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Moving through time and overthinking every minute of it.WP to Twitter
Posted on June 01, 2010Now I’m going to try the WP to Twitter plug-in for my wordpress.org blog. I’ve created a post and now will go ahead and publish it – should go to my twitter account with a shortened url.
Just installed Twitter Tools
Posted on June 01, 2010My weblog i-Rant is updated. So I’ll start writing again. Changed the theme to a simple one that can be read on a Blackberry or other smart phone. I’m experimenting with Twitter Tools to automatically update my Twitter status as well. Want to do Facebook as well. We will see
Site deconstruction
Posted on February 06, 2010I completely messed up the vistered little theme that ran this site when I upgraded. Management console is cooler but I can’t find a Theme I like and I’m too lazy to edit one and make it new. These days motivation is sparse.
Paris!
Posted on August 01, 2008Oye! Finding a place in Paris for the September timeframe that is reasonable price and clean comfortable! Help!
Reggie Middleton’s Boom Bust Blog
Posted on July 12, 2008Reggie Middleton’s Boom Bust Blog
is a weblog by a financial guy who has an interesting approach to information reporting. Quoted from seekingalpha.com:
freethinking maverick—the penultimate nonconformist as it applies to macro strategies, investment, and analysis
Happymaker?
Posted on July 03, 2008Q: What the heck is 
?
A: The Happy Maker! 
Known as 
(ka-ran-nis) or " The Happy Maker" in Greece, my ancestors produced some of the finer spirits (okay, they had a traveling distillery) on the Island of Lemnos, located in the beautiful Aegean sea.
The stuff was so good that when my great-great-great-…(way back)…….grandfather would come to town, the villagers would say: "here comes the happy-maker!"
So he changed his name to (ka-ran-nis) meaning happy-maker.
When my Grandfather came over from Greece to the USA he changed his name from to James Charanis and I was named after him. Here is the house where he was born:
I have not forgotten that tradition of keeping my customers happy.
Years of experience working with corporate clients of all types has taught me how to help my customers find solutions to their information management problems.
Here is another article of someone who traced their roots back to this lovely island
Pictures and info on the town: Lemnos Villages
Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posted on June 04, 2008As my company continues to change with the times we are embracing web 2.0 stuff. I need to learn more about this.
2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:
- Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
- Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
- Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
- REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
- Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
- Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
- Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
- mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
- Weblog-publishing tools
- wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
- Internet privacy, the extended power of users to manage their own privacy in cloaking or deleting their own user content or profiles.
Pandora – radio you create
Posted on April 23, 2008My friend Andy turned me on to this little web application. Interesting.
Tim Westergren crated the Music Genome Project:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.
This web application will create and play a list of songs based on an artist you chose and the attributes of that artist. I’ve not looked into the Genome but its picking interesting artist much like the old classics I like.
Jim
Google Maps – personalized – Jim’s map of north Atlanta
Posted on March 28, 2008What an absolutely cool idea. Here is an accumulation of places near the Hilton Norcross and Atlanta.
people think:
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