Did you know that Texas leads the nation in wind energy production? I didn’t either, even though USA Today reported on it back in 2006.
According to the American Wind Energy Association®, Texas inches out California by 400 MW.
AWEA’s annual rankings provide a standard reference for tracking the growth of wind power in the U.S. The rankings (as of December 31, 2006) are listed below (one megawatt of wind power produces enough electricity on average to serve 250 to 300 homes):
States with most wind energy installed, by capacity (MW)
1. Texas 2,768
2. California 2,361
3. Iowa 936
4. Minnesota 895
5. Washington 818
Texas is firmly established as the leader in wind power development, with over 2,700 MW installed at the end of 2006 and some 1,000 MW currently under construction.
Photo: 
Some rights reserved. by fieldsbh || Windfarm in Fluvanna with fence
Posted under Environment, Science, Texas
This post was written by Junyor on December 28, 2007
Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time.
This post was written by Junyor on December 28, 2007
I have just installed the Windows Live Writer (WLW) and thought I would take it for a spin by writing a little review about it.
First Impression: It actually seems pretty nice. Wordpress 2.3.1, the backbone of this site, fully supports WLW. I rather like the idea of being able to save a draft locally and work on it later. Not particularly sure why I like the idea better than saving on online draft, but I suppose if didn’t have an always-on internet connection this option would be more useful to you.
Setting it up was a breeze, I just entered my url and login information. The overall layout is pretty intuitive and a little more user friendly when compared to the standard TinyMCE wordpress interface.
It handles all the things I would want a writing interface to handle; categories, publish date, inserts (hyperlink, picture, table, map, tags, video are on my default install insert list).
The insert image dialog is decently feature packed. Text wrapping, custom margins, border (drop shadow default), link to. The advanced tab give you the ability to define the insert size, change the contrast & rotate. The effects tab lets you apply image transformation effects like change to black & white, color pop, and emboss.
I was able to use the insert map feature to add the map below of downtown Dallas. The dialog takes you immediately to live map search where you can select or enter a location. You can add push pins, but not labels for the push pins. There also isn’t any support, as far as I could tell, to provide directions. For me this really isn’t a useful feature.
Below is a test of the insert video feature, of what else, a video from masternewmedia.org reviewing WLW in more detail. For some reason the video isn’t showing below when I edit in WLW, but it does show up when I checked the draft. Edit: I take that back, it didn’t work after I posted. I am using WPVideo plugin, so that’s probably it.
This post was written by Junyor on December 25, 2007
