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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC). Drowning does not look like drowning
This is an eye-opening article for me. Not having actually watched anyone drown (fortunately), I had the impression that someone drowning would trash madly as shown on TV and movies. This is knowledge that can actually save lives! I think everyone should read this, particularly parents.
Rands In Repose: How to Write a Book
So, stop. It’s the only sure-fire way to begin.
Very interesting post from Rands about the process of writing a book.
Site improvements
In their quest to offer a better service every day, the guys at posterous.com have released their Pages tool, which makes it much easier to use Posterous for all my online content by allowing the creation of static pages. And in a stroke of genius, they even allow pages to automatically redirect to arbitrary URLs! This makes it almost trivial to integrate multiple sites into a single, unified user experience. As a first step, as you can see above, I have better integrated this blog and my zznippets blog by giving them a common theme, differentiated only by color. I will be working on bringing much of my other online content under posterous by making use of this feature.
A Services Menu for iPhone
On the Mac, Services are a niche. On iPhone OS they’d be nothing short of a revolution.
Very interesting idea, would be incredibly useful. Follow the link for a full description, plus a mock-up video of how it could work.
D8 Video: Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Adobe Flash
Deleting my Facebook account
Today I reactivated my Facebook account just to be able to delete it
completely. If you find Facebook useful, you should at least be aware
of its potential privacy issues, and tune your privacy settings to a
level that you find comfortable. Here are some links where you can
find more information:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1624745/time-to-audit-your-facebook-privacy-settings
http://www.fastcompany.com/1648478/online-privacy-check-yourself-before-you-w... Personally, I don't find Facebook useful enough to go through the
hassle. My account has been deactivated for the last couple of weeks
and I haven't missed it, so now it's time to permanently delete it.
Clicky clicky: https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account