My Web Travels for June 25th 2007 through June 27th 2007

These are my web travels for June 25th 2007 through June 27th 2007:

• 10 Drupal Modules You Can’t Live Without | Nick Lewis: The Blog – This should help out with my new Drupal deployment
• Ability to save current state of a form being submitted | drupal.org – Here’s a comment I posted requesting functionality for the webform module in drupal and a helpful response from the developer
• Zooomr | No Limit Photo Sharing – Had heard about this site previously and wanted to bookmark it as a new source for Lifestreaming photos.
• The Robot Co-op – This is a blog from the creators of 43 things/places/people…and other sites.

New Digg Technology RSS Feed – Blocking iPhone Stories

Are you as sick of the iPhone stories flooding Digg as I am? I couldn’t take it any more so I just whipped up this new Digg Technology RSS feed using Yahoo Pipes which filters all stories on the iPhone. Now I can actually make my way to the good stuff and ignore all the hype. Enjoy.

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My Web Travels for June 22nd 2007 through June 23rd 2007

These are my web travels for June 22nd 2007 through June 23rd 2007:

• Virtual Worlds News: Jerry Paffendorf Leaves Electric Sheep – Mention of Lifestream Blog based on a new venture from Jerry Paffendorf. Good luck to him.
• 123FLICKR | Create Flickr galleries in seconds… – Very cool embeded flickr gallery widget for your site.
• Geni – Everyone’s Related – Here’s a Web 2.0 twist on the genealogy spin that looks pretty cool so I will check it out.
• Ancestry.com – Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records online – I want to get into genealogy so I thought I’d go to the top site in the space and sign up.
• WordPress Plugin: Automatic Machine Translation for Your Blog in Eight Languages – Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese – This Wordpress plugin was recommended for being friendly to foreign visitors by offering translations of your site.
• GameSpot Video: id Tech 5 Demo (Working Title) Video Feature 1 – Just came across this tech demo from John Carmack on the next game engine they have been working on at Id Software
• kamajoles place » MBLA – Might try out this alternative plugin for listing MyBlogLog or Gravatar avatars in comments since it looks like it might be better than the one I’m currently using.
• groups.drupal.org – Time to start building my reference library for Drupal and this appears to be a good site. I found out out about it when researching the Organic Groups module which is used on the site.
• scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Asshole driven development – Ah yes…development methodologies. Here’s the real list of disciplines your boss may have never told you about.

Great Flickr Gallery Widget

I just found this great widget to create an embedded Flickr gallery. You can create yours at 123flickr.com

Here’s an example of mine

Photos and Video of Baby Birds and Hummingbird in My Backyard

Today I felt like quite the Ornithologist. You see over the last few weeks a bird has decided to make a nest on top of a speaker in my backyard patio. I’ve been keeping an eye on the progress and over the last few days. There is a door in my bedroom that leads to the patio and on these hot nights I leave the side windows open. The last few mornings I have been awaken by the baby birds that summon mama to feed them. Upon inspection of the nest today the babies are finally raising their heads and getting a little adventurous. So I decided to try and be a little stealthy and take some pictures and video of them using my Panasonic FZ7 Ultra Zoom Camera.

I got an extra added surprise when I saw a hummingbird making the rounds to each of my kangaroo paw plants and was able to capture some great shots of it as well. I also have video of it perched on my orange tree. Pretty amazing that all these shots and video occurred today in my backyard.

Baby Birds

Hummingbird