Entries from August 2007 ↓
August 22nd, 2007 — Commentary, History, Sport
Did you ever see the movie The Natural starring Robert Redford? It’s an account of a baseball player’s life and his attempts to get it right, on and off the field. He’s derailed along the way, by his own hand of course but symbolized in the movie as an evil woman that almost kills him. Life is like that, it almost kills us sometimes but if we can survive it truly doesgive us greater character.
My father shares my love of the movie and the story line. He sent me a brilliant article from the Washington Post writer Charles Krauthammer who wrote a poignant piece on real life St. Louis Cardinal Rick Ankiel.
Ankiel has claimed his own place in the annals of history of redemption and resurrection. I find great happiness not only in his story but in the reaction of the fans to him and what he has done. It brings chills to my body and tears to my eyes.
Read the full Charles Krauthammer story titled Return of the Natural here.
Well done Mate!
August 19th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
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As a web designer I need to test my sites on a variety of operating systems and browsers. As such I can accomplish a lot with my Mac and PC and the myriad browsers I have installed on them. But there is another way and it is more reliable – use browser te
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A site with lots of interesting content that has managed to evade my knowledge in the past.
August 17th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
August 17th, 2007 — Blogs, Friends, Journal, Social Media
I was having a nice chat with my good friend Ami just yesterday. We covered a lot of topics as we typically do from social mores, business, social networking, media, philosophy, blogs, web development, family, psychology, and I think a couple of others.
I was explaining that I get overwhelmed by blogging because I have so many blogs. Hard to keep up with them all and I don’t! He told me he had an answer to that and directed me to this new site http://amitaigivertz.blogspot.com. It’s an Ami Portal page of sorts – an aggregation of everthing Ami online. Like me, Ami has a lot of online presence to manage and he found that using blogger (Google’s off the shelf and ever so popular and easy to use blog tool) along with a leveraged use of RSS feeds has delivered him unto us. Perfect.
I’ve had this exact idea in my head for at least a year now. I already own my own name as a url and I would aggregate content on my name for all my different properties. Of course I would have to launch another blog and then find a good wordpress tool to accept all the feeds. I know they’re out there I just don’t use them and so don’ t know their names. The idea is that if I was to aggregate my blogs you would see that I actually DO update my personal blog pretty frequently. My other blogs run in spurts. BUT, if I (and you) knew without having to check that there was activity on my other blogs I would find it easier to stick with my other blogs (because I do REALLY like posting to them all). I could have one blog about everything and this is a perfectly good solution but it doesn’t work for people who find blogs because of a specific interest. I would have the satisfaction of seeing the efforts of my work in one place.
Rather than wank on with all the technical stuff as I am want to do Ami just used blogger and he’s done. Rather nice that. I imagine it didn’t take him long to do it either. He accomplished everything I want to do and he’s already done. I think that’s just fantastic. That’s the power of using off-the-shelf web apps and not worrying yourself over silly things like custom urls which don’t really matter in the end anyway. People just need one address – one place, a jumping off point to launch you into everything you are doing online.
Ami, you asked me to drop by your site and I have and I will. I love that I can find out what you’re doing by going to your site EVEN though I already track your every move on Google Reader. I like visiting sites. I will enjoy visiting yours. You have inspired me to get my online life aggregation finished – one way or the other.
And about that web 3.0 definition you wrote about (aka the semantic web.
I like to summarize web 3.0 or the semantic web as the personification of the web. I’m sure I nicked that off someone but if so I couldn’t tell you when or who. I believe that all the amazing underlying technology that is being developed to drive the next generation of the web will and should have only one purpose – to make the web more human – to make the web even more intuitive – to amplify and more accurately represent US – the people.
There you have it, my wank is done for the day.
[tags]lifestreaming[/tags]
August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Charlie has taken four skate lessons now at the West Palm Beach Skate Park. He’s had a really good time and he reports learning lots of new tricks (three today alone). One big challenge for this series of lessons was getting comfortable on the medium size ramp. Hint: It only seems like a medium size ramp when you’re not standing on top of it. Charlie tried four different times today to drop in and just couldn’t clear his head enough to do it. Then some fellow skaters showed up and dropped in and all of a sudden it wasn’t so hard. He quickly followed suit. Charlie then rattled off 5 drop ins like a pro without a bobble. Good on ya Charlie – I’m so proud of you! Enjoy the video.
August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
John appeared from around a corder the other day with quite an outfit on. Soon, Julia had followed in suit. Enjoy.
August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
On the way to Lion Country Safari with Charlie, John and Julia a couple of weeks ago we amused ourselves by making videos in the truck. Enjoy.
August 8th, 2007 — Health, John
John just got back from the Doctor and we have good news to report. The conclusive bone marrow tests confirmed that John does not have Leukemia. There are no other blood disorders that the more wide ranging blood tests turned up either. So that leaves us with last week’s diagnosed Helicobacter pylori and ITP. Our next blood test to check platelet levels is two weeks from today. His platelet count rose to 175,000 today, well into the normal range of 150,000 to 450,000. This is a great response to the IVIG immunoglobulin treatment from last week. By the time we go back to the Doctor John will be done with the three-course, 14-day antibiotic cocktail he is on right now for Helicobacter. Hopefully his platelets will be higher then.
August 6th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
August 5th, 2007 — Health, Running, Sport
My mum sent me a great article today (Thanks mum!) about the links between exercise and thinking – having those really great ideas that move you forward in big leaps. It’s published by Psychology Today author Richard A. Lovett under the title Jog Your Brain.
“Halfway through a 45-minute run, I was thinking about a far-off friend and the bane of long-distance relationships. As I traced a well-known route through downtown Portland, Oregon, I wondered if the relationship could ever work out. And suddenly, practically from one step to the next, I had the idea for a science fiction story about a space pilot’s lover, whiling away the centuries in suspended animation until the pilot returned from the stars. I raced home to write the story.”
