PREFACE: This post was sitting in my drafts since July, and it seemed to go nicely with the co-working post, so I hit publish. After we returned from a refreshing holiday weekend1 at the in-laws, Cooper asked why we came home. “Grandma, Grandpa, and Papa all have to go to work on Monday.” “Where is …
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Twin Cities Co-Working Conversation Re-Ignited
UPDATE 27 May 2009 New url for this effort: TwinCitiesCoWorking.org Earlier this week, I had a fairly thorough conversation with a St. Paul-based serial entrepreneur exploring starting a co-working business. I’ve been writing about the “co-working” / “work club” concept off and on for a while now (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bonus) and …
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Wonderlick “Topless at the Arco Arena” – Name Your Pre-Order Price
For nearly decades, I’ve been a big fan of anything by Jay Blumenfield, Tim Quirk, Sandy Smallens, or any combination thereof. So, yea, I’m pretty excited about the new Wonderlick album available for pre-order. Here’s the interesting bit: “…anyone who winds up paying more than the average donation will get his or her name in …
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Introducing: RE07.US – The Greenest URL Shortener
According to a recent post by FuelInteractive.com, a link in Twitter is clicked for 5 minutes, then completely ignored. That got me thinking about all the wasted short urls out there. So many tinyurl, culld.us, is.gd, et al, links just collecting dust after all that initial clicking. Seems so wasteful considering “the current economic climate”. …
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Deploying Sinatra on Joyent’s Shared Accelerators with Thin
On Thursday afternoon, I had an idea for just about the smallest web app I could think of (since then, I’ve even cut out a couple features). It didn’t make sense to use all of Ruby on Rails for this considering how tiny it was. Seemed like a great opportunity to try out Sinatra1 Write …
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Introducing the Minnesota Pineapple Economic Indicator
It’s March in Minneapolis. The thermometer just broke 40°F and there’s still inches of snow cover. Winter sustenance in the upper Midwest traditionally comes in two forms: canned or hotdish. Not the most uplifting and exciting dishes to get families through long, grueling winters, but economical. Citrus fruits were a rarity, rare enough for oranges …
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March Forth
I’m proposing today as new American holiday. A day of deliberate action. A day of buckled-down confidence. A day of bootstrap-up-pulling. A day of To-Done-ed-ness. A day of recovery. The opposite of Labor Day – more along the lines of Independence Day. Let’s go, there’s work to do. March Forth. “This country will be rescued …
Device Agnostic Web Services
This morning I talked with John Vorwald‘s Multimedia Web Design class over at UW-Stout. One of the great questions asked by the students was: “Where do you see the internet in 2 years?” 2 years? Easy. Everything has a web server in it. The internet is accessible everwhere. On my desk, as I write this, …
Kindle 2.0 – 2nd Impressions
Dave’s “Decade of Ebook Arguments” post took me back a decade, to my first portable MP3 player – the Diamond Rio‘s 800 1 If memory serves, the 800 had 64Mb of storage2 – just enough audio for the walk from the apartment for the L ride into Loop. Not even enough for something new on …