This thing is WAY moved...

Yeah it moved a long time ago. All posts have been transferred to my NEW Wordpress-powered blog hosted on my own webspace. Go there now:

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Opera 9.5 alpha Tomorrow

Everyone's getting excited about the upcoming release of Opera 9.5 alpha (codename Kestrel) tomorrow. Well, at least I am. I came across this video and I wanted to mirror it here. It highlights a few of the great new features in Opera 9.5. I'm especially interested in the bookmark integration with My Opera. Supposedly Firefox can do this (with an extension or out of the box, I'm not sure) but as an Opera user I'm glad it's finally made its way to Opera 9.5. Enjoy the video, and Happy Opera 9.5 day tomorrow!

Pella Trip

Just got back from my most recent trip to Pella, IA last night. Here are two slideshows of the photos I took.

Tumblr Activity, Remixed Feed

There's been a lot of activity going on at my tumblelog graciously provided by Tumblr (benhinc.tumblr.com). My tumblelog posts really don't feed anywhere but Jaiku (which I don't use). I typically try to post a Pownce link about them so at least someone knows they're there. Pownce feeds to Twitter so whatever you check you'll find out.

All of the above are also fed into the sidebar of this very blog. And of course all of the have RSS feeds that you can subscribe to.

I have also "mixed" my Blogger blog using RSS Mixer. The standard feed is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/bhinc

The mixed page is:

http://www.rssmixer.com/bens_journal

There you can do a variety of things, such as download an Apple widget of the blog, put it on your own webpage, or view it easily on an iPhone.

Enjoy!

Having fun with nanoblogging

This post ties me with my second-highest number of posts in any given month so far this year (4) but it's not just for record-setting purposes.

I love nanoblogging and all of its forms. It's great to be able to shoot off a thought on Pownce or Twitter (or both). Even Tumblr has its place for more advanced thoughts, especially those that include an image or quote. Plus, Tumblr gets all of the tweets which includes all of the pownces. What a party!

So many of my non-tech friends ask me: why? Who reads the crap you write? The honest answer is this: I don't care. I write nanoblog and microblog and macroblog posts for my own edification. Sometimes it's helpful to work out a thought in words. Sometimes I just need to clear my head. Either way, it's healthy and hey, maybe along the way the things I've learned might help someone else. Considering that I'm a teacher by training but a banker in practice, this at least gives me the opportunity to educate.

Angel on the Bed

Slideshow

Just realized you can now embed Picasa albums as slideshows. How cool.