I'm a big Rush fan, but whether you like Rush or not, you will appreciate this animated video. The video is a 3d rendering of Peart playing Rush's famous YYZ with many camera angles, showing the drum lines from a number of different perspectives... It's really amazing.
The video was created with 3D Studio Max R3 and hand keyframed using a video reference of me air-drumming along to the song.
This is a sketch that iChameleon did for me at the last xmas party ... yes, of course they got it from this web site :) There's one for every associate ... it was a fun night.
Right, forgot to mention, my business card says I'm "The Rob" :) again, we all have nicknames... if you get to know me you would find out that I'm not _that_ egocentric... heh...
Just a quick note: I am in D.C. and will be out until Wednesday ... I'll try to reply to emails and to the group, but I'll be busy most of the time.
I was looking for some pictures of a friend of mine and I stumbled across Google Phonebook... yet another Google feature I did not know ...
Check out this search ... it lists businesses, which I can understand, but it also lists your personal phone number and address to anyone in the world... nice huh?
p.s. I apologize to the Smith families in Florida :) I just wanted to use a generic name.
What do you think? Good or bad? is that private or public information?
A couple of hours ago I posted a entry asking who's using sIFR, and I decided to give it a shoot ... I can't believe how easy it is, and it looks so good. I was a little skeptical about exporting a different swf for every font, but you know what... weight-wise is the best approach, plus, I don't think I'll even use over 2-3 fonts in one website... in this blog f.e. there's only room for one.
I haven't tested it to see how it looks with Safari (I only have access to Macs at the office)... but in FF and IE it looks great.
Ah, so IE has this bug calculating relative widths in my H1s and I had to hardcode a maximum width so it doesn't blow up the page. Other than that, the sIFR deployment was a breeze.
Another thing I realized is that if the header has a link you can't right click copy it anymore ... so I added a Permlink in the bottom of each entry.
This may be the next viral test after the nerd score... It seems like my influence number is 2160.6 ... The compare link in the site doesn't work, so I'm not sure what the ranges are.... how influencing is your blog?
Blogs linking: 142 Post linking: 410
Webs linking 1080
Bloglines subscribers: 15(blogid:3730828)
Google PageRank: 3 EgoSurf is a fun tool that scans search engines finding you and links back to your site, and then scores your ego :)
Resutls for "Rob Gonda" only linking back to my blog
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 16th | 6295 |
| yahoo.com | 1st | 7304 |
| msn.com | 1st | 3115 |
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 3rd, and 4th | 12651 |
| yahoo.com | 2nd, and 3rd | 12948 |
| msn.com | 1st | 3150 |
| del.icio.us | 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21th, and 23th | 12628 |
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 1st, 2nd, 16th, 21th, 22th, 24th, 30th, 42th, 43th, 46th, and 47th | 6459 |
| yahoo.com | 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21th, 22th, 23th, 30th, 31th, 32th, 34th, 35th, 36th, and 37th | 8325 |
| msn.com | 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th | 2635 |
| del.icio.us | 2nd, 3rd, and 4th | 1204 |
so I had too much time on my hands! just got home from work, and I'm giving myself 30 minutes of relax before getting back to work ... relax = seating in front of the computer ... man! ...
Technorati stopped indexing my site and stop increasing the link count about 70 days ago... yes, I know I should had contacted them sooner, but I didn't... I opened a ticket last night and within an hour everything was back to normal; almost everything. My link count jumped from 97 to 131, my rank improved my 35%, my lasted post got indexed... BUT, all my previous posts from my last 70 days got lost .... I opened another ticket (about 5 minutes ago), but I have a feeling that is won't get resolved ... so anyways, if you're site doesn't get updates within a few days, contact Technorati before it's too late.
so I'm reading this blog about how Rail doesn't have a chance or simply won't go mainstream, and I actually agree... RoR has two sides... one, it is just another MVC framework, this time for Ruby instead of other languages... this is nothing new, they come and go and I don't see why it would have more attention than any other... the second part is its Ajax compatibility, using prototype and scriptaculous. so it now combines too nice aspects. We're only debating that part now ... this leads me to think who/what would go mainstream? Well, Avalon and XAML will probably penetrate hard and catch all the .net developers' attention ... Laszlo couldn't compete with Flex, but does it have a chance in the Ajax world? Zimbra, Tibco, Yahoo Patterns, IBM Open Ajax efforts ... which framework or toolkit is going to get more attention ... or is it even important? Maybe there will be no mainstream, and Ajax will just become another technique that's just assumed to be known by any and every web developer. I think that these toolkits are targeting more RIA development using JS/DHTML more than Ajax. So now a framework has to contain a nice solid MVC server side, Ajax scripting, and an IDE, possibly Eclipse based... wow ... who dares to predict it?
