well, the flickr4writer project had it's first community contribution (thanks simon). a new minor release was updated today that incorporates one small bug fix and one feature change (ability to select multiple images).
release: Flickr4Writer v1.2.7.0516
i remembered watching the super-bowl via esp.com and even mentioned my experience in a previous post. well, tonight espn proves to be a winner for me again. while watching the dbacks and randy johnson stomp on colorado, i moved to espn.com and their gamecast view...it is incredible. i didn't have a tv nearby, so i have no idea how out-of-sync it was, but the play-by-play visuals were great, down to the diamond being the shape of the field where they are playing...here's a shot:
when a ball is hit, they even have an animated baseball going in the direction of the play and everything...well done crew, well done. i know where i'll be peripherally watching from now on...espn.com gamecast!
people are saying guy kawasaki is behind this latest truemors.com site. while i'm starting to see less value in twitter, when i opened up truemors i shook my head. it certainly looks/acts/feels like a twitter-ish type application...and the content surely has parity with twitter posts...here's a sample of some of the "rumors" posted:
i'm leaning toward the last one...i just don't get it -- another place for everyone to post a random, meaningless, post of nonsense?
ugh.
or at least that is what i think is happening ;-)
check out silverlight from a flash developer perspective and some early findings...no IDE/tools used outside of a text editor and a very simple "game" is born...
http://seeing-is-believing.blogspot.com/2007/05/sileverlight-demo-with-source-code.html
humor:
entertainment: