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We had a wonderful opportunity to cruise to Alaska last summer. It is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever visited. This is footage from the fourth of July, in Desolation Bay.

This site allows you to create the code necessary to embed a flickr slideshow in your blog. Enter a minimal amount of information and you can have a slideshow in no time.

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

Looks like a cool little Firefox add-on allowing you to blog to your account(s) while surfing with Firefox. Testing it now, as this post comes from its interface.

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With the advent of services like twitter, character limitations becomes a serious issue. Trying to post a link in your tweets with only 140 characters to spare demands creative solutions. Thanks to tinyurl, you can post the longest links and still get the point across. It provides a simple form to turn a link like this:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

into something more manageable like this:

http://tinyurl.com/6

So if you need to chop down on the server-generated links, drop on by tinyurl.

(Originally posted on blog here) Anyone who was alive in the seventies will hopefully appreciate this little tutorial. I remember airbrushing these type of effects a hundred years ago…in fact I still own several thousand dollars worth of airbrush equipment. One brush I bought for close to $700 weeks before an update to the Mac OS that made it a more viable solution for the type of work I was doing than the traditional way.

Anyhoo, the chrome effect can be a winner for certain types of projects. There are few steps and as always, once you get the hang of it there is really no end to how you can alter and customize per your vision.

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Clic!Dev has discovered way to create sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) without the need for Adobe’s Flash application. They show a snippet of the code and provide a link to SourceForge to download of the app. sIFR is a great way to enhance any site with quality fonts for headers and Clic!Dev has made it even easier and more affordable than ever.

Yahoo! is reporting scientists have found some dolphins in a river estuary in the SW portion of the emerald isle, appear to have developed their own brogue. Like so many things from my ancestral homeland, these creatures are truly unique.

I have recently started using v.2 of this great piece of software. Although it does not provide real-time analysis of data, it offers some significant enhancements to the functionality offered. A great new feature is the ability to not only email results and reports, but also to schedule these tasks. GA has been a solid piece of software since Google acquired it and they continue to expand its functionality.

The Preamble to The Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”

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There seem to be a glut of code/text editors for the Mac these days. From free options, like TextWrangler, to the latest release of Adobe’s DreamWeaver CS3, the options have never seemed as vast. One editor that I have begun to use almost exclusively is Macromate’s TextMate.

TextMate combines many of the great functions of the Unix underpinnings of the Mac OS with the simple GUI interface that does not obstruct your workflow. It interacts with a multitude of operations as well as provides an extensible architecture for 3rd party developers.

I use it to update several of my blog accounts through the use of blogmate. This allows me to work on code, troubleshoot operations and edit some of my editorial responsibilities all from within one app. I picked it up after the MacHeist viral scavenger hunt, and would recommend it to anyone who is looking to, as Thoreau said…simplify, simplify, simplify.