All Graphic Design has posted a funny picture of Google if it were designed with the font, ComicSans. The funny aspect of this is the actual search terms combined with the results. The search terms “comic sans sucks” brings up a number of search results, including a spoof from Google.com themselves. Comic Sans is not the best looking font, and it’s pretty apparent that it has it’s own hate club.
Nominations for the Open Web Awards have opened up today. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. Today’s nominations center around Widgets and Applications.
To nominate a widget or application, leave a comment with the word “NOMINATE” in it. Nominations will remain open until 11:59pm PST on December 4th (next Tuesday). At that point, we will tally up the nominations and enter the second stage of the competition – voting.
Nominations are taking place at THIS POST on Mashable.com. I ended up nominating Cliqin and their associated widget. Other than the MyBlogLog widget, I can’t have much of a say in terms of nominating other widgets or applications because I don’t use them!
I don’t know what it is that makes me such a big fan of forest photography or forests in general. Every time I see a photo taken from within a forest, it makes me wonder what lies beyond the horizon. If the photo is a pathway, I wonder where that path leads. Occasionally, I come across photos of giant Redwoods that are shrouded in fog with the bases of these massive trees surrounded by the deep green colors of ferns. These are the types of photos that really make me wish I was their at that exact moment, to experience that moment for myself.
Unfortunately, due to finances and other obligations, I don’t have the option of traveling that much. However, one of my lifelong goals is to visit Redwood National forest in California so I can see for myself just how big those trees really are. At any rate, since I can’t travel to the forests of the world, my next option is to turn my desktop into a forest via Wallpaper Images.
Some of the best forest photography that I have ever seen comes from DeviantART. DeviantART is the world’s largest collection of talent that I have ever seen. They have so many categories for creative artists, it’s unbelievable. Here are 10 of my favorite images depicting forests. If you have a favorite, please post a link within the comment section.
A Redwood Stream by ~serendipity2 on deviantART
Redwood Forest by ~runescapeandmaple on deviantARTART
immobilization by *werol on deviantART
Stairway to…? by ~jendonoghue on deviantART
Emerald Myst by `aquapell on deviantART
The Battle Of Evermore by `aquapell on deviantART
Goblin’s Hollow by `aquapell on deviantART
sonnentor by *ssilence on deviantART
Redwood Rays by *Timberwolf4u on deviantART
This episode of TechSoup covers HellishHolidays, a site that showcases some of the worst moments during the holiday. TripIt, a travel planning website. Facebook removing the word “IS” from the status updates and finally, a plug for Chris Brogans new video blog called AttentionUpgrade. Chris Brogan is one hell of a brand. Just about anything this guy does, people love.
Here is a recent video clip highlighting the new World Of Warcraft commercial featuring Mr. T. You know, that guy who was part of the A-Team and Hulk Hogan’s tag team partner way back when. At any rate, I thought this was hilarious.
Night Elf Mohawk!
The holidays are fast approaching and it would only be appropriate to spruce up your blog or website with some colorful holiday icons. Dezignus.com has released a Holiday Icon pack in (eps) format which contains everything from candles to party hats.
If your looking for Christmas specific icons, then you should enjoy another icon pack released by Dezignus called X-Mas icon2, also in (esp) format. Some of the icons featured in this set include a Christmas tree, snowman and a snowglobe.
Last but not least, Xmas Icon Pack 1 (esp) format. This is more of your typical icon pack with various trees, candy canes and the infamous gingerbread man.
Dave Gray of the Roosters Rail blog, sent me an email over the weekend letting me know of a site that was giving out Camtasia Studio 3 for free. Camtasia Studio is an excellent piece of screen capture software created by TechSmith, developers of the popular program SnagIt. Following the directions of the following blog post it appears as though everything is legit. I currently have a fully functional copy of the software on my machine. Another perk worth mentioning is that, when you install Camtasia Studio 3, you can then upgrade to version 5 for half the cost. Not a bad deal when you consider, version 5 costs $300.00 per copy.
Here is a blog I came across the other day. It features pictures of PassiveAggressiveNotes. For example, if you have ever lived with roommates, there has probably been a time when you have had to leave a post-it note somewhere, letting your room mates know how frustrated or annoying they are. Actually, I think the best way to explain the content on this site is to show some examples.
Hopefully, you get the picture. Something that I noticed right off the bat is how many comments these pictures receive. We’re talking over a hundred comments for most of these images. Apparently, people love to try and figure out the meaning and purpose behind the note. At any rate, I thought it was an interesting site that was worthy of sharing.
First off, how was your Thanksgiving? Mine turned out great if you take out the dangerous driving conditions that developed. Some lake effect snow formed over Lake Erie and as I was traveling through the snow belt on the turnpike, things became dicey at times but I managed to bring everyone home including myself, in one piece.
As for the blog. Sorry I haven’t been doing my regular rounds of postings. This holiday week has screwed me up in terms of getting things done. I am hoping that starting Monday, I can get back on track and start delivering the content you guys want. However, I did manage to get one thing done, that being the forum.
As mentioned in a previous post, I have made the switch from PHPBB to VBulletin forum software. VBulletin in my eyes, is worth every dollar. It’s a powerhouse of forum software that I hope you guys will enjoy as much as I will. At any rate, I managed to find a somewhat related forum theme that looked good called RedandBlack developed by GFXStyles.com. I’ve also installed a few plugins such as the Top 5 Stats plugin which highlights Top Statistical areas of the forum near the top to help keep us all abreast as to what’s happening on the forum. I’ve also installed a GIVE THANKS plugin. If you have any forum experience what so ever, you’ll know that people make forum posts all the time that only contain the text THANKS or THANK YOU. Instead of creating a post or replying with a thank you, you can click the 
button which will thank the user for you. This will help keep the forum posts on topic and should aid in keeping the discussion clean.
Other features of this forum include the Subscription options. As a registered member of Forum2pt0, you’ll have the ability to subscribe via email in a multitude of ways. For instance, you can subscribe to a particular post, to a particular thread, to a particular forum topic, or to the entire forum. Alternatively, if you want to subscribe to the entire forum via RSS to keep tabs on new posts, click on the following link and add it to your FeedReader.
I’m also working on installing a mod that let’s you add your own blog’s RSS feed as a part of your profile. This will display a link to your last blog post that is shown to the public on every post you make. If I can successfully install this mod, I’ll be sure to remove the “NoFollow” attribute.
The forum currently covers the broad topics of Blogging, Technology, Jeffro2pt0.com and general Chit Chat.
Over time, I’ll be adding bits and pieces to the forum such as an arcade. What’s a forum without an arcade? Overall, the browsing and posting user experience on this forum is leaps ahead of my previous PHPBB forum. I hope you’ll agree as you check out Forum2pt0 – A Forum About Stuff and register your own account. Be sure to stop by the Feedback Section of the forums and let me know what you think.
Attenda Limited (www.attenda.net), the Always On Managed Services Company, today announced that it has signed a new 3 year contract to host and manage Miomi.com.
Recently named as one of Microsoft’s five UK tech companies to watch in 2008 and heralded as the UK’s answer to Skype and YouTube, Miomi.com has the ambition to democratise time and history by capturing the entire
world’s memories online.
Miomi is a new website that offers a completely new way of viewing and sharing content on the Internet by enabling users to browse through time and make a personal mark on history. Miomi is unique in that it allows people to make history by uploading details of their lives (including photos, videos, audio) as ‘moments’ which they can then link into timelines to tell a story. Featuring content from Microsoft Encarta(c), Wikipedia and multiple news sources, it provides historical and contemporary content that allows users to see their whole life in ‘real world’ context against a global backdrop of world events.
Attenda is implementing and managing the infrastructure to support Miomi’s business critical website applications. The solution is based upon Microsoft technologies with an architecture designed to rapidly scale and flex, in the future, as site usage increases.
Already named one of the UK’s top 25 Web 2.0 startups, Miomi is funded by Brightstation Ventures and is now heralded as the UK’s answer to Skype and YouTube.
Commenting on the contract with Attenda, Jonny Crowe, CEO, Miomi says,
“Our business has been founded on innovation and is set to grow rapidly, so we needed a partner that could support us as we grow.” He continues, “We chose Attenda as our strategic partner for their reputation as a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, with an impressive client list and proven ability to deliver highly available, highly secure web applications managed services against a business-led service level agreement.”
Thoughts and Insanity From Jeff 