View from the Potting Shed

Two colleagues from work told me about this today: Wordle.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
There are three ways to create the word cloud:

Paste in a bunch of text
Enter the URL of any blog, […]

I came across this the other day, it’s the phrase “do not touch” written in Braille.
I thought someone might find it useful.

Charting my hair loss on 12seconds.tv
Someone was teasing me today about my hair loss. But you know, there is absolutely nothing that I can do about it — it’s not that I didn’t study hard at school! — so I don’t really worry about it, to be honest.
Sure, there are some days when I […]

What a tremendous error message I received the other day while trying to synchronize Outlook with my O2 Xda Orbit (running Windows Mobile 6). In the status column opposite the Notes icon I got the message: Attention required.
Above it, against my profile (Home) written in red the same message: Attention required. But this […]

I’m filing photos just now and came across this one, taken on our little FujiFilm A920 camera, of how the University of St Andrews website renders on the new 3G Apple iPhone.

My first 12second update on 12seconds.tv
Hoorah! Yesterday 12seconds send me an invitation to join their closed alpha of their new video status update website.
As the name suggests you have 12 seconds to record your video update.
This is my first post, using the Logitech “50s movie reel” effect built-into QuickCam. Very retro.
Not sure why I said […]

Since I posted our presentation on Mind Mapping for effective content management on Slideshare yesterday I woke to discover that

“IWMW 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland” was the first “Spotlight” on our presentation sharing service of choice,
and more remarkably that

Our presentation was being featured as “Slideshow of the Day” on the homepage!

There have a few more developments resulting […]