A Dollar Late And A Day Short

In terms of Systems/OS’s I’ve used to some degree or another, I think the list goes… Continue reading

An interesting  article over at CNNMoney.com has found that only 27% of Twitter users are active.  Their definition of active is people who have at least 10 followers, follow 10 people and have posted at least 10 times.  Well with those criteria I’m a verbose barely active user with my 11 followers, 13 followings, and 250+ tweets. Continue reading

It looks like the Nintendo Power Glove has been updated for modern computer gaming.  A company has released a new glove based computer interface.  It offers 30 unique command interfaces which even for a game such as World of Warcraft should be more than enough.  I still see risks of things such as miss clicked commands which can lead to entertaining foibles during fights.  I should see this combined with a touch screen as a great improvement over the current mouse/keyboard interface.

Hopefully this will be the beginning of more advanced computer interfaces options meeting the retail market at a more reasonable price point.

James over at “Under a Gibbous Moon” sent this too me. “Study: Rumors of Written-Word Greatly Exaggerated“  finds that the amount of reading we do each day has increased since the 1960′s.

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Recently my father loaned me a guide book on skiing- the book is Skiing Skills by Rüdiger Jahn and it was written in 1980. While this normally would seem a rather random attempt to refresh my memory on skiing, since Katie and I are planning on slipping in a few trips this year it was actually a very nice gesture.  The first thing I noticed was how well the book was built. It’s held together very well for nearly 30 years.  The second thing I noticed was how wordy it was.  This made me think about how so many trainings and how-to guides that have been created lately rely heavily on images and videos with minimal words.

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I was notified this morning that one of my photographs I took during a walk around Chicago has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Schmap Guide to Chicago.

You can see how the image was used at Webbrowser URL or from the IPhone/IPod Touch URL.  It’s a great feeling to know that something I do simply as a hobby is appreciated enough by others that they would do something such as include my photos in some small part for a guide of Chicago.

Here is the image they selected embeded from my Flickr account.