Haven't seen this mentioned much in the aggs this morning, but the new Flex 2 Beta 2 is out, alone with the RDS plugin for eclipse on labs! Go get it!

If you haven't ever seen city-data.com you should really check it out. They have a plethora of demographics information for just about every city and town (and even most villages) in the US. Everything from average incomes, average home costs, population, crime rates, education rates and even how many sunny days you have compared to cloudy. They also have Top 100 lists that give you lots of good aggregate data. Definately worth checking out.

Great "art" piece on how to tell the difference between web 1.0 and web 2.0. Well worth a click.

A great example of ajax and what it is capable of, check out protopage. Quick and easy registration (although registration isn't even required!) and very customizable. I may just have a google/ig competitor...

24 ways is a great little page that just wrapped up its 24 different ways to impress your friends with your javascript and other web-related skills. There are some great things there, and although they are mostly geared towards php development, they are easily translated to our CF world. It is definately worth checking out.

This is quite web2.0... Not quite to the caliber of flickr (they really serve two different purposes to be fair) but a very cool mostly ajax application that will quickly let you upload and share your photos. bubbleshare lets you upload multiple photos (very cool) and does it very fast, lets you quickly arrange your photos in albums, click to insert text and other cool features. im pretty sure they are using flash 8 for some things in the app although I can't seem to detect it... Check it out.

As a follow up to me reminding you about the cheat sheet reference that Pete Freitag gave us I also want to point out this other great resource. These are called Quick Reference Cards but they are basically the same thing. Some of the languages they provide are: Web and Markup, C, C++, CVS, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XML and more, and some multiples. So go on over and get your cheat on. ;)

Pete Freitag gives us a great all-inclusive list of cheat sheets for your cheating pleasure. This is a great resource and I really am glad he took the time to compile this list. Make sure you check it out.

A friend of mine sent me a link to an AJAX IM project and I thought I would mention it here in case anyone else hasn't seen it. I haven't given it a shot yet, but it looks pretty nifty from the overview... Anyone else checked this out and can comment? UPDATE: It looks like they have a demo running at http://ajaxim.unwieldy.net/. Register and chat at me, my username is rguill. Also, credit goes to bofe for the link. Thanks man.

Just a quick post here, just wanted to let all of you blog posters about Ping-O-Matic the easy and quick way to ping all sorts of blog aggregators and services. You just fill out a little information and they give you a link that you can hit everytime that you update your blog to get indexed by all of the services. And the price is just right... its free. Check em out.

Now this is what im talking about. Josh Dura gives a link to a rumor reported on Outer-Court.com that talks about the a Google Portal. I have been wondering when google would get around to something like this and now they have! http://www.google.com/ig/. Take a look at it. Its extreamly clean and useful, exactly what you would expect from google. It obviously still has a lot of work to be done on it, but is a great start. click and drag any section to another column or position. Clean, concise information. What more could you ask for? (besides rss support and further customization??)

I got to working on the COAL website the other day and was going along pretty well. Then I uploaded what I had to the server and it wouldn't work for some reason. I kept getting very strange sql errors and couldn't figure it out. Im going to make a very very long story short here and tell you that the problem was that I had an alpha version of mysql 4.x on my production server. I had been using it fine with no problem for a while, but for some reason it didn't like < cfqueryparam cf_sql_type="cf_sql_timestamp" for a datetime field value. Bombed every time. So then I decided finally to download the newest version of mysql, 4.1 like I had here on my laptop for testing. Well, the alpha that I had been using used the mysql 3.x drivers just fine, but this 4.1 was a different story. So I did a google search and finally found this technote: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=6ef0253 now its importaint that you go to THIS technote, because there are others out there that look like the ones you want, but have you doing things with your classpath and all sorts of voodoo that is not only unnecessary, but no telling what youre actually doing. Now, in this technote, it gives you this link to download the mysql connector j jdbc driver available at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector/j/en/index.html which if you click that link, you'll see very quickly that the link is for the documentation for that connector, not the connector itself that you desperately need to download. This, is the correct link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ Scroll down a bit and you will see Official API's, and the mysql connector/j. Now look closely here, there is a 3.1 version that says "recommended" and a generally available 3.0 release as well. Their recomendation is bs, you want 3.0. 3.1 WILL NOT WORK no matter how much you plead with it. 3.0, well it works like a charm. then just follow the instruction in the technote and youll be right as rain. I hope someone finds this on google....

alright, now that youve gone as far to actually click on a link like that, don't worry, we aren't talking about anything related to porcelain, double ply or air freshener. Im not sure where I found this (if its been on someone's blog on mxna thats most likely where) but dropload.com provides a great little resource right up there with tinyurl. The developers have graciously given you 100 mb of temporary storage space. You sign up, upload your file, and leave it for someone else. You just give their email address, they come in and download the file. Files are removed 7 days after they are uploaded and you can upload any type of file. Great little site if you want to send a file to someone but you think outlook is going to die a thousand deaths before actually getting it sent.

Following through a bunch of links last night I came upon Tim Blair's Blog which showed a link to this: The accessiblity toolbar. For those of you who use the webdeveloper toolbar in firefox, this is its distant cousin that works almost just as well. Great little tool!

Steven Erat has done a great job with the Online Coldfusion Meetup Group. If you don't have a cfug in your hometown (like me in memphis) or even if you do it's a great thing. Great presenters and information through a breeze live meeting. You can see today's presentation by Hal Helms and Jeff Peters here: http://mmsupport.breezecentral.com/p46486428/ If you haven't already done so, join the Online Coldfusion Meetup Group now!

Pete Freitag shows you how to turn on find-as-you-type again in firefox. I'm almost positive this used to be on by default back in the pre-1.0 days. I had just gotten used to hitting ' or / to find a word, now I can get back to the way things used to be. To turn on find-as-you-type, go to tools, options, advanced, accessibility, and check Begin Finding when you begin typing. And don't worry, it doesn't work if you have a text field focused. (side note: I would like to see what happens in gmails shortcuts and other Access Keys)

A great little game for a monday diversion, guess-the-google uses a keyword search from google images to retrieve 20 images, and compiles those into a mosiac image. You then have to guess what keyword was used to create the mosaic. It's great fun if not mildly addictive. My best score so far is 209, what can you guys get? from the makers of montage-a-google.

Get ready for the Mint Julep. Being a Kentucky native, the Kentucky Derby has always been a favorite of mine. Today I decided to look up when it was this year (its two weeks from tomorrow, on May 7th, 2005) and came across their 2005 website. They are using a lot of Flash, and very well. Its definately an improvement over the 2004 website for sure. This is how I really like my flash. Great looks, very functional, but not overdone and reducing the usability of the site.

Back in October, Jason Kottke talked about biomimicry and how he saw Janine Benyus speak at Pop!Tech in Camden, Maine. He linked to ITConversations.com which provides an mp3 or podcast of her speach. Well I just now got around to actually listening to it, and I must admit it's quite cool. How better to design things most effectively than to look at God's creations an imitate it. Things like the Golden Ratio, and the way protiens and amino acids "know" exactly what to do... this is the future. The one thing I wish I could do is find a book that applies biomimicry to software... Im sure someone has. Janine's book can be found here.

A while back I posted an entry called Firefox on crack that gave you a link to steps to make firefox faster. One of those methods was to increase the concurrent connections that firefox would make to a single server. It was mentioned that this is poor etiquette really if you made this number too large. Following along those lines, Christian Cantrell post an entry a little bit ago about IE supposedly only keeps two concurrent connections open at one time, because of the rules set down by the RFC. Its funny, because this comes from an IE blog on msdn, and they say "It turns out that this is a case where IE strictly follows the standards-- in this case, RFC2616, which covers HTTP1.1.", like even they realize that its crazy that ie and standards would be in the same sentance without a "not" or "doesn't" or even a "sike" thrown in. But also, as one of the commentors pointed out, the rfc is recomendations, not rules.

From Digital Media Minute, another great color scheme resource, ColorCombos.com which has a library full of great color combinations.

Guess I don't have any excuses anymore. I have been meaning and wanting to learn Subversion for a while now, but keep putting off buying a book about it. Glad I did though, cause as Brandon at Devnulled reports this morning, Subversions free, and now, Version Control with Subversion by O'Reilly is published online for free as well. Supposedly is more recent and has less eratta than the print version.

Is this AJAX? Im not sure, but check out Panic Goods. Its not flash (or flex), so it's got to be some sort of Javascript/DHTML voodoo. Regardless its an awesome looking shopping cart that has some crazy functionality. Drag a shirt into the bottom to add it to your shopping cart, drag it back out again to see the puff of smoke. And it's some pretty good css styling as well. Link from Adam Montgomery.

Theres a new web-mail on the block, and it starts with a G too. I'm not giving up my Gmail just yet, but Goowy Mail is a webmail client that is built entirely out of macromedia flash. They have skins, and a more "outlook" kind of feel to things. They offere a gig of storage to get you started. So for a new user experience, you might want to at least run by there and sign up, just to see how good of a job they really have done.

I am always looking for more of these, so if you know of any good ones let me know, but here is another color palette generator

asfusion.com talks about how to make two related cfselect boxes. This is definately getting bookmarked for later... This would be a good addition to rays blog.cfc for categories...

I can't believe I am actually posting this, but JD started it. Bunny Suicides is a morbidly funny series of cartoon images. Its amazing how creative some of them are...

A small wednesday diversion, check out the top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes.

Another link from Kottke i think, Grand Theft Auto: Block City. Each and every day I am still amazed by the people whith too much time on their hands...

Looking for a pc version of a mac mini? Cheap, small footprint? You might want to check out This post and comments from simplebits. Lots of good links in the comments.

Finally someone did it. The Starbucks Delocator is a site that helps spread the word about coffee shops besides starbucks. Of course, they cannot use the word starbucks, so were going to let google do that for us, just click here for the Starbucks Delocator. (btw, I hate starbucks coffee...)

From Jason Kottke, One Dimensional Tetris. Like he says, cool for all of three seconds...

For those of you that liked NewsMap you may find the Flickr Related Tag Browser likable as well.

This is great collection and explanation of different Fallacies. Very interesting read. If you got good with these you would be very good at arguing... :S

Mike Davidson reports on The Saltine Challenge. This would be great to get a bunch of guys to try sometime. I bet I could do it...

A Great Use of Flicker, 50 People See... is "...a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images." Pretty neat. (side note: I am not a flicker fan, I find it horribly hard and cumbersome to use. Just my humble opinion.)

MetroNaps... taking power napping to a new level... If only they had one in Memphis

This has got to be one of the coolest uses of JavaScript I have ever seen. That must be quite a bit of time invested... A JS tree controll from the same guy... Looks like Geir Landro (with a funky o that I can't type... ;))

Most people know about the May 1st Reboot but some may not know about the CSS Reboot. (They both reboot on may 1st). If you haven't already, get to checking these sites out and make sure to check back when may 1st comes around, theres going to be a lot to see.

Great post by 5 1/2 on Using Microsoft Word More Effectively. Lots of good information in there.

Has anyone else heard of this? Brett told me about it the other day and it seems that Ebay gives 25 $1000 prizes every day. Anyone have any experience? I mean, this just screams scam to me...

Link from Digital Media Minute (which has lots of great links, btw), Using a little javascript you too can Make youre Tables Sortable

Savannah let me in on this one. Do you have lots of post-it notes all over the place? Try Stickies. Color choices, alarms, and all sorts of organizational goodness.

Now this is science at its best if you ask me. Don't know if they really work, don't know if they're safe, but someone's using their noggin. Basically these contact lenses change color according to the wearer's blood sugar level. no pricks, nothing. You just get red eyes if you need some insulin. Very cool. Found at new scientist.

Has anyone else ever played this? I remember playing it on my old 386 back in the day. Well you can actually play it on a current computer, you can download it from dosgamesarchive.com. Its a strategy puzzle type game, and pretty cool considering it came out in 1990. And for those of you that are interested, my 386 had 32 mb of ram and if I remember correctly, 256 mb of harddrive space on 5 platters. Awesome.

Hmm... found an entry on ericd.net yesterday to blogshares. It is a fantasy share market based on blogs instead of companies. Its quite interesting, and very adictive. Althought the site seems to have quite a bit of problems (mostly due to traffic I assume) its still quite fun if you can get on. This blog is listed here. If you are wanting to get started, I defiantely recomend you buying my stock, cause Im going to do whatever I can to make my shares go up.

Some reports have started to trickle in this morning about Yahoo! mail apparently upping thier limit on their mailbox to 1GB. First noticed on battellemedia who mentions that he has seen figures lately that put Yahoo! mail at around 40% of all Yahoo! page views. All of this is obviously in response to Gmail. All I know is while the 1GB is awesome, this alone is not why I use gmail. The interface, the conversationalization (yup, its a word now) of the emails, the search of course. All of these things come together to make one very appealing package. Although I must say, while I used to use hotmail, and had a yahoo account at one time, yahoo does seem to be the one "other" account that people still seem to be using besides gmail. Some other links to the story: CIOL : News The Register PC Pro: News TechWorld OverClockers Club You get the idea...

Stephen Erat has a great write up of how to add technorati to your blog. As you can see I have tried it out and you can search technorati from my blog using the pod on the side there.

Joshuaink has been given several awards for their new design, and rightly so I say. See, I can see this kind of stuff in my head, but it never gets to paper (or web) that way... Great work.

Can't afford the real thing? fake it with a paper ipod.

Hard day at work? Clients got you down? Go over to clientcopia and laugh a little, and try not to cry cause its so familiar.

One of the things that seems to come up on sitepoint.com is the ability to restrict file types for uploads. So here is a link for a way to do it in javascript. Just remember that like the author says, it is not foolproof, and you still need to do server side checking.

Most web designers know about the CSS Zen Garden. But if you're like me (and I know you all are), you hate to have to click through all of those designs. So try out the css zen garden shot for a quick css fix.

Anyone who reads this blog knows I like google. And anyone who knows me would know that I would never condone "hacking" google or anything like "hacking". Just ask the guys over at sitepoint.. That being said, I would never mind the opportunity to learn from how google does certain things. And so, here is an article on Hacking Google Print which describes how google does its thing. Its some good stuff, and great methods of doing things. Its at least worth a read.

Im going to be honest here, I have not yet looked at this site, and really dont plan to alot the time to. But since I see a link to it just about everywhere I go, I figured I would post it too just in case you live under a rock and you just happen to come out and my blog is the first thing you see: Yahoo! Netrospecive: 10 years, 100 moments of the web.

They call it a gift to the coldfusion community and it is just that. Want to develop in coldfusion for little to nothing? Get ACME- Apache, coldfusion mx 7, mysql and eclipse, everything you need besides the computer and three ways to get the article to show you how to set it all up. Great stuff, thanks guys.

Bill Bercik has posted a Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with baby steps). If you are interested in the not new, but suddenly revolutionary method of getting information without reloading a page, you might want to have a look. I think the article is geared towards php, but It probably wouldnt take much to adapt it to any language.

This just in (well, it was just in last week sometime, but its just now in on my blog ;) ), you can now customize your google news. Just go to news.google.com and youll see the customize links. Cool part about it to me is theyre just using a cookie to do it all. At least I am assuming they are since you don't have to log in to do it.

Im not signing up (i have enough trouble posting to my own blog) but for those that are more artisticly gifted, you might want to check out doodle blogs. Looks pretty neat. Link from jason nussbaum

This is truly amazing to me: This is done entirely in css, no js

This is just a quick link dump for my own benefit more than anything: Ten things to do with IIS

This is a great diversion that was brought to me a while back by savannah. "McSweeney's Open Letters to People or Entities who are unlikely to respond". Its a great forum of letters to let you vent. Definately worth a read sometime.

Now I have used and enjoyed Open Office before, but I never really have considered Star Office. But this link to the Star Office 8 beta looks somewhat promising. It looks a lot like microsoft word, you can open edit and save as microsoft word documents, and all documents are saved in an xml format, which seems to consume my thoughts nowadays. Another look might be in order. Oh and I forgot to mention, like open office, its free.

I read this entry on talkingtree.com the other day and decided to try it this morning. Styling your rss is very cool, very nice, and makes it much easier to read, yet doesnt take away from the programs that need to parse it. very cool entry, and now when you click on short or long on the side with my rss feeds, youll see a very nice styled page. Thanks Steven Erat.

Looking for ideas in making a favicon? Check out this link: http://www.deltatangobravo.com/archives/2004/march/favourite

If anyone ever tries to do a CREATE TABLE sql script with MSAccess, you might find this link of intrest. http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20040105/153585.html I didn't think it was possible.

I'll do it when I get a round tuit.

Those are my phonetic initials. Although hard to read, I found a great resource for phonetic alphabets, http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html. I didn't realize that there are so many different variations though.

I've been putting off posting about this guy for a while, just cause I wanted to be able to say it all. But I don't think its possible. Just check out Dearmitt.com fully. Check out his blog, troyscripts definately, and all the "what I'm" series. Theres a bunch of good stuff there.

I know of a few people trying to learn html, css and xhtml. So I thought I would put together some links I knew of and a friend of mine gave me some more. I know there are many more out there, so if you know of some that should be added to the list, let me know.

• The starting point for all things web, the w3c.org.
• A great resource, the w3c schools tutorials
• An alphabetical list of all css properties
• A special charachters reference
• ten css tricks you may not know from evolt.org
• some more css goodness
• a necessary read for all web developers, daily
• Position is everything
• some very good tutorials from forty internet
• some very good visual tutorials

There are many many more out there, so check google, and let me know if you find any other good ones.

I'm not sure, but I think I heard about this from Joel on Software a while back. Anyway, did you know that most of a jpeg's filesize is unecessary information about the picture? Well PureJPEG is here to help. From their website: "PureJPEG is an easy to use, high performance utility to remove unnecessary data from images you email or post on the net, without affecting the image quality whatsoever (no decompression/recompression is performed in the filtration), removing such extraneous information as: * Digital camera technical data (EXIF) * Comment blocks * JPEG thumbnails * Application blocks While you should never use this application on your personal image archive (where this information may actually serve a purpose in some scenarios), it is generally worthwhile to purify JPEG files when sharing images, or when posting images online."

If you're like me, you check the weather websites like weather.com from the weather channel or my preference AccuWeather pretty often. There are many more out there too. But do you know where they get their information? For the most part they get it here, the national weather service database xml/soap service. The cool thing is, its available to anyone and everyone. Webdevelopers, heres your chance to either provide another service on your websites, or maybe make a site to compete with the big boys.

Are you a drunk dialer? If so too bad you don't live in austrailia (im assuming the majority of people who read this blog don't live in austrailia). As reported a long time ago on Flash Ape... "If you live an Australia, Virgin Mobile now offers help. You can choose to blacklist numbers you dont want to call by dialing 333 plus the number...it will block calls to that number from your cell until 6 a.m. the following day." I know some guys who could use this...

I found this blog of m. moreno a while back and just forgot to mention it. Its pretty cool, it mentions this site called gravity shots that takes pictures of terrain from the air with rc planes and helicopters. Really cool stuff, definately worth a look. Also worth mentioning that the site is built with coldfusion and fusebox.

Bored on a Friday Night? Try google fight. The more results for a term, thats who wins. Great idea, and actually kind of informative.

If youre like me, you not only love tobasco sauce, you also love thier ads. And if you really are like me, then you will want to check out their website at tabasco.com, which is made with coldfusion I might add. If you missed the superbowl ad, you really need to check it out, especially if you're male, and I love these label ad's as well. "hot as in don't be surprised if your valentine starts moaning its name. - Original tobasco pepper sauce"

I found this cool website called 10x10 / 100 words and pictures that define the time. its pretty cool, gets images from news sites and makes a collage of sorts for the current hour in time. Not too bad. From the same site, I found wordcount that number the top 86800 english language words in order of usage. Look around, its pretty interesting.

This just in, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Movie is being featured on amazon, and looks awesome. B told me about this a while back, about the book and I think im going to have to read it. Looks pretty good, so I can't wait.

I'm posting this mainly because I don't want to lose this link. I didn't even realize this was possible, but this is a great effect. Using nothing but css and xhtml. css images maps.

Try this

Personally, I think that this rocks, although I will acknowledge that others do not think so. Too bad.

You didn't think I would slip up and not mention the brand new google maps beta did you? Of course not. Once again, google quality as you have come to expect it. One of the best map apps I've ever seen. Its got its bugs, sure, but that is more than understandable I believe. It is a beta after all. If youre on the tech side of things you might want to check out this link from simon willison's weblog where he talks about some of the technology that makes maps.google.com possible. Worth a read.

It's everywhere these days. Microsoft sucks this, microsoft sucks that. Articles like this one from rob Rohan are all too commonplaced these days. I'm even starting to waver a little i'm afraid. Seriously, if mac can meet with me on a price that I feel is fair I very well may have an i(something) on my desk next go round. The latest problem: msn messenger is down. again. Seem like they just can't get it right the last few days. The whole point of this post though is to put this link to the .net messenger service status which at the moment, is displaying an error. Dang.

If you need something cool to check out, try orisinal.com. This site has been around for quite a while and my sister reminded me of it recently. It has stunning flash graphics and some very strange games, but all of them are very cool, although some are a little, um, sweet. Yeah thats a good way to put that. Anyway, sweet or not, they are very cool so drop on by there. But be warned, I believe the site gets quite a bit of traffic so you may have to be patient, but it is definitely worth the wait.

Well I can't find the original news story (if you want to look for it I'm pretty sure it was on msnbc.com or New Scientist) but I read an article recently about how birds brains were rather developed, a whole lot more than previously believed. And then this morning I was hanging out on fullasagoog and came across a blog entry by Jens Loeffler who linked to one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Whew, how about that run on sentence? Anyway, while you're there and in between "wow"'s then notice that the video is in flash.

if you have a case of the monday's ;) then try this diversion. http://www.efrogz.com/ like the old frogger game. See if someone can beat my top score. Let me know if you do. Good luck though, youll need it. EDIT: sorry guys, didn't realize I hadn't made that a link.

A long time ago I used to get lots and lots of mail order catalogs. For lots of things, bikes, clothes, sharper image, all kinds of things. One of my friends at the time even suggested that I get a wife from a mail order catalog, as surely there was one in there somewhere. (I looked, no wives for sale). Anyway, I just found a new Google site, I'm not sure how it slipped past the radar. its is http://catalogs.google.com/. Search mail order catalogs to your hearts desire.

Adam Polselli has posted his "color predictions" for the coming year. He says he uses evaluations from areas besides just the Internet design world such as other advertising to come up with his forecast. I really like his array of choices, and hope to use some in my own designs this year. And he even gives the hex for each color. Check out Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast here. Thanks Adam!

A little while back, maybe on my previous blog I mentioned grouphug a place for confession. Here is another one featuring macromedia flash with a little better interface, but not quite as easy to read all the confessions. either way, a company called method has released come clean which will wash your confessions away. Neat idea. btw, I found this on favourite website awards. They are voting on the best site of the year, so get over there and check out the nominees.

This may be old news, but update.mozilla.org has had a much needed face lift. This design rocks my socks off, especially compared to the old design. Good job guys!

A follow-up to the previous entry, I got curious about what other tweaks you could do to firefox. I came across this entry on google, Secrets of Firefox 1.0. You have to scroll down the page a little bit to get to the good stuff, but there is a lot of good information here. Have fun!

I have to admit, I was skeptical. I mean, I already think firefox is faster than any alternative save a couple browsers on linux. It can't really get any faster can it?? I was wrong. Very wrong. fullasagoog gave me this link to devnulled this morning, and after following the instructions he gives I am surfing faster than a speeding bullet. Amazing really. And the about:config in firefox is amazing I must say, I didn't know that it was so easy to modify registry entries in firefox. There is probably hundreds of tweaks you could do. Great stuff.

I have come across a couple sites lately that made me go "wow". That doesn't happen much any more so I thought I would mention them here. First is hicksdesign. This is quite refreshing, very interesting, and now with 20& more whitespace it says. I love a site that can still display correctly with styles turned off, and I love the simple, yet catching header. And I don't mention flash sites much, not because flash isn't cool (nothing could be further from the truth), but because I don't develop in flash. But this site, which I beleive is actually japanese, is amazing. hybridworks has awesome art, awesome functionality, and just overall a great design. Oh and good sound too. Definately worth checking out.

Gmail has got to be one of the joys of my life. Sure it's lacking a few things, but overall, I really couldn't ask for much more. Andy Jarrett is hosting a little competition and handing out gmail invites as prizes. He ran out, but graciously allowed me to join in the Christmas spirit and hand out a few on his behalf. So stop by there, tell a joke, and see what the fuss is all about. I beleive I have 5 invites left, but could probably get some more. So don't hold back!

Remember in Fight Club (awesome movie) where edward nortons character (his original character) was going to group meetings to help him sleep? Well now you can too, with little worry that you'll be discovered as a faker, if in fact you really are faking. Group Hug You can go and confess, the only thing they take is your confession and a random number to identify it, and the date. A note of warning though, there is some vulgarity on there, you never know what people are going to confess. Proceed with caution, but it's a very interesting idea.

I don't think I have already posted this on my other blog, so it seems like a good time to post it here on my new one. Have you tried the new Google Suggest? It is a very good example of some of the magic that is possible with good js. It is not only good for people who may not be able to spell very well, but for you to find things you have never thought of searching for. Its creator explains on Google's Blog that it came out of 20% of their time. Google allows each of its employees to work on a new project of their own intrest 20% of the time. Now that is a great company, and a great idea. And just look at the work it can produce.