We had some rain last month that turned into feet of flowing flash floods. When all done and settled the lake levels rose above their crests, and shortly after receded. Except for Bull Shoals Lake.
Because it cannot let enough water out of it’s own dam, and water from the highly tourist trafficked Lake Taneycomo and Table Rock Lake, the Bull Shoals Lake gets the brunt of the water held. Here are some photos of the once spacious Shadow Rock Park.
Since the latest dive into a new industry (hospitality), it has brought me closer to the business owners in a small town, and the needs and restraints that are encountered each day in the small business community.
Using these insights and experiences I have decided to revisit the “salezaar” concept and expand it just a touch further- exciting to me, and beneficial to everyone!
The real beneficiaries are my family, who have been pestering me to build them each websites for their individual businesses. Why build the same type of site six times, when I could build 1 site once?
Here’s a first round logo tease- enjoy!
Posted in Dotcoms, Marketing, Programming
Pranav Mistry of MIT discusses his new interface to literally transform the world into one giant mashup of information. With component costs ranging in the few hundreds of dollars, this build will be the talk of the net (assuming his quick jab at releasing the software and designs opensource is true, which I believe it to be).
Enjoy the TED talk- this guy is the future!
Posted in Geek, how to, Programming
Tagged DIY, future tech, how to, mashup, pranav mistry, tech
Its been a while since I have been able to take time and search through posts from some of my favorite sites on the web, and since I enjoy a good article on the finer things online (and off), it was apparent- build a twitter bot.
Step 1 was to find the best feeds from those sites which I have had the pleasure of reading:
The final product is WWWNOOZ, the twitter bot that allows me to keep fewer programs running, and still be up to the minute with new articles. Give it a follow, and send me new sites to add in- after all, this project is about being up to date in a wide range of topics… and I know there are more!
Knowledge Quest!
The times have been trying, but the outcome is more powerful and accessible than ever. Gearing up to launch, this is the current public view of Salezaar.com’s front-page interface. See you online in 8 days! (TechWeather permitting)
Posted in Asia, Dotcoms, Hong Kong, Programming
Tagged alpha, salezaar, social network, webdesign
What happens when you are awake with restless need to create? Well, the solution came after a should-be daydream of a miniature jet engine powered personal hovercraft. Wanting to start with the basics, a simple how-to video was found. ‘Do try this at home!’ video series on small projects to do… at home… had this great video on taking an origami balloon and turning it into a fueled jet engine. After a few more Google searches, this turns out to be a similar engine type to a pulse-jet.
2AM is the scheduled liftoff time, and not a moment late I was ready for ignition. Here is the result of DKjet v.1
Not to worry- a little extra flame exited the thrust nozzle and caught the DKjet on fire. We will simply narrow the nozzle on v.2 and hopefully improve the thrust.
Guess not.
It may seem that either the lighter fluid from our ‘fuel source’ is not combustible enough, the humidity in Hong Kong is bonding with the aerated fuel, or as usual- the designer is missing critical steps. As the first two models failed to do their intended job, I think it is time to scale this down a bit. V.3 will use a much smaller and waxier paper- to keep the fuel from absorbing in the paper quickly. Huzzah.
Its official, and not a year too late. Despite being a laughing stock of all smartphone owners in Hong Kong, BlackBerry owners have also had to settle for the small amount of available (and costly) apps with very limited functionality. All the while, iPhone users (like myself) have had the luxury of fart noises on command, GPS Topography trackers, and now the ability to unlock and START your car with only the iPhone.
It comes as no surprise that we [iPhone users] laugh when BlackBerriers flaunt their BBM, but wince when we deploy our Lightsabers. Yes, we know, its a lightsaber. Taking one look at the storefront assembled by the highly creative team at Apple and comparing against the stern business face of RIM’s Blackberry app store, we can draw 3 conclusions:
1. Apple contributes functionality as well as fun, because we don’t always want to be serious.
2. Blackberry is still the least colorful company in modern history.
3. One of these companies is playing off the human tendencies to impulsively purchase random items… Why else did I include the topo-gps reference above?! Because impulse pressure got me.
