A month and a half ago I was contacted by a Martin Vrabel, who sent me this:
email from Martin Vrabel of Taskee.comHi Joshua,
I found out you are writing about webdesign on your blog. I though you may be interested in writing about the new URL related task management tool for web designers — Taskee.
Taskee is a hosted website task management tool for small and medium size webdesign companies. Taskee simplifies website task management communication process and makes it easier and cheaper to collaborate during website testing process.
You can find more info and demo at www.taskee.com
Sorry for this email if its not worth your attention or was interrupting you.
Kind Regards,
Martin Vrabel
This was my first ever request for comment about any product, so I dutifully starred it in Gmail and promised myself I’d look at it when I could. Well, the wait is over. I thought I’d set it up today and give it a go. This post is part review, but mostly feedback at the moment as the product is only at version 0.3 and not ready for prime time.
As a general rule, I don’t discuss dreams. Yes, it might have been exciting. No, I don’t think it would make a good plot for the next Star Trek movie. Your dreams mostly star Amanda Tapping for one thing.
So normally I wont tell you the boring details of my dreams, for fear of having you reciprocate. But last night I had my third lucid dreaming experience and it was very fun.
OK, I haven’t Googled it so this game might already exist.
Two or more players — one player does a bit of research (if they need to) and declares some piece of information that the other players must find. Ideally it should be something that will only be found on one page on the net — not common info like you might find on Wikipedia, but rather some small factoid on some obscure website in the outer reaches of the internet.
Then the other players have to craft the perfect search phrase that will produce that page in the top result of a Google search — without using any of the actual words you’re searching for, or any prior knowledge of the page to your advantage. The player’s score decreases with every failed attempt to make it into the top spot.
I can’t think of anyone geeky enough to actually play this with me, so it’s purely hypothetical. And it’d probably need honing and crafting to make it playable. If you’re geeky enough you might also like Googlewhacking or you could check out this online archive of Google games.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.Excerpt from Wikipedia on Godwin’s law
Now, when someone does make the comparison to Hitler their opponent is declared the winner and the discussion is over.
Well, sadly I invoked Godwin’s Law on myself today. I was thinking about how weird it is that I used to be so certain that I would always be a Christian. I made promises to God that I would always be His, so certain that no hardship would ever make me doubt Him.
I tried to think of other situations where kids have made promises that might have been misplaced. That’s when I thought of the Nazi’s and their brainwashing. Then I had to invoke Godwin’s Law and exit my own conversation. You know how humiliating that is?
The Perry Bible Fellowship is the comic strip of Nicholas Gurewitch. It’s at times very dark and always absolutely hilarious. There are around 200 strips on his site, and it’s well worth the time to read through them all if you have time, but today I’d like to introduce you to him with just a couple of the ones that I find very clever.
