I just noticed I was one of the “Featured Bloggers” on Technorati. I’m not anymore, but I managed to grab a screenshot:

Looks like I had to share my brief spotlight with Scooby Doo and Guy Smiley. Sheesh.

The wonderful world of Wikis. When these things first became popular, I thought the idea was completely ridiculous. Anyone can edit anything they want on someone else’s website? I could see certain situations where this might be useful, but in general I thought they were utterly pointless.

I remember the first time I went to a webpage and discovered I could delete the entire page. Don remembers this. I emailed him and said “go check out this public website” that I had just defaced. I did realize at the time that there was a history of edits and that anyone could just go back to the history and restore the page, but it still seemed to me to be a lot of extra work for what benefit?

I guess Wikipedia has proven me wrong. There have been many similar sites that have popped up that make great use of the Wiki concept. One I just came across today is wikiHow. Basically anything you might want to learn how to do is represented on that site. Granted, some of the instructions are not very detailed, and most do not cover all of the little intricacies and pitfalls you will encounter, but it seems like a great starting point for learning something new. At the bottom of each topic is a list of related topics. In the matter of a couple clicks you could be learning how to do something that you had never even considered before.

How about these for starters:

How to get started in Parkour
How to walk on your hands
How to climb a tree with no branches

Have fun!

Since my recent focus (for this summer, anyway) has been on bicycling, I’ve been searching around for good bicycling blogs, without a whole lot of luck. This morning I came across this post at Trekalong.com talking about bike helmets.

I have always felt those bike helmets were the most ridiculous looking things. I put off buying one until recently, frankly because “we never had to wear helmets when we were kids, and we turned out just fine!” Preparing for my 100 mile trek, though, gave me pause and I decided it would be better to be safe than sorry.

So I guess I have joined the “goofy looking safe bicyclists club”.