Maureen, Paul, Jessi and I drove down the California coast on highway 1 yesterday. Here are some pictures from our trip. The beach was in Carmel.

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I built a javascript widget that animates a tag cloud to show the increased and decreased usage of tags over time.

If you want to see a demo, or download the script, visit the animated tag-cloud demo page. Here is a screen-shot:

Here are a couple photos from a walk I took a walk a couple nights ago. The first is a shot of Telegraph Hill and the Bay Bridge from Russian Hill, and the second is boats in Fisherman's Wharf with Christmas lights on them.

I accidentally just discovered something awesome about OS X. If you have a touchpad, hold the control key with your left hand, place your right pointer finger in the middle of the touchpad in a solitary position, and slide upwards on the trackpad with your right middle-finger. The effect is the entire OS zooming in and out. This should be really amazing with Leopard's resolution independence.

Here is a screenshot in actual-size:

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geoGreeting! spells stuff with sattelite images of buildings that look like letters. Bomb.

Maureen and I got out of the city this weekend with friends of hers who were in town. We walked through the beautiful Muir Woods and did some wine tasting in Napa Valley.

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Wikidentity is my newest side-project, which has been keeping me busy (and silent) for the past couple of months. It is a flash based client that you can open over any web-page (similar to Ma.gnolia Roots) and it shows you hCards that are embedded in the page. An hCard is the microformat equivalent of a vcard. That is to say, its a bit of semantic markup in a webpage, that lets other machines know that the information within the markup is about a person. Usually this contains a name, URLs, contact information, photos and so on.

So Wikidentity was built not only to show you hCards on the current page, but also to index hcards from around the web, and make them searchable. It does it's best at seaming together hCards for the same person, and links that person to other people who are related. It also allows you to save that information in a format that other applications recognize, such as Address Book, and Outlook.

To try it out, head over to Wikidentity.com, where you can grab a bookmarklet, or a Firefox plugin.

If you find bugs, or have suggestions, head over to the Wikidentity Ma.gnolia group and let me know in the discussions.