White River National Forest


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Colorado Wildflowers

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We saw fields full of beautiful wildflowers while hiking in the White River National Forest.

Subscribing to Flickr via Bloglines

I just discovered that two of my favorite web tools work together.

I read all my news and blogs via Bloglines.  I share pictures with my friends via Flickr.  Both great tools.  Flickr in particular has a lot of potential.

Now, all my friends and family’s new pictures show up every morning in Bloglines when I read the news!  So along with my daily news I also see the most recent pictures of my friends’ trips to Oregon and my cousin’s birthday party.

Here’s how you do it:

  1. You can go to any Flickr page (I went to "Photos from Friends and Family") and at the bottom right there is an RSS feed.  Copy that link.
  2. Go to Bloglines, my feeds, and "Add a Feed", use the link where it asks for the RSS feed.
  3. Then presto!  I can now see all the new pictures my friends add in Bloglines!

Way cool.

Women’s Voices: Wife-Beatings in Africa – New York Times

What struck me most initially was that this women was speaking up even though she hasn’t given up.  She is still married to the man who beat her 60 times in eight years and while she thinks the beatings are wrong, she still wants to be married to him.  Staying in a situation while publically committing to changing it is a very difficult situation to be in!  Most people condemn a situation after they leave it.  Sticking around to change it takes guts. 

I’m not saying she should stay and be beaten.  I’m just saying that not just walking (or running) away while being openly critical of the situation must take a very strong woman.

Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beatings in Africa – New York Times.

Man Dies Playing Computer Games – Yahoo! News

A man in South Korea died after playing computer games for 49 hours without stopping for sleep or food.  I’ve always said that I don’t play computer games because they are too addictive.  I know too many people that have woken up with keyboard imprints on their faces.

Man Dies After 49 Hours of Computer Games – Yahoo! News.

But what do you do when computer games are how your friends socialize or network?  What if it’s a world you want to be a part of?  How long do you think it will be before you can actually enter the game?  As opposed to participating through your keyboard?  And if you can actually "enter it" through some type of virtual reality (VR) like William Gibson’s stories, do you think that people will start sleeping in VR?  No matter how exciting our daily lives get we usually manage a few hours of sleep a night and we definitely eat.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford this year and while his advise is hard to follow, it is inspirational.    He says:

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

He says every morning you should ask yourself if what you plan to do today is what you’d do if you only had a day left to live.  If you answer "no" too many days in a row, you need to find something different to do.

Here’s the whole talk: ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says.