Faraway, So Close

Something that I’ve been working on with a couple friends is a website called About This Mac, found at www.aboutthismac.com. The three of us are Mac nerds who get the odd *cough* Mac related question from friends/family. We thought we might as well put the answers we’re giving out there on the internet [...]

A gravatar is “quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.” If you sign up at gravatar.com with the email address you most commonly give when leaving comments on blogs and upload your picture to the site, whenever you [...]

For any of my friends/family who are using Wordpress currently, here’s a look at changes coming in the next version, 2.7, due out late November ‘08. (The current version you have is likely 2.6.x)

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Yeah, I decided to try out a new design today and it might have stuck. It’s a beautiful (IMHO) Wordpress 2.6 theme designed by Darren Hoyt and co that’s got the web 2.5 buzz word in mind - lifestreaming. Really it’s just whatever-you-decide-to-put-on-the-net-streaming. So over in that little “Find me Elsewhere” box [...]

I’m just throwing a link up here to a funny story from Marc about trying to find a fishing spot with his kids.
Marc does a great job of keeping up what I think is the original intent and spirit of blogging - telling stories and events from your life that may or may not interest [...]

Hey all. I’m testing out a new comment system from disqus. If you like, feel free to leave a comment on this post so I can test it out.

Give this 55 minute video at least 5 minutes of your attention and you’ll either be hooked or bored, at which time you can shut it off or keep watching:

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The new, revamped version of Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is up and out in the wild: “delicious blog » Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here.”
I’m quite happy that they went out and got the actual delicious.com domain name as it’s much easier to remember how to spell and therefore, easier to use. [...]

A conference for women bloggers is on, called ‘Blogher‘ (get it… like blogger… only blogher? hahaha… get it?) and so here’s a list of some folks favorite women bloggers. I have to confess that I have more men than women in my reading list. I suspect this has to do with [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk has moved on to revision3.com where they are repackaging his show in 5 minutes or less:

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