Nice photo.

I have seen amazing things done with Photoshop. I even know some Photoshop tricks myself that look impressive. Over the years, I have also used the program that's been included with Windows -- mspaint. It is short on features, very basic, etc.

This video is the artist creating the Mona Lisa. It took two and a half hours for the artist to create. This video is sped-up and takes 5 minutes.

The "popular shows" part of his site has some pretty good episodes.

I have been tempted to switch from time to time, especially when Bloglines was having some technical issues a while back, but the primary reason I have not moved on is their Bloglines Mobile feature. Bloglines Mobile is an amazing, light weight version that strips the html to work really well on small screens and mobile devices. I have access to all the feeds (or a subset if I choose) and can start reading exactly where I left off on my desktop.

Bloglines just added an additional new feature to the mobile reader. They have integrated Skweezer technology to optimize web pages for your personal handheld mobile device. So the key development here is pages from links on Bloglines are now also optimized for small screens.

When you click on a link while reading a blog post in Bloglines Mobile, Skweezer will compress and reformat the content so you get it faster and better looking on your small screen. As you surf, the content will continue to be skweezed.

The article states that the amount of fraud this year is over one billion dollars. They do a good job explaining the issues.

"Paid to read" rings with hundreds or thousands of members each, all of them pressing PC mice over and over in living rooms and dens around the world. In some cases, "clickbot" software generates page hits automatically and anonymously. Participants from Kentucky to China speak of making from $25 to several thousand dollars a month apiece, cash they wouldn't receive if Google and Yahoo were as successful at blocking fraud as they claim.

In another interesting article on the subject, Business Week has the CEO from Network Appliance calling the SEC investigation a "Witch Hunt".

Freedbacking is not in Google as of this post. It should be soon.

We are lucky in Seattle to have a world-class Salami place called Salumi. Its a wonderful place. Line for lunch starts at 11am and its packed for hours.

C|net has some McNealy quotes from over the years. I have a couple of favorites:

� "I've always argued the best way to keep your teenager off drugs is buy him a Pentium Pro, give him NT and Microsoft Office and a printer, and tell him you get $500 if you can print something out of PowerPoint on that printer. That will take him six months of drug-free activity. I think that's probably the best thing you could possibly do for your teenager."

� "I enjoy my wife enough to now have four children."

Here are the steps to fix this.

Here is a new one about getting powders to disolve well in liquids.