October 2007 - Posts
I have a favorite coffee. It is an espresso roast Fair Trade house brand from Sam's Club. It's not Starbucks, but it's pretty good. Good enough for me to drink everyday and enjoy. I buy a bag for about $14.00, grind it at the store, and it usually lasts me about a month. That's about 50 cents a day and I'll take the small difference in taste for the big difference in price over Starbucks. In fact, by the time I add sugar, milk and a touch of Irish Creme creamer there is not much difference. Occasionally...
Since the cool iPhone list of people has long been extinguished and the list of other people that really utilize their mobile phone has also seemed to run its course, it looks like I am next thanks to Josh . If you would have asked me this question a month ago I would have had only one thing to say: I just it like a phone. However, just two weeks ago we switched from Sprint to T-Mobile (because of the My Fave Five plan) and upgraded phones. I've never really thought of my cell phone as anything more...
This will be the last of the daily posts of my walk experiences during lunch. My adventures are not nearly as exciting as I make them out to be and I'm afraid that you, my favorite reader, will grow tired of my shtick if consumed on a daily basis. I will, however, still carry my phone with me and snap pictures of interesting things when they pop up. Today my walk partner was Tucker once again. Here he is modeling the latest in infant cold gear. Cute hat, huh? I was wearing a matching one. A lot of...
Yet another example of the summer having passed. The pool is all boarded up. Yes, it is another drizzling, overcast, dreary day in middle America. Once again I was able to squeeze a walk in between showers. I'm sure you were wondering who my walking partner today was - it was none other than Brutus, the ladies man. In this picture Brut is starting to get his prance on after spying a "lady" ahead of us with his super (patent-pending) Bionic LadyVision. Great growing gourds, Batman! Holy humongous...
Yesterday's post brought enough "atta boys" and amateur renditions of Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath my Wings" that there is no way for me to back out now. My walk partner today is the lovely Belle - the most scared dog in the world. Here she's wondering if the car driving towards us is full of bad guys or not. Flight instinct is about to kick in. She actually didn't do too badly other than the occasional jump at random sounds of nothing. It's a quiet, overcast, cool, drizzly day today in middle America...
Saturday while having lunch at Day of .NET - Ann Arbor , Michael Eaton mentioned that he liked to take an hour and sit and watch TV or play a bit of WOW or something during lunch beside sit in front of his computer. I thought that was a good idea and yesterday I decided that I would start taking a walk around the neighborhood at lunch time. Today I took Tucker with me and we snapped a few shots. I don't know that the picture-taking will be a regular occurrence, but I hope to keep it up. Tucker joined...
Like a lot of you reading this I have spent a lot of time recently using and working with Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook , LinkedIn , MySpace , Community Server (!!) and more social networking applications and platforms. One of the more interesting features that some of these sites offer is the ability to include external feeds to help aggregate your many online identities. Jaiku offers this and makes it easy to include your Twitter posts (so you only have to make them on Twitter) and announcements/links...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote post about updating your Twitter timeline using the Twitteroo Core API . Recently I dug into the Jaiku API to learn how to do the same. The Jaiku API docs don't offer many examples or details, but the basics are explained and enough is presented to get you on the right track into some experimentation. I couldn't find a handy third party library for working with Jaiku in .NET so this time around I had to do the dirty work myself. There is not much to it, basically make...
Day of .NET in Ann Arbor is Saturday, October 20th at Washtenaw Community College. I've attended both previous events and if you live within driving distance you should definitely attend. It's four hours one-way for me! This event has offered great regional and national speakers in the past and continues the tradition this fall. I'll tell you one thing - seeing Mark Miller do a presentation is definitely worth the price of admission (which is completely free by the way!) - the guy is a nut case....
A friend of mine, Brian Campbell , (our former intern at Sharkbytes) recently lauched a new site and had this to say: Hey everyone- i wanted to share my newest website with you all. It's called GotCast and we provide online casting for television. More importantly, there are a ton of hot chicks with pictures on it. It might be the greatest idea ever! check it out! The site is GotCast.com . Also, Brian told me a while back that they were looking for .NET developers. If you're in the Columbus, OH area...
A little over a week ago I announced my latest little fun site: RandomTweets.com . It was a nice little site to build and working with the Twitter API was fun. Then along comes the news yesterday about Google acquiring Jaiku . The microblogging community made a huge turn on a dime in a matter of hours. Everyone who didn't already have a long forgotten Jaiku account was asking for invitations (yes, I too got caught up in the madness). I saw tons of updates on Jaiku like "This is much better (or much...
While looking at the Twitter API last week I found myself taking a glance at the public timeline - basically just to see what fields the RSS and XML feeds offered. I didn't really pay the content all that much attention, but one of the updates struck me as pretty funny. I took a look at a couple more and found that out of the 10 most recent updates two were fairly humorous. The funniest ones, I thought, were the ones taken out of context. If you randomly look at just one update without following...