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Updated my blog and plugins this morning, so that’s been taken care of for the next month or so. Also cleaned my gems, which wasn’t an awesome idea, but I survived. Made some more progress on Project M, should definitely be out this weekend.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• IntuitionHQ – Another resource for usability testing.
• 15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online – A roundup of free stock photo sources.
• The Bare Bones That Every Freelance Contract Should Have – More contract resources for freelancers without one, or those with one that want to make sure they got a good lawyer
• Calibre – mac + calibre + prs-505 = a happy reader. Site seems to have gotten a facelift recently, but I’m not sure the last time I’ve been out there.
• Amazing jQuery tables – more jquery table goodness (the screenshot for the highlight doesn’t do anything for me).
• How To Deal with Non-Paying Clients – Luckily I haven’t had to deal with too many of these. Though I question #4. After all this nonsense you’re going to include “…would hope you would not hesitate to contact us in the future…”. Gluttons for punishment?

Busy day this morning, 2 new projects, still only 24 hours in a day. Talked to another potential VA, I think I might need to chat with 1 or 2 one more time and narrow down my decision, hopefully early next week. Its the weekend, hopefully it will stop raining soon.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Online vCard Converter – I needed this to go from AddressBook Smart Groups vCard to CSV to use in Mad Mimi. Bottom line, vCard to lots of formats, including CSV.
• jQuery UI Multiselect – Pretty cool jQuery widget to deal with adding things one at a time to another thing from a giant list. A client pointed this out, I’m guessing because he wants something like this. Just a guess.
• 21 Awesome T-Shrits for Photographers – I like #13 and #14.
• 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action – Interesting tip to talk directly to your audience using “you”.
• My Humble Android Sales Figures – Now that we’re a two droid family, I’m wondering what it would take to get into Android development on the mac. I have a few ideas for apps, of course.
• Why Ruby is a Wonderful Language – May not be scientific but it’s an interesting pic.
• How Freelance Businesses can measure Social Media Results – I was actually pretty down on LinkedIn and Twitter for their lack of producing viable clients. I’ve won my single largest work from twitter (employs me, a sub to me, my friend, and had one other on the team but that fell through).
• The Bikini Concept – Some analogies just stick, for me I think this one will. It’s been over 20 years since my 7th grade science teacher told me how long my paper should be, but I remember it like it was yesterday. She said, it should be like a short skirt; short enough to be interesting but long enough to cover the subject.