Category: Miscellaneous

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Google Tracking

Google now offers a beta service that, when you are logged in, will keep track of your search history. My first question about using this service, was will I be able to use it while simultaneously using Google Suggest? I’m happy to say the answer is yes.

The other question that popped into my mind was, “Will that mean Google can do market research on my searching patterns?” To which I also had to answer yes, but then realized they already do that anyway through cookies. It’s one of those things that bothers me, but I can’t exactly see the big picture so I’m not sure if it is a bad thing. Until I figure that out I’m going to use it.

(via Google Blog)

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Flickr.com Giving Away Accounts

My brother and sister are both in love with Flickr.com. Today they just discovered that Flickr is giving Pro account holders two free invitations for Flickr Pro accounts. Gary gave me one of his invitations today and I spent the last little while uploading a few pictures. If you know anyone that’s had a Flickr Pro account for awhile now, I recommend hitting them up for a free Pro account.

The following photo is from a family reunion on July 1st, 2002.

1 July 2002, Jumping Off the Deck
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Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking

Michael Hyatt has an excellent look at the lost art of note-taking. I have to admit I’m terrible at note taking, especially for classes which I find elementary or boring. Hyatt’s does make several good points, and if today hadn’t been my last day at school I’d probably put this into practice immediately.

Luckily for me, I’m just about to start a new job in Malaysia. (If you can call working for free a “job” – more of a volunteer experience). I’m excited for this opportunity and besides the great work experience, I’m going to make an effort to implement the “lost art of note-taking”.

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Adobe to acquire Macromedia in $3.4B deal

Adobe, the company most famous for its Photoshop application announced this morning it’s plan to buy multimedia software company Macromedia! This is really cool news for those of us in the New Media industry.

“By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software – along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash – Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform.”

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I Got Shots – (and not the good kind)

I’m off to Malaysia next month and in preparation I went down to the health unit today and got a total of four shots – two in each arm. I’ve been avoiding my MMR booster shot for a few years now and I skipped out on the mandatory tetanus shot they give you in the 9th grade, but I got caught up on all of them in four foul stabs earlier today. The tetanus side is still throbbing slightly but it wasn’t nearly as painful as I had it built up to be. My biggest fear is that I will be part of the tiny fraction of people that have an adverse reaction to the vaccines. So far so good.

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Google Video Upload

Google never ceases to amaze me! They are offering a new storage service for videos that users upload themselves.

We’re accepting digital video files of any length and size. Simply sign up for an account and upload your videos using our Video Uploader (please be sure you own the rights to the works you upload), and, pending our approval process and the launch of this new service, we’ll include your video in Google Video, where users will be able to search, preview, purchase and play it.