About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
This is the third in the monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing Miguel Moreno Leiva – El Filo as roasted by 49th Parallel Roasters. It’s a very subtle and floral cup with powerful aroma off the grind. Andrew described it to me as, “technically good.” I quite agree. …
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On the tail of a Twitter conversation on Wisconsin beers and a renewed interest in homebrewing seemed like a perfect time to write up my favorite beers. My Homebrew Favorites Owd Potters Field Ale Sour Cider – Mach II Sour Cider – Mach I Aloysius Amber Rye – 2011 Top 5 Anytime, Anywhere Beers Rush …
As part of the U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week New Media Showcase, I’ll be demo-ing Cullect.com at the Weissmann Art Museum, 10am Friday, April 4th. That’s just Friday. The entire rest of the week is filled with presentations on technology innovations from throughout the university (traffic management, virtual reality environments, etc).
“not really blogging or podcasting for two weeks can hurt your page rank something fierce” – Kristopher Smith Since I haven’t been writing here much this month, here’s an update for those of you that just read this feed. GarrickVanBuren.com got a facelift this past weekend. Primarily so I could explore all the shared feeds …
Cullect was fast out-growing the Lifetime M Accelerator it started out on last summer, so this weekend I moved it to a bigger, 1GB Accelerator. As I write this, the database is migrating. After that, Cullect will be faster and have room to grow. As part of this, I’ve started a proper blog for Cullect …
Thomas Bohmbach and I discuss DJ Edna, his open source project empowering musicians, and other artists, to take control of the sales and distribution of their creative work online. [33 min].
This is the second in the monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing George Howell’s Terroir Coffee: El Salvador: Finca La Montaña The 2007 Cup of Excellence winner that was completely devastated by near hurricane-strength winds in January. Pushing the next harvest out to 2010. In response to this …
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After a decent night’s sleep, here’s my thoughts on last night’s MPR talk. It was originally an email, so some things might read a little weird. First off, I’d like to thank MPR (et al) for bringing all of us together. I alway enjoy our time together. I think very highly of Dan Gillmor (and …
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I’m at the MPR, MNSPJ event on ethics in online journalism1 with the esteemed Dan Gillmor. Greg and Erica are live-blogging. “Most are not…and a few are.” – Dan Gillmor “It’s not about ‘or’, it’s about ‘and.” – Dan Gillmor Again, it’s hard for newspapers to correct themselves. Apologies aren’t news. Who do you trust? …
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Stop. I’ve uncovered these tips after (at least) the 3rd refactoring effort of some fairly simple, straight-forward Rails code. Rails is great for getting ideas prototyped super fast. These tips will slow down development and make apps less portable. Continue reading only if you’re running a live app in production and not happy with how …
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