I love playing “what if” scenarios with money. I can entertain myself for sometime with a simple loan calculator, which is why I was very excited to find Calculators at Dinkytown.net. They have some great calculators that help you make descisions about insurance, finances, and life. Plus almost all of the calculators have graphics to help display their results.
I now know I have a life expectancy of 82 years. Now I can use that figure in some of my other calculation fun.
One of the great new uses for technology I’ve found is the download and management of digital audio books. Audible.com, iTunes.com, and now even Walmart.com are getting into this space. I download to a little Creative Muvo 256MB I picked up at Wal-Mart for less than $100, and now I’m never without six audio books where ever I go.
One of my favorite recent listens is a free posting from Audible.com from the Library of Congress lecture series on “Digital Future”. The first in the series is David Weinberger talking about the Web, blogging, and new forms of data management are changing the ways we access information and interact with each other.
David Weinberger is a contributing author to the Cluetrain Manifesto where a lot of these ideas are discussed in more detail.
So I’m only hours into running WordPress as my software of choice, and I can honestly say I’m impressed. In the past, I’ve run PostNuke, PHPNuke, Geeklog, and others, but the simplicity (and dare I say elegance) of WordPress is quite nice.
It may not have all of the features and whiz-bang gizmos that the others possess, but for what I want to accomplish it’s perfect.
Powered by WordPress