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Too many miles
Have more frequent-flyer miles than you know what to do with? Well, transfer some to me! I've got to get back to the islands! Seriously, if you have more miles than you think you're going to use any time soon, here are some web sites that might be able to help: MileDonor.com: up to 80 charities accepting point donations from 17 different airline programs Points.com: trade in your miles, buy yourself an Iced Mocha Frappicino Grande. Or a new jacket. Mileage Plus: 10,000 United miles = 100 downloads from Sony's music service. Someone ping me when it works with iTMS. [Via the 29 July 2005 edition of The Week, which got it from Real Simple.]
Technorati Mobile
For those among us who are Technorati fiends, they have announced a mobile verison. I love the succinct URI.
Jeff is bored
People from time zones west of here should iChat me immediately. Especially if they’re twentysomething women who like to tell weirdo Internet writers how great they are all the time.
Middle-aged men pretending to be twentysomething women are okay too, as long as it’s convincing. You let it slip just once that you’re actually a forty-seven year old tire salesman who’s sitting in his enormous store-brand boxers with a Gateway on his lap, and the whole fucking thing is just ruined. At least I can go to sleep tonight with something truly funny rolling around in my head. Come on, people, tip the man.
XHTML templates to jump start design
Kevin Hale of Particletree offers up some XHTML + CSS templates so you can get your next web design project quickly off the ground. Already in my bookmarks, and will definitely be a starting point for me in the future. [With a wave of the fin to Jon.]
Eric rocks
I have been lamenting the fact that I did not go with a Flickr Pro account a few months back, instead opting for another service. At the time, it was probably the reasonable decision, as the Flickr Pro accounts didn't have all of the amenities they do now. So I had actually been considering anteing up for the Flickr Pro account, because I realized I would use it more than the other service. Tonight, out of the blue, during an IM conversation, Eric offers me a free-for-a-year Flickr Pro account he was given as a in-beta Flickr Pro account holder. "Problem" solved! However, even though I am filled with gratitude for Eric's generosity, he doesn't want word getting out. He's trying for that curmudgeon rep, and if he appears all nice and everything, that will never happen. So make sure you don't link to this post any where. Maybe you shouldn't even be reading it. Maybe I shouldn't be writing it. Maybe I should delete it...
Reverse DNS Lookup
Not sure where I found this, as it was jotted on a card in my Hipster. A free service, you can perform reverse DNS lookups. If you don't know what DNS is, don't bother clicking.
The 100-post barrier
I happened to look at my archives page a moment ago, and noticed that in any given month, I have never cracked triple digits with the number of monthly posts. The closest I have come was 94 posts in February 2003. I just found this interesting, and thought I would share.
Browsing this site
I echo Jeff's sentiments. In Windows-world, I recommend Firefox; for the Mac, Safari or Camino.
TypeKey changes
Six Apart announced an update to the TypeKey service, one of which is that you can now choose to remain logged in to TypeKey for up to 2 weeks. For those of you who may have held off registering with TypeKey because you hated having to log in every couple of hours to comment on someone's blog, now you no longer have that excuse. I use TypeKey registration for my blogs, though it is not required. Should you choose to comment without signing in via TypeKey, your comment will simply remain in limbo until I approve it. TypeKey registration is simple, fast, and free.
Mobile CD Lookup
Jon has provided a great way to look up CD info on Amazon. I've already got it bookmarked in my mobile.
Recommendations, allow me to introduce Wish List
Why is it that any time I look at the recommendations Amazon puts forth for my viewing pleasure, half of them are already on my wish list? You would think that with all of the web services, back-end stuff Amazon is in to these days, they would have devised a system where the recommendations I'm shown contain nothing that is on my wish list. Update, 11:00 PM CST: So I put my money where my mouth is and sent an e-mail with my suggestion to Amazon's General Questions box. I did get a response, but it seems to be of the form letter type. One thing it mentions is tweaking the recommendations, and I looked in to that. The problem here is that I can see the items on my wish list that are included in the recommendations. There is a box next to each item that is checked, and the caption reads "Use to make recommendations". My issue here is, I want Amazon to use this type of item to make future recommendations, but I don't want this specifc item to show up in my recommendations. So do I uncheck the box or not?
Microsoft fonts still in Tiger
John Gruber notes that the Microsoft fonts typically associated with and installed with Internet Explorer are still present in Mac OS X Tiger. Good news for web designers, and all those who appreciate a good font; Verdana and Georgia are among my favorites in their respective categories. Verdana is my default web and e-mail reading font, and I generally use Georgia for all of my styled text editing. As a matter of fact, it's the font my resume is set in.
How to Get into Blogs 101
Stephen O’Grady has assembled a good introductory article for those who may not have gotten in to the blog-reading thing. For those of you reading this right now, this site is a blog, so you're already reading at least one. [Via Michael Hyatt.]
Six Apart-GoLive intergration
Adobe GoLive CS2 is going to have integrated tools from Six Apart for MovableType and TypePad users. Maybe this will be a way to speed up generation of new site looks.
Andrew Manzione, your father is looking for you
John Manzione is trying to locate his son Andrew, with whom he has had no contact in 18 years. If you know Andrew, or if for some reason Andrew is reading this, here is John's e-mail address.
Flickr-ed
I have joined the Flickr bandwagon. You can see my first set, from February of last year, "Winter Wonderland 2004". I am in the process of looking for a permanent residence on the web for my digital photos. I'm a little tired of the do-it-yourself routine I've been experimenting with, and I'm not looking forward to having to oversee yet another software backend, such as Gallery. The photo set you can see at Flickr took me about five minutes to create. Granted, most of the hard work was already done in iPhoto (photo titles and captions). I used FlickrExport by Fraser Speirs to upload directly from iPhoto to my Flickr account. I uploaded the full-sized images, so my free Flickr account is currently full. I had been looking at SmugMug, but now am having second thoughts, and am seriously considering upgrading to a Pro account with Flickr. More to come...
Camino's new digs
Mozilla offspring Camino has a new site. I like the new look, and downloaded the latest nightly build. Maybe it will be more stable on my system than 0.8.2. I really want to use Camino more, as I feel it's faster than Safari on my systems, but it doesn't seem as stable when it comes to running out of real RAM and having to subsist on virtual memory. [Via DF via Daniel Bogan.] UPDATE, 10:30 PM CST: After downloading and installing the latest nightly build, I happened across the site again, and was greeted with this banner near the top of the main page:
Fun, fun, fun! UPDATE 2, 11:30 PM CST: You can find all of Camino's keyboard shortcuts on one handy page. And its hidden preferences, too.
