Eric Richards - snap snap!

Hmm. Well, the quality typically isn't all that great anyway. Again, the information overload problem is that none of this offline, queued viewing is all that easy. You almost need to be able to quickly call up a magic cursor, click on something, and have it go into a queue of stuff to download for you later, ensure it's converted as needed, and shows up within all the connected (wired and wireless) devices you have. 

Download YouTube videos for your portable device - Lifehacker

There's a particular T-Shirt I'm looking for. Not here, but there are some awesome ones: Link to Threadless T-Shirts - The full catalog of Awesome T-shirts .

The bad thing about super-awesome t-shirts: I'm not sure I'd actually wear some of those that I really like. Like the "meat is murder" shirt. Love it. But I doubt I'd wear it out... unless I guess it was to a BBQ.

So, I decide I want to write a blurb to rag on Microsoft, hmm, the hankering is pretty hard, hmm, how about this: Turntables, picture frames outselling Zune at Amazon.com - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): .

That's pretty bogus. I don't understand what the editor is thinking to let something like that through. I'm sure toilet paper is outselling Zune at Fred Meyer, too. Can I get that published as a follow-up? The expectations of immediate success and the desire to take Microsoft down a notch needs to be a thing of the past, especially for journos.

This is more of a reminder for myself so that I can recycle an old Entertainment Weekly, which gave Nellie McKay - (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) an A- for her current self-released CD "Pretty Little Head").

(Oy! I've got to set a new theme for this Space.)

An interesting post I need to read in more depth late: Presentation Zen: From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting?

Go right-brainers!

Listen to an NPR interview with Edward Tufte: NPR : Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence'.

If you have a chance, go see Edward Tufte in person.

The amazing thing is that a lot of the problems we solve today have been solved in some way long ago, typically using free-hand approach and we limit ourselves by the tools we use today (graphical editors, Power Point). Re-learn how it was done right long ago.

I do wish that he could move on from the Space Shuttle Disaster discussion.

Free as in Beer: WPF'd beer: Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 – Learning Portal for Developers - and more.

I'm excited about doing some prototyping in WPF - maybe managed to begin with but eventually focusing more on the native side of the house.

 I created a quick collection of pushpins for points around where I lived in Hawaii on Schofield Barracks. I had started to do this with Google Earth and did a quick check with Windows Local Live and Local Live has much much better photos, along with knowing that Morris Road actually exists. The only disappointment is that the olympic-sized pool is drained in the Local Live version vs. the Google version.

The collection and contents:

My Live Local Schofield Barracks, Hawaii collection

Home - 505 Morris Road
Eric's house in Hawaii, in Schofield Barracks, from 1972 to 1976.

School - Hale Kula Elementary
Eric's 2nd - 6th grade school.

Stoneman Field

The Gulch
Many misadventures happened in The Gulch. A great place to play around as a kid.

Movie Theater
I can't even count the number of movies I saw here. No doubt the reason I'm a movie buff.

Officer's Club
I learned to swim here. I also learned the joys of Sunday Brunch.

Olympic Sized Pool (drained?)
The big pool on base. I has a super-tall diving platform. I only ever went up it once, and then just to the half platform.

Toyland
I'm pretty sure this was the location of Toyland, a very important landmark for a kid on base.

Hellhouse (R.I.P.)
Now gone. This was a square building with an open side and three sides of bleachers, covered by a metal roof. It was officially used for training discussions. Unofficially, it was quite the hang-out - like a really big club house.

The big daddy is the GPX resource: http://www.topografix.com/gpx_resources.asp - this is great because it helps filter down possible programs to just the ones that interop with GPX, making my life easier.

GPS TUNER is interesting. They have a 5 beta going on right now. It is very visually appealing. Like most apps that I've found, it requires creating your own map and setting it up for use with the program.

GPSDash 4 PocketPC is what I walked around today with until it hit the limit for data collection. I'll have it try loading a local map up and see how it does drawing the trail on the map...

Damn, now I'm trying to track down a different program that had an interesting "dark" feature where it turned off the screen and continued to collect data from the GPS.

 BackCountry Navigator - Main seems to be highly regarded.

So, ideally, I should be supporting using Word 2007 for blogging because people I know and like are working on that feature.

Okay, Word is a great authoring environment. No beating Word for having the best writing environment, especially with spellchecking and grammar checking and the new... blue... underline keep me from embarassing english mistakes checking feature. Contextual checking? Anyway, the blue squiggly makes me wiggly with excitement.

Back to Live Writer.

Tonight, I did a little test: I dragged a website address from the address well into Live Writer's surface. One of two things could happen:

1. The hyperlink could go in with the full ugly hyperlink (http://www.ericri.com/eric/sure/is/good/looking.html for instance).
2. The title of the URL could go in as part of the hyperlink (I think too much of myself).

FrontPage does #2. Word does #1. I like #2.

I dropped in the "web shortcut" into Live Writer.

Ta-da! #2 is the winner!

That, and the fact that "Blog This" is integrated to consume what you have highlighted was one me over even more to the Live Writer side. I'm even reading the SDK now. Looks like DHTML Taggy is bound to be a plug-in...