Truck Driver Wisdom

I know I should probably get into these social bookmarks, like DIGG, Del.icio.us, or Furl.

I understand it can boost your search engine rank and stuff. It seems to take alot of time. So how to evaluate the "value"? I guess it is all about your objectives. (I like "objectives" over "goals", seems a bit more concrete.)

By the way thanks goes out to Techzi. for the Blaugh.

This site is really cool. I happen to stumble across it from this article at the Time website.

I jumped on to see just how my house rated. No I am not going to show you. For me it was a little depressing. My house is the cheapest in the whole neighborhood. Oh well, I probably have a lower mortgage payment. Zillow , the name, came from the idea of zillions of data available. Iknow I haven't even touched the surface of what you can do.

If anything else it's a lot of fun. See what your relatives houses are worth.

Well I updated my Live Writer over the weekend and it has been improved. I was on 141 previously. The features I noticed initially were 

• The "temp" post to deteremine my settings in 141is now nonexistent. There isn't that annoying bogus post to try and delete.
• My Template settings are properly retrieved. This is a definite plus.

If you haven't updated your WLW, you need to get it. Iam still undecided. Will it be my blog editor of choice? I don't know I still like writely. It's non-Microsoft.

I have to admit Windows will always be Windows. Some things will continue long after you and I are dead. I know it's beta. I thought I would give WLW a try since I am still a little displeased with Google's Writely. I would just love  Writely if it would post my Title correctly. It doesn't even post, at all!

I digress. WLW does have that nifty emoticon working nicely. So I will give Pres. Bill that one . This will be my first post so I hope all is copacetic. I haven't setup my Flickr account yet so I will have to test that feature at a later date. If you haven't given WLW a chance head here. Don't forget you need to have the .NET framework to use it.

Writely Title Workaround

Well I have to admit I am a little frustrated about the writely title bug. When you post from Writely it doesn't put the title of your document in the title of the post. At least with Blogger it doesn't. I searched and googled but couldn't find a hack or anything.

Well this is what I have come up with.

1. Log in to blogger and check your template settings. You are looking for the "title" color setting. (color:#ad9 for me)
   
2. You put your title in your Writely doc. on the first line
3. Change the Font size to approximate the setting at Blogger (14pt and BOLD for me)
   
4. Write your post and before you post go into the HTML editor tab and go change your "title" color setting
   

Well this is cool. I guess I have been out of things for awhile. This whole idea of moving desktop apps to the web is impressive. This is my first actual document written with Writely . It seems the Google guys never stop raising the bar.

If you are in the dark like I was, here's the lowdown. Writely is a word processor in a browser. It has tons of cool features like collaboration, publishing, and of course blogging features.

This is really the stuff you need to get it. You've got a gmail account right?! That's all you need and you can log in. Write some doc's and save to your hard drive or post, it has it all.

Well a friend at work showed me this article yesterday.

You with your technical savvy perform surgery on your keyboard to implant an RF receiver. Then you have a the transmitter in your wallet or where ever and as you pass it within 2 ft. of the keyboard....
Whalla! You gain access.
You are so cool!
I guess there is some software that you would need to install. The theory being as you have left your computer, or any time you would need to logon this (RF setup) would become your logon.

Heck you could even get the RF thing implanted in your hand.

That might be a little extreme however.
computer life

Hey I found a cool website the other day.
http://www.lifehacker.com
I really like this blog. I think its a blog. Anyway check it out!