Zooomr looks interesting… and since they are offering 2.5 GB free pro accounts to bloggers who try it out, I thought I would do just that.

I had a bit of trouble with login issues (I signed up awhile back) since they recently updated their login system, but it all seems to be working fine now. They don’t have a bulk uploader or iPhoto exporter yet, but once they do, I may just blast a thousand or more photos into the system. For now I just have a few photos I manipulated a bit. Uploading 10 at a time is not a lot of fun.

I definitely think Zooomr could compete with Flickr and the other photo sharing services out there. It’ll be interesting to see what features they implement in the future to set themselves apart.

I’m excited by the possibility of work with Drupal again. It’s been a few years since I really dug into it, and I l know it’s improved quite a bit since then.

Although I seem to be running almost half a dozen WordPress sites nowadays, and love it as a blogging platform, Drupal just seems to fix what this new project is, sort of an intranet/extranet combo site.

The module list seems about 10 times longer than the last time I looked at it. I tell ya, the power of open-source. ;)

If any Drupal hackers out there want to offer me any advice, please do…

I’ve been writing this blog for almost 10 9* years now, and before that I published magazines, and music, and other things, but it’s true what they say, and actual book, is still pretty neat.

A few years ago, I was asked to contribute to a technical book, but had to decline at the time due to prior commitments. Then last year, I wrote a whole bunch of stuff for a book about videoblogging that was supposed to be put out by that publisher that tends to show an animal on the cover. That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that the authors found another publisher, and got the book done, and some of my writing is in it.

So if you see the book Videoblogging published by Wiley (as part of their ExtremeTech series) take a look at the third page of the “About the Contributing Authors” section, and you will see my name. I still haven’t read the whole thing, but I’ve seen my writing on pages 312 and 327.

In the interest of disclosure, I will note that I do not make any money from the sale of this book. I still think you should buy it if you are interested in videoblogging though…

(* I meant to say 9, not 10, I can’t count…)

Look, I’ve worked with internal combustion, and I’ve worked with wankers, and let me tell you, when Dave says it ain’t worth arguing about, he is soooo wrong!

Yeah, a car is all about getting places right? No, it’s about getting there in style! It’s about being compliant when you get there, and having a good specification, and a validator. What good is your internal combustion car when it does not validate! It’s not even a valid car! Now a wanker, we all know about wankers. (If you don’t, read up on Wankers.) Wankers are a dream to deal with, just ask one of your friends in one of those countries that adds the letter U to words that don’t need it. (Maybe those Flickr folks know, but then again, they are missing an E, did thy evr notic tht?)

Anyway, if I had to describe RSS, and couldn’t describe it as ‘feeding whales apple pies’ I supposed it would say it’s “like information, only it keeps on coming at you, and the only way to stop it is to unsubscribe…”

CSS does not suck, but it can be a bit frustrating…

On a recent project, I started building a pure-CSS drop-down menu system. It worked… Sort of… In some browsers… Almost. In total, I probably spent two days reading, testing, tweaking, and reload and at the end I gave up, because as much as I love CSS, and wanted a pure-CSS solution to work for this particular project, I just couldn’t spend any more time on it. I ended up deleting the 50 or so extra lines of CSS the menu system needed, and went with the gMenu system, which uses a combination of CSS (yay!) and Javascript (ugh!) and works. Oh, it’s also open-source.

I’m still not 100% set on gMenu, so if you have another suggestion, please let me know. I would prefer a pure-CSS solution without Javascript, but I don’t think that will work. What do you use for drop-down menu systems?

Ok folks, if you are interested in BarCampMilwaukee, check out the wiki page: BarCampMilwaukee…

I’m hoping barcampmilwaukee.com shows up soon (and I’d be happy to host it) but for now, let’s get moving using the BarCamp resources we have available. Who’s with me? Justin? Jordan? Jeremy?

I found the paper edition of JobDig at the grocery store, and read it while waiting for an appointment, but lo and behold, there is also JobDig.com, and since I am still searching for a “Job that I Dig” checked it out…

I didn’t find anything that quite fit my skills or career goals, but I did stumble across the JobDig Podcast, which I thought was well done. Some of the podcast titles include: “Three Common Deadly Interview Mistakes” and “Exceptions for Exceptional Weirdos.”

So at least I’ve got some podcasts to listen to while I wait for all the offers to roll in… :)

It’s been a few months since I got the Buried songs online, and since then I got two songs from Patrick Hotlen, but never got to upload them due to Ourmedia problems. Well, they are finally up, and on the MilwHC Natural Cause page.

“Hell Bound” is one of my favorites, and “Death of a Miser” shows the musical abilities of Natural Cause at the time. I’m glad these are up now, as the whole idea behind the Milwaukee Hardcore project is to make our history available. Do you have something to contribute? Please do…

I’ve pretty much given up on the idea that this blog will help me get a job… (Unless someone wants to prove me wrong.)

I’ve also learned that looking for a job is a lot of work. You spend time on the job boards, and time writing (and re-writing) your resume, and talking to recruiters, and going to interviews, and you might even try a bit of networking, hoping you meet someone who might know someone who is hiring.

Anyway, I am a web geek for hire! I do open-source stuff, Perl, PHP, Apache, Linux, MySQL… Mac OS X, blogging, podcasting, videoblogging, wikis, Microformats, Sematic Web, XHTML/CSS, etc… And even though I’m a techie-nerd, I come from the publishing world with a graphic design background. I love the web. I want to help build it, and improve it, for a company I like and respect. Is that so much to ask for?

Do you know of something in the Milwaukee/Madison area, or something with a company that doesn’t care where I live? Let me know…

Hey, in the meantime, I’ll just be hopeful that PayMeToBlog.com takes off and pays me enough to live my extravagant lifestyle.

(P.S. I don’t do .NET or Java…)

I’ll be honest, when I made a post titled BarCampMilwaukee? I was hoping someone would notice. Well, someone has…

See this post by Justin Kruger titled BARcamp :: Why I like cheese even more than racing. Justin is involved in Fireseed and shot me an email which is right inline with my post. So while barcampmilwaukee.com does not seem to be online quite yet, it is registered and planning for the event is in motion.

This is awesome! I hope to be able to meet up with Justin and Bob to discuss this further.They always say Milwaukee is a “Great Place on a Great Lake” and I’m hoping we can prove this to be true when it comes to the web and technology as well.

When I know more, I’ll post it here.

Scoble (and others) ask, Do GPS’s work for you?

Well, I’ve got a Garmin eTrex and I use i mainly for hiking and biking, but occasionally also use it when driving (even though it is a handheld unit.)

So does it work? Yes… for what I currently use it for. Simple things. Mileage, speed, navigation, etc. The basics. Could it do more? Oh yes… Hopefully at some point, I’ll be able to attach the thing to my Mac to easily get data into and out of it. I can’t really do that yet, meaning I technically can get the data in and out, but it’s a pain. Garmin has never been to nice to the Mac platform, though that is (supposedly) changing.

I’ve been saying the geolocative services are just going to get bigger and bigger… and they are, but we really need the hardware folks to get on board with that, and give us the tools we need to make it happen.

Until then, I’ll be using about 25% of my GPS. Garmin, get on the ball, make me love what I can do with your product so I can blog about it all the time.

I really wanted to link to an article in the Business Journal, but the article I wanted to link to will be disappearing from the web soon:

It appears as though they don’t want to publish print pieces online for free. This may or may not make sense. It’s been going on for the last 5 (10?) years, and print publications still haven’t quite figured it out.

I’m not always a fan of Google, but they get some things right, and while I would have said that Google Video is not exactly right, what they do get right is linking to a specific point in a video.

As more and more time-based media comes online, we need better tools (and maybe even some standards?) for linking to it. I know that some work has been done in this area, but we really need to step it up so audio and video can eventually be on par with hypertext when we want to address it on the web.

Remember when I told you about the missing penguin?

Well, it’s been returned.

Three men, ages 19 and 20, from Milwaukee and the Town of Genesee, apparently took the 10-foot inflatable bird in June to give to a friend who likes penguins…

Yeah, and I bet their "friend" just happens to use Linux…

When we last mentioned NBC and YouTube, it was all about how YouTube had gotten a take-down notice from NBC, and how they were riding copyright infringement to success.

We the people of independent media were pleased. Some brash young company came on the scene, did video the wrong way, disregarded rights of the creators, and got slapped for it. Of course a slap usually doesn’t hurt very much, does it?

Today when I search for "nbc youtube" the first result is Boing Boing: NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday" and the second is NBC strikes deal with YouTube | CNET News.com. That’s how fast things change. In about six months NBC goes from almost suing YouTube to partnering with them. Obviously we have a new business plan to investigate…

But is it really new? It looks like the Napster thing, do something naughty, maybe even illegal, and when you get called on it, attempt to go legit. You’ve probably gained a ton of users, and name recognition, and as long as you’ve got the VC money and lawyers, you’re set.

Obviously I’m doing it all wrong. The rewards don’t go to honest companies/people, they go to the ones that play dirty and break laws. So who wants to start a new venture with me?