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I made a video of my commute from work back home.

Happy new year everyone. I haven’t made a new year resolution list in a long time so I thought I’d do one this year and share it with everyone.

My New Year Resolutions
1. Get Engaged/Married
2. Earn enough income from side projects to support myself without a job
3. Become more organized
4. Payoff loans

Short-term goal for this quarter
- Finish up ChartVote!

What are your goals for this year? I’d love to hear them so leave a comment.

Smiling Dog - EchoPic

And this is why God put dogs on the earth.

I recently upgraded to flash player 9.0.115.0 and I’ve found that when “pausing” an mp3 and storing the song’s position when it was paused and then restarting the song with the position that was stored causes the song to play about 1.5 seconds ahead of where I stopped the song at? This was working fine with the previous version of flash. Anyone else experiencing this?

This bug manifests itself everywhere the new player version(9.0.115.0) is used including the Flash CS3 IDE, Internet Explorer and Firefox. I’ve done a quick search of the flash forums, but I have not seen anyone else with this issue.

I don’t think this is a browser issue since this bug is even reproduced in the actuall flash CS3 IDE. I believe this is an issue with the flash player itself.

I’ve done some searching, but I haven’t found a useful SDK or service that will examine an image and determine if it contains pornographic material.

If you know of a service or SDK like this then leave a comment. Also if you know of any open source projects that are doing something like this I’d be very interested in that as well.

Someone has to fight back against this junk.

The full post can be viewed here.

Our goal at EchoPic is to provide a safe place for people to share their images on the web. We want a website where families can come and feel safe knowing they are not going to be presented with offensive content and where parents can feel secure knowing their children are viewing content that is safe for them.

Sadly with the way the internet is and the amount of junk that is out there it takes man power to moderate the content that comes into EchoPic to keep the site free of pornography.

If you would like to help EchoPic with moderating content please contact me at info@echopic.com. We are looking for people who are willing to donate their time to help keep EchoPic clean and safe for everyone of all ages.

I’ve posted some numbers about EchoPic on the site’s new blog. Below is an excerpt.

Today is EchoPic’s 2 month anniversary. I want to say thanks to everyone who has been using EchoPic and helping the service grow. When I launched EchoPic I didn’t expect it to grow like it has. It was just a fun side project. Well today, 2 months later EchoPic has become more than what it was intended to be.

Some Stats:

* Over 100,000 unique visitors a month
* Traffic spikes of up to 30,000 visitors per day
* Almost 10,000 views per day to hot linked images (these are not counted in monthly visitor stats

Link: http://blog.echopic.com/2007/11/echopic-two-months-later/

I started using Moola almost a year ago and I just recently picked it back up out or boredom. Basically Moola allows users to play flash based games against each other to make money. Users are forced to watch an ad before the game which is how moola makes its money. Every time you win a game your money is doubled.

LINK: Moola.com

is a new web based ad service with a new twist that allows viewers to say whether or not they liked the ad. The service looks very promising mainly because the ads that they show so far don’t suck.

The dashboard that adpinion provides publishers is minimal, but I like the fact that it gets to the point. All I need to know is how many impressions/clicks/money have I earned. This is the only ad network I’ve seen so far that I would actually like to advertise with. I’ll be keeping my eyes on this one.

Artist KT Tunstall performed at Apple’s 2007 keynote speech with her song Black Horse And The Cherry Tree. I must say she is very talented. For those of you who didn’t notice she is using a loop machine to provide the background instrumentation and vocals. She creates the loop on the fly when she starts the song.