Last night the CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, aired a quiz show which pitted six different groups from all walks of life against one another on a show they’ve called Test The Nation. This time around the groups were: Chefs, Cabbies, Celebrity Impersonators, Backpackers, Flight Crews and Bloggers. Members of the blogging team included Vancouver’s [...]
Entries from January 22nd, 2008
Flickr Fight Doesn’t Attribute Photos
January 22nd, 2008 6 Comments
Pouring through my ever overflowing RSS reader tonight I came across a post on AppScout by Alan Henry about Flickr Fight. This is a site that allows you to search for two terms, and then determines how popular the term is based on the number of hits returned in a Flickr search (Google Fight knockoff??). [...]
Dave Brubeck, “Take Five”
January 20th, 2008 1 Comment
Thank you Wil Wheaton. For several years now I’ve wondered what the name of this song is. It’s been used in countless soundtracks, commercials, movies, well the list goes on. And I’ve never been able to find anyone who knows who wrote it, performed it or what the name of it was… until now. I [...]
Picasa for OS X in 2008
January 19th, 2008 No Comments
It’s been a busy week this week, and there’s some news items that I just didn’t get to yet. This one comes to us courtesey of TechCrunch. One of the most popular photo editing programs for Windows has to be Google’s Picasa. Though it’s not the most full-featured image editing on the market it’s free [...]
Tags: Google · Mac OS X · Photography · Tech News · Utilities
Ultimate Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress
January 19th, 2008 1 Comment
I’ve always been a bit of a stats monkey when it comes to… well pretty much everything. I like to know how many there are, how long it takes, how much it costs. I want the numbers. But more than that, I want accurate numbers and often times in the past trying to get accurate [...]
Tags: Admin Tools · Blogging · Google · Open Source · Utilities · Web 2.0 · Wordpress Plugins