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Help Indy’s Kevin Hood beat that other Kevin Hood
I ran in to Kevin Hood on Twitter and found This post on his blog publicly stating that he was going to beat another Kevin Hood on Google.
So to help out, I created this post to send him some good Google vibes.. Good luck Kevin Hood
Indianapolis based Kevin Hood is on a mission. That’s right, I said Kevin Hood. I must pronounce the word “Hood” with a weird accent, because most of the time that I say my name, people ask me to repeat my last name. I have learned to answer the question with “like Robin Hood,” which usually gets a chuckle and they realize how to spell it. Except the time I signed up for cable television over the phone in college . . . for a year I got a bill addressed to Robin Hood.
Riding the Google Wave - the Developer Preview
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. To learn more visit http://wave.google.com
Sergey talking about Google Wave
URLSummary php Class
I needed a way to extract additional content and details about any given website that a User might add to PickyList. So I sat down and wrote what is now dubbed URLSummary that takes a URL and outputs an XML document.
Feel free to Download URLSummary Now.
This class is written in PHP 5, and I cannot confirm or deny that it will work with any other version. Feel free to do anything you want with it - all I ask is that you consider leaving a comment letting me know if it was beneficial for you and your product.
Usage of URLSummary.php
<?
require('URLSummary.php');
// Get a URL paramater $url = $_GET['url'];
$url = 'http://icorbin.com/resume';
// Create the URLSummary Class
$urlsummary = new URLSummary();
$urlsummaryxml = $urlsummary->get($url,"xml");
// Output the Results to the browser as XML
header("Content-Type:application/xml");
echo $urlsummaryxml->asXML();
?>
A few notes
Currently URLSummary currently does not Cache any of the calls.
The coolest desk fan I have ever seen.
Unlike most Desktop fans, the Fargo by Fanimation keeps all that important paperwork on your desk (opposed to blowing it all over the place) - and it looks damn sexy doing it. Fanimation, the creator of this fan, applied simplistic brilliance to this 1920 inspired design that produces air flow out of the side of the fan and not the bottom, keeping all your paper stuff free to relax. While it might not be for everyone, this fan and many other Fanimation fans offer the type of designs that you build an entire room around, a home decorators dream.
Awesome peanut free cookies
Looking for a great allergy friendly snack? EnjoyLife’s soft baked snickerdoodle cookies are incredible!
8 Reasons not to use Internet Explorer 6
Are you using Internet Explorer 6?
Would you walk naked through Central Park at night with a $1000 tapped to your body? Well that’s exactly what your doing using IE 6. Please take a moment and see what your missing.
- You most likely have an infected computer that is spamming the rest of us.
- Your literally not seeing entire chunks of website content - because of a bug in IE 6.
- You’re slowing the progress of the internet - IE 6 causes developers to continually slow down so everything works right on IE 6.
- You get nasty computer viruses, trojan horse or malware by simply visiting an infected website.
- You wait 2 or 3 times as long for web pages to load than the rest of us.
- You DON’T HAVE TABS! (Multiple browsers in a single window).
- You think browser crashing/freezing is normal.
- You think a browser should slow your computer to a crawl.
Then go and download Google Chrome. (Firefox or worse case Internet Explorer 8)
Need more reasons?
http://whyiesucks.blogspot.com/
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6121_102-0.html?threadID=7613
Learning Twitter Shorthand (for my facebook homies)
My entire family is on Facebook - literally all of them. I, however, rarely login or use the all mighty FB, instead I prefer the more simplistic - yet flexible -Twitter to provide my social fix.
But I still like to keep my family and friends updated, so I setup Twitter to automatically push my status updates to Facebook. And more times than not, my posts (and few 100,000 others) are filled with Twitter Shorthand - user created short cuts - due to the 140 characters post limitation. And unless you use twitter, you will have no idea what the hell it all means when you are bombarded with @’s and RT’s and #this or #that or #followfriday.
Twitter Shorthand Decipher Key:
@somename = a Twitter user
You can refer to another user in your updates by putting an @ in front of their username “@brandoncorbin”.
RT @username = Retweet.
If you repost another users message, you give them proper attribution by including RT: @username .
#this or #that. = hash tags
A hash tag lets you define a specific keyword(s) to associate with you status, this makes it easy to find during searches.
#followfriday @username1 @username2 …
On Friday twitter people like to promote one another. This is called Follow Friday. #followfriday @iskip is short hand for “if you trust me, then you should follow iskip”
20 years from now we’re all going to die. Maybe. #space #earth
On April 13th 2029 - a 25 story wide asteroid will be coming closer to Earth than our own communications satellites orbit. Luckily this time around there is only a 1 in 45,000 chance of an earth impact - but the asteroid named Apophis will be returning to Earth 7 years later with an even higher chance of impact.
“Things much below 30 meters in size don’t pose much of a threat at all since the atmosphere protects us,” said Nick Kaiser, lead scientist of a new University of Hawaii asteroid-hunting project known as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS.
Read More: Incoming Asteroid Under Vigilant Watch: Discovery News.
Affects of a possible Impact
NASA initially estimated the energy that Apophis would have released if it struck Earth as the equivalent of 1,480 megatons of TNT. A later, more refined NASA estimate was 880 megatons.[2] The impacts which created the Barringer Crater or caused the Tunguska event are estimated to be in the 3–10 megaton range[16] The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was the equivalent of roughly 200 megatons.
Path of risk where 99942 Apophis may impact Earth in 2036.
The exact effects of any impact would vary based on the asteroid’s composition, and the location and angle of impact. Any impact would be extremely detrimental to an area of thousands of square kilometres, but would be unlikely to have long-lasting global effects, such as the initiation of an impact winter.
The B612 Foundation made estimates of Apophis path if a 2036 Earth impact were to occur as part of an effort to develop viable deflection strategies.[17] The result is a narrow corridor a few miles wide, called the path of risk, and it includes most of southern Russia, across the north Pacific (relatively close to the coastlines of California and Mexico), then right betweenNicaragua and Costa Rica, crossing northern Colombia and Venezuela, ending in the Atlantic, just before reaching Africa.[18][19] Using the computer simulation tool NEOSim, it was estimated that the hypothetical impact of Apophis in countries such as Colombia and Venezuela, which are in the path of risk, would have had more than 10 million casualties.[20] An impact several thousand miles off the West Coast of the US would produce a devastating tsunami.[21]
25 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Blogger | Traffikd
Many bloggers get started because they think it will be an easy way to make money or to have an influence. The truth is, blogging is a lot of work and requires considerable time if you want to achieve maximum results. With that in mind, there are also a number of valuable resources that can help you to simplify and streamline your life as a blogger, resulting in better efficiency with your time.
via 25 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Blogger | Traffikd.
5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites | How-To | Smashing Magazine
There is no “Consumer Trust for Dummies,” but as eCommerce designers, we need to focus on some fundamentals. The following topics may seem as obvious as walking into a seven-foot Wookie, but rest assured you will find plenty of websites with a mouth full of fur.
via 5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites | How-To | Smashing Magazine.