Zounds!

I just downloaded and installed Zoundry Raven as a method of posting to the blog. I ran into a couple of minor errors and bugs while installing... but a quick trip to their support forums cleared that up. So far so good.

Where is my flash drive?

I'm in the market for a USB-Flash drive again. It seems like each one I buy always has some downside and I don't figure it out until I try to use it. Some are too wide to fit next to another USB plug. Some connectors detach from the body very easily. Some have caps that get lost too easy...

My last perfect USB-Flash drive was a nice Sandisk 2GB Titanium Cruzer. It's missing.

So this time, I'm going to go even smaller than the last one and get a Corsair Flash Voyager Mini Flash Drive. Why? Well, it's a bit cheaper than the Sandisk, no cap to loose, and it doesn't have that awful U3 software installed in it (which I remove ASAP anyway).

So... we'll see how long this one lasts.

I have to learn more about Google Motion Charts

Last year Google acquired a company called Trendalyzer, and I'm sure that most of the programmers joined Google (because they have free M&M's). In the last few weeks Google seems to have implemented the Trendalyzer tool. Google renamed it the Motion Tool and has added it to Google Docs.

This Motion Tool, as you will see from this example spreadsheet and data, certainly gives MS Excel a run for its money. Can you imagine using this tool in a presentation, or helping your students visualize data that they might otherwise not quite 'get' from a static set of number?

Feed me!

As I continue my search to be the most effective infovore I can, I stumbled across an awesome way to keep track of content on websites you wish to monitor.

The cool thing is that is scrapes virtually any web page and converts it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed, which you can then subscribe to in your choice of feed reader.

The name of this cool thing is Feedity. This one is highly recommended!