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Touching the Snake: Overcoming Fears of Inadequacy in Creativity

Allison Kiessling — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:59:22 +0000

Albert Bandura – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bandura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy:_The_exercise_of_control – “Describes perceived self-efficacy perceptions as ‘a key factor in a generative system of human competence.’ These perceptions are ‘concerned not with the number of skills you have, but with what you believe you can do with what you have under a variety of circumstances.’”

Parkinson’s Law

Allison Kiessling — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:26:22 +0000

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

And, Parkinson’s Law of Triviality:

“Parkinson dramatizes his Law of Triviality with a committee’s deliberations on a nuclear power plant, contrasting it to deliberation on a bicycle shed. As he put it, “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.” A nuclear reactor is used because it is so vastly expensive and complicated that an average person cannot understand it, so they assume that those working on it understand it. Even those with strong opinions often withhold them for fear of being shown to be insufficiently informed. On the other hand, everyone can visualize a bicycle shed, so planning one can result in endless discussions because everyone involved wants to add his or her touch and show that they have contributed.^“

Great Free Screen Casting Site

Allison Kiessling — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:23:16 +0000

Allows you to upload your videos directly to YouTube.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

A Great CSS3 Generators

Allison Kiessling — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:02:37 +0000

Gradients: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

Text-Shadows, Box Shadows, Rounded Corners – http://css3gen.com/

More for round corners – http://www.cssportal.com/css3-rounded-corner/

A place to start with buttons – http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/

Background patterns (not supported in IE8, but they work for everything else) – http://info.patternizer.com/docs

Cool Tutorial for a CSS Thermometer – http://www.suenovotny.com/blog/2011/03/dynamic-thermometer-with-css-and-php.php

Dynamic Charts & Graphs with Google Chart Tools:

https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery

Some Very Good Reasons to Opt Out of TSA Body Scanners

Allison Kiessling — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:18:37 +0000

$2.3 Billion for a program that is absolutely useless – http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-201203270000–tms–traveltrctntt-b20120327mar27,0,3956193.story

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/17/news/la-trb-tsa-backscatter-study-20111117

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/29/tsa-scanners-risk-flying?newsfeed=true

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-questioning-body-scanner-opt-outs/

http://wewontfly.com/why/

http://tsatyranny.com/

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/

A great tutorial on adding Social Media to your site

Allison Kiessling — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:28:19 +0000

It specifically talks about WordPress – but you can apply these tips to other types of sites as well – http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/01/19/facebook-twitter-google-wordpress/

And a great tutorial on using HTML5 and CSS to style a form – http://line25.com/tutorials/create-a-stylish-contact-form-with-html5-css3

Hotel Alternatives

Allison Kiessling — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:39:36 +0000

http://www.airbnb.com – Seems like they are the biggest company in this market. Aug 15, 2011 – they added a $50k guarantee to cover loss or damage for anyone offering their place to guests. (this was after a poorly handled burglary in SF earlier in 2011) (also – absorbed Crashpadder – http://airbnb.crashpadder.com/)

http://Roomorama.com/ – founded in Jan of 2009 – seems like they specialize in short term apartment rentals

http://www.couchsurfing.org/ – the free version of airbnb – offer your couch or backyard to a traveler for free

http://www.homeaway.com/ – online classifieds where vacation rental owners pay to advertise their space, no option to stay in just a room or with a host

http://www.vrbo.com/ – online classifieds where vacation rental owners pay to advertise their space

http://www.istopover.com/

http://www.onefinestay.com/ – seems to be focused on London, full homes or apts

http://www.bedandfed.co.uk/ – UK and Ireland

http://Localo.com/

http://www.wimdu.com/ – clone competitor to airbnb – accused of aggressively trying to steal airbnb hosts - http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/airbnb

http://www.9flats.com/ – clone of airbnb

And also:

Google has launched a great new hotel finder tool: http://www.google.com/hotelfinder

5 Rules to Short Term Rentals

Rent or Borrow Stuff: http://snapgoods.com/

Rent out your car – http://www.getaround.com/tour

House / Apartment Swapping

Great article on swapping – http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/04/15/home-exchange-vacations-why-pay-to-stay-when-you-can-swap-house/

http://www.camago.com/

http://www.knok.com

http://www.homebase-hols.com/

http://www.homelink.org/usa

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/going-on-holiday-finding-a-hom-86386

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Allison Kiessling — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:15:25 +0000

You are aware that I am not really a wizard…

Allison Kiessling — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:13:21 +0000

I know everyone’s seen this before, but I just really like it:

McKellen: Peter Jackson comes from New Zealand, says to me, “Sir Ian, I want you to be Gandalf the wizard.” And I say to him, “You are aware that I am not really a wizard…” And he said, “Yes, I’m aware of that. What I want you to do is use your acting skills to portray the wizard for the duration of the film.” So I said, “Okay.” And then I said to myself, “Hmm, how do I do that?” And this is what I did: I imagined what it would be like to be a wizard, and then I pretended and acted in that way on the day… And how did I know what to say? The words were written down for me in a script. How did I know where to stand? People told me. If we were to draw a graph of my process, of my method, it would be something like this: Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian. Action. WIZARD! “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” Cut! Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.

Find and Replace in phpMyAdmin SQL Query

Allison Kiessling — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:32:41 +0000

Under the “SQL” tab in the new version of phpMyAdmin, not the “Query” tab.

UPDATE table_name SET table_field = replace(tablefield,"search_string","replace_string");

WordPress query for reference:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content,"OldDomain.com","NewDomain.com");

Got this from: http://dukeo.com/phpmyadmin-sql-search-and-replace/