PBWiki – Get a Free Wiki

I just got myself a free wiki at PBWiki.com and it’s pretty cool. If you’re not familiar with this, you can check out the PBWiki tour.

Sony DCR-HC90 Handycam

For years we’ve talked about buying a camcorder, but never made the decision to do so. On my part I could see lots of reasons why we should have one but I wanted to be sure that this wasn’t just another one of those “gadget cravings” where I end up buying one, playing with it for a while and then getting bored and putting it away and forgetting all about it. On Tamy’s part, she wasn’t particularly thrilled about the idea of being captured on video (she already avoids having her photo taken), but the thought of me turning into Chevy Chase on a National Lampoon’s Adventure just freaked her out.

But now that Dany’s 4 months old, we’ve realized that there’s so much we want to share with family and photos can only do so much. So after another “Dany moment” where he did something so cute that we wished we could have shown our parents (who only get to visit us once or twice a year), we finally decided it was time to take the leap and buy a camcorder. So last week I bought the Sony DCR HC-90 Handycam Camcorder which arrived yesterday. I actually got it cheaper from eCost.com).

Writely: A Web-Based Word Processor

Michael Arrington thinks that Writely is Kicking A** and he’s right. It’s a neat example of how to build a good Ajax application and has some really cool features. How many friends and family do you know who spent $200 on Microsoft Word (or even more for MS Office) and all they do is “type letters�?

Writely is shaking things up and it’s going to be interesting to see what happens in this space i.e. how long before we see a Windows Live Word for the Web edition?