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I have been thinking about a concept to take advantage of the current state of the semantic web, to aggregate anything in a person’s life that has analytics.

I imagine it being similar in concept to mint.com but expanded to measure every aspect of life. This info is taken from feeds, any other recordable viewing/searching/usage habits, and much more. It will be the mashup to end all mashup. The endgoal would be to use this data to show what makes you a happier person & what you can do to improve.. metrics and analytics for your life. Kind of like Personal Development to the max.

It will be called LifeMeasure.

Now to find some time for it!

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My POS razr went totally out of commission so I decided to up the ante on mobile benjamin m brown. iPhone 3gs 16gb is a pretty wicked piece of technology. I can already tell its going to do a lot to streamline my time and increase productivity when on the road or away from my current setups at home & work.

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I’m working on some more client-side & UI work lately as we try to increase the conversion rates on some of my primary client’s sites. I’ve come to really enjoy working with jQuery, as it is fairly easy to use, straightforward, and fairly lightweight.

Here are some jQuery tools I’ve been using:

HoverIntent

Waits for the user’s mouse movement to slow down before initiating hover scripts (user has to show intent on an item by ’stopping’ on it).

http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html

Kwicks

Very cool for customizable sliding content. I’m using it for unique image displays primarily.

Kwicks Home http://www.jeremymartin.name/projects.php?project=kwicks

Kwicks jQuery Examples: http://www.jeremymartin.name/examples/kwicks.php?example=1

Brandon Aaron’s jQuery plugins

Bunch of cool stuff in here.. start playing: http://brandonaaron.net/code

jQuery tools by FlowPlayer

Really digging the scrollable plugin, expose, and flashembed plugins

http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html

Wish I had time to write more about them, maybe I will add some examples of them in action soon.

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Ok big ballers.. those of us going to the Sox Game on friday need to pay up so I can grab beer to store in my fridge for the evening.. should come to about $5 each, and you can me online via paypal using the button below .

Buehrle is pitching so it should be interesting.

There’s a poll in the sidebar for you to choose which beer you’d like. I am buying 3 30 packs. Donate via paypal below. I am only going to buy enough from the donations I receive, so if you havnt donated.. NO SOUP FOR YOU.

DONATE $5

Leave a comment below with your beer of choice if the poll isnt working.

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For my personal historical reference.. started my boating-related site on Friday 9/11/2009. Its not up yet but got the domain and doing setup of all the linking/plugins and other prep needed to hit the ground running with this. Updates coming sporadically.

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I’m sorry but I have got to plug this service I found..

If you need to keep up to date on a blog or other feed-based service, this is a godsend. This one is really really easy: If you want to send RSS feeds to your email inbox, check out FeedMyInbox.

Just enter the site whose feeds you want to view and it will shoot you and email every time there is an update.

Pretty simple & flippin useful. Definitely the best way to view RSS feeds as emails.

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I love this speech.. movie is great too

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Digg.com brought me to a post on Tim Ferriss’ blog covering Scientific Speed Reading. The goals of this method are to increase reading speed by:

• Minimizing the number and time spent fixating words
• Eliminating regression (no re-reading)
• Increasing peripheral vision span and registration of words

Its a very technical method in which you basically train your eye movement by guiding it with your finger or a pen, while focusing on reducing unnecessary movements & fixations of the eyes.

Initial Results from first attempt

I had some free time so I took Tim up on the challenge. Reading the Fountainhead as my book of choice for this test, my baseline was 800.4 WPM. After my first pass through the training/conditioning techniques, I bumped it up to 883.2.

10.34% improvement in reading speed.

VERY promising!

I am planning on retraining myself on my flight home to Chicago on Monday morning. I will post the result of this next training session here on my blog.

Read more about the method here.

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Working at my primary client today, we noticed no orders coming in early this morning after about 8:30 or so. Checked our system, code, etc… no problems. However, the shipping estimate and quote system provided by FedEx and the FedEx gateway were not working. I did some research on the forum for this company’s chosen eCommerce solution (zen cart) and found people across the world with the same issue.

Turns out the fedex gateway is down…. its been down all morning.
Has FedEx been hacked? If not, this is a total fail on FedEx’s part.. costing eCommerce sites across the globe a TON of money (thousands for my client this morning) WEAK.

WTF is wrong with FedEx.. fix that shit now!

fedex hacked? fail. shipping gateway down

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This is a superb video… great use of simple imagery, slo-mo, and a very unique looking girl. Such a stupid simple idea but it works so well. The video is actually very suspensful (i.e. what the hell is she doing?)

Directed by the genius (don’t know the name) at  that-go.net

Check it out:http://www.vimeo.com/1124192

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