Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Have five minutes? Have a web site? Here are 101 Five Minute fixes to incrementally improve your Web site.
So if you did all of them, and they indeed took five minutes each, it’d take you approximately 8½ hours. Not a bad work day for a much better site.
Let Google take care of it. The results aren’t perfect, but it’s free and always getting bette. With Google’s purchase of reCAPTCHA, along with their ongoing book scanning projects, I can see this service only getting better and better over the years.
Whether on the Tonight Show or on his new show, Jay Leno is a big-time shill.
And same could be said about Conan O’Brien and David Letterman.
So the folks at Smart Solutions here in Bend run a monthly SmartGroup roundtable/seminar session, and this month’s topic is “Blogging: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly”. They’ve asked me, Jon Abernathy from HackBend and TheBrewSite (he also works for Smart Solutions), Andre Jensen from FreelanceSEM, and Meg Thompson from Audette Media to come and present. I would probably say that Jon = “The Good”, I = “The Bad” and Andre = “The Ugly” with Meg being “The Meg”, but I digress. I’d encourage you to come, as it’s going to be a good panel of pretty smart folks. The Facebook event page is here.
While anybody knows me knows how I can jabber with the best of them and have been directly interviewed several times about blogging before, I’ve never really presented in a setting like this. So I ask you, dear loyal readers (I know there are a few of you): If you were attending this seminar, what would you like to hear from me?
It’s “The Wonder Years“, minus Daniel Stern (the narrator, for folks who don’t know):
Despite the fact that I have a college BS degree, I haven’t taken a math class since high school (I have taken some comp. sci and physics classes, but not a math class). I was really good at math in school, and took a placement test when I was first in college and received several college credits for aceing it — which killed off my need to take a math class for the journalism degree I was after.
Tonight, my 21-year-old sister-in-law came over with her COCC math homework so my wife (also a science/math geek growing up) and I could help her. And I realized two things: One, I’ve completely forgotten how to use my TI-83 or my wife’s TI-85 graphing calculators, resorting to online versions, and two: it’s been way too long since I’ve even thought about any sort of advanced algebra. I’m bumbling my way through it, but I remember this stuff being stupidly easy back in the day. I’ve sort of become a math moron (granted, I’m doing better than some probably would, but just the same, not nearly like I used to be).
My late high school calculus teacher would be seriously disappointed in me.
How about a couple?
Face it: you spend less than 1% of your day at work doing actual work, and 99.9% of your day doing other crap.
If you mapped all the McDonalds in the US and wanted to live the farthest away from one, it looks like a spot in South Dakota is the place to be at 107 miles from the nearest Big Mac.
It’s low-res, but a helluva lot of fun: it’s Pixel.