Walken 2008 - Official Website

Is this for real?

www.youtube.com/videos/personman

YouTube.com is to video as flickr.com is to photo. I signed up for a free account and uploaded a couple of home movies of Emma. So far I really like it. The videos were available online just minutes after I uploaded them. I tried OurMedia.org a few months ago and some of the videos I uploaded never showed up on the site. The others took days to show up and be available for download. But YouTube seems better. And it has tagging and some of the other social networking features like Flickr has. This could be a solution for a video podcat, too. Check out the my videos, subscribe to the feed if you like, and if you get your own account and upload some videos then let me know so I can add you as a friend.

Now that it's been announced at b2evolution.net, I'll mention it here, too: The Brendoman.com webspace is now hosting plugins.b2evolution.net. The developers wanted to start some new subsites and have them maintained by community members. I volunteered to host the plugin repository and they took me up on the offer. Steven Cherry is helping me maintain the site. We've only got a few plugins and hacks listed so far, but I know there are more to find in the forums, and there should be a lot more created once the brand new version of b2evolution comes out within the next month. It's going to be much more extensible.

We did upgrade our web space to make sure we have plenty of space for our every-growing family of sites. Brendoman.com is an ad-free site and I hope to keep the plugin site ad-free as well. If you want to contribute to our web-hosting fund, then click on the Paypal link at Brendoman.com.

I'm thinking of reading a book by sci-fi author Stephen Baxter. Can anyone recommend a good book to start with? He has done several series, but I have no idea which would be good introduction.

On Saturday we went to Doug and Marilyn's wedding. It was a classy affair and we had a great time seeing friends from Truman. All of us agreed that these two make a great match. Congratulations, guys!

The rest of the vaction photos are up.

Etch-A-Sketch Technical Support

This is Jared, creator of Bunkface.com, a very funny website. He has a blog that he handcodes, so it doesn't have an RSS feed. (RSS: What it is and why you need it.) If I can't check a site for updates through an RSS feed, then I have a hard time remembering to check for updates. So, I created a php script that scrapes his site and creates an RSS feed. Subscribe to this link in Bloglines and you'll get all of the Bunkface.com updates as soon as they're posted.

The new evoskin that I mentioned earlier has been published to the b2evolution.net skin repository. You can take a look here or download here.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Anticlimactic Twilight Zone Episodes.

Where Is Everybody?

A man emerges from his office to find the hallways mysteriously devoid of co-workers. He wanders the silent, empty building looking for signs of life but finds no trace of humanity other than coffee brewing, purses slung over chairs, and folders lying open on desks. Suddenly, he remembers a mandatory meeting in the first-floor conference room.