Archive for July, 2007
How Joost could change TV
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
I played with Joost way back in January when it was still called “The Venice Project” and beta testers had to sign NDAs (although that didn’t stop a lot of them). Back then while the technology was great, due to the number of users the quality was mediocre.
I got into Joost again at Stella’s request, […]
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Posted in youtube, Movies, Internet, Software | 1 Comment »
MySpace bars 29,000 known sex offenders
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
The article says:
The online site has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders among its 180 million members, it was revealed on Tuesday. Three months ago the site acknowledged that there were 7,000 profiles of sex offenders on its site, but under pressure from legal officials in several US states it has provided a more […]
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Posted in MySpace, Village Idiots | 3 Comments »
A couple quick notes
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
1. I am going to start posting a LOT more onto Flickr. I have been trying to keep my photostream limited to a couple pictures for each occasion, but will move towards using sets and collections more for easy browsing.
2. I am not checking my firstname@lastname.com email address very frequently (fscking spammers), so if you […]
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How to (not) kill a community
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
This blog entry is an extension of an IRC discussion and email conversation that took place regarding the #phpc channel on Freenode.
Back in “the day” #phpc consisted of between 5 and 10 people, and as IRC channels go it was only us in there for about 2 years. This resulted in everyone getting to […]
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Posted in irc, PHPeople, Friends, Internet, PHP | 8 Comments »
Getting your data off Backpackit
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
I have had an active account at backpackit for the last 2 years, I used it for a lot of different collaborative writing I was doing until Google Docs started kicking ass google style and I decided to move to that.
Now that I have several hundred documents in google docs, I am wondering how I […]
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Posted in ruby, Web2.0, Internet | No Comments »
The Deathly Hallows Spoilers
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
http://bayimg.com/jadhAAABp
http://harrypotter7spoilers.blogspot.com/
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Posted in Internet, Humor | No Comments »
Blood Diamond
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
What can I say, Leonardo does the South African accent so well he totally disappears as an actor. Between this movie and “The Departed” which I watched two days ago, my opinion of Di Caprio has totally changed. He has transcended (whatever that is supposed to mean).
Blood Diamond is set in Sierra Leone during the […]
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Posted in Movies, Five-Minute-Review | 1 Comment »
Annie looses her first tooth!
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Annie lost her first tooth today. She’s been playing with her “wiggle-tooth” for the last few weeks, and has been getting exceedingly anxious to get it out of her mouth.
Today, after my failed attempt to pull it, she disappeared for half an hour, and then re-appeared with a tooth in her hand!
Before
After
Now we are waiting […]
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Posted in Those Cute Kids, Life | 2 Comments »