Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. Nico Nabholz made this one from the text in Getting Real....
Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is an independent analysis done by me based on the same information Zoho shared with other bloggers. Zoho today announced the availability of CloudSQL, a middleware that allows Zoho customers to access their data on Zoho SaaS applications using SQL queries. This sits between the Zoho apps and external applications, receiving SQL queries, interpreting it, delegating the queries and aggregating the results from various Zoho services. Some of the features of CloudSQL are Supports all standard SQL dialects like MySQL, PostrgeSQL, MSSQL, IBM DB2, etc. Map entities with Zoho services to...
From Serious Eats Chan Yan Tak, one of whose dim sum dishes was once described as "like eating clouds," has become the first Chinese chef to be awarded three Michelin stars. Despite the celestial nature of his cooking, we're told that the executive chef of Hong Kong's Lung King Heen is a very modest man. With no formal culinary training, he started working in kitchens at the age of 13. Mr. Chan is in good company. Only one other restaurant in the Hong Kong-Macau Michelin Guide unveiled today was awarded the maximum three stars; it's run by a chef you...
These days I (Victor) have been implementing a new search engine for vi.sualize.us. This one is not only faster and lighter than the previous, but also more powerful. For example, searches can be refined with the AND operator, the OR operator and the negation (”!”). So now you can search for all the polaroid or vintage favorite pictures, or maybe for favorited landscapes photographs with clouds or sea. Also, following your suggestions, the search has been extended to the visualizeus people. So you can find, for example, those who live near to you or your pals in other social...
Photo by Scott Bourn Here’s the story of my image - Cranes in the Fire Mist. Slightly more than 12 years ago, I saw an image by my friend Arthur Morris. It contained a lake full of Sandhill Cranes, Snow Geese and Ross’ Geese, backlit by a blazing, golden sun. The image struck me to the point that I spent the last 12 years trying to re-create my own version of it. In the image I pre-visualized, there would be one or two birds flying into the pond while the others waited to take off. It’s an almost impossible scenario...
marine & aviation by wcoastpark on Flickr Is today's sun is Mother Nature's way of making amends for yesterday's rain? We have no idea. We do know that the sun won't last all day. Clouds and a slight chance of showers will be rolling in on a stiff southwesterly breeze this afternoon and evening. Today's high will be a very pleasant 55 degrees. A cold front following the clouds will bring clear skies and seasonable temperatures tomorrow and Wednesday. Expect highs in the mid to upper 40s each day. Rain is expected Wednesday night but it currently looks like...
In the previous installment we learned how checking the needs of our users and potential users and seeing to them can help establish us as the authority, the hub and community of our own brand. This in turn makes us the source of reference instead of our detractors or competitors. Working our way up from the bottom, the most obscure questions and concerns, to the top, the money terms and traffic generators for our products and services, we build a mushrooming clouds of content that in turn receives an ever-growing network of incoming links from people giving answers and suggestions...
Clouds form unusual shapes at dusk. Taken in North Bethesda, MD, USA. (c) Raoul Pop Days like these...
