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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
With all of the pain of the Twitter service outages and "brown outs," people are searching for alternatives. A VERY promising alternative is identi.ca. Identi.ca is working toward API compatibility with Twitter. This doesn't mean much to most people directly. It means a lot to Twitter client application developers, though. ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I've made some more improvements to my Twitter Gadget for Google / iGoogle. Check it out, follow the link to 32hours.com -> The Latest Changes - TwitteGadget for iGoogle
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I've spent the better part of my rainy, Southern California Saturday updating, or more accurately, rewriting my Twitter gadget / widget for iGoogle. I'm really happy with it, now. The progress I've made is making me excited. I've learned a bit of AJAX today in order to ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Firefox 3 vs Firefox 2? I checked out Firefox 3 Beta 2 today. It was not stunning, but, wow, did it use a LOT less RAM by default. It reminded me that I hadn't changed the settings to force Firefox to use less RAM. In Firefox ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
So, I've written a small bit of PHP to pull RSS feeds. Not at all monumental, but I've written a bit, and taken some notes required for site setup (pear installs of XML stuff) My goal is still to create a widget that will work on iGoogle, and ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
A Star Wars Nerd, you are? Enjoy this article about LucasFilm christmas cards, you might:
Cool Stuff: 30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards | /Film
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I find it pretty amazing how many of the Top 500 are running some form of Linux. I guess I still have a hard time imagining a supercomputer being something other than "Cray-like" The link below takes you to the stats page showing the breakout of the Top 500 by ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
...but I find this Dilbert strip very entertaining. I imagine the last line being delivered dead-pan, in a deep voice. dilbert2007111111117.gif (GIF Image, 600x207 pixels)
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
OK, so this is not the sort of thing I'd normally post, but I really liked some of these pictures. My wife hasn't had a look yet, but I bet, as a woman who has been through the stress of a wedding, she'll laugh about these. They're not your "normal" ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Here's a cool video clip showing off the graphics capability of Compiz Fusion in Linux (Which blows the doors off of Windows..) The best part, though, just might be the admission at the end..the video was done in iMovie!
Watch the video!
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