The Bundle of Banal Observations

Below is Wes Kelley's collection of random posts, discoveries and observations. Feel free to also follow the blog or soak up the twitterness.

Jul 31

Bye Bye Tumblr

I’ve decided to move all my posts over to my personal website at http://weskelley.me.  Though Tumblr’s impossible to beat if you’re looking for a simple and elegant way to quickly post content, I’m going to merge up my quick posts and my longer-form blog entries.

In the process, I’ve learned that you can’t export anything out of Tumblr, nor can you delete your Tumblr account.  Doesn’t that seem odd?  I’m surprised folks haven’t howled for a convenient way to transport your own content to another site. 

Despite the challenges I’ve faced when leaving Tumblr, I have to say that they’ve made a great system and using it regularly has been a very pleasurable experience.

Posted at 9:00pm

Jul 19
buzzandersen: Detail from a Graph of My Last Year’s Last.fm History (via Dennis Yang) LastGraph is one of the most useful web visualization toys I’ve ever seen. It’s fascinating to watch the ebb and flow of my music listening habits, and see how some bands remain constant while others experience massive spikes. I’d love to see something like this overlaid with Flickr, Twitter and other indicators of what was going on in my life! This is some very slick stuff.  I’m going to give it a try myself soon.

buzzandersen:

Detail from a Graph of My Last Year’s Last.fm History

(via Dennis Yang)

LastGraph is one of the most useful web visualization toys I’ve ever seen. It’s fascinating to watch the ebb and flow of my music listening habits, and see how some bands remain constant while others experience massive spikes. I’d love to see something like this overlaid with Flickr, Twitter and other indicators of what was going on in my life!

This is some very slick stuff.  I’m going to give it a try myself soon.
Posted at 9:28pm

Jul 18

Fail of the Week: My New iPhone

It looks like I’m about to trade in my trusty Blackberry for a new iPhone at work.  I just hope I don’t run into the annoying problems presented the linked post.

Posted at 3:25pm

Jul 11

Peter Gabriel's 'Big Blue' Musical Mashup

I’m always a sucker for a new Peter Gabriel album.  He is hauntingly magnificent.

Posted at 10:27pm

Jul 4
Not that I live around there anymore, but how did I miss that they are rebuilding the Bay Bridge connecting Oakland to San Francisco?

Not that I live around there anymore, but how did I miss that they are rebuilding the Bay Bridge connecting Oakland to San Francisco?
Posted at 10:56pm

Tips for Switchers...

I have to wonder how long it will be before Walt Mossberg leaves WSJ and takes a position at Apple.  Mind you, I’m not complaining, but I think he may have cut and pasted this from the Apple website.

Posted at 10:53pm

Jun 21

Don't Mess With It!

“As if it were a swarm of bees…”  You don’t often find this kind of direct communication in the tech knowledge base.  Apparently Apple’s trying to make a point.

Posted at 9:06pm

Jun 15

Small World -- R.E.M. and Walker Percy

“Anyone who really wants to figure out the words to our songs should probably read this essay, then go back and listen.” Michael Stipe talking about an essay by Walker Percy.

(via misplacedlibrarian)

Posted at 9:10am

Jun 3

End in sight on cleanup of WWII nuclear fuel plant

It took 18 months and half a billion dollars to build this Manhattan Project relic during WWII.  Now it will take 15 years and $3 billion to tear it down.

Posted at 11:48am

May 17

Cool Business Cards

Posted at 10:31pm

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