This is the latest home movie from London of my nephew Stanley, his big sister Lily and the rest of the family. I’ve uploaded this video using VideoEgg.com. I’m very happy about all of the third-party solutions that are supporting TypePad.
Hopefully VideoEgg will come up with a way to set a better thumbnail for posted movies. Most of mine fade from black.
I frequently use free-to-use photos to add a little sizzle to my posts. (See my entries about sites that feature free-to-use photography.)
For those whose interests include both free-to-use photos and stock photography, check out Andy Goetze’s blog about the stock photo industry.
Also, see Yotophoto CEO Mark Thomson's comments which help set the record straight about Yotophoto being the first internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images.
There were a couple of things I wanted TypePad to do better. Once was searching and the other was opening external pages in a new window - so that visitors could easily come back to the blog after clicking on a link.
TypePad has a widget for the new browser window feature, but even though it seemed to have code to handle the situation, it opened all links - even ones within the blog - in a new window. You can imagine how annoying this is.
Here it is, the skew.org XML Tutorial. Mike J. Brown's reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding. Everything else a developer needs to know about XMl (ok, maybe not everything) can be found on xml.com.
In an earlier post I talked about FreeFoto and Stock.XCHNG, two sites with access to free photos. A post on cnet brought two others to my attention: Yotophoto and everystockphoto. Yotophoto claims to be the "first internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images", but those who have been reading this blog know better. ;)
The Creative Commons web site is another good place to start when looking for works in the pubic domain.
South Park characters, road signs, newsprint headlines and Bush speeches are just some of the on-line generators you can link to from this generator blog. Not only is it hours of fun, but it can come in really useful for web design and marketing ideas.
If you haven't discovered YouTube yet, you're in for a treat. My favorite posts are a game six of the 1986 World Series reenacted using the Nintendo RBI Baseball video game (also found on Google Video) and a live reenactment of the opening sequence of The Simpsons.
Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.
One of my brother-in-law’s favorite records is The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon by Sopwith Camel - a group that came out of San Fransisco in the 60’s.
In helping my sister procure some mp3’s, I ended up listening to the record and liking it a lot! I’m going to completely rip-off a review posted on Amazon (but give full credit of course) and post it here:
View from Jim's seats at Gillette stadium.
Rich Schiesser: IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures
To all the CEO's out there - read this book, then take a long, hard look at your IT department. (IT managers, read this book before your CEO does.)
Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Light read, but enjoyable. Recommended for anyone (technical or non-technical) involved in a web applicaton project.
Ralph Kimball: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
Make this the first book you read on data warehousing.
Shilpa Lawande: Oracle 10g Data Warehousing
This is an amazing book by an amazing technical author. A must-read for dba's involved with Oracle data warehouseing projects.
Simon Robinson: Professional C# (Programmer to Programmer)
Aimed at experienced programmers, this book is remarkably complete.
Laura Lemay: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
If you've worked with any scripting languages before, this book will actually teach you in 5 days.
