back at the Flash anniversary site.

Microformats at Digital-Web: Here’s another one of those things that I know I need to learn and start using, and haven’t. The Big Picture on Microformats

Steal This Video: Where do you stand on software/video piracy? I don’t know anybody that’s all for it, but we all seem to have a line that we think is all right to cross. This video compares piracy to things that are pretty absurd…

WebWag: WebWag is another AJAX-driven start page. Looks great.

Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats: Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats: You've heard the buzz about microformats, and you've probably been meaning to use them on your sites—perhaps they're sitting somewhere near the bottom of your list of things to do. In his new article, John Allsopp gives us a …

Bytespring CMS FAQ: Bytespring is a content management system built in ColdFusion. Jason Sheedy has posted a FAQ

Vuedo: I haven’t posted for a couple of days, but it’s not because I haven’t been blogging. Several months ago I started to move forward with creating a site where video tutorials could be shared. I had gotten frustrated with the cost of commercial services for what they were offering, …

Links for 8/24/06:  Ted On Flex - Introducing FlexTV Geotagging Photos with Flock Interview with George Moore, GM Windows Live Digital Web Magazine - News - New Accessibility Book

ColdFusion and PDF Forms: Ben has a new article up on the Adobe developer center regarding using PDF Forms with ColdFusion MX7. While he notes that these abilities pale in comparison to what will be possible with Scorpio (Next major version of ColdFusion) they offer some things that could be useful now. The two uses that he …

Links for 8/23/06:  mentalaxis » Badgr 2.0 … Bigger images? You got it! Berners-Lee Disses Web 2.0 Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Canvas ColdFusion Wiki NY Times Getting more people to your blog : The Bit Bucket: The Blog of Lucas Sherwood macZOT! » Mac Pilot - Customize Your System Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and …

Social Web?: 

An article on Vitamin today discussed why the author does not use social sites. The ending argument was that the author didn’t have time for their own work and they certainly didn’t have time to be social on one of these new sites.

I understand where they are coming from and have felt …

Ha ha: Barely 8 hours after saying that I wouldn’t be doing a link dump anymore, I found something to keep it going. A pre-beta (scary) of NetNewsWire is available and one thing it does is allow you to make on easy post with links to all of the tabs that you have open. Sooo, I can read through all of …

Links for 8/22/06:  Light text on dark background vs. readability | 456 Berea Street Digital Web Magazine - Competitive Analysis Marco Casario,hands on Adobe world: Acrobat August Newsletter by ArobatUsers.com Development - Post details: 5 things I love – and 5 things I hate – about Adobe Lightroom (part I) …

Redesign: I was getting frustrated with a single sidebar on my blog since so many things were ending up too far down the page, so I have redesigned. I like this much better and it gave me room to add my delicious links to the side, so I will probably stop doing the link dumps that haven’t been working …

Awed By TextMate: I’m sure I’ve brought it up before, but TextMate is an incredible text editor that hides behind a very simple interface. A new video on their video cast shows some simple features that make great use of Google APIs in creating links in HTML documents.

Autocross video: Went to our county ‘event center’ today and watched my brother-in-law Aaron race in an autocross with his new Nissan. I taped it and threw it up on Google video…

Podcasting: Encoding for Flash: I've mentioned here before that I started using the LAME mp3 encoder to prepare audio files for publishing to a podcast (if you are using OS X, you can use darwinports to install it for you). While it is a little usability-challenged since it's a command-line tool, once you have the settings figured …

Version Control: The development community is divided into two halves: the designers and the coders. I never know which one I am. Many may look at my designs and code and say that I'm neither. I would prefer (for my own self-confidence) to think that I'm both, although the two disciplines tend to sabotague each …

iChat AV on MacBook Pro: I have noticed lately that the camera icon in my iChat indicated that my MacBook Pro was unable to host (or participate in) a multi-party video chat. Since I know that it is able to, I went looking for an answer to this. Here’s what I did to fix it: I opened the Quicktime system preference and …

WWDC Followup: If you didn't see the announcements at yesterday's WWDC keynote, you can find them at Apple.com. Impressions? First, I was intrigued a little by the tag-team presentation format. Steve handed off to three other Apple execs throughout the keynote in a way that felt to me like a bit of a "American …

WWDC Keynote Today: This morning (or noon-ish central time) Steve Jobs will take the stage in San Francisco to address the attendees of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This is the Apple version of the MAX conference (for those develop using Adobe products). I read one web site that anticipated a …

Link Dump:  Applications for your TiVo

Link Dump:  Great Minds in Development: Bookmark This

Link Dump:  Google AJAX Search API

Link Dump:  Lussumo Filebrowser Give Five Questions, Get Free Adobe Certification USB Missile Launcher A USB-controlled Soft Missle Launcher. Software for Mac and Win allows you to swivel, tilt and fire the device from your computer.

ColdFusion on MacTel Instructions: I found these instructions by Mark Andrachek to install ColdFusion on an Intel-based Macintosh via Ben Forta’s blog. I tried them originally with a fresh install of Apache 2 and it didn’t work very well, but I removed the Apache install and used OS X’s built-in Apache and it worked …

Link Dump:  CFMX on Intel Macs - The Definitive Guide

Todos: I’m not sure what the meaning of the name “Todos” is, “but this is the application launcher”:dbachrach.com/opensoft/… that I have been waiting for . I have wanted something that would give me quick and visual access to all of my applications quickly and this does …

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Link Dump: CFEclipse.org The preferred IDE for coldFusion development? Random Ramblings of a Cyber-Soul » CFMX7 on MacBook (Instructions) How to install ColdFusion on a MacBook Random Ramblings of a Cyber-Soul » Warningâ??Installing the 4/17 Apple Java Update Kills Coldfusion Server (Again)! How to …

TextMate Does Blogging: I was looking through some of the video blogs that my computer had pulled down lately and found a bit about being able to post to blogs from TextMate. I had to try it out! (blog_from_textmate)!

Link Dump:  Home Music, Sports, News & Movie Videos Online with Gotuit Media LiteSwitch X 2.6 - MacUpdate Light Switch X Application Switcher for OS X that has more options than the built-in "command - tab". MaxMenus Max Menus lets you create custom menus anchored to the four corners of your …

Link Dump:  SITES - All Sites All sites on the SITES manila server Fast Icon - Download freeware icons : Aqua Icons : XP Icons : Linux Icons .

Link Dump:  S5 Project S5 is a CSS/Web-based alternative to powerpoint and keynote for presentations. It was developed by CSS guru Eric Meyer but has now become a project that will be developed and improved by an interested community.

Alternatives to Adobe for ColdFusion: While Adobe develops and sells THE ColdFusionMX server, there are cheaper and even free alternatives. A post on the Inside Out Outside In blog details some of these. technorati tags:coldfusion, adobe, railo, bluedragon

Link Dump:  randomfrequency.net » Search Pages Plugin Plugin to allow wordpress search to include pages in the results. Without, wordpress only searches posts.

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Link Dump:  beWidget - Dashboard Widgets A nice free screen ruler for OS X

CNN Front Page: The Israel / Hezbollah conflict has given CNN plenty of opportunity to use the Breaking News section of their recently redesigned site. I think it's pretty sharp looking. technorati tags:cnn, breakingNews

Link Dump:  Survey Application Survey Ballot Login LogoPond Will Return Shortly The Tao of Mac - CSS/Techniques The Tao of Mac - Web Design

Link Dump:  CSS Beauty CSS Design Showcase, News, Jobs, Community, Web Standards

Link Dump: Web Developers Network :: Index Help and Discussion for those developing sites on the UNL web site Parc Rittenhouse: Luxury Condos on Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia UNL | Web Developer Network Describes process for publishing content on the University of Nebraska - Lincoln web site. Also seems …

Design Hunting: Today I’m beginning the process of creating a new design for the LPS web site. I’m not sure at this point if it will be a dramatic change or just an update of the current design. The first step that I’m starting today is evaluating other web sites. It’s difficult to find …

Yay Break!: It’s been pretty quiet here for a couple of weeks. I spent last week on vacation visiting my brother and his family in Saco, ME. We had a fantastic time up there. Amanda, My sister-in-law Courtney and I went Kayaking at LL Bean (It’s only $12). We saw fourth-of-july fireworks in …

Link Dump:  Index of ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8 activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool.

Link Dump:  A love song about web standards: boagworld A love song about web standards: boagworld

Link Dump:  Make Names Web-Friendly - Automator Actions Automator script (runs on OS X) that converts file names to web-friendly names.

Link Dump:  Grow Collective: Web Design, Development, Hosting and Consulting An open-source slide show creator for web sites CAFFEINE Browser An image management system for the macintosh

Link Dump:  Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? Flip4Mac WMV Beta Program Flip4Mac for Intel-Macs Beta Handbrake Lite Handbrake lite is a VERY simplified version of handbrake that allows you to take a DVD and convert it for use on a video iPod.

Link Dump:  Flash Animator vs the Animation This is a crazy flash animation where the animation jumps off of the Flash stage (shown in-application) and starts fighting against the animator. ted@onFlex.org

LPS Workshop Information: 15 to 20 brave folks will be joining me for the next two days for a sort of web development boot camp. We’ll be hitting all of the Web Development acronyms and will hopefully have a site to show for it all at the end of Wednesday. Participants can learn more on the workshop page.

Opera 9 Available: Yesterday, I think, Opera (the company) pushed out the finished version of Opera (the browser) 9. If you haven’t tried or used Opera before, this is a pretty good time to try it out. Opera could probably be considered the original ‘standards’ browser. While IE and Netscape were …

Dreamweaver in Columbus: Thanks to those of you who attended my Dreamweaver workshops this week in Columbus. I have updated all of the class notes with the resources I mentioned through the days and have provided downloadable project files on the page from the second day. You can find these pages by clicking on 'events' on …

Rock, Paper, Scissors: I’m in columbus, nebraska tonight between sessions of a two-day dreamweaver workshop that I’m facilitating. I turned on the TV, watched a replay of the US getting spanked by the czechs in the world cup, then saw the funniest thing I have seen in a long time: The USA Rock, Paper, Scissors …

I don't know what to think of this: MacPractice Uses Parallels to Bring Windows Dentistry App to MacMacPractice this past weekend announced an agreement with Synca Direct, Inc. to bring the company's Cadi dentistry software to Mac users via Parallels Desktop, which enables running Mac OS X and Windows XP simultaneously I knew this …

Google Browser Sync: Google Browser Sync is a new plug-in for Firefox that will allow you to keep multiple copies of Firefox (home, work computers?) in sync. Your bookmarks, history and cookies are all continually synced. Very cool – If you don’t mind google having a running record of everything you do …

Max 2006 Announced: Adobe - MAX 2006 has been announced. Max is the conference for anybody doing web development using Adobe (Macromedia) tools. There are tons of sessions covering ColdFusion, Flex, Flash and Dreamweaver along with other Adobe apps. It’s a fun time to meet other developers and sit …

Troubleshooting Web Pages with Safari: Here’s a great page describing methods of debugging web pages with Safari.

Fun Flash Site: Freedom Interactive has a fun site that shows posterboard carriers walking through New York City trying to sell web sites.

Scheduling Content Removal: Today I have started the first serious effort I can remember in the 8 years that I have been with Lincoln Public Schools to clean out all of the orphaned junk on the web site that has collected over that time. I have just completed one of the smaller sections of the site. I figure I removed over 70% …

iTunes Encoding Alternatives: Every couple of weeks I encode the audio for the Board of Education meetings of Lincoln Public Schools an publish them in a podcast. While iTunes works very well as an audio encoding tool, it can be frustrating when podcasting. My audio starts as a track in a quicktime movie. I export that movie as …

O'Reilly Trademarks "Web 2.0": Dale Dougherty from O’Reilly created the term “Web 2.0” to describe the recent rebirth of web development that has brought us cleaner interfaces as well as AJAX-powered behaviors. As a part of this, O’Reilly has organized a couple of Web 2.0 conferences around the topic. Now, …

New eMac?: AppleInsider reports that Apple is working on a new all-in-one Mac for education, to replace the phased-out eMac, and that Apple is targeting release in the "September timeframe" 2006. If so, Apple would catch only the tail end of the purchase cycle for the school year beginning this Fall, since …

Which University Plays the Most Warcraft?: Which Universities have the most gamers? University of Washington tops the list forvisitors to MapWoW. Washington is known for its computer software and game development programs, so it's not too much of a surprise. Several other tech-heavy schools make the list including RIT, Purdue, Virginia Tech …

Adobe on Del.icio.us: Adobe has published a new link set up on delicious. They have product categories like After Effects, Acrobat and Dreamweaver, as well as content categories like Video and Design. They do not have ColdFusion up there right now, but they said that they are not done setting this up yet.

Target being sued for an inaccessible web site: Sexton has joined the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) as a plaintiff in a lawsuit that charges Target with violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and Disabled Persons Act. The lawsuit, scheduled for a hearing next month at …

sIFR 3.0 moving along: An alpha version of sIFR 3.0 is available. sIFR is a package of javascripts, css and flash files that allow site designers to replace html text with flash text, allowing for text in any font that is crisply anti-aliased. Version 3 supports new flash features such as drop shadows. LPS uses sIFR 2 for …

iPod Vending Machines?: Macy's will dip its foot back into the retail consumer electronics market again by adding iPod vending machines to its stores this fall. The company plans to install Zoom Stores robotic vending machines stocked with iPods in stores across 32 cities according to The Buffalo News. The retailer stopped …

Building Scalable Websites book (from creator of Flickr): This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to millions of users. Topics include application architecture, development practices, technologies, …

Engaged or Engraged: Weblogg-ed » Engaging Teachers Will Richardson considers a Mark Presky talk discussing how students are either enraged or engaged by teachers. Will asks how we get teachers engaged if we want students to be engaged. A teacher kicks off the comments by saying that they are enraged by the lack of …

Local Paper Summarizes This Past School Year: 10 things about this school yearJournalStar.com technorati tags: LPS, Lincoln

SandVox Web Publishing Tool Available (From Creator of Watson): Karelia announced the immediate availability of Sandovox and Sandovox Pro 1.0, a graphic-based Web site development application, on Wednesday. Sandovox includes support for blog, podcast, and online photo album publication, RSS feed generation, uploading sites via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and .Mac, as …

PDF Publishing: O’Reilly Radar > Gentlemen Prefer PDFs I’ve been very interested lately in the PDF publications that have been available on the web. One of the most recent documents that I have bought is Getting Real by 37 Signals. The book sells for $19 which is a bargain considering what books go …

Create Launchable Apps with Flash: Adobe Reveals More Details on Apollo technorati tags: adobe, apollo, flash

Photos of New Apple Store: The Cube Unpeeled technorati tags: apple, store

Matrix: Blog Uses in Education: EdTechPost: Matrix of some uses of blogs in education technorati tags: blogging

Turn Your Pictures Into PDFs: Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera ScanR can take mobile-phone (or other) photos and turn them into text-searchable PDFs. Have a whiteboard that you want to save? Snap a photo, email it to them and receive back a PDF. I’ll try this out and report back! technorati …

New Yahoo! Front Page Doesn't Support Browsers: New Yahoo! Site Doesn't Support Safari [UPDATED] || The Mac Observer I'm know that they will have this all fixed before they go live, but while it doesn't surprise me that they don't support Safari, it still surprises me that they do not support Flock. If you use Flock, you sometimes get the …

No CF on Java 5: Making ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X use JVM 1.4.2 instead of JVM 1.5.0 - TalkingTree.com I didn’t realize that ColdFusion didn’t run on Java 5. I’m sure that I’ve read this before, but I had forgotten. Anyway, this page details how to tell CF to use 1.4.2 even if the default …

Digg It: Small Biz 101: Digg is Your Marketing Secret Weapon - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) The way to get noticed on the web today is to get listed on Digg. If you can get enough people to “digg” your page, your status on the site will rise to a level that will bring unbelievable traffic to …

Spry - Podcast: Scott Fegette: Podcast 02 - Jorge Taylor on the Spry Framework I havent' had a chance to listen to this yet, but plan to sometime today. It’s a podcast of an interview with someone involved with the Ajax Spry Framework at Adobe. A way to create AJAX functionality in Dreamweaver? technorati …

How Apple's Store Strategy Beat the Odds: WSJ.com - How Apple’s Store Strategy Beat the Odds technorati tags: apple, store

RIAA Upset by New XM Inno Player: Labels sue XM over music-storing ‘mothership’ | CNET News.com I've been looking for one of these for a bit. I didn't realize that they were already out. The fact that XM is being sued over them just makes me want one more. Anything to stick it to the RIAA. This player adds something to …

Glossy? Awesome or Evil?: Photos: Out of the box: Apple's new Intel-based MacBook | CNET News.com These pictures show the glossiness of the new MacBook screens. I'm always stunned by the way these glossy screens look in stores, but wonder about the glare. You can see a lot of reflection in the screen in these photos. MacBook …

COMET - The Next AJAX: Digital Web Magazine - News - Comet, the complement of AJAX AJAX allows a browser to, at any time, communicate with the server and deliver the results of that communication to the browser without the need for a page refresh. COMET promises the same use of existing technologies to allow the server to …

Google Calendar - Reviewed: Vitamin Reviews » Google Calendar technorati tags: google, calendar

Pretty Search - Snap.com: Snap is a new (I think) search engine that features a great look and page previews. I think it’s nice to look at, but frustrating to use. technorati tags: snap, search

New Yahoo! Front Page: Yahoo! has posted a preview of their new home page and it’s looking good. I’ve been frustrated for a long time that there are so many do-it-all pages like Yahoo!, Google, Lycos and even newer options like pageflakes and netvibes and yet for the most part they are not pretty to look at. …

User-Agent Extension for Firefox / Flock: The User Agent Switcher Extension is useful to those that use browsers such as Flock that are often looked-over by sites that do browser filtering to ensure that those that visit the site have the browser necessary to properly do so. Adding this extension to Flock allows it to tell the server that …

We don't want to take the time to learn to manage it, so let's block it: Congress targets social network sites | CNET News.com A bill will propose that social networking sites like MySpace be blocked. I'm all for the rights of schools to block access to anything that they feel detracts from the mission of education, but anything handed down by congress is likely to just …

Apollo to Free Flash Apps: Flash to jump beyond the browser | CNET News.com Adobe must be getting closer to letting this out. Kevin Lynch talked a little bit about “Apollo” at the MAX conference in October, but I don’t think that he demonstrated anything. I sure hope that this turns out better than Central. …

IE Developer Responds to Vitamin Article: Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft, fires both barrels at those that would say that IE doesn’t care about standards and that the standards community has started to bow to Microsoft. technorati tags: ie, msie, microsoft, standards, vitamin

Don't Forget the Premium Plan: A post on 37signals reminds web application creators to not forget to not only charge what a service is worth, but to offer a premium service for more money. It is amazing, according to the article, the number of people that are generally willing to fork out the dough for a service that is worth it. …

IE and Standards: A Fair View: Vitamin Features » Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? technorati tags: ie, standards, vitamin

Will People PLEASE Stop Writing About Rocketboom?: I am tired of hearing about Rocketboom. Rocketboom is a terrible video blog. It's host, Amanda, is annoying. It is not well produced. It says nothing about nothing. It's a waste of bandwidth -- and yet everyone seems to want to hold it up as the best example of video blogging. WHY?! Personally, as a …

Halo 3 Trailer: Only one more game-related post this morning -- promise. I just discovered what a sucker I am. I was so with the previously referenced article that the game play is what matters and that these console makers, while exploring the current limits of gaming graphics, are not creating great games. Down …

Nintendo Wii to be around $250...: WeBreakStuff » What we can learn from gaming consoles WeBreakStuff takes a look at the way that the console makers demonstrated their wares, praising Nintendo for focusing on the game instead of improved graphics. The article takes lessons from this and briefly applies them to site building. …

Too Cheap?: Kutaragi on PlayStation3: it’s too cheap At $600, Sony Computer Entertainment cheif Ken Kutaragi has said that the PlayStation 3 is too cheap. Perhaps, in the effort to put together a console that would be technically superior to anything else available, they have priced themselves out of the …

Dreamweaver Developer Center: The Dreamweaver Developer Center is a resourcet that I tell people about a lot, but always forget to continue checking myself. This morning I found there some great articles and tutorials on form styling with CSS, formating XML with XSL, and using a framework called SPRY to add interactive AJAX …

Eric Meyer Interview: Eric Meyer is a giant in the CSS world and this is a great interview with him about how he got into CSS and the business of web development. technorati tags: css, eric, meyer

Customize Firefox: Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) technorati tags: firefox

Big Games: O’Reilly Radar > Come Out and Play: As a former camp staffer, this sounds like a blast!technorati tags: games, camp

Flex on a Mac: As long as I’ve been posting Flex info Here’s information about installing the Flex SDKs on a mac.

No More Pop In Schools: This is a couple of days old but the major soda makers have agreed to replace the fully-loaded pop that they sell in schools nation-wide with water, juice and sport drinks. technorati tags: soda

Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater: Adobe has released an update for Dreamweaver 8. The 8.0.2 updater is available for macintosh and windows and improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviors and for active content such as Flash.technorati tags: adobe, dreamweaver

Flex 2 Beta 3: Beta 3 of Adobe’s Flex version 2 is available on the Adobe Labs site. Flex is a development environment that allows rich internet applications to be built via XML or Adobe’s FlexBuilder application to be delivered via Flash. Steep learning curve, but incredible results. technorati tags: …

Shave Yourself: You have got to see Norelco’s new web site advertising their new BodyGroom shaver. It’s hilarious (and made with Adobe Flash!).

CSS3 Columns: I can't wait for the column specification in CSS3 to become a standard in browsers. In the meantime, Firefox 1.5+ (and of course Flock), support parts of the column spec through their own stylesheet selectors. Here's an example of it in use Here's information about using it in Firefox

How to build a form that is not annoying: Pete Freitag is in the middle of a series of posts he calls “How to build a form that isn’t annoying”. There isn’t a lot of useful information here, but good things to think about. Steve Krug said “Don’t Make Me Think." Pete here, seems to be saying, …

Mac FTP: A Guided Tour: MacDevCenter.com evaluates a few FTP clients for Macintosh.

Let your computer type it for you: If you have words, phrases or code that you find yourself typing over and over, you should take a look at Textpander. I downloaded it this morning and I think that it’s going to be very useful. You can feed it long amounts of text (great for chunks of HTML code) and assign abbreviations to …

Log Files: For the “I’m sure I’ll need to know this sometime” file: Here’s a post about log file management in JRun.

Lifelong Teachers: Will Richardson discusses the difference between teaching kids to be ‘lifelong learners’ and ‘lifelong teachers’. Included is a video podcast from an elementary classroom teaching others how to do podcasting.

Preview of Flex Beta 3: kuwamoto.org has a sneak peak at Flex beta 3.

Torrent-Like Abilities in OS X Leopard?: Rumor sites are reporting that Leopard (MacOS 10.5) may have peer-to-peer sharing abilities in the OS that would allow the system to share with other computers system and application updates. This would be a opt-in feature that would be rewarded by Apple with free songs or other incentives. Benefits …

ABC.com: Full Episode Streaming: ABC’s new streaming service is amazing. Through their use of Flash they have created a site that is both compatible with many platforms and browsers as well as beautiful. Not a lot of shows there right now, but probably the ones that most want to see: Desperate Housewives, Lost, Alias and …

New Apple Ad Campaign: I haven't seen any of these on TV yet but Apple has started a new Mac vs PC ad campaign.

Image Management: Here's an interview at photoshopsupport.com with Scott Bourne about the current landscape of photo management/cataloging applications including lightroom, aperture and iPhoto.

New Version of JRun Coming Soon: I have long wondered what the future of JRun is as it has been a long time since version four came out and you almost never hear about JRun from Macromedia/Adobe. I was surprised and happy this morning to read that the next version of JRun is ready for beta testers.

Adobe / Macromedia Sites Merged: While Adobe and Macromedia merged around six months ago now, they have continued to maintain separate web sites that served their unique audiences. Until now. At some point in the past day or so, the macromedia.com domain was finally redirected to the new adobe.com website (which looks a whole lot …

Blue Zones: Explorer (I’m not sure what else to call him) Dan Buettner gave an impressive presentation at the NETA spring conference on Friday morning. You can catch his presentations (keynote and followup) on the NETA podcast page. You can view the web site of his current project, Blue Zones, here. …

NETA Podcasts: The keynote and feature presentations at this year’s NETA conference are being podcast. You can find them here. technorati tags: neta06, podcast

Firefox Extensions: Yesterday I helped Kristi Peters with her Firefox workshop. Here are some extensions that were referenced during that workshop. Tab Sidebar Forecastfox Search Engines technorati tags: neta06, firefox

NETA Spring Conference Today and Tomorrow: I will be at the NETA Spring Conference in Omaha today and tomorrow (April 27th and 28th, 2006). I am teaching a workshop on Thursday morning and will be attending the conference the rest of the time.

SubEthaEdit on MacZot!: Have you used SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys? It’s a fantastic text-editing program that allows you to collaborate with others on the same document at the same time. If you need to do real-time collaboration on a document, it’s the best thing I have ever seen. If you don’t, it is …

Firefox Two Features and Priorities: Mozilla has published an interesting list of requirements for Firefox 2 along with priorities for each.

McNealy Steps Down at Sun: Yay! I’ve always gotten the feeling with McNealy that he was more wrapped up in being proud of himself than doing good work for Sun. I hope that the new guy can turn Sun around. Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, replaced by President Jonathan …

White House Web Site Redesign: Design View : Andy Rutledge - White House Redux. The jewel here isn’t the design itself but his descripton of the process. It’s an excellent evaluation of audience, message, color and design.

Giving Thunderbird Another Try: I have tried to use thunderbird for spans of days and weeks in the past to see if it could make me a convert and each time I have gone back to OS X’s Mail.app after getting frustrated mostly with Thunderbird’s sluggishness on the mac. In the past week, Mail.app has been starting to choke …

Opera 9 Beta 1 Available: Opera Software today announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. This version includes Widgets, small Web programs running in their own windows that are fun, easy-to-use and live on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also features support for BitTorrent, a popular file downloading technology, in …

IE 7 Full Screen is Really Full Screen: As a Mac user, I’ve always been a little jealous of Windows users that can run just about anything full screen. I have especially coveted full-screen browsing. Sure, you can maximize a window the full width and height available, but you still have the always-present menu bar sitting there, and …

TMI: Does Asparagus make your urine stink? Ever wonder why? ;-)

Brian's Link Dump:  USA National Gas Temperature Map » A color coded google-map-like map of gas prices in the US. Previous links

New Star Trek Movie: J. J. Abrams (Creator of Alias and Lost, Director of Mission Impossible III) will be producing a new Star Trek movie. No cast or story has been announced, so it’s not clear which series/timeframe this will be targeting although the fact that he mentions that he wants to return Star Trek to its …

Flock Now Universal!!: Firefox went universal binary with the 1.5.0.2 release and now Flock, in their continuous updates has started offering universals. I had drifted towards Firefox since it was working so much faster than Flock, but now I can return to what has become my favorite browser! WooHoo.

NDE Wrapup: This is a long time after-the-fact but here is a pdf of the presentation that I gave at NDE a couple of weeks ago for those that wish to have it.

Web Standards Project: The Web Standards Project has been redesigned.

Video Sharing Sites: There are starting to be a LOT of sites focused on sharing videos. Here is a guide to many of them from publish.com.

Google Calendar is Here: Google has launched their new calendar service. I haven’t had time to mess with it yet, but it has a nice look to it and appears to be an easy place to create a calendar and subscribe to other calendars. There is a tour available right on the front page.

Good Page - Email it to yourself!: Toread is a new service that will let you easily email pages to yourself for later reading and easy searching. Set up a mail filter looing for the address that the pages come from and you have a fantastic page archive!

AppZapper for Free -- Make It Happen!: maczot.com

Brian's Link Dump:  protagonist: dashLicious » Tiger dashboard widget gives you ability to post to your del.icio.us account from any browser Previous links

How Much of Apple is Jobs?: CNet reporters' roundtable ‘cast discusses Jobs’ role at Apple.

New York Times Goes Wide: The New York Times is sporting a new look–and it’s beautiful. They, like CNN last week, have gone wide (970pixels by my measurement) and have also centered (which I really can’t figure out why more big sites don’t do–everybody else does).

Even MS Hates IE: CSS Stylesheet on one of Microsoft’s sites contains styles such as “StupidIEWidthHack”, “StupidIEMarginHack” and “fix for the IE 1px-ooff margin error”.

Solar Eclipse from the Space Station: Here’s a photo an astronaut on the space station took of this morning’s total solar eclipse.

Ruby on Rails 1.1:  Ruby on Rails 1.1 is out and getting great reviews with it's built in AJAX support and much-improved active record feature. Got to get back on track with learning it. Ruby on Rails 1.1: Web 2.0 on Rocket Fuel (web2.wsj2.com)

64 GB USB Drive:  That's right! 64 GB!! Only $5,000. Consider an entire bootable drive that would fit in your pocket. Backup your drive to it. Put your tunes on it. 'Course you can get a couple times that amount memory for one to two hundred dollars. BUSlink's 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series - Engadget

Adobe's Chizen Discusses Macromedia Acquisition, Mactel: Adobe under construction | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha: World of Warcraft down all day, Blizzard has no ETA

Optimus Prime - 3D: A beautifully rendered 3d movie of Optimus Prime transforming.

Apple OS Gallery: Wired takes a walk down the memory lane of Apple’s 30 years of Operating System glory. Ah, Multifinder…

A Bajillion Web 2.0 Sites - Reviewed: This is awesome. Somebody took the time to go through the cloud of web 2.0 sites available, categorize them and then rank and award them. If you are looking for inspiration for a site you are working on, look no further.

Creating a Secure Login with ColdFusion MX 7: This looks like a good tutorial on writing it right.

Another "Let us be your virtual home" site:  Goowy provides an email and IM interface along with online storage. Great interface.

From the "Balmer's an idiot" file:  Interviewer: "Do you have an iPod?" Balmer: "No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod." The Sleeping Giant Goes …

More Evidence of X.5's Windows Support: Gearlog : Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support

Flockin' Awesome!: Flock keeps getting better and better. Besides already having one of the best browser interfaces, the latest builds of Flock have added a choice when ‘starring’ a site of sharing with everyone (via the social bookmarker of your selection) or only between your computers. In addition, in …

Holographic Drives: They are finally coming…

NewsMap: This killer Coldfusion-based flash application provides a fullscreen (within your browser window) visualization of current news.

Slanket: I know winter is over, but you’ve done this: You want to lounge around with your laptop and cover up with a blanket. Problem is that you either need to keep the blanket below your arms to use your computer or do some weird thneed-like thing with it to keep it between your arms and out of the …

Pimp Your iChat: Chax adds needed features to iChat like tabs and growl support.

CNN Goes Wide!: CNN has a fantastic new layout that is standards-compliant, wide and beautiful. The new site is 980 pixels wide. WooHoo. I’m for anything that aids in stretching web users expectations of what a site is. Monitors are wider, let’s use them.

Umbrella tells you when to grab it: This awesome umbrella was in this month’s WIRED mag. It receives radio signals that tell it what the chance of rain that day is, then blinks it’s blue handle to communicate that you to you. See the umbrella blinking madly near the door on the way out? Better take it with you!

Apple Store - Omaha!: Think secret reports locations of the many new Apple Stores expected this year and Omaha’s Village Point mall is on the list.

Another book to buy...: Digital Web Magazine reviews “CSS Mastery”

Interview with one of people that figured out XP on Mac: After reading this interview, I’m more impressed that I was before with the ability to dual-boot XP on an intel mac.

Finally -- An Auto Maker Does iPod Integration Right: VW’s new Gypsie interface allows you to sync with iTunes, dock your iPod and access both with a fantastic interface in the dash. Wow.

Wednesday Links:  Here's stuff we looked at during <cfgeek> on Wednesday morning Mandolux (High-res desktop pictures) Color Schemes Color Scheme Generator 2 Steel Dolphin Creative - Color Scheme Generator Return of Design Color Schemes Color Schemer Gallery Colr.org (sample schemes and ability to generate …

Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available: Firefox 2 alpha 1 is available. At the time of this posting, it is not yet on the mozilla site, but TechCrunch has managed to find a link to it.

PopURLs: There’s a lot of pages out there trying to be the perfect page to set your browser home page to. PopURLs is about the best I’ve seen. It pulls in all of the top headlines/links, etc from sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, furl, and flickr.

Google Acquires Writely: Google has made another acquisition of a cool ‘web 2.0’ site. It has purchased Writely, an online word processor that uses AJAX methods to create a product that is cross platform, cross browser and pretty snappy to use. A year ago or more I think I would have been pretty excited by this, …

Origami Photos: Microsoft announced and showed off the new Origami at CeBit. Haven’t had much time to take a good read of it, but sure looks cool.

Brian's Link Dump:  Windows Live » Microsoft's new me-too start page. Clean look but a little slow. MaxPower Icons » Professionally designed icons available for free under the creative commons license. They may even be used in commercial applications as long as they remain free for others to use. Previous links

Google Calendar: Screenshots have been leaked of a calendar system in development at Google.

WooHoo! Daily Show and Colbert on iTunes: You knew it would be coming. I’m just surprised it happened this soon. You can now subscribe to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report on iTunes. You pay $10/show and you get the next 16 episodes (one month). Get both and that’s $20 a month, but considering that …

Tivo Lifetime Subscription Ending: If you have a Tivo (or are thinking about getting one), better do it quick. Next week, Tivo plans to pull it’s lifetime subscription plan which allows you to pay a one time fee of $299 and never pay the monthly fee. Apparently they have decided it’s too good of a deal.

Daily Del.icio.us Dump: 30daytags » Site allows you to add references to sites and tag them. All entries remain in the system for 30 days and then expire allowing the entire system to stay fairly current. mobileGlu | your mobile glue » MobilGlu creates portable versions of rss feeds, flickr, del.icio.us, and other …

Daily Del.icio.us Dump:  Portable Applications ? FreeSMUG » Macintosh Applications converted to be able to run off of a portable storage device such as a USB drive. The preferences are stored on that drive so that launching them from any computer where you have connected the device will give you access to your bo Previous …

Cashiers being replaced by computers at Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut?: I heard somebody talk a couple of years ago about a taco bell or mcdonalds or something down in Florida that was experimenting with serve-yourself cashier counters. Looks like those combination restaraunts (KFC/Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut/Taco Bell, Taco Bell/KFC) are ready to start trying it out.

Daily Del.icio.us Dump:  evolt.org - Browser Archive » A archive of browsers. Best part IMHO is the standalone versions of Internet Explorer. With these, you can test multiple version of WinIE on a single computer. Previous links

Microsoft: Good and Bad Videos:  First video: Mocks Microsofts ability to make any packaging dull and over detailed. Second video: Is this what Microsoft will be announcing tomorrow? 

Daily Del.icio.us Dump:  geocoder.us: a free US geocoder » Get the latiitude and longitude of any address Google Maps API Documentation » Google's documentation to aid the creation of pages using their mapping service. XML.com: Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API » Helpful information regarding the creation of maps …

Web 2.0 Logos: There are so many “Web 2.0” companies that it’s almost impossible to track them. Here’s a poster that’s been assembled using web 2.0 company logos. It’s fun to see the designs and colors used. It’s also fun to just start going through them to see …

Happy Birthday Steve!: It’s Steve Jobs' 51st Birthday.

Daily Del.icio.us Dump:  BlogMarks.net » Online social bookmarking (like delicious) that looks great and ties a screenshot to each link. Previous links

New Video Player: A new video player that looks like a good competitor for the iPod should be here next month.

Squeaky Clean CSS: Here’s a few tips that will help you keep your CSS in order

Daily Del.icio.us Dump:  mandolux » Very cool, high quality desktop pictures. Previous links

Looking for Luck: Chances are that someone here in town got about 365 million dollars richer this weekend. A friend that’s currently in Minnesota makes a subtle plea for a share of it.

Fair Use: The RIAA said that ripping CD’s on to digital media devices was fair use. Now it seems they are changing their minds.

Web 2.0 Humor: What is meant by web 2.0? What was web 1.0? Read all about it here…

Great desktop pictures: Mandolux has awesome desktop pictures. Great images of beer and baseball. What else do you need?

Flock .5.11 released: Apparently Flock has scrapped plans of making .6 a major beta release or they have decided that using numbers like .5.11 highlights the fact that these are betas. Either way, it has been a long time since a release of Flock was put out (outside of the hourly builds) and this new one is fantastic. …

What should your site be doing?: This is a list that showed up on digital-web magazine over a year ago listing those things that a modern site should be doing. While it's hard for most casual developers to incorporate these into a homegrown site, it shows that one should really consider some of the great content management systems …

Trojan for OS X: There may actually be a bit of a virus circulating for OS X masquarading as a screenshot from OS 10.5.

Opera Browser on Nintendo DS: This would be pretty fantastic even if the DS weren’t already a great gaming device. Opera will be releasing their web browser for the Nintendo DS as a game cartridge. The DS runs about $250 has two screens (one of which is touch-sensitive), Wi-Fi, stereo sound, a microphone and stylus. If it …

Another Player Bites the Dust: The sony bean player has been discontinued after only having been out for six months. I don't know if it just wasn't selling or if it's about to be replaced with something better. I really thought that the bean was a great looking player (it'd be better if sony wasn't locked on to their stupid music …

Camino hits 1.0: It’s been in beta for nearly five years and yesterday it finally it version 1.0. It’s not my favorite browser but it’s a fantastic browsing alternative on the mac and I’m sure it has a lot of great things on the way.

TypeTester: Here’s a tool called TypeTester that allows you to specify a font and the CSS properties of it to quickly try some looks out before you incorporate it into your style sheets.

Color Scheme Generator: I’ve seen quite a few color schemers, but I think this is the best web-based one that I’ve seen so far.

A Peek in to Firefox 2: Based on the meeting notes posted from yesterday’s Firefox team meeting, we can see what will be in the first alpha of Firefox 2 (release postponed two weeks to near end of February) and future versions of it. Here’s some of the things I’m looking forward to: Close buttons on each …

Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development: Ben Goodger (Firefox lead engineer) offers his perspective on the history of Firefox.

CSS Columned Page Maker: Here’s a page that will create a CSS layout for you. It is a bit more intimidating to look at than some of the others that are out there, but it has a LOT of options and would probably produce code that needs much less customization once you have it.

Fireworks Lives!: Word from Adobe is that Fireworks is an important piece of their web development product suite moving forward and that it will continue to be developed. WooHoo!!

Opera 9 Tech Preview 2 Available: Opera Labs has a new technology preview available for Opera 9. If you haven’t used Opera before, you should really give it a shot. I think it’s a little too slow to use for day-to-day browsing (at least on my powerbook) but it has a lot of features that make it worth keeping in your web …

New 1GB Nano: Apple has released a new 1GB version of the Nano for only $149 and has made the 1GB version of the shuffle only $99 with the 512 now $69. It sure would be tough to pass up the extra features of the nano for only $50.

Browser Roundup: I tend to post a lot about browsers, so I have created a page that lists many of the browsers that are available for those that wish to try out a few. With the exception of Internet Explorer (Win) and those that are cross-platform like Firefox, they are Macintosh browsers. As I have time to try and …

Dell Discontinues DJ MP3 Player: Dell has discontinued their DJ MP3 Player. I’m not happy to see iPod competitors go, but this was just another case of a hardware vendor quickly throwing together me-too product that added nothing new to the space. Create something great and people will buy it. iRiver and Creative aren’t …

Growth of the Blogosphere: Technorati has released some statistics regarding the Blogs that they track. The most interesting to me is that 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after they have created their blog. That’s just a little better than half. That’s pretty good in my experience. Here’s a …

Playing Catch-Up: Since I haven’t been able to post for the last month-plus, here are some things I’ve wanted to get up here. Regarding Browsers The public alpha of Firefox 2.0 (codename: bon echo) is scheduled to be released on Feb 10. What's in store? While I'm sure that they will always continue to …

I'm Back!: Well, I’ve been here, but my blog has not. An OS X update nuked my blog and I haven’t had the time or will to try to fix it. The problem? A config issue in my php.ini file. Why didn’t I think of that?! Ha. Just for my own future reference (because I know I will have to do this …

MacWorld Odds: ZDNet has published odds on possible announcements at MacWorld.

Another CMS: Xoops is a PHP-based content management system. Looks like Mambo.

New E-Book Reader: Sony may be coming out with a new e-book reader and I think that this may be the time for it. I have been thinking a lot about the relevancy of newspapers today and always come to the conclusion that there is no better source for information today, but that the delivery of that content is not what …

Fixing the Links: Semi-frequent readers of my site have probably been annoyed by my constant empty “Links” posts. The problem causing this has been a script that I’ve had running every night to grab new bookmarks that I have posted to del.icio.us and list them on the site. This script creates a post …

Happy New Year: 2005 is over and 2006 is here. I haven’t posted for a while and I have a decent excuse. My wife Amanda and I had our first child on December 15. His name is Liam and he is doing very well and we have all enjoyed our time together these past couple of weeks. I’m starting back to work on …

Links:  Nuvvo Learning Management System A hosted, AJAX-based learning management system that offers free accounts.

Macromedia Merges with Adobe Tomorrow!: Adobe is expected to announce tomorrow the completed acquisition of Macromedia.

Links:  Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. The list is broken into two sections. The first section contains the most popular …

Firefox 1.5: Get it now: Mozilla hasn’t announced it yet, but it’s out there. You can get the final 1.5 for macintosh here.

Firefox 1.5 Today?: Word on the net is that Firefox 1.5 final will be released today.

Slow Day in Lincoln?: The photo to the right is a snapshot of the front page of the Journal Star web page (our local daily paper) today. I realize that they did $100,000 in damage and that’s pretty incredible, but really – is this front page news? DC had their beltway sniper, we have… “Get the …

Cambridge Followup: This morning I worked with two students from Cambridge, Nebraska on web development topics. Here are the links and other resources that I mentioned during that time. h3. Downloadable Files "Completed _America_ Project":[www.brianfitz.net/america_f...](http://www.brianfitz.net/america_finished.zip) …

Links:  Blind Access Journal The Blind Access Journal is a blog centered around the goal of making the web and the content delivered over it accessibile to everyone. InterLinc: City of Lincoln: 5 CITY-TV Program guide for Lincoln's Educational Channel 21 Steadman A fantastic british band that provides …

Google is Doing a Nu Thang: Google has a few new things out. First, in my right column, you see a link to download Firefox with the Google Toolbar. Clicking on this link AND installing the software earns me a dollar. Yep! Google is paying a buck to those that get people to switch to Firefox. Want to earn money? Sign up. How …

Potter: Today was my birthday and my wife got us tickets to see harry potter tonight. We thought that the line would be sick, so got there early and we were almost the first ones -- felt kinda dorky (but got great seats!!). Line was much worse for the movie after ours -- it reminded me of the star wars …

Blogging Getting Bad Rap: After last Sunday's incident in Pennsylvania, where both students were found to have "blogs"?which didn't seem to forecast anything about what happened?schools and parents seem to be giving blogs much more attention. I hope that this provides opportunity for parents, teachers, administrators and …

Teen Blogging: I was talking with my friend Dan this morning and he’s giving a presentation tonight regarding Internet Safety based on the government’s iSafe program. He asked what I thought about sites like Xanga and MySpace. The real questions seem to be, “should these sites be blocked by …

Microsoft Launches "Live": Microsoft, yesterday, announced a new Web 2.0ish portal that they call live. It seems to be Microsoft's attempt to say, "Hey. We can do this stuff too." You can get a local weather forecast and aggregate numerous news feeds -- all in an interface that does not fully support Firefox yet. (Microsoft …

Firefox 1.5 RC 1 Released: Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is the first release candidate of mozilla's next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to their developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. …

Meet the Flock-er: Some developers from the original Firefox team have gotten together and created a new browser based on Firefox called Flock. The great thing about flock is that for its core features, it ties into existing web applications. Bookmarks are all stored in your del.icio.us account. You can view flickr …

Max Wrap: I didn't write near as much about my experience at MAX as I had planned, but I'm sure that what happened there is going to find it's way into what I write here for a long time. It was a super conference and I think there was a real feeling of sadness at times realizing that this would be the last …

First Day at MAX: Some observations and thoughts from the first day at Macromedia’s MAX Conference: Flex is awesome and the price may be right now. I’m frustrated that right now there is no way to develop flex applications on the Macintosh (that I can see). The code is just XML, but you have to have …

Yahoo Blog Search: I found another post about the Yahoo blog search that made things much more clear – AND OF COURSE linked to the correct page. That’s not so hard is it News.com? The Yahoo blog search is nice. When you do a search on the Yahoo news site, a sidebar is presented on the right side of the …

Rant: News.com Articles: I was just reading a news.com article regarding a new blog search that Yahoo has and of course wanted to then try it out. News.com however, never seems to have links to the topics which they are discussing. This is so 5-years ago, sticky-mined. Stop thinking that you have to be everything to …

MAX Conference Starts One Week From Today: Macromedia’s MAX Conference starts one week from today and I can’t wait. With studio 8 just out and the Adobe acquisition, there should be a lot of exciting things going on there. Five co-workers and myself will be headed down to Anaheim next Sunday to check it all out.

Yahoo Launches Podcast Site: Yahoo has launched a new podcast beta site. It’s a really nice site that does a pretty good job of introducing visitors to lots of podcasts. The site allows you to listen to podcasts right within the website, but directs visitors to existing podcasting tools to subscribe.

NetNewsWire Acquired by NewsGator: “NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire from Ranchero Software”:www.newsgator.com/NetNewsWi… and the developer of NNW, Brent Simmons, will be joining NewsGator as a software architect. The future of Ranchero’s blog posting tool, MarsEdit, is being discussed in the …

Google RSS Reader: “Google now has an AJAX powered RSS reader available.":reader.google.com I can’t seem to get to really liking an online reader, but as far as they go – this seems like a real nice one.

Firefox 1.5 beta 2 available: “Mozillazine”:www.mozillazine.org has announced the availability of “Firefox 1.5 beta 2”:weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archiv…

Workshop Followup: 

Hasting workshopers: Here are the final notes and downloads from yesterday’s workshop…

Video or No Video: Apple has announced a media event for October 12th. CNet reports that Apple will use the event to release a new video iPod (I swear I read this but I can’t find it now). “MacRumors says they will not”:www.macrumors.com/pages/200… and instead release a larger-capacity iPod …

Thanks for a great day: Thank you to those that attended the workshop at ESU 9 in Hastings on Thursday. I really had a fun time out there and hope that each of you got something from it when it was all finished &em; other than a headache. ;-) I’m working on getting some final wrapup pieces posted here tonight or …

Web Development Workshop: I’m in Hastings, Nebraska today to work with 16 victims willing participants on Dreamweaver, CSS, XHTML and other standards-based issue. It’s going to be a great day… “View the Workshop Outline”:www.brianfitz.net

Browser Comparison: Wikipedia hosts one of the most complete browser comparison charts I have seen. In most cases however, it seems to be comparing the last or latest version of each browser, not breaking the features out by version.

MS' iPhoto: Speaking of Sparkle. Here is a blast from someone to claims to be a PC user at Microsoft’s new photo manager (which is still in beta).

Microsoft Sparkle... What is it?: Microsoft has been rumored to have a “flash killer” in the works for a long time and it seems that the newly announced “sparkle” program may be it, but is it designed to go up against flash? It really seems when watching the available interview/presentation that it is not …

Sun and Google Working Together: Sun and Google announced that they will be partnering on different technologies. It’s interesting that Google (who is the big fish here) has nothing about this on their site while Sun, who really really needs this - and seems to think that they are the big player, has this as the biggest item …

Postseason Begins Today: That which makes October the best month of the year begins today as the major league baseball postseason begins today at noon central.

$100 Laptop: MIT has put together the specifications for a computer that should cost no more than $100 to build. The 12 inch laptop computer has wireless networking, six usb ports and a shoulder-strap that doubles as a power cord. The computer would be built primarily for third world countries looking to …

On My Way to Boston: Tomorrow morning, I'm catching a plane to Boston to watch Saturday's game against the Yankees. It's going to be incredible. Wakefield vs Johnson. I don't know if I'll even sleep tonight

PunBB: PunBB seems be be a nice, newer, no-frills php-based bulletin board.

Why software sucks (and what to do about it): Here’s a good article from scottberkun.com about software design and why people call it sucky. What are they really thinking? What does this make the developer think? How can developers spend time more efficiently to create software that is user-friendly?

Page Structure: Today I’m nailing down the page structure for a new set of sites that I’m working on and a key part of that is asking “what gets denoted h1, h2, etc.”? I perused several HTML and design forums looking for discussion on the subject, but did not find answers that seemed …

Podcasting on the Macintosh: I’ve done a few personal podcast episodes on this site and more recently, produce the Board of Education podcast on the Lincoln Public Schools website. Through these efforts I have tried just about everything available on the macintosh right now and am yet to find a tool that does a great job …

Studio First Thoughts: I downloaded the new Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash last night and have had some pretty good opportunities today to use DW and Fireworks. Regarding the previous post about folks bashing Fireworks, I’m not in agreement. They were obviously doing some things with Flex that I’m not doing, …

Fireworks 8 Lacking?: Studio 8 has yet to be released for non devnet subscribers, but news is starting to hit the web and one of the first interesting critiques focuses on Fireworks' improvements, or lack of.

Studio 8 Today?: Subscribers to Macromedia’s DevNet service are reporting that they have been provided links today to download the parts of the new studio 8. Perhaps the rest of us will get it today also… (fingers crossed)

Back at it - New blog: Another school year has started and things are humming. I’ve just switched my blog from being based on Movable Type to WordPress and things are probably going to be a little funky here for a week while I learn this new environment and make this what I want it to be.

Studio 8 Announced: I'm three days late on this, but Macromedia announced Studio 8 (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper) on August 8. 8 on 8/8. Great huh? Anyway, I'm quite a bit saddened that Freehand is not in the package as this almost certainly means that it's death is eminent. They have not …

XML and XSL explained:  As part of a new series of articles from Macromedia centered around the Studio 8 announcement, Marius Zaharia has written one titled "XML Overview" that does a very nice job of explaining XML, it's connection to HTML and XHTML, and XSL. If you are interested in these topics, this article is worth …

MII "Next Web" Presentation: Again, for any interested, here are the presentation slides and handout from my "Next Web" presentation on Tuesday at the Midwest Internet Institute in Lincoln. View Presentation | Download Handout

Midwest Internet Institute CSS Session Followup: For anybody that might be interested. Here are the files that I used during my session on cascading style sheets Monday afternoon at the Midwest Internet Institute in Lincoln. They are included here as a zip file that you can expand and proceed to play around with if you wish. The presentation …

iTunes 4.9 brings Podcasting: iTunes 4.9 was release sometime either last night or this morning and now features podcast subscriptions. It is so super easy, you can browse the store for podcasts in the same way that you browse for music. When you find something you like you simply hit "subscribe". You can customize how many …

Fat Heads:  Whining Dave Winer posted a honest reason for his deciding to cancel his Audible service, which Audible CEO Don Katz blasted him for (I bet he doesn't blast people for posting about subscribing), and in typical form Winer opened both barrels back on him in his blog. Stupid stuff.

CFChart Blog: Here's a blog specifically to help folks with the cfchart part of coldfusion

CFMX7 Shirts:  You know you want one

Geek humor in the Bible:  Link

Google Maps: How do they do that?: The "Giant-Ass Image Viewer" is a very similar project that is demonstrated and explained.

How Blogs Work: Here's 7 simple steps that describe the blogging process (publisher to reader).

Poster Sessions:  I've been to a few conferences where "poster sessions" have been offered, but I've always been a little confused by the title since I have never seen a poster at these sessions. Here's a post I found that gives good tips for presenting a poster session and a definition of what one is (they are …

Free iPodder turning into pretty good client... too late.: iPodder (the free, open-source podcast client) is really maturing nicely and the newest version, 2.1, is the first that would have me considering it has a primary means of managing subscriptions. The great effort may be coming to an end however as we await iTunes 4.9 with it's podcast support.

Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford:  Steve (CEO of Pixar and Apple) addressed the 2005 graduating class at Stanford University this spring.

Wikipedia continues to impress: Will Richardson contemplates what Wikipedia means to research papers.

Spot Fraud Mail: Pay pal has a page showing some ways to spot fraud emails. Good thing since they are so common and so authentic looking.

Apple to Intel: Reactions and Reaction: Jobs finally announced it yesterday around noon, central time. Apple will be starting to include Intel chips in its systems. I’m pretty excited about this. Apple released the PowerBook G4 a long, long time ago and there is no G5 in sight. It seemed that with IBM’s new chip production …

CSS3 Multiple-Column Support: CSS3 promises the ability to have multiple columns (think newspaper layout). Exciting.

XHTML2: Looks like XHTML2 is coming soon and it sounds great!! Here is a presentation about it and here is the working draft.

Fireworks Geek Forum: I had never found a great Fireworks forum, but there seems to be good discussion here at geekforum.

Wikis in Time: Wikis, getting bigger and bigger, are featured in a Time article.

Radio WillowWeb: Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha has a podcast called Radio WillowWeb.

Wired News: Nokia Draws Bead on IPod People: Nokia and others think that mp3-enabled cell phones will overtake the iPod. I think that, for the time being, they are nuts. As long as you have to buy phones from only your vendor and buying a phone usually happens only when getting a new contract, people are not going to race out and get these …

How Podcasting Works:  This is a good article on how to get started listening to podcasts.

Go-Live / Dreamweaver future becomes muddier: Adobe has announced the future availability of a new piece of software called co-author. It is to GoLive what Contribute is to Dreamweaver. I'm sure this product has been in the design phase for quite a while, but I question the value of introducing it now. Contribute is a well-liked, version 3 …

What will RSS tackle next?:  ZD Net's David Berlind has some ideas.

The shuffle sounds best:  Take a look at this column (support materials) discussing the iPod shuffle's audio supremacy.

Another great ajax app...:  Webnote

Let Darth Vader read your mind:  The Sith Sense

CFAjax:  Wow. This is going to be big. CFAjax is the AJAX implementation for coldfusion. It allows javascript to directly call ColdFusion methods without refreshing the page. The possibilities of not having to submit and request pages blows my mind.

Netscape 8. What's the point anymore?: What is Netscape? As far as I can tell, it's been reduced to nothing more than an ISP and it's new browser is just one more branded application. The new Netscape 8 browser that came out yesterday drew some attention early as it was going to be based on Firefox, but has drawn more attention in the …

CSS Columns:  How do you get columns to stretch the length of the page in CSS? There are many ways I'm sure, but the one I use most often is using background images to give the appearance of columns. There is a new article about this on Macromedia's site and also the article I originally learned the technique …

RIA in NYT:  The New York Times ran a story yesterday discussing Rich Internet Applications

Javascript Form Validator:  Massimo's Corner has published a well-documented and thought out javascript form validator.

Another news reader:  NewsPipe is a sourceforge project that will take a RSS feed and allow you to process it in your email client of choice.

Which OS are you?:  Take this quiz to find out which operating system your personality most matches.

NewsMac Pro Aggregator Updated: ThinkMac updated the NewsMac Pro news aggregator to version 1.0.2. This aggregator has a real slick interface and allows for syncing with Palm Pilots (via iSiloX). I tried it out, but didn't see enough to encourage me to switch from NetNewsWire. Perhaps it's in there, but it was frustrating that in …

Firefox Commercials:  Here's some commercials for Firefox that a french advertising firm put together. Part of goal was to create commercials usable interntaionally -- thus the lack of dialog in any of them.

Some advice on logo design for non-designers:  FrogBlog offers the best tip for logo design

Just Three Things: Week of May 8th: h2. One: AJAX Stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” PanicGoods Google Maps “GTDTiddlyWiki”:shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddl…" (based on “TiddlyWiki”:tiddlywiki.com) h2. Two: Color Sites “ColourLovers”:colourlovers.com “Color …

Put your iPhoto galleries online:  If you want to be able to export iPhoto galleries as beautiful customizable pages, check out the free and just updated Galerie 5.1beta.

Aggregating relevant news in Web 2.0: I was reading through my aggregator this morning and came across some postings that didn't really have anything to do with things that I subscribe to. This didn't bother me as I find some of the most interesting things through these types of posts, but I did wonder where they came from. I looked at …

Interested in learning javascript?:  Here's a section I just came across called "The JavaScript Diaries" at webreference.com that looks like it would be a good way to get started.

Firefox engineer comments on Apple/KHTML: Firefox engineer comments on Apple/KHTML: Lead Firefox engineer Ben Goodger has spoken out in defense of Apple over the company's suggestion that the existing KHTML rendering engine be replaced by its own-developed derivative rendering engine (WebCore) for Safari, reports Macworld UK... This story …

I hate to keep referring to the same blog over and over but...:  If you care about education and the internet and how it's being used in schools with students, you really need to be reading Will's continuing discussion about blogging vs journaling...

History of the GUI:  Arstechnica has published an interesting history of the GUI.

iBooks required:  Macworld: U of Maine to require iBooks for teachers-to-be: The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced plans to require students working towards Maine teacher certification to have Apple iBooks. The program dovetails with the state of Maine?s own Learning …

Great Breezo Presentation by Tim Buntel and Simon Horwith:  From jeffcoughlin.com: Simon gave a great overview of his presentation on "Design Patterns and CFML" and Tim spoke quickly about his favorite new features introduced in Coldfusion MX 7. Simon's full presentation can be seen at the upcoming CFUNITED conference next month. To view today's recorded …

A student chastising student "journalers":  In the ongoing blogging vs journaling debate, a student chimes in with good words

Flex examples:  Flex is Macromedia's solution (expensive solution) to allow normal object-minded programmers to create flash applications (RIAs). For examples of Flex applications, see Flex Authority.

Typography for the web:  Want to use great looking type on the web? Try the newly released sIFR 2.0 (a combination of javascript, CSS and Flash).

Firefox updated:  Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 in response to security concerns that have appeared this past week.

[insert word here]cast: Apparently you just need to add the word "cast" to anything now to make it hip and cool. Audio blogging became "podcast". Now the long-possible (and used) method of recording screen actions along with voice-over is being referred to as "screencasting". I'm not sure that I like this term. Podcasting …

Standard ID3 tags for podcasts:  This is really needed. Dons Blog has posted some good guidelines for tagging podcast files.

IE 7 Screenshot?:  Is this a screenshot of IE 7? It has a tab that look thoroughly ugly. Very simple interface similar to MSN Explorer (that I don't think is still distributed -- but I actually liked).

Apple Granted Patent for Tablet Mac:  The Mac Observer - Apple Granted Patent for Tablet Mac (w/Illustrations)

Yet another color palette site:  COLOURlovers

Freakin' Cool Site of the Day:  PanicGoods is where you can by clothing from the software company Panic (makers of the Macintosh FTP program Transmit). You can purchase things on this page by simply dragging items into the dock-like area at the bottom of the page and when things are dragged out of it they disappear with a …

More Xanga-itis:  Will Richardson posts more concerns re kids using "blogs" to post far too much personal information online.

iTunes 4.8 out:  iTunes 4.8 has been released. Reports indicate that the new feature is the ability to synchronize contacts and dates with iPods (which has been available) -- what isn't getting much attention is the fact that you can now drag quicktime movies into the player and watch them in quicktime.

New Macromedia News Aggregator:  Macromedia has updated their MXNA aggregator to version 2.0. Best of all, it has an RSS feed now so that you can subscribe.

Want to blog from your phone?:  Blogger.com has made available a new service that allows you to blog from your cell phone.

httpmail plugin 1.44 - MacUpdate:  I've been asked many times in the past couple of months if there is any way to check Hotmail with OS X's mail.app. I just saw this morning that the mail plugin that does it has been updated. Update: This latest version is for Mail 2.0 (Tiger) only. A friend fried his panther mail.app installing …

Don't Use Two Dollar Bills at Best Buy:  This morning's Foxtrot cartoon made mention of a Best Buy in Maryland that arrested a person on suspicion of using counterfeit money for paying a $114 bill with two dollar bills. I googled it wondering if the story was true and sure enough, a month ago this did happen.

Just Three Things - Week of May 1, 2005: 

Here's my new attempt at pod casting or audio blogging (whichever you prefer). I hope to get better at this and learned a lot from putting this one together. Just Three Things is a short wrapup of three stories that emerged in the past week that are worth exploring further.

j3t05012005-1.mp3

Broadcast Flag Killed!: Common sense prevails. A federal appeals court has shot down the idea of a “broadcast flag” that would limit the way in which tv programs could be recorded and stored. You can read more at Wired >

'Net-illiterate' parents seen failing children: MSNBC: “Parents who are unable to help their children use the Internet properly could be stifling their education and reducing their job prospects, researchers said on Thursday.”

Speaking of it...:  Yahoo has released a new creative commons search (beta).

Creative Commons: While I was looking for some flash animations to show at a workshop in Ogallala, NE on Thursday, I came across a fun couple of videos that described what creative commons was. I've heard about creative commons for a long time and knew the basics of what the system was, but after discussion on …

Apple Student Gallery:  See some great things that students are creating in Apple's new student gallery.

CSS 102:  Mark Newhouse extends his CSS Series in CSS 102: Borders and Backgrounds in the latest issue of digital-web

Web 2.0:  Richard MacManus and Joshua Porter contemplate the future of the web in the latest issue of digital-web

Flash Workshop at Nebraska ESU 16: 

Here's the "handout" and required files for the flash workshop!

tips and hacks: 

Here are the resources that I referenced this morning regarding coldfusion/html development...

A gamer's look at the new iMac G5:  How's the new iMac G5 measure up for gaming? Peter Cohen takes a look

Blogs vs Wikis: I'm exploring the differences between blogs and wikis and am a little confused as to why there isn't more collaboration between the two models. Perhaps there is something about wikis that I'm just not understanding, but the biggest thing that I just can not figure out with them is how one is to …

Adam Curry: Getting Sirius: NY Times: "Adam Curry will produce and be host of a four-hour program every weekday starting May 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio." Argh! This satellite radio thing is really starting to get me frustrated. I will be getting a XM radio in the mail soon and I'm very excited about that. I can't wait to …

News: Macromedia expands Breeze conference capabilities:  Macromedia Inc. on Monday announced the availability of Breeze 5, a new version of their Web conferencing and collaboration software designed to work hand in hand with Macromedia's ubiquitous Flash technology. Breeze 5 touts myriad enhancements including improved content-sharing capabilities for …

Weblogg-ed: Youths, News and TMI:  As youth have gotten into the idea of blogging, some bad trends have started emerging. Will talks about blogging vs journaling.

CSS Reboot:  I'm sad that I didn't read or hear about this before today, but there is a project on the web encouraging designers to redesign their site's CSS for May called CSS Reboot. There are some wonderful designs...

Wiki's on MacOS X:  Interested in installing your own wiki on OS X? Here's one of the best set of instructions I've seen yet on how to do it.

Opera CEO Swims:  Opera's CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner, made a promise to swim from Oslo (where the company is based) to the United States if the new Opera 8 browser was downloaded over a million times in it's first four days. Much to his surprise, it passed that mark.

Steve Banning Biography:  Steve Jobs's review of his biography: Ban it (CNET News.com)

Tiger New Features:  Daring Fireball is keeping an updated list of new features in Tiger. Lots of sites are doing something similar to this but this list has some pretty unique items. An example is the new ability in Tiger to select discontinuous text or columns of text. I'll let you go there to read the details...

NETA CSS Files: 

For anybody that might be interested. I have decided to post the files that I used during my session on cascading style sheets yesterday afternoon at the NETA spring conference. There are included here as a zip file that you can expand and proceed to play around with if you wish. The presentation …

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads:  Apple has also redone their third-party software downloads area and it now includes tiger-specific things like Dashboard widgets, Automater Actions and Spotlight Plugins.

Don't like mail.app's new look?:  Cafe Fighter is a new application that will get rid of what it consider's the new ugly buttons and make the whole application a little more tiger-looking.

NETA Friday CSS Session Followup: 

Thanks again to all that stuck around for my CSS Session on Friday. Here are the resources that I said I would post.

The Digies:  Apple has published videos done by nebraska students on their website.

.Mac Updated:  The .Mac site has received a tiger-inspired, much-needed update.

Today is the day!:  Apple releases Tiger at 6:00 this afternoon (I'm not sure which timezone) :-)

Even Lord Vader Blogs:  The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

See the world from your computer:  The googlesightseeing blog links to interesting items on google satellite maps.

NETA Blogging Workshop Followup: 

Thanks to everyone that attended my workshop this afternoon! As promised, here are some resources that I either referenced throughout the session OR obligated myself to find...

IE 7 to be compatible?:  This story came out a few days ago, but I wanted to get it up here. C|Net posted an article about Microsoft's planned Internet Explorer 7 that discloses that they are planning to make it more standards-compliant. Support for both CSS and PNGs should be much better in it. Alleluia. If it turns out …

Six steps to fast Mac troubleshooting:  Macworld has posted an article listing simple steps every mac user should know to troubleshoot their own computer.

NETA Begins Tomorrow:  The annual spring conference of the Nebraska Educational Technology Association starts tomorrow. I will be conducting a blogging workshop on Thursday afternoon and presenting a session on cascading style sheets on Friday.

Podcasting on CBS News:  CBS has posted a story about podcasting featuring Adam Curry.

The Ideal Web Team:  Andy Budd considers the makeup of a perfect web team

The Institute for Backup Trauma:  LiveVault has an entertaining site advertising their solutions featuring John Cleese.

Macromedia Acquisition Translated:  Daring Fireball has translated Adobe's FAQ regarding the acquisition of Macromedia from PR-Speak to English.

Secrets of Mac Superheroes:  Want to use Safari Smarter? Macworld posted this article detailing some of Safari's most-helpful/least-known features.

Wow wow wow (in a numb sort of way): It has been announced this morning that Adobe plans to acquire Macromedia. My mind is spinning with all of the things that this could mean. Some things seem obvious. Illustrator will replace Freehand. Dreamweaver will replace GoLive. Acrobat/PDF integration will become tighter everywhere. Flash will …

Blog Reports:  eWeek is running a special report on Weblogs

RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators:  Will Richardson has posted a RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators

About:Config:  Linux Journal has published an article about Mozilla's about:config settings

News: Microsoft to show off new Xbox on May 12:  Anyone who wants to learn more about the next Xbox console should tune in to MTV on May 12, Microsoft Corp. said Monday. The software maker and cable TV channel have struck a marketing deal to provide an early look at the highly anticipated video game console on MTV channels in the U.S., Asia …

Google maps from the ground: What does it look like on the ground when someone does a google map search?

Flash authors ponder Google pitfalls: CNET reports an interesting discussion that happened at the FlashForward conference concerning how Google does not index flash-based sites and possible solutions.

Macromedia MAX 2005: Macromedia has announced the dates and location for thier 2005 conference. Some co-workers and I went to the 2004 conference in New Orleans and loved it. It has many sessions covering nearly all of their products along with great general sessions.

Installing ColdFusion MX 7 on Mac OS X: I've played with installing ColdFusion on OS X a few times with mixed results - never to my liking. I finally found some excellent articles that got me going exactly as I would like. Both of these are at Community MX. Running ColdFusion on TomCat: This article, which is sold for $3.00 walks you …

What is Lorem Ipsum?:  I get asked about Lorem Ipsum a lot. Here are a couple of pages about it. Lorem Ipsum - All the facts The Straight Dope

Tiger getting closer:  Café Macs reports that the seed notes for the latest pre-release of Tiger include only one known issue.

[fill in the blank] management systems: I've been messing around with Macromedia captivate to see if it works as a good solution for putting some content online. One file that I need to post requires that a persons viewing of it be recorded (name, email, etc.). Captivate says that it can do this via email, but it does it in a way that …

Transmit FTP Client Updated: Panic has upgraded their FTP client Transmit to version 3. Actually, I'm late on this as they did this about a week ago now, and there is already a 3.01 out. 3 introduces some great improvements over version 2 including the ability to: navigate servers in column view connect to WebDAV servers …

Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications:  A ZDNet story about the brewing fight over internet forms which may lead to a battle of standards that make us reminisce about the simple days when it was Microsoft vs everybody else. There's at least three different camps ready to start promoting their own "standards" including Macromedia's new …

Fireworks (a great unknown app): When it comes to Macromedia applications, Dreamweaver and Flash are the well-knowns with ColdFusion gaining in popularity. Much less talked about is their great image-editing program Fireworks. It surprises me how many people do most of their web image editing in big programs like Photoshop. …

Great design:  Here's one of the sharpest personal sites I've seen for a while. Very nice.

A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content:  This is the MOST overlooked element, in my opinion, when it comes to creating a web site. People want to focus on the visual part of it but spend relatively little time on the most important part of the site -- the content. Asterisk discusses this...

Apple Spoofs:  P-P-P-PowerBook and the Billy Graham Special Edition iPod

Podcasting in USA Today.:  Two articles: One from yesterday and one from today.

Firefox, Safari, others struck by spoofing flaw:  From MacWorld: A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in almost every browser on the market -- except one. Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera and Netscape all suffer from the "moderately critical" vulnerability that allows the spoofing of address bar URLs and SSL certificates, but, …

Microsoft vs Google: I just saw a commercial on the TV for the new MSN Search. The commercial was cooler than the search is. In some ways, the new Microsoft vs Google battle reminds me of the longtime Microsoft vs Apple contest. Today's release of Google Maps elicits a response that is not uncommon for Google …

Coolest online maps!:  Google, in their labs area, has released Google Maps. These maps are incredible.

Podcasting on CNN:  CNN is not podcasting, but has an article about it.

Quote of the day:  The Red Sox' Curt Schilling in response to the Patriots super bowl victory last night: "They're the Yankees of the NFL, but without being greedy bastards."

ColdFusion 7 is out!! WooHoo!!:  Macromedia's ColdFusion 7 is out! It bring flash-based forms and display tables, printable reports (flashpaper) and many performance enhancements. I can't wait to start using it! Learn more at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/

Why does Windoze still suck?:  Here's an interesting article at sfgate.com reopening the mac vs win debate (as if it was ever closed).

iPods in Redmond:  Wired published an article about employees with iPods at Microsoft's campus. Some are having to start sneaking around with them by not using the easy-to-identify white earbuds.

Altoid iPod Speakers:  In a competition to create the best iPod accessory out of an Altoids can, a set of speakers won. See the winner and learn to make it yourself at Readymademag.com

Don't Click on the Blue E!:  O'Reilly is publishing a new book called Don't Click on the Blue E! in March to help frustrated WinIE users make the switch to Firefox.

Extensions:  Firefox extensions are fun and their getting better. PC Magazine reviews the "top 15".

Browser Alternatives:  Extreme tech has posted a new article detailing the current available browsing alternatives to WinIE.

I'm missing one?: Digital-web magazine has published a story called The Four Best Web Design Books You May Have Missed. Included are Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards, June Cohen's Unusually Useful Web Book, and a book I don't have by Eric T. Peterson titled Web …

Search Wars?: Microsoft has released their new search engine: an updated MSN search. The search, which is supposed to be faster than Google, has in my opinion a terrible interface once you get past the search screen and according to some who have used it, poor search results. Of the newer generation of search …

Skype 1.0:  Skype has released version 1.0 for the macintosh (along with version 1.0 for Linux and Pocket PC, and version 1.1 for Windows).

Panther, Tiger, Panther, Tiger, Panther:  I am once again back to Panther (Mac OS 10.3) on my home computer after, what was a pretty successful couple of weeks using Tiger (Mac OS 10.4), I allowed it to upgrade and it broke Audio Hijack Pro. Having the choice of staying with Tiger or having AHP, I reverted back to Panther.

Pictures from the 2005 Midlands International Auto Show:  Here's pictures from last weekend's auto show in Omaha at the Qwest Center. I don't know enough about cars to take intelligent photographs of them, so my wife's brother Aaron snapped the camera. Lots of great rides... take a look.

Contribute Feature Request: The one thing that I really really want in Contribute is the ability to have user-created reusable items. So many things have gotten so much better in the product since version one, but management of a site's navigation is still restricted (as far as I can tell) to editing a single page and then …

Firefox Engineer Goes to Google: Ben Goodger, one of the primary people responsible for Firefox has been hired by Google. What does this mean? His blog indicates that while this may delay the release of Firefox 1.1, it does not mean that he is off the project. I would like to think that this in fact means that a google browser is …

PodCasting:  Lately I've been enjoying a couple of "podcasts". PodCasts are audio web log postings. The thing that is starting to make these fun is that news aggregators, like NetNewsWire, are starting to be able to automatically take the postings and put them into iTunes ready for your next iPod sync. …

Lost it again:  I lost my website again. I backed up my server, installed Tiger and then found that my backup was bad. I'm starting over for what is now the fourth or fifth time in as many years. I've got to get better at this.

What?!: "Firefox should look to see if a page is optimized for IE and abide by Microsoft?s nonstandard formatting and render the pages as their authors intended." Holy crap. This is insane. So WinIE is the standard? Considering that ActiveX controls will never work on any platform but windows it's stupid to …