Funny cut-off name

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I love inadvertently funny things - like some of the truncated programme names that result from my Topfield 5800 PVR cutting off the names of recorded files.

I have this image of a huge fish swimming ominously towards me, opening and closing its fishy lips all the while. You can run doggy-paddle [I stand corrected!], but you can't hide - from... the Doomsday Cod!!!

Woooooooooooooooooo. Scary.

Tags: funny, humor, humour, Improbulus, Consuming Experience, A Consuming Experience

Your Picasa Web Album on your blog: Picasa Web Album widget updated

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UPDATE: on how to make your Picasa pics available for display on computer screensavers, see this post.

For those not aware of it, Kirk has updated his Picasa Web Album widget maker, which lets you display images from your Picasa Web Album on your blog e.g. in your sidebar, now with a fancy transition effect.

As Kirk points out in his post about the update, while it's designed for Blogger blogs you can adapt it for any webpage that can use Javascript.

If you haven't already got it and would like to, see his original post (he's updated the instructions there too).

Tags: Blogger, Blogger.com, New Blogger, blogging tools, blogging add-ons, widget, widgets, images, Picasa Web Albums, PWA, Improbulus, Consuming Experience, A Consuming Experience

Are you a tech omnivore? Quiz

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Posting this for the 2.3 people who haven't tried the Pew Internet & American Life Project's quiz to see which category you fall into, in their "typology" of information and communications technology (ICT) users.

What kind of user are you? Are you an Omnivore, Connector, Lacklustre Veteran, Productivity Enhancer, Mobile Centrics, Connected but Hassled, Inexperienced Experimenter, Light but Satisfied, Indifferent or Off the Network? Take the quiz.

(And those interested can also read their press release and report A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, released on 6 May 2007: "Half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry, while 8% are avid participants in all that digital life has to offer".)

No surprise, I'm an Omnivore. Based on the Pew Internet Project's profile of people in this group, I'm male, aged 28, and a student. So now you know. Heh.

Tags: ICT, Pew Internet Project, ICT, information and communications technology, quiz, Improbulus, Consuming Experience, A Consuming Experience