I glanced at M’s blog today and noticed a couple of photos from almost a year ago when we were down in NZ over Christmas 2006.

HDR photo of Mt. Taranaki/Egmont from the bottom.

Mt. Taranaki/Egmont from the top the next day.

I like this visual explanation of joining in SQL.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000976.html

Grab any window in Firefox into a PNG.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

Tips for screen shots for the mac:

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/secretcapture.html

Still haven’t got a really good workflow for adding screenshots to a blog or to the web.

Quite looking forward to getting a beta invitation for Plasq’s Skitch which might well integrate properly with Flickr and give me access to Flickr’s pre-scaled versions of images for embedding.

http://plasq.com/skitch

Thinking more about this, I just want to be able to round-trip all my images of any type through Flickr and then link to them from any application. Basically, everything that handles images should handle upload/download to/from Flickr so that I don’t have to store things on my HDD anymore.

Usecase: screencap to Flick (Skitch, I think, will handle this) and then blog small version of image from Flickr (MarsEdit).

Give it a few seconds to warm up, these guys do some amazing stuff.

I liked this story about John Glaser doing strange, unusual and interesting things to whisky. It seems like the four distilleries I’ve visited do exactly the same thing over and over for years and that the only real changes have been replacing humans with computers and machinery.

I’d like to try some of this guy’s whisky and find out what it is like.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/10/compassbox

This guy makes beautiful objects.

http://www.atwoodknives.com/

He has a blog.

http://atwoodknives.blogspot.com/

Man… he makes nice stuff.

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtwoodKnives

Speaking of blogging tools, is there anything out there that uses the web to make blogging easier and faster?

In the last post I wrote about Mars Edit, Ranchero Software, Red Sweater Software and it would be quite cool if I could highlight each of those and have the software go off to the web looking for likely URLs to wrap around them as links.

Please, use the Internet to make blogging faster, thanks.

Mars Edit is a desktop app for blogging to pretty much any blog engine. I’ve used it for a while but it hasnt had a proper update for a while. Red Sweater Software bought it from Ranchero (of NetNewsWire fame) a while back and they’ve finally kicked out v2.0.

The image handling is much improved, hence the cat… now, I wonder if it will improve my blogging output?

Fingers crossed, this might actually become a living site again, who knows?

Is there anyone listening? Let me know: tim.harding@gmail.com

Cat blogging for fun and profit…