Hello all! Sorry I haven't been updating my blog very much recently (sorry Suus!), but nothing really noteworthy happened. Life plodded along all on its own and didn't need a blog to worry about.
However, two nice thing happened to me recently: I won a prize and I discovered a nice Web 2.0 application.
The prize I won is very exciting indeed: Amanda and I are going to the official launch of the new Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). I entered a prize draw and we won two tickets to the event and one signed copy of the book each, which will be signed on the night itself! We might even be in the first 500 (The ticket no. is very low) and if that's the case we will be listening to J.K. Rowling herself reading a bit from the book.
Yes, both Amanda and I are fairly big Potter fans. Not fanatical, but we did take some time off to be able to finish the book after we get it. (Okay, we're also painting a room, but that's beside the point)
I never win anything, so this is a nice surprise. The only downside is that we will have to be in London at the National History Museum at 1am on Saturday morning. It's going to be a long night...
The second thing I talked about above is the website http://www.geni.com which is an online family tree application. Some members of my family have been busy doing this for a while now, but I never really got into it. However, Geni adds a Web 2.0/social aspect to it. It feels almost myspace/facebook in its approach and it is really easy to fill in stuff about people you know from your family. But then you can enter their email address and invite them to join in too! The entry you created for them becomes the starting point for their own account and off they go!
It's a breeze to add other people, view the tree, list birthdays and anniversaries, upload photos and note who's in them etc. etc. It really feels like a very slick and well thought-out bit of code. I've got my wife, her mom and my mom working at the tree, and we've got more than 200 people already in the tree between us. We've even got the family genealogist of my mom's family willing to merge his tree with ours as soon as genie figures out how to do it.
Give it a whirl. I'm sure you'll waste a lot of hours adding your direct family and finding out who knows a lot more about it than you do.
Monday, July 02, 2007
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Cool.
We already started with the tree for our daughter in an other app. This one seems way more easy to use.
I'm going to fill this one as far as possible.
And who knows, maybe we are related from a far far far distant relative.
That would be... errr.. Interesting? :) - Glad you like the app. It's really well done.
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