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Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 00:20

And I didn’t think anything could top the exercising poodles

Dancing jailbait? check. corporate sponsorship? Check.  Lipsync? Check.  Simultaneous Lomo, hue/saturation, bluescreen and slow-mo effects? Check. Tay Zonday on the face of a $100 bill? check. As I was watching it I said, ‘wait, did he just say *life is good with turbotax, we keep the money we make*? no, no, that couldn’t have been …

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 15:33

My favourite iPhone apps

I have a number of iPhone apps now, and here are some of the ones I like the most: Pandora – Great for listening to Pandora music Google – Voice search is amazing. Pano – Takes panoramic photos. Rooms – IRC client FStream – internet radio Public Radio – internet radio Wikipanion – wikipedia WordPress …

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Monday, November 24, 2008 at 00:43

Virgil, Virginia, and Shit Journalism

The hacker high life — girls, notoriety, White Russians — can be hard to resist. —Virginia Heffernan If you watch Colbert, read the New York Times magazine, Alternet, or the Washington Post, you may have heard of an old acquaintance of mine, Virgil Griffith.  I was sitting at my kitchen table reading the Time magazine and …

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Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 02:25

XSLT == bollocks

The other day I was doing some work on a WordPress site that involved importing some data from an XML file and displaying it on a page (in a sidebar). Naturally, there were two ways to go about doing this. Since this was already a PHP site, we could have whipped up some sort of …

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Monday, October 20, 2008 at 19:31

The new dark side of ‘web applications’

When I worked in technology support, as often as I received calls from users who needed help installing Office 2007, I also talked to users that were confused or angry about how different Office 2007 was from Office 2003. You surely know of these kinds of people; sometimes I am even one of them. Users …

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Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 14:44

Obama Video Yard Sign

I donated to the Obama campaign and they promised to send me a yard sign, but I haven’t received one yet. There’s only about two weeks before the election, so I thought I’d make my own ‘video yard sign.’ Requirements: residence with street-facing ground-level window, computer, LCD/plasma screen, and this .mov file (or this Keynote …

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