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Sunday, July 31, 2005

New Comment Form!

If you use Blogger or have ever commented on someones Blogger blog, you have seen the standard comment form. Boring! Thanks to Jasper over at http://browservulsel.blogspot.com/
you to can have a comment form that does not leave your site! I could give you the code needed but Jasper has done a great job presenting the code on his site.
Just remember, post the code after </BlogItemComments> in your template. Then save changes and republish your blog. You will not be able to see the new comment form if you try to use preview to see it. Any questions just leave a comment on my new comment form and I will get back to you ASAP.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Summertime tip from ye ole uncle sanman294

Ah, summer is here! That means fun and sun! Hiking, fishing, swimming, camping and just doing yard work. If you are like me this also means you will get a itchy skin infection from poison ivy or poison oak. The blisters seam to spread as fast as you itch the infected area(s). You can either wait it out or go to the doctor and get some medicine to get rid of it. Or....Try this tip. Go to your local automotive parts store (i.e. Auto Zone, Advance Auto Parts or O'Reilly Auto Part) and buy a bottle or can of "Fast Orange". It is a degreaser, used to clean greasy hands. And the reason poison ivy and poison oak cause such a nasty skin infection is because you are allergic to the oil that these plants produce. To clean an oil off of anything you need a degreaser. Thus this is why "Fast Orange" works so well.
Soon after you think you have come in contact with either of these plants use "Fast Orange" to clean your skin. Particularly any exposed skin. Depending on the sensitivity of the area that might have been exposed to the plants, scrub the area as heavy or lightly as you would like. Because "Fast Orange" has pumic in it, it will feel gritty and uncomfortable to sensitive skin if you scrub to hard.
If you already have a skin infection from one of these plants it is not to late to try "Fast Orange". Apply it to the infected area and also scrub this area clean. Then rinse. Immediately the itching will stop! If it does not stop the itching repeat.
After the itching has stopped you will continue to have the bumps or blisters for a week or two. But they will only bother you because they are there, not because they are itching. "Fast Orange" can be bought as cheap as 99 cents, far cheaper than a trip to the doctor! So try this tip or pay an arm and a leg at the doctors, it is up to you!

Sunday, July 17, 2005

PBS Launches NerdTV

Pioneering Another Technology First, PBS Launches NerdTV, the First Downloadable Web-Exclusive Series From a Major Broadcaster
A Whole New Kind Of Television For Niche Audiences

Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely's interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology. NerdTV will be available for download from www.pbs.org/nerdtv .

Said Cringely, "NerdTV will have an uninterrupted hour with the smartest, funniest and sometimes nerdiest people in high tech. These are people who have changed our lives whether we know it or not. Through NerdTV a broad audience of enthusiasts and students will gain a much greater understanding of these techies and the context of their lives and work." Cringely is the author of the best-selling book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date.

Among the first NerdTV guests are PayPal co-founder Max Levchin; original Macintosh programmer Andy Hertzfeld; and Sun Microsystems co-founder and the father of Berkeley UNIX, Bill Joy. The premier program will include a two-minute feature called "What the heck is NerdTV?" The 13 one-hour shows will be made available on a weekly basis after the launch date and all previous episodes will continue to be available through the NerdTV Web site. NerdTV viewers are actually encouraged to download and copy the shows, share them with friends and even post them on their own Web sites - all legally.

Cindy Johanson, Senior Vice President, PBS Interactive Learning, said, "Over the past ten years, PBS and its member stations have led the way with some of the most innovative, meaningful multimedia experiences available. Bob Cringely's NerdTV illustrates our unwavering commitment to bring audiences clever, on-demand, participatory programming." She added, "This ground-breaking series will be distributed under a Creative Commons license, so if viewers like what they see, they can redistribute the shows or even edit their own non-commercial version. Further, NerdTV offers a cost-effective production model that may transform how programming is made in the future."

Viewers will be able to choose which content or format they download to their computer: MP4 video of the whole program, MP4 video of the "juicy" excerpt (for a more general audience wanting just a nugget) and MP4 video of the "nerdy" excerpt (for a more technical audience wanting just a nugget). In addition, a variety of audio-only formats will be available, including AAC, MP3 and ogg vorbis.

Cringely noted, "With more than half of American homes with Internet access now using broadband, computer video - especially downloaded computer video - has become a viable but still little-used option for TV distribution. The strength of this new medium can be found in how it serves niche audiences. This is where Internet distribution shines."
Read more about NerdTV and Internet distribution of video in Cringely's July 7, 2005 column, Pod Person: I, Cringely Changes, and Yet Remains the Same.



* copied and pasted from the http://www.pbs.org/nerdtv web page.