I am a big fan of TED Talks, they have created a list with the Top 10 TEDTalks. My favorite among those ten is Jill Bolte Taylor talking about My stroke of insight.
You can view the talks by Themes, Speakers or the Talks List. ANd while you are there, sign up for their newsletter and [...]
Men With Pens, their tag line is “Shooting from the hip”, do a series called Drive-By-Shooting Sunday. It is a really cool way of doing a site review. I came across one of them and have then read many of the others too.
I have signed up for a Drive-By-Shooting of this blog, it will be [...]
I have updated my list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs.
StatPress is out, it logs too much to the database.
A mobile plugin is in, so is WordPress Database Backup.
I am testing two different plugins that shall make your WordPress blog easier to read using mobile devices. Here at fortyplustwo I have installed the WordPress Mobile Edition and over at btwendel.com I have installed the WordPress Mobile Plugin.
If you are reading this blog using a mobile, please let me know how it works.
Cnn runs a story about Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages. A family in Atlanta, Georgia, has decided to sell their house, donating half the proceeds and moving into a house half the size.
Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod, estimating the money could affect more than 20,000 people in Ghana, said that:
This will [...]
I wrote about Moleskine Notebooks some months ago. While reading a post at FreelanceSwitch I noticed another post that I had missed before. Skellie has written The Monster Collection of Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks. That is a terrific post for Moleskine lovers as well as other fans of pen and paper.
This blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and all seems to work well. I hope it continues that way. No difference on the front but the admin section has a new and better layout.
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Put Things Off has a post about Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide (and how to rank your addiction). The post is a great introduction to the various types of Moleskine notebooks. Nick Cernis introduces the Moleskale, a way to rank your addiction to Moleskine notebooks. At present I only achieve a 2, I own one.
At [...]
I have switched to Doreo Hosting. Before I had my sites and blogs at A Small Orange (ASO) but downtime and slow response time started to get annoying.
I follow DailyBlogTips, in Open Discussion: What is Your Favorite Web Hosting? and Daily Blog Tips is on a New Server Daniel Scocco writes about his problems with [...]
Today is the Chinese New Year. The information below comes from a Chinese friend.
2008 is the Year of the Rat, which is also known by its former name of Wu Zhi. It is the Year 4706.
The rat is the first of the 12 member pantheon that makes up the cycle of the Chinese Zodiac. [...]