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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Ququoo.com Update: iCal & RSS Feeds
As a thanks to 75 people befriending Ququoo, I just deployed an update to Ququoo.com. Improvements include: RSS & iCal* feeds auto-hyperlinking urls permalinks fixed timezone bug If you dig the improvements, click one of the Ququoo PayPal subscription buttons. Thanks. *The iCal feeds are working as expected in iCal.app, but not in Google Calendar, …
Minneapolis / St. Paul Roasters Meetup
via Jared on the Sweet Marias mailing list: Minneapolis area roasters. We have a date, June 30 a time 2pm and a location Black Sheep Coffee Cafe (705 Southview Blvd., South Saint Paul, MN (651) 554-0155) For those of you who missed the early posts Peter Middlecamp the owner of Black Sheep is both a …
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Save for Later Because
I think albums of music and podcasts are very similar and I see both them very different from radio. Unlike Dave, I don’t want my podcasts automatically deleted, I would like the ‘Save’ or ‘Delete’ option just as I do on Tivo. The iPod/iTunes assumes everything is precious (it’s not), automatically deleting assumes nothing is …
The Real Need to Disintermediate “Friendship”
“Okay, Twitter is funny; I really don’t want to type in @garrickvanburen when Garrick knows who he is, but ‘at Garrick’ gets coded wrong. :(” – Eric Larson “I would love to see the distributed infrastructure of the web, blogs and RSS reach the level of adoption and usefulness that Facebook has, I’m quite certain …
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Netflix Defines a 3-Star Movie for Me
This week our Netflix queue hasn’t been very good to us. While Prison Break started off engaging and interesting, it falls apart quickly halfway through Season 1 Disc 2. Where the less MacGyver-inspired supporting stories unfold. Netflix’s Suggested Rating: 3-stars Last night, Idiocracy. After watching more than 15 minutes of the film, I’m not surprised …
Which Car Should I Buy?
Repairs on the ’98 Neon are approaching it’s value and I can’t rely on it the way I was once able to. It’s been a great car, but I can see the day when it won’t serve us anymore. With that in mind, I’m starting the search for a new vehicle to replace it. From …
Moderation
In Dave Slusher’s Dog Daze Clambake, Dave digs into his financial strategy. While I appreciate where Dave’s coming from (don’t buy stuff you don’t need) and our savings rate is also in the double digits, he makes a couple of assumptions I completely disagree with: Retirement, as sold to our grandparents, will exist a decade …