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Technology

Finally Waking Up From the Bad Dream

February 10, 2008

I work up the courage to escape my abusive relationship with Dreamhost and start the migration to Media Temple.

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Hulu Thoughts

October 29, 2007

Thinking about Hulu’s implications in the wake of its big launch.

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Hulu Test

October 29, 2007

Experimenting with Hulu right after it launched.

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How big of a dork does it make me…

October 26, 2007

…if I totally want one of these?
[via FFFFOUND!]

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Best Widget Ever

October 26, 2007
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Share This Deportes

October 20, 2007

This past week, RxSN launched a little variation on Alex King’s ubiquitous Share This plugin for Wordpress that I’ve started running here.
It’s called Share This Deportes, and it’s the same as the original, but with sites like Fark, CollegeHumor, Yardbarker and Ballhype added. If you’re a sportsblogger running Wordpress, I suggest you give it [...]

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Hooked

October 10, 2007

If you’re on Facebook and you haven’t added the Scrabulous app, I can tell you straight up, you are missing out on the best thing since the dramatic prairie dog. There I said it.
If you have added it, what are you waiting for? Challenge me to a match already. (Is the proper [...]

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Scribd Testing

July 2, 2007
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Yahoo Didn’t Steal Your Precious Digg

February 15, 2007

Diggers, please, give it a rest. I know you’re probably in a bad mood already, what with the grim outlook for your favorite Hobbit on Lost — but you’re all making yourself look silly with your protests this morning over Yahoo’s alleged “rip-off” of Digg. As Michael Arrington pointed out:
…the purpose of the [...]

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9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix

February 10, 2007

I’ve had a mini-manifesto (can I call it a ‘minifesto’?) brewing in the back of my mind for awhile now, and it’s time I just put it out there: as a long-time Netflix user (with over 1,300 movie reviews logged), as well as a casual investor/market watcher following their stock (Nasdaq: NFLX) and its fortunes [...]

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Coachella.com Movin’ & Shakin’ on Alexa

February 4, 2007

From February 4, 2007.

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Gilbert Arenas Would Want His Blog To Have An RSS Feed

January 26, 2007

As others have said — Gilbert Arenas’s blog is awesome. Might be one of the best celebrity blogs out there today.
All I ask — NBA.com folks, is it possible to get the RSS feed working?
Pretty please?
UPDATE: Someone at NBA.com was good enough to not only drop by and respond to this post — but [...]

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Fun with Daylife/Treehugger Widgets

January 4, 2007

From Treehugger’s grndx, powered by the newly-launched Daylife.

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I. Am. Iron Man.

December 29, 2006

Iron Man
70%

Spider-Man
70%

Green Lantern
65%

Hulk
65%

Catwoman
55%

The Flash
55%

Robin
50%

Supergirl
45%

Wonder Woman
40%

Superman
40%

Batman
25%

Click here to take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

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The Future, Circa 1993

December 7, 2006

Courtesy of AT&T (the old, pre-SBC one) by way of Andrew Sullivan and Boing Boing.
Smooth vocal talents complements of Magnum P.I.

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Fun With Widgets

December 1, 2006

I know of five platforms for Desktop widgets — can any of the Techcrunch junkies out there tell me if I’ve missed any?:

Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator)
Google Desktop Gadgets
Windows Live Gadgets (formerly Microsoft Gadgets)
SpringWidgets (from Fox Interactive)
Mac OSX Dashboard Widgets

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Mini’s Multi-site Banner ADventure

November 5, 2006

I really liked this Mini campaign — I don’t know who did it, but it’s a cool high-concept job. I think I first saw it on bannerblog, but I’m not totally sure. Would have to ask Rory, who I’m pretty sure is the one who sent it to me.
Hopefully I’ve captured the essence [...]

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Does anybody have a Wordpress site hosted by Dreamhost…

November 2, 2006

…that doesn’t totally suck nuts?
I’m finding that any Dreamhost-hosted Wordpress site that I have loads VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRY slow. Is there anyone who’s had a different experience, or am I just an idiot who needs to (a) stop bitching, (b) realize that yes, Dreamhost sucks, and (c) shell out whatever extra bucks to move to a [...]

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Area Man Tries Out Onion Code Snippets

August 21, 2006

When This Meth Thing Blows Over, You’ll Come Crawling Back
Why so down in the dumps, vato? Man, you don’t look so good. What happened, artillery-shell blow half your face off? What’s that? You’re…

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Diet Coke and Mentos and Ka-ching

June 19, 2006

Read today on PaidContent that the guys who did the Diet Coke & Mentos video have made $15,000 thru Revver, the YouTubesque site they posted it on (who pays 50% of ad revenues to the uploader/content owner).

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