Archive for July, 2004

BlogChalking

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

I’m not at all interested in this, but for those of you who want to put the chalk icon up so others can know your eye color and body type, head right over to BlogChalking.

Now a little more SEXY!!! Everyone knows bloggers are sexy! Chalk more about yourself–your eye color, your body type, even describe your personality!

“It’s a tattoo for your blog!”(tm) Affording you the opportunity to disclose something personal without revealing too much.

…this could be you.

Blogshares Added

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

Message from Weblogs.com:
Thanks for the ping.
BlogShares checks for new blogs approximately every hour.
Your blog has been added: BinaryWolf.

BlogShares is a simulated, fantasy stock market for weblogs where players invest fictional money to buy stocks and bonds in an artificial economy where attention is the commodity and weblogs are the companies. Weblogs, or blogs for short, are valued by their incoming links from other known blogs. In effect, links become the business deals in the simulation and players speculate on the fortunes of thousands of blogs by buying and selling shares. A whole host of options exist for advanced play including gifting shares, leveraged buy-outs, stock splits, additional share issues, market and player bonds.

The Industries page is especially interesting for its large list of blogging categories.

Blogosphere Ecosystem

Friday, July 9th, 2004

A list of inbound links and average daily visits featuring Higher Beings, Mortal Humans and Playful Primates.

Wolves in Alaska

Friday, July 9th, 2004

Maybe somewhat off-topic, but I liked the picture.

Alaska is home to the largest remaining population of gray wolves in the United States. Some 7,000 to 9,000 wolves roam the state in habitats as diverse as barren arctic tundra and lush temperate rainforests. Alaska’s wolves, as elsewhere, play an essential role in maintaining healthy prey populations and biodiversity in ecosystems in which they inhabit. They are also vital to the state’s tourism economy: People from all over the world come to Alaska for the opportunity to see a wild wolf. But ironically, at the same time that heroic efforts proceed to restore wolves to portions of their former habitat in the lower 48 states, wolves in Alaska continue to be persecuted. Because wolf populations in Alaska have never declined to the extent they have in other states, they were never added to the endangered species list. More…

FeedSweep

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

A site that provies an online form for setting up and dynamically displaying current news.

FeedSweep is an online service that streams news and content from one web site to another. You can use FeedSweep to display the latest sports and business news on your web site. You can also use FeedSweep to display updates and news from other web sites, such as business partners, for example.

I pasted the generated code into the sidebar of this template, and the feeds I chose (listed below) appeared there. My first impression was that the feeds were “busy” looking and distracted from the primary content of this page which is the posts! This blog is not a “portal” page. Get a newsreader to view RSS feeds. Of course, after you install your newsreader, make sure to subscribe to BinaryWolf <grin>.

Lockergnome’s Web Developers
Lockergnome’s RSS & Atom Tips
Slashdot Headlines
Yahoo! News – Technology

From Russia, With Love

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Logos, logos and more logos.

Today available 5000 logos (71254 KBytes)! Attention!!! This is 100% free service. All the materials available here are the property of their owners. The authors of logotypes do not bear any responsibility for the use or damage of any materials from this server. Otherwise, you’d better ask the logos ‘of trade marks’ owners. If you do not agree with stated above, you’d better quit the site straight away, but if you don’t care, you are welcome. All logos are available in Adobe Illustrator format and are compressed by ZIP.

Bandwidth Speed Test

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

There are several bandwidth speed tests out on the internet that measures the time it takes to download a file including:

PcPitstop
DSLReports
CNET

Today my cable connection’s top download speed was 2746 kbps (kilobits/second). Upload speed was a measly 217 kbps. If I wanted to tweak this I would go here or here.