Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Today’s photo was just another day, just another photo, a string of 366 of them since Mike the Lllama on Jan 1 , 2008 when D’Arcy Norman prompted me to follow along with the post a photo a day game (see more back story in One Day One Photo where this all started).
At last [...]

Did you know that airlines can take your money for tickets, and then keep it when their own delays cause you to miss connections? There is a word for that. Did you know they can ignore requests for customer service? Not reply to messages they acknowledge they will?
Did you know that the Bush administration [...]

Do you use the TwitterTools plugin on your own WordPress site to send your blog posts to your tweet stream? Wanna feel like a real WordPress hack jockey? Here is a little code editing you can do without needing to know diddly squat about PHP.
Here’s the thing, when TwitterTools published your new sexy blog post [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by SiRi
About the most reliable prediction one can make this end time of year is the flood of people posting their own predictions for 2009, lots of them in the technology space (e.g. ReadWriteWeb, EDITing in the Dark, and Stephen Downes takes out the 10 year scope in an amazing essay [...]

JamStudio is a nifty online music mixer where you can compose and publish your own tunes. You put music keys on the score, select instruments, set tempo, etc:

You can create multiple “pages” of music; I just played quickly to create two “originals” (hah, just quick futzing around):
Cowboy Glitter [448k MP3]
Rain on the Road [568l MP3]
See [...]

Fast Food (Roadrunner) by Nick Chill posted 11 Nov ‘08, 4.11pm MST PST on flickr
Here is another of the Greater Roadrunner, actually running across the road. He was very challenging to shoot.
View On Black
20081108-088

As astutely commented by John Larkin another Twitteronema (Twitter+Phenomena) is how fast software and web site creators respond when you [...]

I was excited to try Animoto’s new app for the iPhone that allows you to create videos from iPhone photos and their music selection.
So I loaded up 16 photos, arranged them, and selected my music. Then when I went to create the video, I keep getting told my phone is offline, despite the 5 bar [...]

Road Dog by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ‘08, 9.39am MST PST on flickr
Happy to be done traveling for 2008! Stuff organized by TripIt
www.tripit.com/people/cogdog

Woot! I shall not see the inside of another airport for a long while (well, til January 15). It was quite a thrill to place the blue dots as tracked by [...]

20/20 by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ‘08, 9.07am MST PST on flickr
Make your own Custom Eye Chart
www.eyechartmaker.com

No cheating, cover the left eye and read the smallest line you can see clearly.

I will tap into a generational nerve (if you get no response, read someone else’s blog post) with a curiosity as to how, over time, the answer to that sacred answer was changed:

Yes, I never liked the Owl’s cheap answer, and always thought the number of licks to get to the center of a Tootsle [...]