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Google Wave

I’ve been Google waving a lot this last week – talking with customers, staff and other friends. Its a pretty cool system.

If you have had an invite and cant figure the thing out these resources may help. If you are on teh wave find me by adding jethroconsultants@gmail.com.

• Complete Guide to Google Wave
• Google Wave Cheat Sheet

Photography How To’s and other tools bookmarked to read this week:

• White Seamless – Studio How To
• 13 High speed Photography images
• Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker – hers is the mosaic i created from my latest project, 365 days of Bokeh.

David du Chemin has some cheap eBooks for sale including:

Clearing the browser from all the links to cool tools and content for today.

Microsoft Stuff

• Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers
• Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug
• Streaming Media in Windows 7 – Streaming your collection over the Internet – unfortunately this doesn’t work if your Windows 7 machine is joined to a domain
• Sneak peek of what’s coming in Windows Live Movie Maker
• Live Video Streaming: Guide To The Best Broadcast Services To Stream Your Video In Real-Time
• What's new in Windows 7: Tour Windows 7
• Get a Live-Updating Bing Wallpaper Windows 7 Theme – i did this it worked really easily
• Megawoosh Slide for Microsoft Project – this is a funny little video that has gone viral in Europe. Heads up from Duncan’s blog.

Tune out if you don’t understand the title.

BTUB last night was lots of fun – catching up with many old friends and making new ones.

One of the special moments of the night was the latin dancing fever free lessons. @websinthe decided to dance his own special style – turned into a animated gif here at the request of many!

I took a bunch of photos – mostly of BTUB folk – but also a fair number of the latin dancing lessons. Some of the regular party goers got in front of the lens as well.

I have included a couple of the funniest / best/ weirdest photos below and the rest can be found on my flickr account.

BTUB photos

Latin Dancing Photos

I have been having some trouble with comment spam lately. We use Mollom, a great ser vice that works well with Drupal and stops most spam. However some spammers are getting more clever – and at the same time very stupid. They are putting more realistic comments in and getting past the text analysis – but as there are  no links allowed they are kind of stupid. The comment doesn't gain them anything – just fills my comments with rubbish.

So now all anonymous comments require approval – and I can bulk delete the time wasters spam. If you have a legitimate comment to make – and you are encouraged to do so – either log in to make it, or realise that it will go into my approval queue for checking.

So to all my legitimate readers and commenters – thanks for participating. And to all the spammers  go away – there's nothing for you here!

Thanks for reading.