Recent Blog Entries
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I just read the most wonderful short story: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
My favorite part besides the book was that I started to read it as if it was a dudes blog post about working in a 24 hour book shop. I thought the whole thing was real.
The story was based in San Francisco too, and I was going to go to the store and check it out. Near the end of the story though something happened that isn't real, and I realized it was a short story, and not a blog post, although it was written in the style of a longish blog post.
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A simple Javascript MVC
I am starting to work on a big project, and apart of that big project is that I need to start looking at MVC in JavaScript. I think that MVC is something that many app developers understand, and it's a great paradigm for creating most web applications. This extends to creating self-contained HTML5 Apps for the client.
I set out to do a search and I found a couple of examples.
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I am closing Stay Tuned In
I am closing Stay Tuned In, the site was an idea of mine, but I never really had good data. If you were wondering good data would cost be $800 dollars a month, on a site that generated no revenue.
Mayby the TV industry wants it this way, but they are killing innovation. By not figuring out how to ramp up small projects, many probably stop before they ever even sit down, and code.
The hardest part about running Stay Tuned In was keeping the data stream up, and running. The user interface, and everything else was fairly simple.
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The mosh pit and cognative surplus.
I was caught off guard by an interesting compare/contrast over at snarkmarket. Two quotes from recent books, both disparaging looks at pre-internet life. The author, Tim Carmody, asks if these kinds of feelings are what are driving us to use our cognitive surplus towards creation.
Maybe slightly, orthogonal to his original idea, was a thought that pop'ed into my head. Not just why are people leaving TV, but how.
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Knowing your food; Palo Santo Marron beer from Dogfish Head.
A couple years ago I read an article in the New Yorker about a brewery called Dogfish Head. In the article they talked about an interesting beer, Palo Santo Marron. Besides the beer they gave a rough history of the company including the fact that when Dogfish Head started brewing it was illegal in Delaware, the owner single handedly wrote the bill legalizing it, and got it passed.
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Salt & Fat: a nicely done, and consistent food blog
Salt & Fat: a nicely done, and consistent food blog
One blog I have been really enjoying lately is Salt & Fat. I can't say exactly why I enjoy there blog more then the thousands of other cooking blogs, but I think it has something to do with their consistency, and well doneness of their content.
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Wacchen just went past a 1000 users
Wacchen, from day 1, has been my biggest personally built website. Many other people felt my personal anguish that their wasn't something that allowed me to save videos to watch later. That is what has made Wacchen useful. I walked into an existing, wide spread need.
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New Article on Six Revisions: The State of HTML5 Apps
HTML5 apps have been on my mind lately, so I sat down and wrote an all encompassing review of the space I am thinking about when it comes to HTML5 Apps, check it out on sixrevisions.com.
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Two Kids, In Two Years: Best Time Management Strategy Ever
In the last week I have heard two co-workers exclaim lack of energy when they get home, and therefore can't find the time to work on extracurricular activities. When I hear this, I go-off a little, I know its unfair, and I shouldn't care what other people think, but I have two kids at home, and I still find the time to make things.
I am slowly forgetting what my life was like before I had kids, not so much the things I did, but more like what my daily routine was, but I am pretty sure I felt the same way. When I got home I wanted to relax, I knew that I had time later to do what I wanted.
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Web Links Twitter Rollup
Toddler Mode for iPad http://tskr.us/BgD
There Will Be Multi-Billion Dollar Open Source Companies http://tskr.us/BgB
Mo Money Mo Problems - a set on Flickr http://tskr.us/Bfy
The Washington Post on iPads Within the White House http://tskr.us/Bfw
Cloud computing saves L.A. millions in IT costs http://tskr.us/Bft
Locals vs. tourists http://tskr.us/Bfr
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cloudhead.io http://tskr.us/BhR
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The value of networks of trust BuzzMachine http://tskr.us/BhQ
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Interesting setup, JS interpreting pseudo CSS client side, but I am still skeptical. http://tskr.us/BhP
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Facebook Movie Poster Announces 500 Million Facebook Users Before Facebook Does http://tskr.us/BhO
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Free kick mechanics explained http://tskr.us/BhN
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'Request to License' via Getty Images is here! http://tskr.us/BhM
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government\xc2\xbb http://tskr.us/BhL
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Lucius Kwok's blog has been great recently. http://tskr.us/BhK
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YouTube - Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie" True Blood Music Video HD http://tskr.us/BhJ
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Ellen DeGeneres Crashes Local Chicago News Studio http://tskr.us/BhI
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