http://digitalanalog.net Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:51:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got my new iPhone 3G yesterday. I just found out about the wordpress application, so I figured I'd give it a try. Here is a picture from outside my window: http://digitalanalog.net/2008/07/23/the-new-iphone-is-here/ I'll follow the crowd here as well... Thanks for the fun app Johnathan! http://digitalanalog.net/2008/06/28/the-resume-as-tag-cloud-meme/ The IBM GLBT group (Eagle at IBM) had our first event in the new dedicated Second Life space. It was a great time seeing some new people turn up, and exploring all of ThomThom's creative building. We had some conversation in the clubhouse lobby: Then we did a little dancing at ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/06/20/ibm-glbt-event-in-second-life/ Thanks to Andy and Suz for blogging (and blogging) about the 50 Ways To Leave Your Bookmark article that we co-wrote for developerWorks. Andy's got a great description of the premise, so I'll lift his shamelessly :) A little while ago my colleague Frank Jania posted a crazy thought on his internal ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/04/10/50-ways-to-leave-your-bookmark/ collision detection: Why solitary workers can be faster workers From the article: "For years, I've worked in isolation -- either sitting alone in my office, or, recently, sitting in a rented cubicle in New York. I haven't had a job that required me to work physically alongside coworkers since 1998. And maybe that's ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/27/why-solitary-workers-can-be-faster-workers/ I've made the cut. Along with unsubscribing to a shockingly large number of newsletters in my personal email account, I've canceled both my MySpace and Friendster accounts. I've had them for some number of years and they've lied fallow in comparison to my activity on Facebook. I have some friends that are primarily active ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/25/done-with-myspacefriendster/ "Sort of" is the new "like".Listen for it. http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/17/sort-of/ downloadsquad has a post about enabling the firefox spellchecker to work in regular text fields, not just textareas...How to eliminate speling mistkes in Firefox text boxes - Download SquadSweet. http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/10/spell-checking-text-fields-in-firefox/ Neat-o Torpedo! Google docs now lets you put a form in front of a spreadsheet if you just want to use it to collect data...Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information"We're really excited to bring you forms! Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/02/28/google-docs-now-with-forms/ Hmm.. how about this. This is an social app that allows people to record themselves as "sick" with various degrees of granularity: From the site: Who Is Sick was started in 2006 with a mission to provide current and local sickness information to the public - without the hassle of dealing with ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/02/12/a-social-sickness/