So I had a great idea the other day and I mentioned it to Chris, and Lo and Behold he used Rails and built Eh List really quickly. Ok, so it wasn't exactly my idea, but my idea started his :)

It lets you track how well your site ranks within Google and Technorati. The first time you enter your site there will only be one datapoint, but it will update every day to show you the stats over time. For example, it shows you how the number of indexed pages on Google goes up and down over a really short period of time.

Stats for this blog

Jen

    Chris & I have created a new blog together!
We are learning a new programming language (Ruby) and framework (Rails) and have decided to create a new shared blog where we can document our experience.
Check out: Kekova - a husband and wife's rails adventure
I will keep this blog for my other hobbies and occasional personal rant and keeping the technical stuff on Kekova.
Are you wondering What is Kekova?
We are using the Typo blog software which is written in Rails. Right now we are using the Iowa Storm Theme which provides the images, style, and colours. Chris and I are planning on creating our own Kekova theme for the Typo Theme Contest for November 10th.

    We recently setup a CarePage for my sister Katy. It is a web site that helps patients communicate with other people about how they are doing, and helps friends and family support the patient by posting messages.
We have been amazed at the number of messages we have gotten from around the world. Thanks to everyone for your support.
So I decided to use the Google Maps API to map where all the messages have come from. I used both the Free Geocoder for more specific locations or when I didn't even know the city and the Maporama when all I now is the city.

Messages for Katy from Around the World

    My RSS feed is: http://mewren.com/feed/main
If you want to get my posts in your email use R |Mail mewren.com
If you want to view my posts, you can use a reader that you can use to collect blogs you are interested in like or one of the other "Aggregators" here.


Thanks to Chris Nolan, for the Google Reader button and thanks to Randy, for the aggregator script that creates these buttons which allow you to easily subscribe to my blog.

I will put the buttons on the menu when I get around to it.

Jen

    My Travel Photography class had our second field trip. This time we went to Kensington Market. I wasn't feeling great and I really didn't like the location very much. Maybe I just don't find Toronto as interesting compared to the other places I have been. Also were not that many stores open or many people around.
We worked on different compositional techniques:

Selective focus

Dominant foreground, contributing background

Controlled depth of field

Introducing disorder into order (green onions diff shape than all the rest)

Texture

Other photos: