April 23, 2008
April 18, 2008
IPhone
Are you jealous yet? Last weekend I headed out to pick up an iPhone, and it really was a good investment. I was rolling with a Razr prior to the iPhone, and I definitely didn’t feel the need to pickup a ‘Smart Phone,’ but I was right to invest in the iPhone.
There are 2 categories of impact that the iPhone has:
The Internet in your pocket
This is impactful in exactly the same way it was impactful to have the internet running to your house. Anytime anywhere access to email, maps, Google, and all that.
Obsolete the laptop
I mostly used my laptop for checking email, surfing the web, and playing a simple game or two. Of course in a pinch I could also develop on it, write documents, and more. While I won’t be dealing with a spreadsheet, a word doc, or Visual Studio on my iPhone anytime soon, it is awesome for email and the web. My laptop has come out of its bag once in the last week. Once.
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April 04, 2008
Bass Fishing
A man in fashionable sporting attire is standing on some large rocks at the edge of a stream. He is holding a short fishing rod in his hands and casting into the running stream. The film ends as the fisherman kneels at the edge of the water, holding the reel in his left hand while he hauls in the fish with a net held in his right hand. There are several occasions when the fisherman cannot be seen, as he walks out of camera range.
I recommend you drop what you’re doing and sit back for an inspiring 1:16 thrill ride in black and white.
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March 15, 2008
Little Miss Sunshine
I finally got around to watching Little Miss Sunshine. It was a really great film, though somehow I ended up feeling a little let down, like it wasn't quite as good as I expected it to be. I guess I’m a jerk.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, Marc Turtletaub, Brenda Canela, Chuck Loring
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
March 14, 2008
Windows Live Writer for Content Management
Windows Live Writer is well known as a great desktop environment for authoring blog posts. But at its core, Writer is really an application for authoring HTML and metadata. Today, this is mostly done on weblogs, but there are a whole host of systems that would benefit from a desktop application for content contribution. Telligent is working on Grafitti, a content management system, and it sounds like Writer works great with it (likely thanks to Telligent’s work). Very cool!
Writing Plug-ins Article in CoDe Magazine
Scott Lovegrove put together a good article describing how to writer a plug-in for Windows Live Writer. Make sure you check it out!
ContentSource plugins are very basic plugins and will only insert text into the blog entry. You can edit SmartContentSource plugins’ content again at a later time.
From CoDe Magazine.
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March 03, 2008
Makes Me Miss Boston
For those of you who used to ride the T on a regular basis, you must've run into Gonzalo along the red or green line. If you were a real fan, you would even catch him at the Middle East (upstairs on the corner), or maybe even the Lizard Lounge (on at least one occasion).
No subway in Seattle.
February 26, 2008
February 22, 2008
I’m Sold
Putting aside technology for a second, and noting that I probably should’ve read this a long time ago, I’m sold on Obama.
“But the reason our campaign has always been different, the reason we began this improbable journey almost a year ago is because it's not just about what I will do as president. It is also about what you, the people who love this country, the citizens of the United States of America, can do to change it.
That's what this election is all about.
That's why tonight belongs to you. It belongs to the organizers, and the volunteers, and the staff who believed in this journey and rallied so many others to join the cause.
We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come.
We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
(APPLAUSE)
For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we've been told we're not ready or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can.
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.
It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality.
Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world. Yes, we can.”
January 30, 2008
One More Quick Lightbox Test
Ok, now I'm just playing around with a great Windows Live Writer plug-in which inserts very nicely formatted photos. It also lets me edit the 'rel' attached to the generated anchor tag, which should enable automagic lightbox integration. Let's see!
And as a quick update, it worked just great. Very nice work.
January 29, 2008
Playing with Lightbox
You can ignore this if you'd like, I'm just toying with Lightbox JS.
Ok, I'm done playing. If you'd like to see the result, click on the image above.
Note, it sucked trying to get this to work with Writer, unfortunately for me and anyone else who is using this.
January 18, 2008
Enabling Blog This in IE
A few users have asked about 'Blog This' support in Windows Live Writer. When you install Writer, we also automatically add a 'Blog This' feature to Internet Explorer. It turns out, however, that if you have ever customized your command bar in IE, our button will not show up by default. Instead, you'll need to add it yourself. Here's a quick and hopefully simple set of steps to do just that.
December 18, 2007
December 12, 2007
Page Support in Windows Live Writer
A feature in Writer that not everyone knows about (yet :) ) is it's support for publishing pages. This support is (to my knowledge) currently limited to Wordpress and Typepad. Writer does use the Wordpress API for publishing pages, so any other providers out there that would like to add support just need to implement the page portion of the API and then use the Writer Provider API to notify Writer that pages are supported.
If you are using Wordpress or Typepad today, you are in luck- here is a quick tour of pages in Windows Live Writer.
December 09, 2007
Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
I've been playing with Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 at home. The feature list that I saw circulating on the yet was actually kind of a yawner, IMO, but I have to say there are a couple things that I absolutely love about it.
1) It is really, really fast. Pages render extremely quickly and the application itself starts extremely fast. This feature alone makes me stop using old versions of Firefox.
2) When you start typing a URL, you are greeted not by a lame combo box style drop down of your URL history, but with this excellent piece of UI:
Once again, it is a little tiny thing, but it is really a huge improvement over the old style combo box. It is much easier to pick out the URL that you are looking for, and as a result, what used to be a useless distraction becomes a useful shortcut.
3) It is currently called 'Minefield', but it is really pretty darn high quality. I have had very few problems using it as my everyday browser. It downloads an update seemingly every day, which is also great, since I am beta testing.
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