For 3 1/2 years, Jeff Coffey built an airplane in his garage. Over 28 minutes, he takes you from $900 of aluminum sheets to the first, anxiety-ridden flight. Photos of the construction Listen to Building an Airplane at Home with Jeff Coffey [28 min]
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Reflections on Bush’s New Orleans Speech
I do agree with Bush the one of the few organizations capable of handling a logistical nightmare of a natural disaster the size of Katrina is the Army. The other one is Wal-Mart. Next time don’t turn them away. Three notes to President Bush; Good job on not giggling during your speech. I’m sure it …
Laptop Killing TV and Stereo
I had a post on my personal blog about wanting my favorite movies and TV shows available as digital downloads, rather than DVDs. Looks like I’m not the only one considering my laptop the all-in-one media and communications center. PSFK points to an article on British youth not owning televisions. I picked up a Tivoli …
How to Blog for Higher Search Engine Ranking
Blogging, aside from being one of the easiest ways to publish online, is also one of the easiest ways to increase search engine rankings. Search engine spiders like Google’s GoogleBot expect websites to change and be updated frequently. Blogs are (or should be), so the spiders come by more frequently. Once the spiders are at …
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Multiple Languages, Same Message – A Reason for a Comment-Cast
When I was developing WP-iPodCatter, it seemed straight-forward enough to tie WordPress’ enclosure detection with the Comments RSS feed to create a comment podcast, or comment-cast. I didn’t have a personal need for this feature (so it’s not as fully developed as the others) but I thought it’d be neat and it was easy to …
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Ad Agencies are Paid to Make the Uninteresting Interesting
After the MIMA Online Communities Salon tonight I overheard; “Ad agencies are paid to make the uninteresting interesting.” Reminded me of something Hugh said; “For marketing hand-made cheese that was matured in sixteenth century stone cellars, blogging is a no-brainer. For marketing Velveeta, it’s trickier. Maybe impossible.” The sleight of hand ad agencies perform is …
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WP-iCal and WP-iPodCatter Reviewed
Kris Shaffer’s Web Design and Administration with WordPress article at NewsForge digs into WordPress and mentions both the WP-iCal (for calendaring) and WP-iPodCatter (for podcasting) plugins.
Putting My Wife on ICE
After the London Bombings, Jen said people were should make an ICE (short for ‘In Case of Emergency’) listing in our respective phones. It took about 10 seconds to update her speed-dial label my Treo. Thanks to Iconoculture’s ‘Who You Gonna Call’ article for reminding me of it.
Stinson Auto and the Loose Hubcap
The last week or so, I’ve noticed an odd squeaking coming from the driver-side front tire. Shows up a little over 20mph and it gets louder the faster I go. Not a good sign. Turn the wheel left or right at any speed and it completely disappears. Nothing. I had to stop by Stinson Auto …
On The Federal Government Only Running Military and Post Office
I’m grabbing a late morning coffee at the Dunn Bros in downtown St. Paul. Like all Dunn Bros, this is a great place for eavesdropping (surpassed only by the Nicollet Mall location). The gentlemen next to me are have a very in-depth political current events discussion. Considering the low number of good coffee shops between …
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