Archive for the 'Friends' Category

Roxys West Palm Beach vs. Shawn Anderson

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Posted by mobile phone:If you listen to the radio at all in palm beach county you will have heard the story of Shawn Anderson vs. Roxys Pub.
The reported story is that Shawn Anderson was kicked out of Roxys for having Grillz. He accused Roxys of discriminating against people of color. John (owner) stated that […]

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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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Happy Birthday PHPUGFFM

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Tonight the frankfurt PHP User Group is celebrating their 5th anniversary! It was lots of fun knowing you all - I suddenly got a craving for Persian food - and I wish you many prosperous years.
Check out the website for meeting details. Wish I could be there.

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Saying Goodbyes

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

6 hours till our plane lifts off and I’m still waiting for the gravity of the step we are taking to kick in.
While the physical journey is about to start, the journey started one year ago to the day when I flew up to West Palm Beach to meet with HedgeCo for the first time. […]

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Scott Sigler’s Ancestor breaks the Amazon top 100 on first day

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

It’s time to bumrush Amazon, and push Ancestor to the #1 place! Before I bought my copy it was in the 4000s then it jumped to 1076, then 138, and is currently at 93 and fourth place in the New Releases section, and 1st place in New SciFi.
As an aspiring author, I value Scott Sigler’s […]

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Ancestor Bloggers

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Gearing up for the Amazon.com release of the Ancestor Novel, Scott has convinced Jian and Rhumkorrf to start blogging!
This is a part of a larger guerrilla marketing campaign which focuses on making Ancestor an Amazon.com best seller on April 1st. So if you have a minute, throw a couple links on your blog, and make […]

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Are you a Freelancer who needs a Job?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

A friend of mine is looking for someone to help him with a personal project of his
I’m finding it a frustration that whilst we refer to Australians and News Zealanders as ‘westerners’ our printed maps always show both countries in the far south-east.
I’ve tried using Photoshop to move both countries to the west of the […]

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Yet another Blog Year-End Review: 2006

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

In the footsteps of a couple good friends I’ve decided to make the first blog entry of the new year yet another year in review round-up for the year 2006.
It’s hard to believe that we’re already done with 2006, this one went by fast. A lot happened, and due to the overflow of work, I […]

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Blast from the Past - IPC2k4 Pictures Up

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Finally I got around to posting some of my old pictures from IPC2k4. A lot of the regulars, some faces who we haven’t seen in a while. Enjoy.
A couple blogs from back then:
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2004/11/07/php-conference-day-1.html
http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/274-PEAR-Powerworkshop-Part-II.html
Unfortunately a lot of the blogging was done on the phpconf blog which seems to be down

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I’m famous …

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

… and wearing a kilt

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We arrrr off to the movies, Matey!

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

English movies in Frankfurt
My sister is visiting for the week, so last night I decided to take her into frankfurt to watch the Pirates of the Caribbean.
There is only one Cinema in frankfurt that shows English movies, it’s called Turm Palast, and it is impossible to find on the internet. It seems like there […]

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Clicks of Separation

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

I wake up this morning, and like all mornings read my utterlyboring newsletter.
I click on the link to the story about The Bored Leg Cult (click 1). I follow the link to the Bored Leg Cult Photo Pool (click 2). I click on the Pool Members Link (click 3). I view the profile of Barry […]

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