24 August 2005

Interesting (?) timeline feature "where you can walk through your map in the order that your photos were taken." : http://www.smugmug.com/hack/maps-overview . Discussed at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/08/smugmug_maps_go.html

"In our practices words and the choice of words is very important, but there are times when we have all felt that if only we could just show the client what we mean, a break through could be made"...: http://www.sachinternational.com/library/higher_diploma_seminars/mark_ann_turnbull.htm

Google Maps API homepage : http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ . Online documentation : http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ . Joined http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?msg=subscribe to start development in this environment. Good tutorial http://blog.kylemulka.com/?p=287 from one of the leading hacks.

Pay Per Call Progress Report : http://www.pandia.com/sw-2005/46-ingenio.html , and new announcement : http://www.netimperative.com/2005/08/18/Miva_pay_per_call Billed as an alternative to traditional pay-per-click search advertising, the pay-per-call service allows advertisers to create ads and distribute them across the network of partner websites.

Newest anti-Adware program : http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?ref=afl_infopackets as well as free virus scanners, and some can even be run online; Trend Micro's Housecall (will scan your computer for viruses and spyware directly from the web(, andPanda ActiveScan (scans, disinfects and eliminates over 90,000 viruses, worms and trojans). From http://www.askbobrankin.com/free_virus_scan.html

(from http://www.illumine.co.uk/hints-quotations.htm) :
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." - Albert Einstein
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock
"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows." - Epictetus (c.55 - c.135)
"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain." - Edward De Bono
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever." - Lance Armstrong, 6 time Winner of Tour De France
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Goethe
"A wonderful harmony arises from joining together the seemingly unconnected." - Heraclitus c.500 BC
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
"Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief." - Arthur Koestler
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." - Aristotle
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde on Creativity
"The basis of creativity has always been a new connection. To make connections would take hours using words. Your subconscious has to use pictures." - William JJ Gordon
"Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers." - Gilbert Ryle
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in 2 small jumps." - David Lloyd George
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D Roosevelt

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