The Blog of Adam Patten

Recently my traffic has sky rocketed when Chris linked to my site. I saw an increase from my normal one visitor to a whopping 5! With all this link love I might even move up to a Page Rank of 2!

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Ok, you may think this post is kind of creepy, but hey its not like I have real visitors to this site so what the heck. Jon and Joey both did this and I think its pretty funny so here are the mirrored sides of my face.

I kinda like the strange tube that is around my neck on the left side, but the right side is way skinnier, either way my hair is out of control in both(which is the same in a regular picture) so I like ‘em.

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I run the website thelivefeed.net for a few of my friends who are writers, and it looks like Andy might being having a change of heart on his NCAA football playoff stance tomorrow depending if his Georgia Bulldogs are in the national champion ship game or not. All I know is that this season is crazy and I’m just hoping that Clemson, my school, some how sneaks into a BSC bowl. Lets go UW!

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So I don’t know what took me so long to sign up with flickr, but I finally did today. At first glance I’m pretty happy. All the controls are intuative and its really easy to figure everthing out so I’m enjoying it. I’ve uploaded one set of photos and set them as private, I’m not sure how I feel about sharing them with everyone just yet, and shared them with a few friends. The only draw back to this is that they have to create an account to view them. It might be nice to send them to a URL that you could set to expire in a certain period of time. I don’t really need high level security on my photos, but I just don’t like them out there for Google and Yahoo! to find and show to everyone. So far flickr gets two thumbs up!

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Recently I have been playing around with MediaWiki, and I must say the whole idea of a wiki is really exciting to me. Obviously Wikis are nothing new, millions of people use Wikipedia everyday including myself. I never contributed to Wikipedia so I was never a part of the community and did not have a full understanding of how powerful a wiki can be. I must say at the early stages of using MediaWiki I’m really excited to be working with a wiki on a regular basis. Stripping away all the bells and whistles of tradition website and delivering quality content for everyone by everyone is really what the web is all about, and wikis do a great job at that. It is exciting to see non web geeks contributing and sharing information that would never make its way out in the open if it weren’t for software like wikis. Part of the whole reason I enjoy working on the web is the community of people who openly share information and are willing to help people they have never met and it’s nice to see non geeks around me entering the community as well. Just wanted to share what is exciting me lately and if you haven’t contributed to a wiki yet I suggest you go out and do it. There are plenty to choose from include the ever popular, Wikipedia.

While doing some hunting around for information on wikis I came across these funny pictures from Flickr that you may enjoy.

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