Archive for December, 2006

Be Incomparable

December 31st, 2006

The other night, browsing the local Target, I came across some Archer Farms Blueberry-Pomegranate Italian Soda. My oh my, it’s tasty stuff. Archer Farms is just Target’s own store brand (aka “generic”). Historically, store brands have been simply cheaper knock-offs of some brand-name product. This is still quite prevalent in [...]

Trivia

December 16th, 2006

I was tagged by Paul.

I love bluegrass music
I think SoBe No Fear energy drink tastes like grapefruit. It contains no grapefruit.
I can’t stand wikis
I have a fixation about female Australian pop stars, except Kylie Minogue. I’m not totally insane. She sucks.
I had 11 toes for a short while. Corrected by surgery. [...]

Annc: The Ruby Underground

December 15th, 2006

Following on the heels of my last post, I’d like to announce the Ruby Underground. It’s simply a selective aggregator of Ruby blogger content. There’s already plenty of sources for generic ruby content. Tons of 20-something youngsters (yes, I’m old) are out there talking about Ruby on Rails and such.
The Ruby Underground [...]

Karma Columnist

December 15th, 2006

Blogs and such are supposed to be about both aggregation and syndication. With aggregators such as Bloglines or NetNewsWire, I think we’ve thus far got a pretty good handle on aggregation. Or at least personal aggregation. In true populist web2.0 form, the user is supposed to cut out the middleman, and just [...]

SmugMug Nug’

December 11th, 2006

Over thanksgiving, my brother loaned me a Nikon D100. This is my first foray into digital photography beyond using my shoephone’s camera to take blurry snapshots of strange supermarket items.
Sending photos to Flickr, I’m finding I’m going to exceed the limits of their free-ride accounts. My first thought was “oh, I should go [...]

Boxy To Go

December 5th, 2006

Being an OSX user, I’ve felt massive amounts of unlove from TiVo, in terms of the TiVoDesktop, TiVoToGo, etc.  But now, man, the guys behind tivodecode have come to my rescue.  While playing with it, I also discovered that the TiVo actually produces a nice XML feed, and mine at least attempts to serve up [...]