tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51109157098932070582011-09-21T19:47:24.030-07:00The black hole known as the "Mind of Steve".Steve Merkelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04710337123726497817noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110915709893207058.post-52206510260309893542010-07-05T22:28:00.000-07:002010-07-05T22:34:21.811-07:00I've been playing with Google Wave lately. It is coming along nicely. I had the chance to get early access to the tool. It was pretty FUBAR when I checked it out, which was late in 2009. I just checked into it again, and found that it is <span style="font-weight:bold;">vastly</span> improved. First and foremost, the UI is improved. More importantly though, is the addition of extensions. My favorite is Unawave <a href="http://www.unawave.com">www.unawave.com</a>. Unawave is a project management extension that has promis.<br /><br />Another interesting thing I discovered is a rich API set. Take a look at this page: <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/guide.html#PublicWave">http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/guide.html#PublicWave</a><br /><br />I'd like to see how long it takes for a robot to come along and put spam into a Wave I've created for this entry. Interesting foo....<br /><br /><div id="waveframe" style="width:500px; height:400px;"></div><script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script><script type="text/javascript"> google.load("wave", "1"); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { new google.wave.WavePanel({target: document.getElementById("waveframe")}).loadWave("googlewave.com!w+fOCAAzExM");}); </script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5110915709893207058-5220651026030989354?l=smerkel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Steve Merkelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04710337123726497817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110915709893207058.post-24776870221877862582010-06-06T23:12:00.000-07:002010-06-06T23:15:00.804-07:00Here are some pictures that I took the day I broke 100 flight hours. Of course, I'm only at like 108 now, and it's been a few years. Need to get back up in the air...<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fsmerkel%2Falbumid%2F5202681133454293153%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5110915709893207058-2477687022187786258?l=smerkel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Steve Merkelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04710337123726497817noreply@blogger.com0