Archive for 2008

Wordpress on the iPhone WordPress on the iPhone

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Matt Mullenweg of wordpress fame just announced: “We’re doing an iPhone-native WordPress client, check out the screencast here. It will work for both .com and .org, be available FREE from the App Store, and best of all it’s going to be completely Open Source, which as far as I know no current apps in the […]

Safely using FeedBurner

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

So you have some feeds and you want to track subscriptions using FeedBurner. The problem? FeedBurner is a great service and probably will stay that way since it was recently acuired by google. However, it is still a 3rd-party service and that’s somthing you should always be worried about. You see, when someone subscribes to […]

Fireworks Fireworks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

For the forth, we went down to the waterfront to watch the fireworks. Portland puts on a pretty good show. I forgot to bring a camera – but found that the iPhone takes pretty good firework shots:

Obama has a posse Obama has a posse

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Looks like Andre isn’t the only one. Spotted this on the corner of 13th and Nehalem St:

Extracting DVD Subtitles Extracting DVD Subtitles

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Problem Our foundation has a great little video produced by an outside complany and they want us to put it online, but… We require that all online video includes captioning for accessibility (dfxp format) and… They only have a DVD of the video with captions (not original text). Solution Well we could re-transcribe the video, […]

A few more photos from Hood A few more photos from Hood

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

These were taken by Porch (Bryan): (more here)

Mt Hood Mt Hood

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Well this was exhausting… Getting there Friday night was Troopers bachelor party. After a long night of debauchery – we took Saturday to nap and gather gear. At midnight, we regrouped and headed for the mountain. Up the mountain Around 2am (Sunday) we arrived at timberline, signed a permit and started walking up the slopes. […]

Firefox 3 is available... Firefox 3 is available…

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Or, it would be – if 2 million people weren’t trying to download it all at once. For weeks the good people at mozilla have been pushing today as “World Download Day”. They even had a site where they asked people to pledge to download, all in the hopes of setting a world record. Early […]

Spore is here Spore is here

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Spore is the highly anticipated, “massively single-player online game” by Will Wright. The full game is slated to be launched this fall, but EA games announced that they would be releasing a creature creator next week. Why wait? Looks like the bit-pirates beat them to it. Creatures You can already see dozens of creatures on […]

WebVisions: Overcoming Chaos - Designing the Future Web WebVisions: Overcoming Chaos – Designing the Future Web

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Jeffery Veen Second (and final keynote) …but first some props to the board… The Past First spoke at WebVisions 5 years ago in 2003. Worked at HotWIre 16 years ago. Then onto adaptive path for measure map. Bought by google where he worked on the great analytics. 3 weeks ago he split from Google…. Now […]