About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I got a call today from a local organization asking for a list of blogger to extend press passes to. I was familiar with the organization and have a pretty good idea who would dig what they were doing. The criteria they were most interested in was size of readership. From my email reply: “In …
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If you caught the NPR/National Geographic segment on the European carbon trading efforts you may have gotten the impression that: the price of being carbon neutral is so low (+2%) that it’s irresponsible not to pay it. a market for carbon dioxide, mandatory or otherwise, didn’t exist stateside. True on the former, false on the …
Let’s say you have a Rails app and you’d like any URLs in any plain text string to be automatically hyperlinked. Well, then you’ll need this: .gsub(/((http|https)://[a-z0-9]+([-.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?/.*)?)/, ‘<a href=’1′>1</a>’) For example: I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com Through: “I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com”.description.gsub(/((http|https)://[a-z0-9]+([-.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?/.*)?)/, ‘<a href=’1′>1</a>’) Results in: I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com
First off, I commend law enforcement officials for their efforts over the past year to diffuse this movie-plot threat while it was still in the planning stage. This is proof investment in investigation pays off more than in airport screenings. “Several law enforcement officials said, however, there have been no direct threat[s] to the airport …
Jason, You’re not the only one the forgets about the Wilde Roast. I’ll be biking through NE thinking, “Where can I go for lunch and wifi?….Oh, yeah, there’s the Wilde Roast.” Good grilled cheese as well.
I’m trying to find the online version of an article in Today’s PiPress. This is really hard. Searching for the author’s name doesn’t work. Copying the headline from the PDF version of the front page and pasting it into search doesn’t work. Found it. I Googled for the headline, the only result – Chuck’s posting …
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I bought Tony Thomas from Minneapoliscast, Andrea Meyers from HowWasTheShow.com, and Justin Grammens from LocalTone.com, and Brian McDonough from MinnieIndie.com lunch to talk about the Minneapolis music scene. We cover the goal of each of their sites, the challenges of finding good independent music, and Brian makes some band recommendations. Listen to Lunch with Minneapoliscast, …
Installed Open Web Analytics for WordPress this afternoon. Just a few hours into it, it’s giving me data I haven’t seen since Urchin
Tyler Patterson just finished up a Masters Thesis project investigating adding all the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ campus energy sources into the Chicago Climate Exchange. In this numbers and stats intensive conversation, we discuss: The methodology of the measuring the campus’ carbon footprint The economics of the carbon trading and energy efficiency The trade-offs …
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I had attributed the following quote to Chuck Olsen. Over lunch last week, he denied credit for it. Looks like I mixed up my film makers. “Every edit is a lie.” – Jean-Luc Godard