While it may not be a handheld computer per se, this is the exact reason I bought a Sidekick.
Oh Drew, you sure do have my number…
Category: Geekery
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Graduation
It looks like Flickr has finally managed to make it out of Beta!
So does this mean they’ve gone 1.0? Nope. They moved on up to Gamma.
*sigh* Those cheeky bastards…
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Delete Yourself! You Got No Chance To Win!
Don’t you hate it when you go and do something stupid?
I was planning on taking a few of the business card templates that I designed last week and releasing them. But as I poked around my hard drive, I realized that they’d gone awol. Turns out I’d deleted them when I went thru a fit of desktop cleanup on Monday.
Guess it’s time to dust off that copy of FileSalvage…
Update: Well, FileSalvage was no help. *shrug* C’est la vie.
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Unfocused Group
So while I love the look and feel of Hemingway and it seems to be working okay on Preshrunk, I think I’m going to need to go elsewhere for my templating needs. It’s nothing personal, honest… The only breakdown is the fact that I really need to start throwing some ads up1 but every tweak I make to Hemingway ends up not looking as elegant as it should. I’ve toyed with the idea of going to a standard 3 column layout, but I’m also getting pulled in the direction of running a yogurt template2 with ads after every second or third post.
Since I know that some of the regular Preshrunk readers happen to check in on this site too, I was hoping I could get some smaller scale feedback. So, what do you lot think I should do?
Any feedback y’all can give me would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
P.S. “Don’t run ads” is not an acceptable answer. Most of the feedback I got from everyone seemed pretty receptive to the idea of a few tastefully done ads on the site, so that matter is closed.
- Not because I want to, per sae. I’m just trying to make working on the site a little more lucrative for my broke ass.
- Culture [posts] on top, fruit [navigation] on the bottom. You know, like those single column layouts that all the cool webloggers seem to be flocking towards3.
- Okay, maybe “yogurt template” is not that awesome of a term — but it seemed cool at the time… *shrug* Whatev.
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Output Rotation, Input Translation
Does anyone else find it funny that Google Calendar outputs its data in iCal but doesn’t work with Safari?
*shrug* It’s par for the course, I guess…
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A Brief Observation
Man, Akismet gives me boners. Aside from a few false positives the other week, it’s working wonderfully. In fact, I think I’ve only seen two or three bad comments slip thru to the moderation level.
I thought dealing with the flood of spam would be a lot worse than it was when I decided to flip comments on over at Preshrunk — but it’s actually been a cakewalk so far. Of course by saying that, I probably just invited loads of trouble my way… *shrug*
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Web 2.0 This Ain’t
While Socializer is a great idea, it’s a bit too fugly for me to every want to deploy on any of my sites. We really don’t need to see the graphics of each social bookmarking site, we just need to see the name of each site and a link.
So does anybody want to make a prettier one? I’m pretty sure I know enough PHP to do a more elegant take on the idea — but I sort of have to be up by 6:45 tomorrow morning and I’ll be away from a net connection between then and late Sunday night.
P.S. I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, honest. I’m just saying that site is sort of an eyesore, that’s all…
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Lobbying For Dollars
It’s settled… I’m crashing the lobby at Emerging Tech on Wednesday and Thursday to mingle with the big shot internet types and maybe get a few leads for jobs. If I can manage to weasel my way into a party or two, all the better… ;)
So if you want to grab a cup of coffee or a bite while I’m in town, drop me a comment [or email/phone call/IM if you have that info] and we’ll see what we can do.
P.S. Sean was nice enough to offer up the spare bed in his room at the very swanky W Hotel on Wednesday night. Much respect for that, yo.
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Hollywood Shuffle
Why the hell does Donkeylips from Nickelodeon’s “Salute Your Shorts” have three MySpace profiles?
I just know that I’m going to spend the rest of the evening checking to see if child stars like Jamie from Small Wonder have the MySpace too. *sigh* I’m such a lameass sometimes…