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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Superlative...Hmmm.

xkcd - A Webcomic - Superlative

Really gonna try to be at least a little more than the Least Interesting Man in the World.  If nothing else I have pretty specific tastes in beer, give me a Scottish Cask condition 90 shilling and I can drink that all day.  That is possibly slightly interesting. 
Beer Styles - The Bitter Family - News and Features - Ratebeer

Now, for geekier interests, if the XKCD comic isn't enough, I am presently rocking 3 of the 5 browsers on my computer at once.  Firefox, Flock, and Chromium.  I am running OS X and like to break up my work flow between different browsers and virtual desktops spaces.  So I have Choosy running in the background tossing different kinds of links off to different browsers.  I almost have things properly separated out so social sites and tools are only in Flock.  The links that I get from peoples tweets go straight to Chromium, since it has no addons and is very light weight to quickly open a site.  And, Firefox takes the bulk of the rest of my browsing.  Safari and Opera Unite are still finding their proper place in my work flow pantheon.  But the built in web server in Opera Unite looks mighty interesting.

More interesting things to come I am sure, BTW I do speak French...well at least I did in high school.  Au revoir.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

McAfee SiteAdvisor - Phishing Quiz

McAfee SiteAdvisor - Phishing Quiz
Can you tell a fake Web site from a real one? Do you always know which e-mails are legitimate?
Take the McAfee SiteAdvisor phishing quiz and get your safety grade!
This is a pretty tough quiz to see if you can tell the difference between official and scam websites. I got 8 out of 10 but it wasn't easy, especially since they remove the biggest useful clue, the URL, from half of the sites.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Autodesk Freewheel API - ProgrammableWeb Profile

Autodesk Freewheel API - ProgrammableWeb Profile:
"http://freewheel.autodesk.com/developers.aspx
Description From their site: Autodesk Freewheel is an Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) based web service/application built to provide CAD model viewing, printing and collaboration, through the dynamic rendering of DWF file data and graphics information. You can think of Freewheel as a set of componentized Web Services and JavaScript frameworks. Together these components make up the Interactive Ajax DWF Viewer."
This sounds great if it works easily and more importantly, with regards to AutoDesk programming, reliably. Way back in 1996 or so, my first real program was a AutoCAD drawing database that also provided a preview and printing functionality. When I later tried to make a simple Web interface around 2002 the constant AutoDesk drawing format changes kept mucking with the viewer. Hopefully with this API they will have put some forethought into how they plan to make it future-compatible as they inevitably change the drawing formats.

Definitely, something to keep an eye on and I may try and write a few little apps with it.