A Moment of Wisdom

I will be playing in a sand quads volleyball tournament today down in Va Beach. I have never been to the East Coast Surfing Championships before so it should prove to be a fun experience all around. Wish me luck!

If you like Piña COLLADA,

Then you should be rather happy because the next release of SketchUp will provide much better support for the COLLADA format. According to the SketchUp blog:

In our next release, we’re going to make COLLADA an official first-class format for all modelers. You’ll be able to import and export COLLADA models, as well as COLLADA models wrapped up in the KMZ format for Google Earth, with any version of SketchUp.

Sounds like good news to me as an open standard is being support more fully by a great free tool like SketchUp.

via Coming Soon in Google SketchUp….

I heard Mark Schultz on KLove last night sing this song live and it was absolutely amazing.  Personally, I don’t know how someone can make it through a song like this without welling up.  Mark definitely has a knack with his lyrics and vocals and they pack quite a punch with a moving message.

Clever Lifehacker,

What a good idea!  Instead of buying new replacement boards for your deck why not check out the flip side first? The boards are probably just as good looking on the other side as when they were first purchased … and with a little effort (ok, maybe a bit of effort) you could turn that frown upside down by putting the good side right side up!

via Flip Your Old Deck Boards Before Shelling Out for a New Deck

Update: I heard from a source that this might not be the best idea after all. The thought is that you should lay the boards with the curve of the grain pointing up because over time the boards may cup and hold water when it rains.

What do you think?

From the nice folks at Lifehacker,

If you ever needed to rebuild a machine or for whatever reason needed to remember the license keys to your software … well, most likely you forgot to save this valuable tidbit of information and don’t know how to easily get it back.  Wouldn’t you know that some friendly computer geek out there has already solved this problem and made it freely available!  Have you hugged your geek today?

LicenseCrawler Retrieves License Keys for Backup

Via Lifehacker,

If you like cooking and sharing recipes among your friends then you may want to check out Kitchen Monki.  This site allows you to hook right in with your Facebook account and start exploring their repository of food creations.  I’m not sure how much I will honestly use the service but hope it may spark some creative ideas in my wife’s future dinner plans

Kitchen Monki Makes Planning Your Grocery Shopping Easier.

According to Slashgeo,  a company named OnTerra is offering a free service to Bing Maps as WMS.  So far none of the big commercial map providers (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, etc. ) have offered their services out as an open standard like OGC WMS.  I my development efforts I have used OpenLayers a bit and they make additional efforts to support these proprietary services … it would be nice for them to embrace the OGC standards too.

via Bing Maps WMS Service.