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Pictures: Costa Rican Landscapes
I recently returned from a week-long trip from Costa Rica. These are best frames from the trip and are intended for large format viewing. Flickr royally sucks at that (everything is shown low-res by default), but you can nab higher-def shots with a few clicks if you have a 24″+ monitor and would like to…
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Cool Daily Links
SearchMe.com :: Google search meets Apple’s “Cover Flow” for the web. Smells hot to me. iPhone SDK Gets Interface Builder :: Now it’s actually fun to learn about native iPhone application development. Upcoming Free iPhone Development Webcast Monoprice.com :: You need to buy your random cables from these folks. I started using them last year…
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Rails 2.0: selenium-on-rails routes.rb fix
When I updated a few projects to Rails 2.0 last year, selenium-on-rails stopped working … some issue with routing and the lame way selenium-on-rails adds its routes. I didn’t spend the time to figure out exactly what the routing problem was, but did manage to hack a quick fix into routes.rb. This feels like the…
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Welcomed To The RRoD Club, Part 2
The RRoD 360 repair process has been straightforward so far. (After all, Microsoft has certainly had an ample volume of opportunities to improve it.) The online repair form was straightforward, and my empty pre-paid shipping box arrived yesterday. Everything needed to package the console for return was included: a plastic bag for the console, padded foam, large…
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In The News
OpenRain affiliate img surf‘s Mugr facial recognition services have been receiving some press lately. Here’s the lowdown of what’s been happening.. ReadWriteWeb.com article, by Josh Catone. AltSearchEngines.com comparison, by Charles Knight. RoughType.com article, by Nicolas Carr. Official Mugr blog, by the Mugr team. Public Mugr developer support Google group. Mad props to the Mugr team…
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Conspiracy Theory: Blue Man Group Recruits Seth Godin
When I saw Blue Man Group at the Venetian I knew one of them looked familiar. It was none-other than entrepreneur Seth Godin! Ok, probably not. But there is a resemblance, no? Seth Godin Blue Man
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Zen And The Art of Software Design
As you sit on a bench with a hot cup of jasmine tea in the middle of the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco Park, you can’t help but be overwhelmed by the tranquil beauty of the garden that surrounds you from every direction. It’s a great way to spend an afternoon. I arrived at…