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Silverlight 2.0 Twitter Widget

April 16, 2008

I’m on an RSS widget roll. I put together a widget that is much like the Flickr widget only it uses Twitter as the source. Now Twitter had to go and give me a hard time by recently changing their cross domain policy file to only allow specific sites. Because of this I had to [...]

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Stealing web site design

April 11, 2008

So when is it okay to borrow someone’s html code and design? I think there are times when it’s okay to take a snippet here and bit from there. Most likely they found it someplace else too. I guess I could be better at citing the sources when I do this, but sometimes I’m bad [...]

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Forward Track

February 6, 2008

ForwardTrack is a new system created by Eyebeam R&D (redeveloped with the assist from Stamen Design) designed to promote on-line activism. The system tracks and maps the diffusion of email forwards, political calls-to-action, and online petitions. It can trace email forwards, map the impact of blogs, and facilitate web-based sign-ups and social networking. Our goal [...]

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My first Chumby widget

November 27, 2007

I recently got a Chumby and have been playing around with writing some widgets that I wanted. The first one is this Seattle Traffic Cam widget: I built it using OpenLaszlo instead of Adobe Flash tools since I don’t own a remotely recent version of the Flash software and I wasn’t going to spend $700 [...]

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Rant: DSL, Cable, HDTV, DirectTV and such…

February 5, 2007

I have been trying to find the best way to get TV, internet and phone service at home. I started with comcast for cable and internet and Qwest for my phone service. Then got fed up with comcasts crazy pricing system. So I went for the whole package deal with Qwest. It’s been slightly better [...]

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MSN history

December 21, 2006

MSN: The Inside Story is a retrospective view on the growth of MSN. It’s easy to forget its simple roots.

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SharePoint Videos and Articles

September 28, 2006

I’m learning to love SharePoint. I know, I know it’s one of those technologies that used to drive me crazy, but the MOSS 2007 beta has been very impressive. It’s an excellent tool for rapid prototyping and actually does work well as a team site for sharing information. The only challenge it still has is [...]

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links for 2006-08-06

August 5, 2006

Automounting Sharepoints at Startup I need to do this (tags: osx mac nfs automount howto) Fear and Loathing nice blog about sharepoint .net but never ever anything about OS X integration (tags: .Net sharepoint) sharepoint folders in OS X [Archive] – The macosxhints Forums (tags: sharepoint OS_X)

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Seattle Community Network

June 5, 2006

The Seattle Community Network is a local non-profit that provides free internet access here in Seattle. This seems like a good organization to support. (tags: Community Seattle ISP)

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platial

April 24, 2006

Platial.com make your own personal maps with this crazy google maps mash up. (tags: maps social googlemaps mapping mashup social-software visualization fun)

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