What I found interesting from O’Reilly Radar in the last couple weeks… How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything: Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic writes a great article about how Google is using “Ground Truth” data to improve it’s maps. The maps we used to keep folded in our… Continue Reading muraPOI: November 1, 2012
I recently sent this note to a relative, I thought it might be useful to share this here. Now is the perfect time to consider dropping physical media (Blu-Ray or DVD) for movies.< You’re probably at the perfect point to ditch physical media. You can get high quality streams right now. In a lot of… Continue Reading Thoughts on Going Digital Downloads/Streaming for Movies
(Let’s just pretend I published this yesterday, shall we?) In this case I don’t think arbitration is your friend. I encourage everyone to opt out of eBay and PayPal’s change in their terms of service. I doubt I’m ever going to need this, but just in case… From the Consumerist: Reminder: Write eBay By Nov.… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: Opt Out of eBay and PayPal Arbitration Clauses
I have two different Griffin iTrip FM Transmitters. The one I wrote about in, What station to use for iTrip in Boston?, is starting to fall apart, ironically the dock connector is breaking up. So, I’m switching to an older model. The “International Mode” trick that worked on the iTrip Auto (plugs into the now-obsolete… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: Griffin iTrip Transmitters, Setting International Mode
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Here’s what’s left of the VHS tapes I used to record TV shows in the 1990s and 2000s. A couple of the tapes probably date to the mid-1990s. This was an… Continue Reading Friday Flashback: VHS Tapes and TV Shows in the 90’s and 00’s
The first tip is how to Force YouTube embedded player video quality. Too bad the suggestions from this article on StackOverflow, “Force youtube embed to start in 720p” didn’t work in WordPress.org’s JetPack plugin shortcodes. But you can try: “&hd=1to the video URL. That forces the video to start in the highest resolution available for… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: YouTube Parameters
How To Build a Blog Readership: Why are you writing? Me, for #muraPOI posts it’s as much for others to read as for me to remember these topics, call it a bookmark list on steroids. Dan Shipper writes: “Good writing has the essence of its author in every sentence.” I try and include my personality… Continue Reading muraPOI: October 9, 2012
It’s Not About You: The Truth About Social Media Marketing: Awesome article by Tim O’Reilly. It was difficult for me to pull out quotes from Tim’s article, there’s so much goodness there. I encourage everyone to read the full thing. TL:DR; In short, the secret of promotion in the age of social media isn’t to… Continue Reading muraPOI: October 8, 2012
When updating the addons for World of Warcraft, I was presented an ad for Nordstrom’s. I don’t think the audience that plays Warcraft is really their target audience. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah: I haven’t said anything about my experiences with Udacity’s Stat 101 class this summer, but this sort of thing is exactly what I was hoping it would cover. Why is it that you only need 23 people to have better than 50-50 odds of two having the same birthday? (Hint:… Continue Reading muraPOI: October 5, 2012