An email from Firefox Download Day hit my inbox today. Firefox 3′s final release is going to be made available for download on June 17. As I’ve blogged before, Mozilla will try to set a world record for most software downloads in one day with their latest version of the famed web browser. If you haven’t pledged to participate in “Download Day” (as the record-setting attempt has been dubbed) yet, go to their page now and pledge to participate! It’s fun, fun, fun!
Twitter’s been down lately. Anyone with an account at the service will know that. The Web’s been abuzz with rants about the downtime, and while Pownce and Jaiku users have taken this opportunity to invite people to switch, Twitterers still can’t find a better service.
Until Plurk came along.
Yes, Plurk. It’s taking the Interwebs by storm and becoming a serious alternative to Twitter. How can it not be, what with its name (Plurk! Plurk! Plurk! I could say it all day), the funny headless pig cartoon, and the cool features that come with it. Many Plurkers (I guess that’s what we’re called) have been asking the questions: Is Plurk a viable alternative to Twitter and are you going back to Twitter or leaving it for good? In this post, I’ll explore the answers to those questions, so follow along!
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Janette Toral is holding the Influential Bloggers Writing Project, which you can access at http://www.influentialblogger.net/2008/04/top-10-emerging-influential-blogs-in.html, and I have decided to write an entry for it. I’d written an entry before, but turns out most of the blogs existed well before July 2007, so here’s a spanking new list of blogs that have influenced me, listed in no particular order. Continue Reading »
If you’re like me, you love finding and pouring all your time on good reads. Be it classics such as George Orwell’s 1984 or modern works like Dan Brown’s (in)famous The Da Vinci Code, I simply love immersing myself in the alternate worlds authors create within the pages of their work.
The thing is, once you’ve finished a good read, you’re always itching to get to the bookstore nearest you to snag yourself a copy of another book. However, once you’re in the store, you’re surrounded by endless shelves of novels all looking worthy of your purchase. How do you choose which one to buy? The first thing I do is look for a copy without a plastic cellophane cover and leaf through its contents. If I can’t find such a copy, I’ll obviously check out the blurb on the back of the book. Blurbs, of course, are written in such a way that will make the plot sound interesting and thrilling.
But plots aren’t always interesting and thrilling, now are they? To properly and wholly assess the actual quality of a novel (or any other book for that matter), the most logical thing to do is purchase the book. But you don’t want to purchase a book just to find out that it’s crappy after you’ve read it, right? So, how do you know whether or not a book you’re thinking of buying is worthy of your time?
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I thought this would be worth a mention on my own little corner of the blogosphere: a certain Andy has started this little project she calls the “100 Project”. This is what the project website (whose layout is strikingly simple) says:
The 100 Project is a personal challenge aimed at improving my art and disciplining myself in general. The objective is to make 100 vector portraits in 100 days. I strictly allow myself only 1 portrait per day (except Sundays). No procrastinating. No getting ahead of myself. The site will be updated on a weekly basis. The individual ID-sized versions with the color backgrounds are posted in my Multiply in case you want larger copies of the thumbnails. If you share/repost/brag about your portrait in your respective Multiply/LiveJournal/Facebook/whatever accounts or even as much as show it to your seatmate…God loves you, and so do I. 
Her DeviantArt profile displays more of her artistic works, but the 100 Project really caught my attention. Go ahead, check it out. Prepare for considerable loading time, though, as popular URL redirection service dot.tk screws with sites a lot. Again, I say, check the 100 Project out.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I don’t know the person behind this project personally. Promise.
