Two Sitting Ducks

My Top Ten Links

I was reading Perth Wildcats’ CEO Nick Marvin’s blogpost where he has listed his top ten links/sites. What I was surprised about was how similar his list, or at least interests, were to mine. He also has my dream job, but that’s another story!

In any case, his list has inspired me to consider my own top ten links and sites, so let’s see how we go:

1. Google Reader – it’s how I stay up with everything on the net. I’d be lost without my RSS.
2. Twit.tv – Leo Laporte’s podcasts provide me with the majority of my entertainment during my daily long-winded commute to and from work. I particularly enjoy This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly and of course The Daily Giz Wiz!
3. Ozhoopsboards.com – Hardly a day goes by that I don’t visit this site. Plenty of rumour mongering, but also plenty of breaking news too.
4. OmniFocus – not a site, but an amazingly great GTD program by the folks at Omni Group that runs on both my Mac and my ipod Touch, which ensures that I know what to do at any particular time.
5. Gmail – I filter all my email through this service, it is fantastic. Conversation view is a great feature that can’t be beaten. But it also offers total IMAP links so I can use Mail.app if I like. I can’t wait to see Google Wave, though!
6. Evernote – I seem to have a never ending search underway for the perfect note taking and file archiving application. Evernote is getting closest given its ubiquitous access across multiple devices, operating systems and the web.
7. Presentation Zen – much of what I have learnt about public speaking I have learnt from this guy. Fantastic insights and provides excellent examples both of what works, and what doesn’t!
8. Wedding List Co. – got to get a plug in for our business! If you are thinking about your bridal gift registry, you will not find a better quality of service and range of products anywhere else.
9. Dropbox – a great file syncing service, that you don’t have to think about. Great for working with files across multiple computers, with version control added to boot.
10. Daring Fireball – If there is one Mac site any Mac fan must read, it is Gruber’s.

Built to Last

STS-125 Atlantis Solar Transit

STS-125 Atlantis Solar Transit (200905120002HQ), originally uploaded by nasa hq photo.

A pretty amazing photo – talk about putting things into perspective.

Amazing Playoff Moments: Larry Bird Steals the Ball

I love these ads so much!

TSD Fighting for Relevance in a New Age

Between Twitter, Facebook, TumbleDrew (andrewcanion.com), Flickr and the various other sites that effectively communicate and aggregate my online life, this old website has slowly gathered dust.

Anyway, I’ve given twosittingducks.com a fresh lick of paint, updated Wordpress to the latest version (a program which, incidentally, has travelled leaps and bounds since it was first released and was a poor man’s Moveable Type), and have gone so far as writing this blog post.

I can’t guarantee that much more will happen here, but rest assured, I’m still on the interwebs somewhere.

It is interesting, though, how the original view of web publishing was to get away from “the man”. It offered the chance for everyone to be their own media mogul, with their own voice. But it would seem that the man is having the last laugh. The growth of the large community based sites, notably Facebook, has given the ability to blog and share information to everyone – at least within their walled garden. Not that I am really in a position to complain, since I have fallen for it as much as everybody else.

But at the very least I know that if it all goes pear shaped, I can always come back to my blog at twosittingducks.com. I don’t pay hosting fees for nothing!

Letterman’s Top 10 George Bush Moments

It’s quite an accomplishment that he lasted eight years, based on this evidence!

links for 2009-01-07

• Font or Typeface? | The FontFeed
  When do you call it one and not the other?
  (tags: font typography)

links for 2009-01-04

• Former Child Star Central | Where are they now? Whatever happened to?
  Find out what happened to all those old stars.
  (tags: popculture gossip entertainment tv television)

links for 2008-12-29

• Technotheory.com – Looking back before looking ahead: surprises and lessons learned from 2008
  Considering resolutions
  (tags: resolutions blog manifesto opinion)
• One year in 40 seconds
  Images from the same spot through one year. Audio captured at the same place. All details on how this video was made, more videos and a place to download all the footage here: http://eirikso.com/2008/12/27/one-year-worth-of-images-give-some-amazing-videos/
  (tags: video weather seasons trees art)

links for 2008-12-11

• Ask Mr. Excel – Timeline Chart in Excel
  How to create a nice floating timeline chart
  (tags: tutorial excel charts data timeline)