Chelsea, Zach, and Ellie: She's so cute!

Chelsea, Zach, and Ellie: She's so cute!, originally uploaded by ithinkmedia.

Ellie is the latest addition to my extended family, I became a great for the 10th time yesterday when my niece and her husband had their first baby girl they named Ellie - she was born on Dec 7 at 1:27, weighing 7lbs. She is so cute and I can’t wait to get to know her better!

New Site

Free Flash Websites - Wix.com

Check out iThinkMedia.com Too

I really like blogger and will keep this site because it is less visible than iThinkMedia and geared more towards family/friends than clients, business, and technology but I would encourage ya'll to read iThinkMedia.com too. It would also be great to hear your thoughts about the new site too.

Additionally, tonight I've committed myself to write a book, my working title is "Digital for Over a Decade: My Online Journey in the Age of Information" I've got interesting stories to tell that I think might be of use to a few people at least. So just taking it one post at a time - the important thing is I've started! :)

Also, Emily I got your email, yes, put me on an email update! That would be a good thing and I encourage everyone to check out twitter - although I have to remind you, it is addicting, but in a good way. LOL

Are you Eeyore or Tigger?

Watch Randy Pausch's last lecture and you decide. I have to warn you, have some tissue around because you might need them.

Over the next few weeks I'll be publishing some of the best FREE resources I've found online. I hope you enjoy.

CamStudio (Alternative to Camtasia and Captivate)
http://camstudio.org/

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
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Audacity (Audio Editing Software)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
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Seamonkey (Alternative to Dreamweaver)
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

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PeaZip
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

PeaZip free archiver utility is a portable, open source archiving, encryption and file split tool.
PeaZip is cross platform and runs on 32 and 64 bit Windows (9x, 2000, XP, Vista) and Linux.
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WinSCP
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.

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FaxZero
http://faxzero.com

FaxZero lets you send a fax to any fax machine in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada for free. You don't need a fax machine yourself, but you do need a valid e-mail address.
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Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://free.ed.gov/

FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
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Going Green

There are many reasons to go green, one of my first efforts was replacing all the light bulbs in my house with the long lasting ones. My next effort is buying local produce, supporting local farmers in Colorado. I've learned about a new thing called CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) where you can buy into a farm so that over the next few months you get a supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. And I found three links other local Coloradans might find useful:

Venetucci Farms: http://www.venetuccifarm.org
Country Roots Farm: http://www.countryrootsfarm.com
Grant Family Farm: http://www.grantfarms.com

If you are interested in Community Supported Agriculture in your area then check out this site: http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

An interesting point - in Colorado we have 54 resources for CSAs, in Lousiana there are only 4! Note, I grew up in Louisiana thats why I was interested, so the good news is the market is open in Louisiana and I think there would be a large market!

Watch my uStream.tv Channel

OK, I'm producing an online TV channel on uStream -- you can tune in here: http://www.ustream.tv/ithinkmedia

I've not launched my first show yet but I'm working on it! You know me I'm a perfectionist so I want it to look half way decent -- although I'm sure it will get better over time so the important thing to remember is to "just do it" right. Because sometimes I let the fear of not being 'good' stop me from doing anything at all. :)

So tune in --

Memories of Alexandria

I thought everyone would like to see an Alexandria Retrospective. :)

What is twitter?

If you've ever have questions about technology I recommend checking out CommonCraft to get their simple answer. Here is one of their videos describing Twitter.

Welcome

I decided to set up a blog here because its easy. :) I've started using alot of the free online tools to market my services and business. Google offers pretty good stuff so I will give this a try so when I post to my ithinkmedia.com blog then I'll also cross post to this one -- so I don't have double work.