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After the jumping balls in San Francisco it's now exploding paint bombs in Glasgow.

For the filming they needed 10 days and 250 people.

The cleaning took 5 days and 60 people.

Avatars represent you and your personality on the internet. Not only in Instant Messaging applications but also several blog applications and forums let you add comments and use a global avatar.

You can use your avatar to tell the cyberworld something about yourself. Use it to show how you want to be seen or how you feel at hat moment. But please stop using those awfull default avatars. I've seen to much rubber duckies, frogs and racecars.

So here are some idears for creating your personalized avatar.

At AnAppADay, Dana Hanna mentioned a search engine for developers named Krugle.

I followed the link, did a basic search and I must say it looks really good. You can refine your search based on language, on project and some other criteria. Impressive!

On the other and we have the recently launched Google Code.

Code.google.com is a site for external developers interested in Google-related development.

It's hard to compare the two sites. Both are search engines but Google's focus is narrowed down to their own software development. In the presentation of the search results Krugle scores again.
Of course this is only a first impression of these sites but for now Krugle is my first choice.

UPDATE:
Google not only searches it's own code base no it can actually search throug all public sources with their "other" search engine Google Code Search.

Dana Hanna aka the Software Jedi is writing one application a day for a period of one month. He writes;

"May the world benefit from the purposeful destruction of my personal life."

You can follow the results of his work at AnAppADay. Only four days left to complete his quest.

Del.icio.us is a collection of bookmarks. My bookmarks but also the bookmarks from all other del.icio.us users. It's a social bookmarking site. I've been using del.icio.us for some time now and I love it. No need to synchronize my "Favorites" folders between computers and with tagging it's a lot easier to find my bookmarks back.

It still amazes me how few people around me are actually using this social web. Some of them are subscribed to my del.icio.us rss-feed while others have an account but don't use it.
Time to explain some of the features of this social web site.

Looking for a hard drive for my Macbook I came across this very entertaining flash-animation where the technology of perpendicular storage is explained.

Guy Kawasaki wrote a really interesting post on his blog:
"Why Smart People Do Dumb Things" (Like Not Backup Their Hard Disk).

His post wasn't intended to be about making backups but merely about the flaws of the immature human mind. Guy's experience came from a failing hard disk. My latest encounter with the "god of stupidity" was after synchronizing my new PDA at home and at work. In the process I lost several contacts.

Why Guy did not make a backup of his hard disk? For him the question was answered in this book: "Why Smart People Do Dumb Things". In this book the authors list four reasons why smart people -like you and me- should know better ...