2008

May

It’s always a good day for a little Carl Sagan. I love this excerpt and his reading is of...

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU (via Quotably.com/popular) This is unbelievably...

FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to my final final!

Last night as a student: Looking like an allnighter. Fitting...

Wow, news of the horrible earthquake in China was at the top of http://quotably.com/popular before...

iTunes not seeing jailbroken iPhone

This happened to me after I trashed my iPhone as a result of a corrupted SpringBoard.app property...

An update on Hahlo security (it’s improving, but still needs work):...

Hahlo security improving

Big props to Dean Johnson of Hahlo for improving security of the tool. After some discussion Hahlo...

Changing my address at usps.com back to VT, effective a week from Monday. Feels good.

“Excuse me if a look of bewilderment crosses my face when a...”
— Roland Martin: Democrats need...

Online Advertising: News Corp. exec explains...

This may have limited appeal since it’s a lot of “inside jokes”… but I think...

Saw Iron Man last night. ‘was fun, but I was offended by the notion software writes itself. My...

learning just how little I understood about MySQL optimization.

The twitter client Hahlo is not secure. I recommend thinking twice before using:...

Use Hahlo Twitter Client with Caution

Hahlo is a really nice Twitter client targeted primarily at the iPhone, but also usable from any...

It’s really fun to watch other people pitch your stuff with even more enthusiasm than...

18 years after shyly entering my first classroom at age 5, today I left my last.

What a great ad! I’m glad my last contribution went toward this. This should serve as a...

Free Wifi for iPhones from AT&T Hotspots! This is awesome news (if true)....

Apr

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

"Will you be my running mate?"

It looks like ec2onrails 1.0 is going to ROCK...

Hey, second to last week of my degree and I’m actually learning about useful stuff: bayesian...

Vapid

I’ve always had a problem with this word. Something about it makes me think of exactly the...

Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically This looks HOT!

9:30AM turns out to be a fantastic time to go vote at a predominately college-aged presinct. :-)

Obama has left the building. What a show! Totally impressed!!!

will.i.am’s masterpiece playing on the bigscreen:...

Barack takes the stage: — Sent from a mobile device.

Live from The Pete. Waiting for Obama

Excited that if all goes according to plan I’ll get to go to Obama’s final rally tonight...

Playing with the Starbucks -> iPhone integration for the first time. Pretty slick to see...

At a Starbucks in Seattle waiting @Ellis and @mknapp to show up from the airport

just got back from presenting BibMe.org to a bunch of CMU VIPs. It was actually quite warmly...

Discovering a whole bunch of email from my inbox never made it from GMail into Mail.app over the...

I wonder how much Discover Card paid Discover (the magazine) recently for http://discover.com

joshmohrer: Bu$hleaguer - Pearl Jam’s song about George W.

well, so much for my plan to integrate quotably with huddlechat. for once I totally agree with...

playing with Google AppEngine. A lot to learn, but it seems quite interesting. Contemplating a...

EC2’s down.. ugh! this does not bode well. watching closely to see how well they handle this....

Oh man, I hope this really happens: http://tinyurl.com/5t3v9j

Heading up to Toronto for the weekend to see the Red Sox @ Blue Jays. Excited!

I have to say this is a pretty freaking awesome use of...

I am who I am - Ben’s Brother (that’s the name of the group, not my non-existent...

discovering that ec2onrails:server:upgrade_packages is EVIL. 2 hours (and as many new instances)...

Sorry - Abra Moore I love this. (via SXSW 2008 showcase torrent which I’m finally starting to...

Note to interviewers of politicians: When asking about gay marriage and the pol gives the...

Obama on the Hardball College Tour

mturk linkspam. Ugh, that can’t be within the TOS.

Yahoo & Google seem to be racing to index quotably. 18,522 & 26,965 requests in the last...

Drunken Sailor - Blaggards Posting this mostly for my dad’s benefit.

watching Obama answer questions at a “town hall” event in Scranton, PA. It’s the...

trying to decide whether to move BibMe.org to EC2 or Joyent. Joyent’s running a sale that...

This has been a really fun feed to be subscribed to: http://quotably.com/search/LMAO

Mar

Here’s the screencast demoing posting to twitter through Quotably:...

Reply to Tweets directly from...

Well weekend #2 of Quotably.com development has come to an end. T he major development is you can...

and it’s live!

Major new Quotably.com feature launching shortly. Testing it now.

having a blast hacking on quotably.com. Just setup ssl, can you guess what’s coming next? ;-)

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

For academic-types checking out...

You may enjoy another site I’m involved with: BibMe, a really simple Bibliography generator...

“Quotably makes it easy to follow the @replies conversations...”
— Biz Stone, Twitter, Inc. ...

“Quotably: Very impressive new web app that assembles threads...”
— John Gruber Thanks!

realizing the quotably layout is rather broken in ie7. Oh well.. no one uses that anyway, right?...

“Quotably just launched. Interesting way to follow Twitter...”
— Leo Laporte’s Thanks...

launching my weekend project: http://quotably.com

learning about big tables in mysql

“So?”
— Dick Cheney last week in...

waiting in the audience for Greek Sing 2008 to begin

“Then I wondered, what if I had been born in Germany instead...”
— Dave Winer

“[T]o threaten either to sit out the election or vote for...”
— Josh Marshall

wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle

“Twitter is a digital program that lets users send short...”
— Ariel Alexovich, The Caucus -...

“…And so, at 11 o’clock AM on a Tuesday, a...”
— Jon Stewart The Daily Show,...

Loving the starbucks barista who made my Americano with 4 shots (usually it’s just two I...

“We can’t know how effective Mr. Obama’s words will be with...”
— Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage...

Obama Speech: ‘A More Perfect Union’

wishing I could go back in time 3 years and smack myself into commenting this thoroughly confusing...

Man… Yahoo Pipes rocks! One of those things I never knew I’d use, but I keep going back...

Waiting at the airport for my flight back to Pittsburgh.

greatly enjoying the Juno soundtrack http://tinyurl.com/2pdbj9

Face-to-face with a whale of a Chinese buffet. It is not yet clear who will win.

Singer Island, Florida

“Spitzer is simply the latest married politician caught with...”
— The Cheating Man’s Brain |...

“People who think that Geraldine Ferraro is right, and Barack...”
— Rogers Cadenhead. Rogers has...

Things that make Men proud of...

testumblrone: There are a lot of things that us men do that are just plain awesome. We are without...

Sheesh…. there are a lot of people at the airport today!

Two 3-hour sleep nights in a row does not a very alert day make. :-)

wow. “reblogging” in tumblr is very awkward.

“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft...”
— brandtkurowski: “You’re...

Google Maps Without the Scripting

dealing with my iPhone which has decided that it doesn’t like to emit any sound post-ZiPhone.

releasing a little rails plugin (find_random) http://tinyurl.com/2p36ap

amazed at how warm it is today.

in Ann Arbor for the weekend

Feb

Snowing outside my window

enjoying a snowstorm

“I wonder if Google can pull off the same stunt in the future...”
— GrandCentral Launches, But...

having a grand old time using Yahoo Pipes for a little project

Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail

Smoke on the water - Ancient Japanese style (via tim bray) This is pretty awesome.

donating blood as I tweet. Had a very weird reaction at first with my body getting crazy hot, but...

wondering if it’s time to dump svk for git

discovering a sessions table with 14 million rows. D’oh!

“He lists the arrows that critics sling his way. He’s too...”
— NYT

playing with EC2

Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the...

trying to decide whether I should go see bill gates speak in an hour… or get some stuff done.

“[A]mong Web users ages 12 to 17, significantly more girls...”
— Sorry, Boys, This Is Our...

Keming . (kem’-ing) n. The result of improper...

“It takes all the links on the Web found by a search engine’s...”
— TechCrunch’s idea of...

Lessig08 This is very cool that lessig is considering running for congress.

“Gallup notes that among those surveyed last night, after a...”
— TPM - An Effective Attack? ...

The last 10 minutes of Barack Obama’s speech in Milwaukee at the democratic dinner.

Wondering if I should throw caution to the wind and do my patriotic duty by buying some gratuitous...

Sheryl Crow - Detours I can’t say I’ve been a...

wondering if it’s time I embrace Spaces

bringing the rspec coverage on the new side project up to 100%.

is anyone else getting inundated with email spam with links to blogspot like this:...

Languages I wrote code in today for various projects: Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, C, JavaScript (that...

discovering FastRI and how frickin awesome it is. Goodbye ruby-doc.org!

Pleased I can no longer see through the 22 pixels at the top of the screen.

Colin Powell hints he may vote against...

Peeling & slicing a mango for the first time in my life. Did you know they have cores?

“If they do this, and it swings the nomination one way or...”
— Ben Goodger on the prospect of...

“Normally I could help you sir, but not at Threat Level...”
— ADT security person to Brad...

Making my first contribution to Obama For America. Let the emails begin.

Yes We Can (via Brandon Keepers)

“Even though specs amount to little more than syntactic...”
— Sam Ruby Very cool to see Sam...

thinking it would be so much cooler to watch how they setup and tear down the halftime show, than to...

Watching the Superbowl over snowy rabbitears: The anti-HD...

amused that without knowing anything about it, I guessed @brandtkurowski’s new gem from the...

super excited about brad fitzpatrick’s Social Graph API...

Jan

Waiting for Kai-Fu Lee to start his talk.

Me. In glasses.

Nader takes steps towards another White House...

PubMatic FAIL

PubMatic seems pretty cool, and I’ve heard lots of cool things about it, but they get a FAIL...

“That, my friend, is what we call a ‘speed-up loop.’”
— The Daily WTF I just laughed...

potentially fantastic AAPL buy opportunity coming up. of course the question is when.

finally back to ruby (been awhile!) and ZenTest land. Wow, 3.8 autotest is way better at being a...

Snow in Pittsburgh: — Sent from a mobile device.

wishing the mic (and clicker) on my iPhone earbuds worked when plugged into my computer