FUN: Mediocrity … that’s for me!

Saturday, April 7, 2007

mediocrity


TECH WEBSITE: Edit your jpeg on the web

Saturday, April 7, 2007

http://www.picnik.com

Here’s a quick way to edit a jpeg without a lot of trouble. I just “photocopied” Ron Paul’s website to a jpeg. Uploaded it to PICNIK. Cropped it to the size I needed. Downloaded the result.

Input:

ScreenShot112

Output:

RONPAUL2008DAILYUPDATE

Now I wanted to put the image in a WORDPRESS test widget, like so:

<a href=”http://ronpaul2008.typepad.com/ron_paul_2008/”><img src=”https://reinkefaceslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/ronpaul2008dailyupdate.jpg” /></a>

But it didn’t work.

Maybe I’m too tired, but I don’t see what’s wrong. Maybe if I sleep on it, I’ll get it! Argh!


INTERESTING: The “success a sories” mene

Saturday, April 7, 2007

With the turkey and blogging pictures, I think I’ve identified a mene. I call it “Successories” meme.

You know that “motivational” poster called Successories that attempts to be a cheerleader. http://www.successories.com/

There’s even an opposite, or “negative” energy, “despair” site http://www.despair.com/ which is sadly true and very funny. They even allow you to create your own. That’s where I made my turkey poster.

Recently, I found the one on “blogging”.

Hence, the meme is a phrase with an appropriate picture.


FUN: Vote for me as a “top blog”

Saturday, April 7, 2007

http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6525

… once a day!


PRODUCTIVITY: Thinking about email

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Of course I am interested in your thinking about email and your strategy for exploiting the opportunity it represents.

I’ve come to the conclusion, that despite handling prestigious amounts of the stuff. Stuff that varies in quality from vile trash to gems. I need a better mechanism.

It all ties into what platform are you using. Web-based uninstalled or client based or a mixture.

It all ties into creating a “brand”, spam, and throughput.

Argh.

Just as one can take too many feeds and be unable to “drink from the fire hose”, it is possible to be overwhelmed with email.

So how to handle it?

Do you use one email and deal with it? No, that single channel quickly hides the significant from the trivial in a mass of mess.

I think my strategy of using different emails or different purposes has allowed me to get to my current state. Unfortunately, I need more.

(1) I need conversations like I see in Gmail.

(2) I need Getting Things Done applied to email.

(3) I need Outlook email boxes galore?

Sigh. I don’t know what I need?


TECH – SOFT: Here’s a handy tip

Saturday, April 7, 2007

http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/effective-startup

4 effective way to start your online web 2.0 apps
December 7, 2006 at 10:20 pm

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In Firefox, bookmark pages in a certain bookmark folder, and then open the pages by right-clicking the bookmark folder and choose “Open All in tabs”

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With a tip of the hat to myuninstalledlife, a featured site in my blogroll, I’ll steal this tip. I too want to be “uninstalled”. That doesn’t sound right, having just read a classmates obit, but you get what I mean. Less platform; more perform!