WP to Twitter

Posted on June 01, 2010

Now 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, 2010

My 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, 2010

I 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, 2008

 Oye!  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, 2008

Reggie 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, 2008

Q: What the heck is Demetre in Greek?

A: The Happy Maker! 

Known as XAPANIS (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 XAPANIS (ka-ran-nis) meaning happy-maker.
When my Grandfather came over from Greece to the USA he changed his name from DEMETRIUS XAPANIS 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, 2008

As 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:

Pandora – radio you create

Posted on April 23, 2008

Pandora

My 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, 2008

What an absolutely cool idea.  Here is an accumulation of places near the Hilton Norcross and Atlanta. 


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A small street in Atsiki Lemnos, Greece

Posted on March 21, 2008


Where my grandfather was born.