so, how cool is this... im posting this blog entry using my iphone os 3.0 and internet tethering. that's right. although we thought it was not allowed... it is!

http://help.benm.at/help.php

go to that site above, and follow the instructions (really easy actually, just download the settings, follow the on-screen instructions and BAM!)

so, anyway, hopefully this is useful for ya, and shame on AT&T for thinking we wouldn't figure this out at some point in time!

apparently there is some MMS hack that is part of what is coming, but as of yet, i cannot even figure out how to even see the word "mms" in my iphone anywhere yet!?!?

so, here i sit, patiently waiting for the new version of the iPhone OS and I'm now contemplating should i do it immediately or should i wait until day 2 to do it, after the uber geeks have tested, tried and bricked their phones, so that i don't have to do it myself?

hmmm... i think ill do it today, if it EVER SHOWS UP!!!

come on apple. hurry up.

From Adobe's website:

View the Browser Lab Website

(FYI: i was able to login with my Adobe credentials that I use for forums, Alpha stuff, etc)

Some gripes... there is no choice for Chrome, which I realize is new-ish, but come on guys :) Also, no choice for Mobile Browsers? I guess these things will be coming soon enough!

So, I did what probably a lot of my Geek Friends around the web did this morning and that was an attempt at "bing-ing" myself...

the results of my search for "tony weeg" are at the end of this link: http://www.bing.com/search?q=tony+weeg&go=&form=QBLH

and with that, I want to look at the results... as of the time of posting this article, i notice a few things...

(first and foremost, google has 36,700 articles about me today, and bing has only 23,900)

1. there appears to be a reliance on "Social Networking" sites for top billing

2. the first link, LinkedIn, is the only social networking site that I am part of that I do not use at all, and that got 1st place :(

3. the results are mostly like google's search results, not much difference there, however if someone were searching for me on google, they'd find better more relevant information, as they would find my domain TonyWeeg.com and i got bored after page 4 looking for my domain on Bing.com

4. the mouseover-right gutter "info" tab that shows up is cool, doesnt really make me NOT want to click on the link, so, I guess it does its job, but not a necessity when im searching, im going to click on it anyway, regardless of that

5. i guess ill bookmark it and see if it helps me at all, but i have to say, as entrenched as i am in using google's tools, it would be weird to LEAVE gmail, and go search for something else in another window, for what? the same results? eh... probably not.

6. search history is cool on bing, but not a game changer, google search has had this a long time.

7. the obligatory image search for "Boobs" that most of us do to test new search engines (you do too, right??) came up with a REALLY neat way of showing an image search... a seamingly ENDLESS grid of images... and when i say endless, i mean, i kept scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling and they never seemed to stop... EVER! brilliant idea #1 so far... good job bing peeps. (so far this is the coolest feature) and at 1.6 million results, thats a LOT of boobies they are droppin on the screen in a VERY ajax fashion.

8. they (microsoft bing developers) took a major note from the search preferences page of google's - and anyone familiar with turning off "Safe Search" will recognize this page... minus a few

so, all in all, it looks to be a well thought out application, but im going to have to say, why? why now? why try to take on google at this game that they have mastered? i just dont get it guys and gals. it would have been a great time to innovate something else, not search. leave that to the search pro's, google!

im posting this so that i can have it for later use on the topic. apparently this will greatly improve the semantic web of data we have at our hands, and make searching and indexing it faster/better/greater success in delivering good content that a user wants!

anything that we as web developers can do to make our sites more indexable for our client the better!

so, anyway, here is the link to the article itself Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa

and as the man behind the internet, himself Tim Berners-Lee stated so eloquently:

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. " - Tim Berners-Lee

credit for this article is due to Timothy O'Brien at O'Reilly and here is a link to Tim's blog (blog.discursive.com)

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Dear Roger Clemens,

I just listened to you on Mike and Mike in the morning on Espn Radio and i have to say, you are a big fat liar. The joke of an interview that you just gave those guys was about as disingenuous as I've ever heard in my life. You stammered, you dodged and you evaded everything the guys asked you.

For you to think that we are this stupid, that we would take these answer you gave as truth, is an insult. No one believes you roger, not one single bit. As evidenced by your broken speech patterns and as I mentioned before, stammering, you were and are lying to everyone. And to think that Andy Pettitte "mis-remembers" anything hahahaha, right! I did not even realize that "mis-remember" was a word. Jackass!

We don't care what you think you are doing now that is good, what you overshadow that with is a cloud of dishonesty so thick that we can't see the accomplishments you did on the field. Sure you enamored us with your play on the field, sure you won 7 Cy Young awards, but what you fail to see is that you did it all with the help of performance enhancing drugs. Oddly enough, we wouldnt care about that, not one bit, if you were just a bit more honest about it. Your colleagues have said you took and discussed with them steroids and other drugs, and they have even been man enough to come out with the truth themselves, why can't you do the same?

You make it worse, with every lie told Roger, and in closing, I hope that someday you come to peace with yourself and this game and the way you have tarnished it. at that point, you may find yourself voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. until then, i just dont see it.

Good riddance Roger, and thank you again, thank you for ruining my outlook on Major League Baseball.

tony

im a big data visualization person, and although this is quite simple, the concept is pretty darn cool and something you could sit and stare at for some time...

you basically go to this site: http://www.visibletweets.com and enter any keyword you'd like to see, at which point, a little birdie goes out and grabs relevant tweets for you and you just sit back and watch...

pretty nifty! any other cool ones you know of, lemme know!

i thought it might be neat to see what words i most use when tweeting in my favorite twitter application, Wordle to see if i could generate a beautiful word cloud. first i went to my twitter page, and made sure that all of my tweets from all the way back to the first day i signed on "April 17th, 2008" and simply copy and pasted them into my favorite text editor, adobe dreamweaver cs3, and from there removed some words i didnt care to see in there "twittelator, twhirl, am, pm, etc"

Anyway, here is my Wordle

very cool to see... go try it with yours!

you can hide these blog postings if you'd like... i understand... they are not for you... and would bore me if i were you... facebook has a great feature whereby you can link your blog to your facebook page and draw interested web searchers that way.

conversely, to all of my geek friends, you might want to try adding your blog's rss feed to facebook's "notes" system and see if help's generate traffic!

i know that i have enjoyed a 280% increase on my Google Adsense payouts this month, and i'm looking to get that return to increase even more. why not. we have good knowledge, that new people in the industry want - more and more each day!

good luck, im sure you will be able to figure it out. but if you cannot... here is some information that i found here at SiteProNews "5 ways to Import and Promote your blog on Facebook"