I’m thinking about a subject matter change to News & Current Events. Thinking…

I’m contemplating some major changes to 2it. Major life changes for me this year…major website changes coming.

A guy has been experimenting with 3-D imagery for the web where you don’t need 3-D glasses to view it. He animates the right and left images back and forth to produce the effect. Extra cool! Check it out.

In order to maintain my interest and yours in this busy time, I may post some stuff that’s more of a personal nature. I want to be able to post more often, so if this site migrates toward more of a personal blog space, so be it.

Our baby was born late last Thursday night. Needless to say, now I’ve got plenty to do and am lacking a bit of sleep.

It’s painful just waiting for the inevitable baby birth. Someone gave us one of these to analyze our baby’s crying. Maybe I should take the time to figure it out now…need to keep busy.

In my travels I’ve often needed to know if one of my websites was really down or not. Alertra provides a “spot check” tool to check a site from multiple locations around the world to see current server status.
Give it a try.

This is fresh on my mind because I’m having trouble with my web host of another site. Web hosting is a whole discussion unto itself…don’t get me started.

I posted some time ago about the benefits of using Weather.gov. I still think there are advantages to using that site, but there are a couple of downsides I’ve observed. First, the site is down sometimes. In the age where we have gotten used to almost no downtime for popular sites, to see a site have some regular outages is alarming. Second, the local radar is unavailable sometimes.

My advice on this one is to use Weather.gov as a supplement to other weather sites. It has some great advanced features and loads quickly. But to rely on it exclusively is risky, as it may not be fully available when you really need it…

I just discovered these and had one today. Very cool. I’m really into white chocolate products. I know, way off topic, but hey, you can deal…

Give it a taste…

Way back in the day, I used InfoSpace for yellow page and special searches. I’ve stumbled across their latest application, trying to reinvent the way you search for local stuff.

What’s unique are the double search fields - just “Who or What” and “Where.” Simple, yet I haven’t seen this kind of interface for local searching anywhere else. The search results are very relevant, drawing on InfoSpace’s years of experience doing yellow/white page searching. Your previous searches get automatically saved in the dropdowns which are built into the search boxes. So, you can quickly run a search for several businesses or landmarks within the same city or state. I’d love to hear feedback on this if anyone has tried it out.