Sean's Lifestream
"Sean's Lifestream" bundle created by Sean
- Sean's Flickr
- sean.blog
- sean.blog
- Sean's You Tube
- Sean Brady's Photo Gallery
- Twitter / seanabrady
- Sean's Diigo Bookmarks
- Sean Brady's Sidewiki
- Sean's shared items
 | Date: Dec 26, 2011 Number of Photos in Album: 1 |
 | Date: Nov 13, 2011 Number of Photos in Album: 1 |
 | Date: Nov 4, 2011 Number of Photos in Album: 9 |
 | Iain is playing Soccer this year. Here are the pictures from his various games. Date: Oct 17, 2011Number of Photos in Album: 30 |
 | Date: Oct 12, 2011 Number of Photos in Album: 1 |
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster.
While the July price change was necessary, we are now done with price changes.
We’re constantly improving our streaming selection. We’ve recently added hundreds of movies from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, MGM and Miramax. Plus, in the last couple of weeks alone, we’ve added over 3,500 TV episodes from ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, History, and PBS.
We value our members, and we are committed to making Netflix the best place to get movies & TV shows.
Thank you.
-Reed
Many of you have been asking about Facebook for iPad. Today, it's finally here. With the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips. It's a fun way to keep up with friends, share photos, chat and more.
Here are some of the highlights.
A hands-on Facebook
Use your fingertips to scroll through your News Feed. Give the screen a swipe to page through albums. Pinch a picture to zoom in. Whatever you're up to, using Facebook on your iPad just feels fun.
Bigger, better photos
Photos really shine on the iPad. They're bigger and easy to flip through, like a real photo album. It's like having a slideshow with all your friends and memories, wherever you go.
See all your photo albums
View an individual photo
Navigate anywhere, fast
Your games, apps, groups and lists are in the left-hand menu, so you don't have to dig around to find the stuff you use most. And your messages and notifications are at the top of every screen, so you can respond to friends and keep up with important updates—without losing your place.
Use the left-hand navigation to get around
Get notifications and messages at the top of every screen
Chat, games and other features
The app comes with a bunch of other new features: You can chat with friends right from your iPad, for example, or play games and use apps in full-screen mode. You can also watch high-res videos inline, record HD video and stream to Airplay devices.
See and send messages
Get the App
Facebook for iPad is now available in the App Store.
We've also made several improvements to the iPhone app and m.facebook.com. With your next update, you'll see a simplified navigation, faster search and access to more games and apps.
We hope you like Facebook for iPad!
Leon Dubinsky, Facebook mobile engineer, is sharing his new puppy's photographs with his friends from the comfort of his couch.
In most of the training courses I run, I ask the question "where does knowledge come from?"Always, every time, I get the answer "Experience - Knowledge comes from Experience". Never does anyone answer "Knowledge comes from Information".
Never
If you don't believe me, try it yourself. Ask people "where does knowledge come from"? and see what they say.
So why do we persevere with the Data/Information/Knowledge pyramid? It's misleading, and it does not represent what people think.
If you believe in this pyramid, then your KM approach will be an extension of information management. You will look at organising and aggregating information so that you can turn it into knowledge.
If instead you believe that knowledge comes from experience, and shared knowledge comes from shared experience, then your KM approach will be based on review and transfer of experience, connection of people, and conversation.
So we could in fact come up with a different pyramid, shown here, where experience leads to knowledge, which leads to decisions, and which leads to action.
The great thing about this version of the pyramid, is that action leads back to experience. And if we can share the experience from many actions, we can build shared knowledge which others can use to make correct decisions.
So the pyramids stack, as shown below.
Our previous approach, of treating Knowledge Management as an extension of information management, now becomes an approach of sharing experience in order to make better decisions, and take better actions.
Guess which of these works better?
 | Various pictures taken on our trips to Moody Gardens in Galveston Texas. Location: Moody Gardens, Galveston TexasDate: Oct 9, 2011 Number of Photos in Album: 36 |
Say, Jim, that is impressive. You don’t often see that, do you? An Orc who picks up the ball when he’s done flattening the opposition.
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Sure don’t, Bob. Oh, ouch! That move’s illegal! Where is the ref looking?
Gouged Eye have the ball again, and are going for the end zone.
Right, Jim. But Grim Ironjaw's gaining on Varag Ghoulchewer!
I’m afraid he’s not going to make it. Varag’s almost there...almost...
The stands are filled with screaming fans, the teams are taking the pitch, and the wait is finally over. Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game, the bone-crushing game of exciting sports action, is now on sale at your local retailer and on our webstore!
One of the hits of Gen Con Indy 2011, this exciting game lets you lead a team of Dwarf, Wood Elf, Orc, Human, Chaos, or Skaven players to victory as they compete in head-to-head weekly highlights over the course of a brutal five-week season. Survive the competitions, draft the most promising Star Players, hire talented staff, and grab the best equipment, and you’ll be sure to end up with Spike! Magazine’s “Manager of the Year” award.
Rules are made to be broken
Not sure how Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game works? Download the rules (pdf, 6.4 MB) from our support page or check out our detailed video tutorial by clicking the link below:
Click the link above to view the tutorial
You can also view it on YouTube, or with QuickTime from the support page.
Faces only a team manager could love
Not everyone will have to blitz their local retailer, however. Two weeks ago, we announced the Show Us Your Game Face contest, an opportunity for fans to put their dedication on display by sending in photos of themselves wearing their best game faces. We received a number of entries ranging from the inspiring to the repulsive, and while the final decision was a difficult one, our panel of referees tallied the bribe money and ultimately decided on these three winners:
Click the above images to enlarge
Congratulations to Shawn S, Andrew W, and Tom H. Your prizes are on the way! And thanks to everyone who participated; you helped make this competition a success.
Ready for the first week of match-ups? Head to your local retailer, and grab your copy of Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game today!
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So you think you’ve become something of a Ticket to Ride railroad tycoon? In the new Ticket to Ride for iPad 1.2, you have a chance to prove it by testing your mettle against Cornelius Vanderbot Jr. – a new AI competitor whose tactics are sometimes as ruthless as a real rail baron.
In both Solo and Pass-and-Play mode, you’ll be able to choose your opponents from among a variety of AI personalities, including young Cornelius Vanderbot Jr. who’s designed specifically to provide tougher competition when playing the base US Ticket to Ride map one-on-one.
This version also adds a much-requested feature, letting you review the game board and each of the players’ tickets and bonus cards at game’s end.
We’ve also added support for Days of Wonder’s News Channel, made some compatibility improvements for the upcoming iOS 5, numerous stability improvements (mostly related to Online play), and fixed several bugs.
For more details, check out the App Store description, or simply launch the application on your iPad to get the new version. Learn more on the Ticket to Ride iPad web page.
The first volume of the Ticket to Ride Map Collection for the Ticket to Ride board game series makes its debut in late October at the Essen Game Faire in Germany. Ticket to Ride Asia features two different maps on a double-sided board.
The Team Asia map is the first Ticket to Ride map designed for 6 players. 4 or 6 players collaborate in two player teams to complete shared Destination Tickets and trains.
The second map, Legendary Asia, features a new Asian Explorer bonus for connecting the most cities and ushers 2-5 players through treacherous Mountain Routes – each time you cross the Himalayas, you’ll lose a train car!
In addition to the double-sided map board, Ticket to Ride Asia includes all the Destination Tickets for both maps, rules booklets, 45 additional trains (9 of each color) required for Team Asia, and 6 wooden card holders to help you share your cards with your team member. This expansion requires trains and train cards from the Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe board game. Learn more on the Ticket to Ride Asia web page.
So I want to address the meme that Google's top executives are not heavy Google+ users after Michael DeGusta posted this piece lamenting the lack of updates by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other big wigs at Google.
DeGusta, an entrepreneur and former Web production lead at Apple, noted:
Management caring deeply about their company's products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday. At the other extreme, I started at Apple under Gil Amelio, who used to have his e-mails printed out for him. On that basis alone it was hardly surprising he was a disaster.
Mashable's Ben Parr thinks this is inexcusable and exhorts Google's management to eat its own dog food. I disagree.
Anyone following the space can readily find examples of companies where top execs are not eating the dog food or drinking the Kool Aid. Do you think Carol Bartz used CAD software while at AutoDesk?
So, upper-level management needn't necessarily use their products all of the time. DeGusta noted that Page had only made seven public posts since Google+ launched, which was seven more posts than Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has ever made. Schmidt does not appear to have a Google+ account.
Page would go on to update his Google+ account with a nice little eulogy for the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs the next day. But, no, he doesn't post much.
Of course, he and the other executives could be posting privately like crazy, or at least a little bit more, but I doubt it.
Here's the chart with the stats of antisocial Google management, in case you're interested:
So I have two questions to throw out: Why might this be the case? And: who cares?
First, I'll go back to what I suggested last month. Google only built Google+ to keep Facebook from eating its ad lunch. The execs don't particularly care for social networks.
I see the logic when DeGusta says execs need to use their company's products. My feeling in this case is that as long as Google+ product management leaders Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz are using the product regularly for quality control, the network should be fine.
You don't seriously think search gurus Page and Brin and legacy enterprise software guru Schmidt are influencing the product do you? It's Gundotra, Horowitz, some senior social engineers and a bunch of new, young hires. And the product is coming along fine.
Second, from an end-user perspective, who gives a lick? The earnest end user for Google+ only cares that their friends, family or colleagues are on the network. Does Google+ hold less value for you because Larry Page only posts twice a month?
Will you not use Google+ because Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin aren't updating frequently? For every Google exec who isn't sharing via Google+ a lot, I'll show you a Will.i.am or an Ashton Kutcher who is. Seriously, this is ridiculous.
It's just a bit of fun FUD.
By Lars Bak, Software Engineer, Dart Team
Cross-posted on the Chromium Blog
Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart’s design goals are:
- Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming.
- Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.
- Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution.
Dart code can be executed in two different ways: either on a native virtual machine or on top of a JavaScript engine by using a compiler that translates Dart code to JavaScript. This means you can write a web application in Dart and have it compiled and run on any modern browser. The Dart VM is not currently integrated in Chrome but we plan to explore this option.
The language comes with a set of basic libraries and tools for checking, compiling, and running Dart code, all of which will evolve further with your participation. We've made the language and preliminary tools available as open source on dartlang.org. Check out the site to give feedback, learn more about Dart, and participate in its development.
We look forward to rapidly evolving Dart into a solid platform for structured web programming.
Lars Bak is a veteran virtual machinist, leaving marks on several software systems: Beta, Self, Strongtalk, Sun's HotSpot and CLDC HI, OOVM Smalltalk, and V8.
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor
