So if your free time is like mine (totally non-existent), updating anything can become a real chore, especially if you’ve got multiple sites or blogs. This site, which does run on WordPress, has had several this year alone beginning with 2.3.3 in February and the most recent on my birthday (2.6.2, which because of the day it landed on, I completely neglected to do).

Fortunately, the WordPress team is purportedly releasing WordPress Updater, which will allow you to set an auto-update to your blog(s) - a feature that I seriously look forward to seeing. Will write it up once I get my greasy hands on it.

Now that the class is over, I have to wonder what use this website will get.  Are any of the people who wrote here during UCD III even goign to visit this site again?

I hope so, because I don’t really know where else to put interesting links (i’ll get my own website and blog running soon enough though).

http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/DataPortability+for+Developers

“Chris Saad, chairperson of DataPortability project refers to Web 3.0 as the Personal Web and I agree with Chris. His vision is of a Web where instead of people adopting applications, Applications adopt people; a world where people are free to take their social graph, media and everything else from one site to another.”

http://fr.youtube.com/experiencewii

Watch this ad.  The whole thing.

Comments?  What do you think?  Good advertisement?

The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites written by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay and Jason I. Hong. I was researching for some good web development books when I came across this one. It caught my attention just because of the name alone. I was interested in finding out if this was just another book of fluff, you know, one of those books where there is not much of a structure and it feels like its your reading on and on, kind of like this sentence. So I did my research before I spent the $59 for it. I found nothing but really good reviews. “The coverage [The Design of Sites] is excellent, issues go beyond the traditional ‘design the best page’ focus and do a good job of showing the context. I haven’t seen any other book with the kind of breadth this has.” TERRY WINOGRAD, Professor of computer science, Stanford University, and editor of Bringing Design to Software.1
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I read a book called the secret and it wasn’t like the normal books ive read. The secret was written by Rhonda Byline in 2006 and is a compilation of many writings and quotes from many different people from many different walks of life. The whole book revolves around the theme that what you think about the universe will make happen. The writer starts off telling you about the troubles she had recently gotten into and goes on to tell how that led her to find the secret.

The secret is what the book spends the next 185 pages explaining and also how the secret was suppressed by the upper elite who all know the secret but don’t want you to know. The first few pages goes in to detail about if you want it you should think about it and it will come to you, and that means anything. This means anything anyone wants they can have just by merely thinking about it and doing what ideas or actions the universe communicates to them.

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