Procrastination

I have learned some very important things while writing my assignments.

*grin* Yay for wikipedia!

1. Apparently you are officially considered "tall" by the U.S government if you're 5'10'' or 178cm and over. Which makes me taller than 99% of American women.... creepy

2. Sadly, Brigitte Nielsen and Flava Flav did not live happily ever after together :(

3. You need to have at least 6/12 vision unaided to join the police.

:D

Mashups revisited

The mashups that I found through blogger seemed fun and have been added to my list of things to do when procrastinating :D but I hadn't really seen any really useful purpose behind them.

So, while I was wasting time online taking a micropause from my two assignments I came across these nifty and useful mashups:
Google maps + Craig's List = http://www.housingmaps.com/
Google maps + Chicago PD crime database = http://www.chicagocrime.org/

Well.. useful to people in the States. But a New Zealand equivalent would be great. I am beyond abysmal at remembering where the different suburbs are in Auckland and something similar would be invaluable in helping me find that perfect westie bogan flat of my dreams...

Visitor Counter!

Linked from the lovely Wunderkammer's blog: A way to track the visitors to your blog. http://my.statcounter.com/

Positive reinforcement when there are no comments! Either that or horribly black and white statistical proof of your loneliness....

Week #3

I've been kind of avoiding delving into Flickr. In part because I object to the lack of an 'e' in the name, but mainly because, no actually, that is the only reason. It's so annoying!

Ahem. But yes. Flickr. I was a little confused when Yahoo Photos emailed (we're close personal friends) to say that they were focusing on their other photo hosting site, Flickr. Yeaaah, I hadn't realised they'd bought Flickr. But I followed their instructions to transfer my Yahoo Photos to Flickr, and found out I didn't have any. Which would be why I haven't really investigated Flickr yet. I have photos from my trip to Boston two months ago that I still haven't uploaded from my camera...

But I took the Magical Feature Tour and I liked how they addressed privacy concerns and the nifty map feature. Even if it is called Organizr. I made the mistake of trying to upload all 50 photos at once though, so my impressions of how fast/easy it is to add photos are a little distorted. I'm sure it's normally a lot faster...

I want to get one of these for the library!

Oh yeah, Library School ftw! *points proudly to the little image description on the photo* l33t html haxx0r skillz! Unfortunately my l33t haxx0r skillz do not extend to mashups. I like that they're possible. Lovely lateral thinking and all that. And you have to love a programme that says 'Digitising your wisdom Great One.. please wait'. But, and I hate to say it, but wow they can take up a lot of time. It was the pain of choosing my blog template all over again: faaaar too many possibilities. So I punked out and used the lolcat mashup. There can never be enough lolcats in this world! :D

I'm beginning to think I should have made this three separate posts, but I've already edited this far too many times, so on to the technology! RSS is my favourite toy at the moment, but that's one of the later topics so I shall write about an old and dear friend: World of Warcraft. I never get the acronym right (and generally end up mumbling something along the lines of 'morpork'), but it's a MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game). Basically, 9 million people run amok in a magical world with sparkly effects and AWESOME powers. You can even have a very profitable (albeit illegal) day job selling in-game gold for real money online... And according to Wikipedia there's going to be a WoW movie released in 2009. Squee!

Er, that wasn't very technology-focused. Hmmm. Well. They're also hopping on the 2.0 bandwagon with the introduction of in-game voice chat. No longer will you have to use skype/yahoo/vent to talk to your fellow gamers, oh no, now you can do that all through WoW. You will never have to leave the game. Oh they're sly. So very sly. I heart them so.