Timbu::Musings

New favorite web site

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:14:39 -0600

New favorite, other than my own of course ;)

For random web surfing there is nothing to beat alltop.com. It is neatly categorized, cleanly implemented and leads you to the blogs rather than driving the traffic and conversation to itself. I love the design. As soon as I find my ambition I want my blog to emulate that clean look.

This little part of the About page cracked me up.

Q. Couldn't I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Netvibes, etc?
A. Yes, you could--knock yourself out. While you're at it, you could backup your hard disk, bake your own bread, iron your own shirts, floss daily, tune your own car, and bike to work.

I have done all that at one time or another (hopefully my dentist isn't reading this one) but I have the good sense to not try and recreate alltop.com

Full disclosure, I'm trying to get Guy Kawasaki (who is involved in this venture) to start an enterprise.alltop.com feature which would aggregate blogs related to enterprise software and hardware.

On Wisconsin

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:47:08 -0600

When I saw this weird story about a decomposing 90 year old woman I was really hoping it wasn't set in Wisconsin. Wrong again!

Windows

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:36:04 -0600

New Album

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:30:49 -0600

The Submarines are releasing a new album, Honeysuckle Weeks. If you like pop-folk-electronic you'll like this. I think you can d/l it already from iTunes if you like your music with the burning smell of DRM. Brooke introduced me to the group and since she was under 25 at the time you can trust her recommendation.

Double the Fun

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:20:38 -0600

New fave font

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:02:58 -0600

I love a good fixed width font. Microsoft released one with Office 2007 that I love. It is called Consolas & it's available for download.

I don't know how it looks on a traditional monitor, but it looks great on an LCD. Try it!

Little Brother D/L

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:26 -0600

You can now download your own copy of "Little Brother" under a Creative Commons License. All your favorite formats are there. I you seen one missing be sure and add it yourself.

Sailing trip in the fall

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:53:26 -0600

My fall sailing trip in the Apostle Islands is now officially under way. I've got the boat reserved and now I just need to find the crew.

twitter novel?

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:47:22 -0600

Someone is working on a novel written 140 words at a time. Neat stuff! [Link from Jeremy]

Dooced

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:07:11 -0600

Little Brother

Sun, 04 May 2008 16:01:35 -0600

This is a book that is about right now. It plays out the tension and intersection of privacy versus safety in the after math of a terrorist incident in the SF Bay Area. The book will probably seem dated pretty quick since the technology and lingo are so current, but the story is still great. This book marks a turning point in Cory Doctorows writing. This book is a real turning point for the author, Cory Doctorow. Previous works like "Eastern Standard Tribe" or "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", or even a novella I truly loved "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" were good reads but it wasn't something I would try and get friends who weren't sci-fi/cyberpunk fans to check out and read. This book changes all that - I know I'll probably mail my copy off to my nephew to read. If you are too cheap to get the book, the txt download will be posted soon I'm sure.

This weeks "Overcoat Award"

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:37:00 -0600

The week's "Ralph Nader Overcoat Award" is hereby awarded to Reverend Wright. I believe we haven't heard the last of you yet. Will you be the Billy Beer of the new millenium? It's too soon to know.

Dashboard Deities

Thu, 01 May 2008 06:55:19 -0600

I would really like to find and purchase a set of major religion dashboard deities. If you know where I can find them, please leave a comments. If you knew where I could find the bobblehead version that might work as well. I would really like at least Jesus, Mary, Ram, Buddha, Zeus, Pele, Freud or Darwin and Thor or Loki. You'll notice at least one missing religion, but their anticonistic stance plus their sensitivity to cartoons means I'll skip that one.

kindle

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:59:08 -0600

I finally got to play with a kindle in person. (Amy bought one for herself -- to celebrate my birthday no less!) I think I really like it. The print and fonts are really very good. I loved the ease of downloading a book and the integration with nownow, service where you can ask random questions is pretty cool as well. It's still expensive, but I can definitely say I wish I had one now.

Howtoons

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:26:43 -0600

If you have children like mine -- hungry to build things and "experiment" you should check out Howtoons. It is chock full of small, fun projects to build. Some are quite simple like the safety goggles made from a 2 liter bottle. I wish I would hire the authors to create technical manuals for me at the office.