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It’s really easy to embed videos from sites like YouTube and photos from sites like Flickr into your own web-site. But what I’ve found recently, is that the embed size options don’t quite fit my site. So, for example, on the Subprime Crisis post just a little earlier, the smallest size offered by YouTube was 320×265. However, 320 pixels is too wide for my layout (at least on the front page). In the past, I’ve resorted to the calculator, or even Excel to find the height required for a preferred width, say 230 pixels. Now, I’ve made a little online app to do it for you:

Embed Resizer

Looking at the “your network” feature in del.icio.us.

When I posted about MathsClass, I forgot to mention one nice feature, of interest to anyone.

If you use Google AdSense, you might want to try section targetting.

Today, Jeffery Veen (who commented on my earlier post about Measure Map) also bookmarked it at Hot Links, a social bookmarking tool in development.

On Wednesday, I received an invitation to sign-up for Measure Map. Measure Map is a stats package for blogs.

Gmail, if you don’t know, is Google’s email service. I’ve had an account for a while, but till recently had no use for it.

I’m often making little notes (email and post-it) trying to help me remember little scraps of information. For example, I need to remember tomorrow to get a passport photo. I’m regularly sending emails to myself with notes, links and files. So, how to organise all these little tidbits of life?