Well the next few days are going to be crazy busy so I thought I’d take advantage of the small amount of down time I have right now. I am back from the Florida Keys (obviously). Pictures can be found here. They are not exactly National Geographic quality, but hey...I don’t have time to brighten them up and tweak them right now. I’ll be taking plenty of pictures in Norway (my next destination). I leave Wednesday night for Norway to see my amazing girl. I can’t wait. I get into Oslo arond 9:30 AM Thursday. I’ll be gone until February 11th so that is the reason for the lack of posts. This will in fact by my first trip to Europe so I am just a tiny bit nervous. Plenty of pictures and stories to follow.
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Retrievr - Search by Sketch
Retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. Currently the index contains many of Flickr’s most interesting images. If you’d like to have your images (or the images for a specific tag) added, please let me know. A submission interface is planned!
It really does work surprisingly well. Try it, and waste countless time like I have. 
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Top 10 Websites You Should Know About
Recently a ton of great sites have popped up on the internet. Many of them you may not have heard of, that is the main point of this post. I’ve decided not to list popular well known sites such as flickr and others (although it could be disputed what is well known and what isn’t).
#1 http://www.meebo.com - A small upstart company that has brought trillian (http://www.trillian.cc) like features to the web. You can access Yahoo! Messanger, Jabber, Gtalk, AIM, ICQ and MSN directly through the web in a desktop like enviroment that supports multiple connections to different IM networks much like trillian.
#2 http://www.rememberthemilk.com - Another cool web 2.0 creation. If you are like me you tend to forget to do things. Also if you are like me you are connected to the world in some fashion no matter where you go (my cellphone has yet to leave my side in years). Remeberthemilk is excellent because it supports reminders via cellphones, email and instant messaging.
#3 http://www.blinklist.com (Site might be down) - Blinklist is another bookmark management site competing for attention ever since the success of del.icio.us. However Blinklist has a snazzy look and a bunch of awesome features that make del.icio.us dull in comparison. Make sure to check this site out to see all the different features it sports.
#4 http://www.digg.com - Some might call digg.com the slashdot.org killer. It might well be. Digg.com is an excellent technology news source that has put editorial control back in the hands of users. Digg is worth a look, or a blink (see #3).
#5 http://www.clusty.com - Clusty.com is a nifty little search engine that will most likely always live in Google’s shadow but is worth a look all the same. Clusty like its name implies clusters your search results into different categories which makes finding the desired information you are searching for easier. There are a bunch of other small features that make this search engine worth checking out.
#6 http://www.writely.com - Word processing on the web? It was bound to happen eventually. Writely is the perfect for firing up that word document in the library or ... well I’m not sure how often you run into a computer without word processing. Regardless of its usability it still is pretty cool.
#7 http://www.last.fm - Last.fm is kind of hard to describe. It is part social music tagger, part personal radio and well I guess you have to check it out to figure out the rest. Basically if you find yourself listening to lots of music while you are at your computer Last.fm might well become your best friend… well a new site you check out lots at least.
#8 http://www.pixel2life.com - Is the haven for all things tutorial. Its huge database offers a range tutorials on anything from ColdFusion to Microsoft Outlook. The tutorials are all computer related (you won’t find out how to install the plumbing here).
#9 http://www.blummy.com - Blummy.com offers a unique approach to keeping and sharing bookmarks (something that seems to be all the rage recently). Check it out if you have more bookmarks then you know what to do with.
#10 http://pandora.com - Pandora is an excellent music discovery site.
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15 New Tech Concepts For 2006
An interesting read, we shall see what actually shows up in 2006.
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SiteAdvisor blog: The Web’s Download Disasters
When we first started crawling the Web looking for bad downloads last year, we weren’t sure what we’d find. Today, a million Web sites and 140,000 download tests later, I can say with confidence that there are some great programs to be downloaded out there. I can say with equal confidence that there’s also plenty of train wrecks waiting to happen to your PC.
These are the website you need to stay clear of like the plague. This is just sad and frightening how terrible some of these products are. 
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Find Amazon Deals - Dealazon - Beta
A neat way of searching Amazon with a slight AJAX twist to it. Try it out if you need to buy something.
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LiveSide
All things that have to do with Windows Live services. If you somehow haven’t heard about the Windows Live initiative then check this out.
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