Something must be in the air. Like Dave, I’ve been making a concerted effort to clean out my email inbox over the past couple weeks. All year, I’ve been fluctuating between 80 – 140 messages, not including the hundreds sitting in my ‘Respond to’ folder. For the past week, I’ve been steadily at Inbox Zero. …
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RSS-Powered, Low-Powered FM
Mike O’Connor pinged me about an idea he had to build-out a low power FM radio station using RSS-based technologies. I completely agree – and the idea gets me all giddy. No only does it combine 3 of my favorite things: RSS, podcasts, and reaching a small community with simple technologies – it dovetails nicely …
DroidDoes is the Anti-1984 Ad
25 years ago, Apple announced their new, friendlier, easier-to-use personal computer with the iconic 1984 ad where a heroine throws a hammer – taking down a non-descript technical figure. Tonight, I watched Verizon’s new DroidDoes.com ad. Verizon is declaring Apple’s iPhone is too friendly, too simplified, too limiting – what you need is a non-descript …
Garrick Talking Sinatra.rb – Chippewa Valley Code Camp – Nov. 14 2009
On Saturday, November 14, 2009, I’ll be giving a talk on the Sinatra web framework at the Chippewa Valley Code Camp – held in UW-Stout’s Millennium Hall. It should be fun, especially since Justin Grammens and Sam Schroeder are also on the schedule talking iPhone Development.
Timing Off by 6 Weeks
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,015 today. Making my Dow 10K by Labor Day prediction 6 weeks pre-mature. If you don’t mind, I’ll take both the loss on the prediction and the increase in overall optimism.
MacBook Back Up Strategy Part 2
A couple years ago, I duct-tape-and-baling-twined a backup strategy together with rsync and ical with an offsite backup to the down defunct StrongSpace. Since then, I’ve attempted to use Apple’s TimeMachine – both with a local drive and a driver connected to my AirPort Extreme. Too frequently, I ended up corrupt backup files or the …
For the Future of Radio – Tune to 802.11
Yesterday, at the Village gym, tired of my normal workout playlist, I brought up JungleTrain on the iPod Touch. My favorite, niche internet radio station, streaming from somewhere in Europe, picked up by a device in my pocket, on a random treadmill in Minnesota. Exactly the audio I was looking for. No ads, no data …
[Client] Rackspace’s NoMoreServers.com Launches
Rackspace formally announced a project I’ve been working on: NoMoreServers.com is a rally cry of the computing-as-a-service era. The site seeks to empower businesses to acknowledge the decline of in-house computing and the rise of the All Cloud Enterprise (ACE). Covering hosting, cloud computing, SaaS, and the key vendors driving them (eg: Amazon, Google, Rackspace, …
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Mike Keliher on Short URL Trust
“When you see a TinyURL, you have no idea what the link is going to point you to. Viruses, spyware, porn and all sorts of other unwanted or inappropriate stuff are just a click away. …what if you actually could trust a shortened URL?….The need for safety and security online will not go away. Don’t …
Cull.us: Branded URL Shortener with Google Analytics, CNAME, and .htaccess
One of the biggest problems with URL shorteners – aside from being needed at all – is it’s not easy to move from one to another without breaking all the previous links. Culld.us hopes to change all that. Use Your Own Domain Name At Culld.us, you get a subdomain – like grv.culld.us – and just …
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