Random Michael Jackson Flash Vids
What the hey!? Michael Jackson died today (yesterday)! Well that’s kind of a bummer. I mostly spent most of the evening listening to his music (I went to the library and grabbed History) and watching...
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iRobot Roomba 530: Review!
I brought home a bundle of joy yesterday. No, I did not adopt a child or animal. But I do have a new pet: the iRobot Roomba 530 vacuum-cleaning robot! I’ve wanted a Roomba for a while. It makes...
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New Hobby: Letterpress
Recently I’ve become really interested in letterpress. It’s basically a form of printing on a movable type machine that results in a print that’s sort of embossed as well. I recently bought a set of...
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SXSW 2010 Official Celebrity Sighting Namedropping Post!
I have lots of material to post from this year’s SXSW 2010 Interactive Festival. First thing’s first, though: I need to document all of the celebrities that I sighted and took pictures with! The first...
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SXSW 2010: My Panel Moderator Experience
I got back from SXSW 2010 a few days ago, and I thought I would write a post about what it was like to moderate a panel while it’s fresh in my mind. As you may know, my panel submission, “Student...
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SXSW Student Startups Podcast Up!
SXSW just posted their audio recording of the Student Startups panel that I moderated! Here it is in embedded form, or you can download it, too! Oh man, I sound super nervous (I was). Please let me...
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SXSW 2011 Panel Proposal: “Quitters Always Prosper” Please Vote!
I submitted a panel proposal to SXSW again this year entitled “Quitters Always Prosper: The Iterative Career Process.” Here’s the proposal as seen on the official panel picker: Quitters Always...
View ArticleConditional GETs in App Engine
I’m currently working on an app in Google App Engine that polls feeds periodically and then does stuff with them. I suppose I could use that pubsubhubbub thingy but I have a feeling that most feeds...
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Thoughts on Textbooks on iBooks
I was thinking about the latest news from Apple, that they were partnering with textbook publishers to bring cheaper textbooks directly to the iPad while at the same time releasing an application for...
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Google Play Vs. iTunes Match
I signed up for the Google Music beta a while ago and promptly forgot about it. I was either too busy to check it out or unimpressed with the feature set. I recently took another look at it after it...
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List of Possible Apple Watch “Gates”
Everyone I know loves a good Apple product-based trivial controversy. There was Antenna-gate, and Bend-gate which happened just last year. Back when the first iPhone came out, Apple dropped the price...
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Strange Copy Pasta in Developer Resumes
A sample of some UIViews that are basic “functionalities” in a “Multi-view Application” So for the past few weeks we’ve been trying to hire for a contractor position to work on our iOS app. Along with...
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Building a DIY Off-Grid Solar Bank on my Roof
I’ve been fascinated with solar energy ever since I was a kid and my brother had a toy with a motor attached to a mini solar panel that you could run under a strong light. In recent years, solar panels...
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