Keely Smith Singing A Hard Day's Night

Keely Smith Singing A Hard Day's Night

On Songza: Moon River - Pavarotti & Gustafson

There had been a rumor that Luciano Pavarotti, (bless his soul,) and Nancy Gustafson had made a recording of Henry Mancini's Moon River. I didn't believe it.

I went to the site recommended by Will Pate on the latest commandN, put in Moon River as the search item, and there it was, item # 5! What a kick!!!

Geekbrief's Link to Woopra

Geek Briefs link to Woopra.

We're not a "top level blog" but we like the pure cheerfulness of Cali.

No gerbils were hurt in the production of this plog.

commandN # 128 Up and Running

My comments to commandN#128:

It is so good to see the windows in the background. The story about the video camera from Comcast checking to see who is the room to modify the programming offered. That sounds a bit like urban legend. Amber says she doesn't have a "huge presence on line." Little does she know. Washing machines eat socks. (See the plog to understand that one.)

The cacti behind Jeff are incredibly provocative I am sure, being you are Canadian, this wasn't done on purpose.

Three Blogging Utilities Settled In

LiveJournal Tags: RSS Grazing

In the past three weeks or so I have tested and then incorporated into my blogging/twitter routine three programs that reside either on the side, in the tool bar or in the background.  Each, in  a very short time, have become tools of the trade.

The most senior of the three is Jens Muller’s JC&MB Quicknote Ver. 5.4. 

There is a few pixels high and wide line sitting on the left side of the screen.  When I tap it, a customized note-pad materializes.  I write my note and tap outside the box and it disappears.   It has a password protected capability as well as almost unlimited room for expansion.  It has replaced my bringing up Notepad to take quick notes.

The second in seniority on my system is Read it Later from the Idea Shower.  I am a very fast reader.  Having to constantly stop and take notes as I scanned the hundreds of feeds in my RSS Reader slowed me considerably.  Once I installed Read it Later into Firefox, all I had to do was either tap the toolbar icon or right click and choose Read it later.  Then, once the feed has been milked, I can go back and peruse that which I was able to effortlessly glean.

The third and junior of the bunch is Texter.  There was another program I had loaded.  It was recommended as a must-have program for efficient writing.  I was convinced and installed the trial version.  It was okay.  Not spectacular.  In support I went to the home site to register a copy for home use. 

The price was OVER $50.00. It is being offered by a man with whom we found much in common.  We were ready to fork over payment when an added fee of $3.00 for use of PayPal popped up.  In pure emotional reaction, I canceled the order and scraped all vestiges of the program from the system.

Then Texter came to our attention while Twittering.  It does all that the other program did for me but is simpler to use.  It doesn’t wave itself around constantly reminding us of its existence.  It just helps create the script that cuts typing speed in half.

An Intelligent Conversation

I was listening to an intelligent conversation regarding the evolution of the internet and the methods of communication now used to convey news to people. One of the younger members of the conversation remarked that he had never read a book or goes to the movies or watches TV. There is too much on the net to worry about the "canned fish" that gets served up on TV.

He didn't say network TV, he said TV. He would rather have the personal interaction with the world that he has on places like Twitter, Facebook or places like qik.com and Friendfeed.
Is this where the geek inherit the earth? Or, was it the survival of the geekest?

Testing photoplow!

I am posting this badge here and other style blogs to test the link.

Snow in Northern WA

Two photos taken by our correspondent in Northern Washington state can be viewed at the Famous Grazing Movable Type test blog.

Check the junk folder in Gmail

Even though I have IMAPed the GMail account to be read in Thunderbird, I have found it good policy to go into GMail itself and scan the junk folder. This morning there were 486 messages relegated and deposited by google into the junk folder.

I don't read the message topics first. I read the From column. Occasionally I will see names that look familiar, me is a favorite of these basta cads, then I look at the message topic. Usually I want to sell myself V pills or lengthen various parts of my anatomy. No surprise there.

But, as happened this morning, I see the name of a friend. This morning it was the Chelsea Finch.

She had changed her email address and google decided it was a deception. I don't blame Google at all. What I like is, all I need to do is check the box next to the message and then tick off Not Span in the top GMail toolbar. Zing! It goes to the Inbox, where, just to make sure this doesn't happen again, I will add the return address to the Contacts folder.

Then, I go back, scan the rest again and delete all. I know there are some who let GMail keep the spam. It will delete the files in a proscribed time. The problem for those of us who scan it for real messages is that we get two to three hundred of the buggers a day. If we let 30 days pile up it makes scanning visually nigh on impossible.


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Pogue on The Flip

In today's review Pogue listed a link to this comparison of the $149.00 Flip camera and one costing over $3,000.00. If you are considering a Flip, this is a must look.
He also reviewed it in a previous article written on 3/20/2008. It was a mention The Tech Guy by Leo Laporte of this camera and on TWiT that brought it to our attention.
We've put it on our wish list on Amazon.com.


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ScribeFire Stable on FF 3.04b

Before testing the email program mentioned in the last blog entry, I need to verify that ScribeFire was still working on FF 3.04b now that the extension was upgraded.


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Looking at Other Readers...

LiveJournal Tags: RSS Grazing

I was zipping though the 739 items on my Google Reader this evening, looking for bit’s and pieces to load into the graze this evening when the phrase, “The art of fake fiction,” flew by my eyes. Unfortunately I hit the space bar before getting into the message.  I just found the phrase fascinating.

In an earlier episode I was clucking proudly of all of the add-on that I’d divested of Firefox when using 3.04b.  Then they went and redesigned the Add-on page to make it easier to find extensions that WILL run with FF 3.##.  I’ve only added six so far.  I am waiting for RoboForm to catch up.  If I know them, it  won’t  be offered until a stable version is loaded.

Good news is that ScribeFire updated itself with my last universal update attempt.  This is being written in Windows Live Writer, but ScribeFire is the tool on the belt.

I am trying out Shyftr, an aggregator that may be better than Google Reader.  Let me give it a few minutes...

It took me about six minutes to get it all set up.  What I found was the Louis Gray blog.  It is for early adopters.  Okay, that’s us.  Have we found the mother ship?  This piece on Internet addiction is a worthy read.  The ironic part of it to me is that I found it browsing through an RSS Feed reading, I TWITTERED the author and saved the feed to Read-it-Leader.   I should read the article again.  There are six other links to similar articles.

Texter may have been mentioned in passing in previous entries  The Lifehacker article has a download button directly on it.  Watch the videos in this article as well to get an idea of the advanced features this seemingly small program has to offer.  It’s also free, meaning it doesn’t cost $53.00 US with a $3.00 PayPal  fee attached.

I love Thunderbird.  It is my workhorse of an email program. 

 

But I am also a test driver.  I recently installed an IMAP connection to a GMail account on Opera 9.#.  It worked fine, except to gain access to it, I needed to open Opera and all attached to it.  I am now trying a small email client I found on Feedburner called  eMailya - we’ll tell you how it works on first blush.

I just got carsick watching, from his coffee cup holder, Jason Calacanis drive home to Brentwood. 

Good Night Gracie.

Unfare Zemata Test

Source: WikipediaIt made no sense to me that Zemanta wasn't working on my blogger editor. I went back in for a second look and saw my No Script icon along the status bar had its red circle with slash markings. Once I opened it and set it to allow, wham the Zemanta bar appeared to the right of the editor. SO far, it has photgraphs such as this: L7 encircled. I think it's an album cover.

The articles listed below the editor are all about Zemanta, not surprising. They are from funkykaraoke.blogspot.com, fourstars.com, blogherald.com, readwriteweb.com, techcrunch.com, tadejhq.com. The first listed link is one day old and the last is two days old. Recent stuff.

If I change the subject to something like Leo Laporte, Petaluma, Sonoma, Marin counties California or the Democratic primary coming up in one of the midwestern states and Pennsylvania. If I mention the New York Times or the Guardian.uk.co then all of the choices on the bar suddenly changed.

Ah, I just discovered that when you click on the gallery selection, it changes, not adds a photo. I first had the L7 thumbnail, then a photo of Leo and then a photo of this clocktower in Petaluma.

Zemanta is cute, but, I don't see much use for it the type of blogs we publish.

Zemanta Posting

This is a post that is being written with Zemanta's firefox extension. There is a small brown window next to the Blogger.com composition window. It has done nothing yet. Could it be that this is Firefox 3.04b? So far FF refuses to install an extension that won't work with it. It did allow Zementa to install.

Oh, well.

We'll leave it and see if it works later on.

Short Thwirl Tips

LiveJournal Tags: Thwirl

When you hit the icon to the right of the remarks window, above the check mark, it brings up a window where you copy your long URL.   The first choice is snurl.com

If you click on the down arrow next to the box it offers a second choice, is.gd, five characters shorter.

Also, to see more tweets, the voice balloon to the left of the Timeline menu to the left of the remarks box, removes and returns the remarks box.

If you intend to reply, click on the @name in the tweet, it will open a new view with just the tweet from the person to whom you want to send your message.  It makes it easier to write directly to them.

Just a few short remarks.

Chat Rooms Rot the Brain

LiveJournal Tags: Calacanis.com

I never really saw the appeal of chat rooms. I was watching Jason Calacanis run a podcast on his site with with a chat running below. You had to register at UStream.tv to get into the chat. My normal sign-in there wasn’t working, so I created an alias.

With that alias I was able to get in to the chat. Near the end, Jason was so absorbed in reading the chat, or his feed, or conducting business, that he just sat there, humming to himself. I asked him to sing something. Some of the other chatters became a touch nasty, making Chris Pirillo remarks.

So, though Jason can be interesting when part of a discussion, as on TWiT, I don’t think I will go back to the Jason Nation anytime soon to watch him Plog.

Sorry, Hit The wall with nothing in the graze bin. Here's another Wikimedia.org picture

Wikimedia Commons

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Sunny and in the mid to low 40’s

That was the weather report today.  I optimistically rolled down the window while stuck in the left lane of the Interstate.  NPR was telling me about, wait, I don’t remember.  Driving in traffic can be so mind numbing.  I know they were telling me about Iraq and Afghanistan, this crisis and that crisis and how the government is either screwing it up or, no sorry, no or.

Now I remember, it was about the Supreme Court and some of the surprising questions the Justices were asking the nattily dressed Attorney General and how nervous he was.  How pithy.

Back to grazing.

Spring Break Graze

Everywhere I turn around I see, or hear Amber MacArthur. commandN.tv

LiveJournal Tags: Ambermac

is a must see online. She was on  Other than seeing her on Tech TV or hearing her with Leo Laporte, I realized I knew little about her.  Leo Laporte mentioned he would be on PlayCafe.com this evening.  I tuned in and there was Amber MacArthur.  This is one very connected woman. 

I Googled  her for the first time and found an eye opening Digital Journal interview where she wasn’t smiling or perky.  If you want to see the serious side of this very professional woman, go to this link to the Digital Journal interview.

@scobleizer was looking for a place to eat in NYC.  I sent him this link to a news about Typhoid Fever in NYC Restaurants.   He has a right to know.  This is from Digital Journal.

Speaking of Twitter, the T word on TWiT, (not related), this is a very informative article on the use of Twitter in Blogging from ProBlogger.  As with many other blogs, don’t forget to read the comments.  I learn more from the comments most of the time.

I’ve used several methods for text substituting going back to writing .bat files in DOS.  This little program, written by Adam Pash is described in a video on Lifehacker

Once you have it installed, follow this continuing link to an article, also at Lifehacker, on how to Save Time with  Text Substitution.

Last link for the night is to SyncBack (free version.)  Read the page, it will explain it to you.  I have hit the wall.

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Careful When Writing inScribefire with FF 3.04b

I was writing an inane blog entry regarding the 38 Firefox Add-ons that I deleted when upgrading to the Firefox beta version 3.04b when the browser crashed.; I was simultaneously deleting Add-ons as I wrote the piece. When I deleted the ZOHO Firefox Reader Add-on BAM, to the Floor.

It is good to note that Scibefire is working just fine. It seems to be drawing a line above the line I am typing right now. Will this show up in the blog entry? Only one way to find out.


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Why Watch/Listen to Twit?

The primary reason is Leo LaPorte’s voice, when he is not imitating the chairman of the Democratic Party’s suicidal scream, his voice is a naturally  soothing influence.  I am not kidding.  He said I should subscribe to Audible Dot Com if I have an Amazon Kindle. 

I have a Kindle and now two spoken books loaded onto it.  As soon as I figure out how to get them to play on my car’s speaker I will be a happy man.

The next reason is the Yang to the Ying of Leo’s Voice; John C. Dvorak.  I was first exposed to him when magazines where the primary source of material for budding geeks in the early ‘80’s.  Now Ziff Davis is going into Chapter 11.  The Buggy Whip Principle strikes again.
 
Another reason is that I miss Tech TV, where Leo Reigned Supreme when it was out of SoMa in San Francisco.

Tech TV in California is another example of the BWS.  They tried to be too smart, too hip, when their primary audience were still wearing pocket protectors.  Not to protect their protractors and slide rules, but their iPhones and Blackberrys

Back to Twit...  One other reason is that everyone who appears/speaks on the podcast has a web presence of their own.  @JasonCalacanis promised to Tweet the notice about the Audible.com free read offer coming up on Twitter and, bam, while I was still watching the live feed, and following @wilharris, Calacanis was true to his word.

(Calacanis is a name I will not forget.  If you combine the Greek for good, Kala and the Latin for dog, canis, you get Good Dog!  If that’s his stage name, it is very clever.)

Getting links to their blogs and websites and adding them to my RSS feed gives me more and more up to the minute information for the nightly grazes that appear here.  And now that  @davewiner has been added to the Tweets I follow, as well as the various news station feeds, I will have more information to start building the identity of Grazing Press.

Lastly is that I learned the perfect expletive there during TWiT #134: Bullfish! 

I love it.

LiveJournal Tags: TWiT

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TWiT Live - Watch Leo Laporte Laugh!

LiveJournal Tags: TWiT

I installed the Firefox 3.### Portable to watch TWiT live stream.  It went right to the page and started playing the feed.  There are no add-ons. In FF 2.## I have at least four maybe five add ons to allow video playing.

It seems to be a raw version of the show’s production.  I came in half way through the show, so I will listen to the first half when it comes up on TWiT.tv .  In my imagination, prior to seeing this stream, I had all of the participants  sitting around in stuffed chairs at a tavern in Corte Madera. 

As soon as the stream is over, I’ll play with the portable Firefox.  I did look at the Add-ons in tools.  There is a row of uninstalled, with the green field exclamation but none of them are loaded.

One of my problems with this broadcast is the way they are making fun of the Blogger Bob, a poor government employee hired to make sense of insensibility.   Their laughter sounded like mocking laughter.  It matters little to source or the reason for mocking, wherever it occurs it is painful to hear.

A Focus for Grazing Press

LiveJournal Tags: Grazing Press

Until now we have used Grazing Press as a backup for the Belltowernews.com blog.  This started during the Blogger.com reorganization into the Googlesphere.  Because we had an extremely configured blog that did not comply with the laws set down by the new masters, Belltowernews.com was down for a few months.

So as not to be off the grid entirely, we published here.  Now that Belltowernews has its own domain and seems to have stabilized, we plan to return this blog back to it original intent, to comment on the news.

We were inspired to get around to do doing this by a recent Twitter comment made by Dave Winer on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees blog.

It had given me pause for thought to believe man who presents himself as an open thinker as Mr. Obama would subscribe to mentoring from a man who has been profiled by the common press as something close to a monster.  In reading the above mentioned piece I saw an entirely different slant to the purpose of his sermon.

So, this blog will now be devoted to commenting on the three to four hundred news hits in my Google Reader each morning.  It will not focus on politics, celebrity, money or yellow journalism, but on what I personally think is a story of some interest.

Don’t expect there to be any great number of blog entries in the near future.  There are six other Famous Grazing Blogs up that too are seeking a focus away from Belltowernews.  Let us bring the sheep into the pasture and see on which plants they feed.

Easy Userbar Creator Found

An easy to use program for the creation of userbars all the way from Australia produced this userbar

in about ten minutes.

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Graphic and Interactive Twitter Signatures for Blog and Email Posting

Going to twitsig.com will let you generate the image above. This is the static image, that displays the Twitter entry when it is created.

This image should change as I change my Twitter entries:

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Easter Conundrum

There is an organized Easter Egg Hunt in the village grave yard this morning.

My family is in the country. The question for me is, do I go? Or do I go back to sleep? My BB woke me up with its 0655 find me alarm that helps me find it before leaving for work. I set it for the weekend ON this week because I was working yesterday.

If I complain about there being too many things to turn on and off, the part of my brain that follows through complains immediately that I should be grateful for having so many things. Ying and Friggin' Yang again!!!

Saturday Sweep

It is a goal for this evening to sweep the Read-it-Later folder of all its content and share those pages worth review with you.

We got a kindle for the winter holiday.  It took 70 days after receiving the gift coupon for the real thing to arrive.  If you blog down in Belltowernews.com you will see where exasperation was expressed.

On Lifehacker there is this article on "How the Kindle Saves You Time..."  it is a almost thorough explanation of Kindle uses for the man on the street.  One feature it doesn't mention is the ability to quickly download samples of the books.  Most of the samples consist of the prologue/introduction and the first chapter. 

Of the five or six samples I've downloaded so far, I have ordered two.  The great thing is you get to the last page of the sample and you are offered the book at the discounted Kindle price.  It is almost too easy.  Impulse can rule.  You tap on the button with the rolling wheel mouse-like control and before you can blink, the book is on your Kindle.  Uber-browsing.

Though the title of this page on RWW touts only Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things if you scroll down into the comments, you will find more that twenty other links of interest.    One entry has a list of openculture.com sites of interest including this one on open source audio-books.

The MIT presence on tube can be found at the amazingly uncomplicated http://youtube.com/mit 

The other YouTube link for the evening is run by Guardian TV.  This is a good place to visit the Cheese Diaries: http://uk.youtube.com/user/GuardianUnlimitedTV 

Back to Lifehacker for a link to the Eight Worst Foods in America.  Of course I ate the first thing on the list at a highway rest stop on the Massachusetts Turnpike.  It looked healthy???

I lust after this item.

This is what we're going to play with after posting this graze.  It's called Brief and touts itself as a streamlined feed reader extension for Firefox.  We didn't have much luck with the mail reader last night.  Wish us luck.

 

LiveJournal Tags: RSS Grazing

Memes?

I was just reading Leo Laporte's comments on Leoville regarding Twit 134.; I haven't had a chance to listen to it, and won't before I come back from work.

What I wanted to remark about was the word memes.

The Merriam-Webster OnLine site has it listed as a noun to mean "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture." It is now being used all over the place in geekspeak.

It Didn't Work. I Was Surprised.

eM Client just didn't work. All of the settings were correct but I could not get it to interact with gmail IMAP. I stayed up way too late trying. There is just too much to test for something not to work with the correct settings.

But, only went through half of the playlist on Finetune Desktop. It was playing a long piece from the Broadway cast of West Side Story.


I did also stay up late to see the latest chapter in the commandN saga. New studio, what we see of it, and Jeff is feeling better.

Spring Evening Graze.

LiveJournal Tags: RSS Grazing

You wouldn't know it is Spring out there, mostly because it is so dark, but the wind was doing its March roaring a little late in the month.  It does feel odd to have your car blown sideways while you are going so fast forward.  Not thrilling so much as disconcerting.

The first link is first because I love the title.  It is from MakeUseOf and is called 8 Adobe AIR Apps that DON'T Suck.  I already use Thwirl. I activated a spare monitor to keep Thwirl up while working on the laptop screen.  The one application on this page that I just had to install right away is Finetune Desktop. 

Click on Finetune first to sign up for the free service and then click on Desktop.  It takes a little less than no time to set the app up.  It takes a little longer to create the playlist on line.  I got as far as six songs before hitting the button.  That added 38 songs to the playlist.  So far, so good.

The next link is to Book Lamp.  They say clearly once you register that this is a beta, will probably always be, but what the hey, by the time they bring it down you should have a book list long enough for several summers.  Being a Kindle owner, perhaps several lives. (Added memory chip!!!)

Though  devoted as much as possible to Thunderbird, I have downloaded eM Client to see if all of the hype is true.  Who knows..  Whoa!! 

Reading the blog it says to wait until the version being issued after Eastertime.  That's the day after tomorrow, or tomorrow in five minutes.  I can wait... maybe.

Here's a YouTube on how to quickly start up a Blogger Blog.

And here is Twitter in Plain English on the Common Craft Show

Bed time.  There would be more links, but I kept installing each of the links above.  That takes time.  Oh bother!!!

Just Some Thinking on Information Tidal Wave.

There was a time, not that long ago, when I received all of my information on the world by reading the Times in the morning and listening to the radio on the way home. Two or three times a week I would watch the evening news. Later on I became more sophisticated, (I thought), by subscribing to the IHT and the Manchester Guardian.

Then came CNN.

There was "all news all the time" radio, but that handled traffic, sports, weather and late-night commentary. These were the things about which we felt the value in the immediacy of the information. But CNN, even with its early Atlantan accent, was a new, visual window on the world. It's raw feeds of breaking news was a new feeling.

The information junkie got his first taste...

Now, I am writing on ScribeFire, listening to ZZTop on WinAmp, monitoring my BB while writing a blog entry on a Firefox extension. I am also monitoring Tweeter on Thwirl displayed on the second computer screen. This isn't mult-tasking. This is shooting up information.

Is the sun shining???

Qiking from car.. Wait for the law

When Kevin Rose said he was streaming live from his car it did cause a moment's pause, but it was from the roof of the parking garage at SFO. (Whew!)

MediaShift Explained

The picture shown below is from a old but still informative article on the PBS MedaShift page that explains blogging.

It is very clearly written and intended not for the complete novice to computing, but for one who wants to learn the basics and the reasoning behind this phenomena

Don't limit yourself to this one article, Mark Glaser's style on other topics of interest are worth reading as well.

Image Found at MEDIASHIFT

Mediashift on PBS - Twitter

Just a quick link to an article on PBS Mediashift on Twitter.

If you're just getting into it, or wonder why you should, this is a good place to start.

There are links in this article that will help even the experienced user find unknown uses and aspects of this simple 140 character graffiti.

Ton of Stuff in my Read-It-Later

Over the past few days I haven't been posting too many links.  This doesn't mean I haven't been saving them.  They are sitting in my Read-It-Later link on the Firefox tool bar.  Now is the time to scan through them and see if any are worthy of sharing.

It goes without saying that commandN is worth a look.  Brother Jeff has a wicked cold.  In the comments section @Amber also states one of the other members of the crew is stricken as well.

Google Calendar Sync at Google Agenda (beta) worked quite well for me.  Now when I put an entry into my Blackberry, it automatically appears in the Google Calendar.  I have the calendar set to send me my daily agenda at 0545.  Now that it is synced into my Blackberry, these agendas are more meaningful to me.

If you use Calgoo, it carries over into that, through Google Calendar.  Cool.

Make Use Of has a handy-dandy list of sites and programs to make use of the IM format.  According to Leo LaPorte, his children no longer use IM in favor of SKS.

The IHT has a review, and short biography.  It is about Lush Life and its author, Richard Price.  If you have never read any of his work, or seen it in movies, and you have an interest in things New York, (gritty) you may want to read this article and then go ahead and get the book.

The next RIL, (short for Read-It-Later) was an article on Laughing Squid about the visit to the Colbert Report by Mark Frauenfelder. (See SXSW twitters).  That link is of much less interest than this one of photos taken at the set of the CR, while waiting from Mark.

Hulu has come out of beta.  I have been using it for the past few weeks. The public interface is a lot more on the WOW side than the one with which the beta testers were presented.  I suppose they were of the opinion that beta testers require no sales pitch.  If you haven't visited yet, and love TV, it's is certainly worth the effort. 

The old Barney Millers ware a blast from the past.

I have no idea why I saved this Stumbleupon link.  Feel free to comment and tell me why.

Lindsay Lohan made a bit of a wave emulating Marilyn Monroe's final sitting.  This link takes you to a gallery online selling the actual of photos of MM for that sitting.  It is sad to see these photos for those of us who remember the day she died.

On My Newton's Blog is this recommendation of the Nikon Camera I have been using since our trip to the Inside Passage.

Lifehacker has this article on FriendFeed.  If you read the Twitter's displayed on the right column of Belltowernews.com you will see that we just revised our FaceBook and MyPlace pages and added a FriendFeed page this morning.

I am not sure why Lexisum is useful, but for those who like summaries, instead of the full boat, this interface to Wikipedia may be of some small use.  Personally I am an information  junkie who would not want to leave the summarizing to this page's discretion.

There was a link at Firefox Mastery regarding a list of configuration changes you can make to Firefox.  In one of the comments to the list a user asks why this list was copied over from gHacks.  You can find the tips in their pristine status at the gHacks Firefox Tips page.

Prophylactic is how the word is spelled.  This "social media aggregator/lifestreaming service" spells it Profilactic.  I wonder if that was on purpose or for URL availability.  As usual, when we find places like this, we try it.

Arthur C. Clark's NYT Obit.  RIP

LiveJournal Tags: social,feeds,RSS Grazing

Night Watch Graze

Listening to Twit 37.

The first link mentioned was to Mahalo.com. I took a quick look at the site, signed in and browsed about. Dvorak's zipper antics were slightly funny. Dvorak is claiming the C.I.A. is running Facebook. To be correct, he's saying that the inteviews at SXSW regarding Facebook should have asked if it was being run by that agency. It is amazing how rumors start.

Interesting image of a battleship with a blimp and biplane as part of the infrastructure.
Just installed Silverlight. As with most things I am not sure what to do with it. The same thing for the latest Adobe .NET background

This was one of the better TWiT's. Dvorak was relatively low key, answers about Twitter questions, Facebook, Friendfeed and Silverlight.

Time to go play with that with which we were exposed this night.